History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Google Web brainyhistory.com   
January 20 Birthdays in History - January 20 Deaths - January 20 Events
January 20, 1990 Joanna Noelle Levesque, American Musician
January 20, 1978 Michael East, American Athlete
January 20, 1977 Paul "Goggo" Adams, cricketer, lefty very unorthodox bowler for South Africa
January 20, 1974 Calvin Harrison, Orlando Florida, 200m/400m runner
January 20, 1974 Rae Carruth, wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers
January 20, 1973 Eddie Kennison, wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams
January 20, 1973 Jalen Rose, NBA guard for the Denver Nuggets
January 20, 1972 Alcides Catanho, NFL outside linebacker for the New England Patriots
January 20, 1971 Alan Young, NFL defensive end for the New York Jets
January 20, 1971 Andrei Skabelka, NHL forward, Belarus, 1998 Olympics
January 20, 1971 Johnny Mitchell, NFL tight end for the New York Jets
January 20, 1971 Karin Smith, Miss Minnesota USA 1996
January 20, 1971 Snoop Dogg, American Musician
January 20, 1971 Angelica Bridges, American Actress
January 20, 1970 Anita St. Rose, Miss Universe-Great Britain 1996
January 20, 1970 Dennis Hulshof, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
January 20, 1970 Deon Figures, cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars
January 20, 1970 Marvin Benard, Bluefields Nicaragua, outfielder for the San Francisco Giants
January 20, 1970 Rob Gaudreau, Lincoln, NHL center, Ottawa Senators
January 20, 1970 Ron Carpenter, NFL/WLAF safety, New York Jets, Amsterdam Admirals
January 20, 1970 Skeet Ulrich, actor, Scream
January 20, 1970 Terry Kirby, NFL running back, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers
January 20, 1970 Thomas "Tom" Murray, Buffalo, New York, rower 1996 Olympics
January 20, 1970 Michelle Malkin, American Writer
January 20, 1969 Andre Romal Cason, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 100m runner
January 20, 1969 Melissa Rivers, New York City, TV hostess, MTV, CBS Morning News
January 20, 1969 Tia Marie Zorne, Las Vegas Nevada, Miss Nevada-America 1991
January 20, 1968 Junior Murray, cricketer, WI keeper, no relation to Derryck or David
January 20, 1968 Nick Anderson, NBA guard and forward, Orlando Magic
January 20, 1967 Joe Pasquale, rocker, Prey
January 20, 1967 Mark Stepnoski, NFL center, Houston/Tennessee Oilers
January 20, 1967 Stacey Dash, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Dionne-Clueless
January 20, 1966 Bert Weidner, NFL guard for the Miami Dolphins
January 20, 1966 Chris Morris, NBA forward, Utah Jazz
January 20, 1966 Rich Gannon, NFL quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs
January 20, 1966 Tracii Guns, rock guitarist, LA Guns-It's Over Now
January 20, 1965 Brad Brink, U.S. baseball pitcher, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies
January 20, 1965 Michael Diamond, American Musician
January 20, 1964 Ozzie Guillen, Oculare del Tuy Venezuela, shortstop, Chicago White Sox
January 20, 1964 Roger Smith, Freeport Bahamas, tennis doubles player
January 20, 1964 Ron Harper, NBA guard, Chicago Bulls
January 20, 1964 Victoria Sellers, born in London, England, actress, Crime Zone, Warlords
January 20, 1964 Fareed Zakaria, American Journalist
January 20, 1963 Scott Fisher, born in San Jose, California, Australian basketball forward 1996 Olympics
January 20, 1963 James Denton, American Actor
January 20, 1961 Ian Rush, Welsh Athlete
January 20, 1960 Peter G. Fitzgerald, American Politician
January 20, 1959 Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star
January 20, 1958 Lorenzo Lamas, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Lance-Falcon Crest, California Fever
January 20, 1957 Leonard C Clements, Cherry Point, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1994 Bob Hope-2nd
January 20, 1957 Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant
January 20, 1956 Bill Maher, comedian, Politically Incorrect
January 20, 1956 John McNally, Naha Okinawa, U.S. rapid fire pistol, Oly-84, 88, 92, 96
January 20, 1956 John Phillips Naber, Evanston, Illinois, swimmer, Olympic-4 gold/silver-76
January 20, 1956 Danny Boyle, English Director
January 20, 1955 Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist, jailed in U.S.
January 20, 1955 Michael Anthony, rock bassist/singer, Van Halen-Pretty Woman
January 20, 1954 Sandra Cisneros, American Author
January 20, 1952 Ian Hill, bass guitarist, Judas Priest-Breakin the Law
January 20, 1952 Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist, KISS-Beth
January 20, 1951 Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
January 20, 1951 Shelley Berkley, American Politician
January 20, 1950 Henk Batenburgh, cabaret performer/singer, Waaldrecht
January 20, 1950 Chris Cannon, American Politician
January 20, 1949 Ivana Trump, former wife of Donald
January 20, 1949 Kieron Walsh, academic
January 20, 1949 Goran Persson, Swedish Politician
January 20, 1949 Jeff Dowd, American Actor
January 20, 1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist
January 20, 1948 Jerry Ross, Indiana, Lt Col USAF/astronaut, STS 61B, 27, 37, 55, 74,sk:88
January 20, 1948 Melvyn John Pritchard, England, rocker, Barclay James Harvest
January 20, 1948 Giuliana Sgrena, Italian Journalist
January 20, 1948 Natan Sharansky, Russian Writer
January 20, 1948 Alan Parsons, British Musician
January 20, 1947 George Grantham, rocker, Poco-Crazy Eyes
January 20, 1947 Malcolm McLaren, founded rock group, Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen
January 20, 1947 Ronald Townson, rock singer, 5th Dimension-We Can Fly
January 20, 1946 David Lynch, born in Missoula, Montana, actor and director, Dune, Eraserhead
January 20, 1946 Lewis Grizzard, American Writer
January 20, 1946 Dick Wolf, American Producer
January 20, 1945 Eric Stewart, rock guitarist, 10cc-I'm Not in Love
January 20, 1945 Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
January 20, 1945 Tom Tancredo, American Politician
January 20, 1944 Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post
January 20, 1944 Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo 1964 Olympic gold
January 20, 1944 Lieven Soete, Dutch publicist, Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact
January 20, 1943 Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician
January 20, 1942 Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer, Home on the Range
January 20, 1940 Carol Heiss Jenkins, New York City, figure skater, Oly-gold/silver-56, 60
January 20, 1940 Jorge Peixinho, composer
January 20, 1939 Murle Breer, LPGA golfer
January 20, 1939 Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
January 20, 1939 Kim Weston, American Musician
January 20, 1937 Dorothy Provine, Deadwood, South Dakota, actress, Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat
January 20, 1936 Eldred G Maduro, minister, Netherland Antilles
January 20, 1934 Tom Baker, actor, Angels Die Hard, Vault of Horror
January 20, 1934 R. W. Apple, Jr., American Journalist
January 20, 1934 Gordon Getty, American Businessman
January 20, 1933 Ron Townson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock vocalist, 5th Dimension-Up Up and Away
January 20, 1931 Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife
January 20, 1931 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
January 20, 1930 Buzz Aldrin, Montclair, New Jersey, USAF/astro, Gem 12, Ap 11
January 20, 1929 Arte Johnson, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian, Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie
January 20, 1928 Martin Landau, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Mission Impossible, Tucker, Space 1999
January 20, 1928 Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, Flamingo Road, Different Story
January 20, 1928 William Berger, Austria, actress, Adventure of Hercules
January 20, 1927 Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player, 1954-72
January 20, 1927 Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist
January 20, 1926 David Eugene Tudor, Philadelphia Penn, composer
January 20, 1926 Michael Higgins, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, 1918, Wanda, Black Stallion
January 20, 1926 Patricia Neal, born in Packard, Kentucky, actress, Hud, Subject Was Roses
January 20, 1926 Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
January 20, 1925 E Cardenal, writer
January 20, 1925 Edwin Gordon, New York City, VOA correspondant
January 20, 1925 Eugen Gomringer, writer
January 20, 1925 George Connol, NFL Hall-of-Famer
January 20, 1925 Theodore Hall, American Criminal
January 20, 1924 Yvonne Loriod, Houilles France, pianist
January 20, 1922 Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords, Conservative
January 20, 1922 Ray Anthony, Penn, orch leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme
January 20, 1921 Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
January 20, 1920 DeForest Kelley, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Dr. McCoy-Star Trek
January 20, 1920 Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, dir, 8, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita
January 20, 1920 Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
January 20, 1920 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
January 20, 1920 Sam M Gibbons, Rep-D-FL, 1963-
January 20, 1919 Alex Nicol, Ossining, New York, actor, Man From Laramie, Air Cadet
January 20, 1919 Royalton Kisch, British conductor
January 20, 1919 Stepan Lucky, composer
January 20, 1916 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname, 1963-69
January 20, 1916 Walter Bartley, biochemist
January 20, 1916 Morrie Schwartz, American Educator
January 20, 1915 C. W. Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer, March of Archaeology
January 20, 1915 Joe Hitchcock, darts player, leader of St. Dunstan's Four
January 20, 1914 Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor, Winston Churchill-Ike
January 20, 1912 Christopher Casson, Irish actor, Zardoz, Educating Rita
January 20, 1910 Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder, American Negro Theater
January 20, 1910 Ennio Porrino, composer
January 20, 1910 Joy Adamson, naturalist/author, Born Free
January 20, 1910 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
January 20, 1910 Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
January 20, 1908 Ian Peebles, cricketer, Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31
January 20, 1908 Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer, Masquerade
January 20, 1908 Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
January 20, 1907 Roy Welensky, Premier, Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63
January 20, 1904 Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina, Turning Point
January 20, 1904 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
January 20, 1904 Theodore Brameld, author/educator, Use of Explosive Ideas
January 20, 1904 Tommy Douglas, Canadian Clergyman
January 20, 1903 Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor, Mr Ed, Father of the Bride
January 20, 1903 Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
January 20, 1901 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet
January 20, 1900 Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer
January 20, 1900 Doris Deane, WI, entertainer
January 20, 1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
January 20, 1899 Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP, JVC
January 20, 1898 Colin Clive, [Greig], St. Malo France, actor, Bride of Frankenstein
January 20, 1897 Mae Busch, Australian/US actress, Cowboy Socialist
January 20, 1896 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author, Janne Kubik
January 20, 1896 George Burns, New York City, actor/comedian, Oh God
January 20, 1896 Rolfe Sedan, New York City, actor, Mailman-George Burns Show
January 20, 1895 Eva A. Jessye, U.S. singer/actress/songwriter, Hallelujah
January 20, 1894 Harold L Gray, creator, Little Orphan Annie
January 20, 1894 Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer, Incredible Flutis
January 20, 1894 Walter Piston, American Composer
January 20, 1893 Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist, Eskimos
January 20, 1892 Roscoe Ates, Grange Mississippi, actor, Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass
January 20, 1891 Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, U.S. violinist
January 20, 1889 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist
January 20, 1888 Leadbelly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist, Rock Island Line
January 20, 1884 A[braham P] Merritt, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!
January 20, 1883 Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
January 20, 1879 Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher
January 20, 1878 Finlay Currie, Scotland, actor, Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers
January 20, 1877 Ruth St. Denis, Newark, New Jersey, ballerina, Dances of the 5 Senses
January 20, 1873 Charles A. Ellwood, U.S., sociologist/psychologist
January 20, 1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944
January 20, 1873 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author
January 20, 1872 Julia Morgan, American Architect
January 20, 1871 Arthur Guiterman, American Comedian
January 20, 1870 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
January 20, 1868 Wilhelm Schafer, German writer, Ein Totschlager
January 20, 1866 Richard Le Gallienne, English writer, Maker of Gainborg
January 20, 1865 Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck
January 20, 1860 Dan Leno, English Comedian
January 20, 1855 Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
January 20, 1847 W R Pettiford, Founder, Alabama Penny Savings Bank
January 20, 1844 Johan Peter Selmer, composer
January 20, 1843 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat, Madrid, Constantinople, London
January 20, 1831 Pieter J Joubert, general, South Africa
January 20, 1820 Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
January 20, 1814 David Wilmot, American Activist
January 20, 1813 Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1867
January 20, 1812 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1892
January 20, 1809 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer, La Paloma
January 20, 1806 Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag
January 20, 1806 Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author
January 20, 1804 Eugene Sue, French Novelist
January 20, 1798 Anson Jones, American Public Servant
January 20, 1782 Johan B J F S, archduke of Austria
January 20, 1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
January 20, 1762 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
January 20, 1761 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
January 20, 1743 Pascal Boyer, composer
January 20, 1732 Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer, signed Declaration of Independence
January 20, 1732 Richard Henry Lee, American Politician
January 20, 1716 Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain, 1759-88, Pompei/Jesuits
January 20, 1716 Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historical writer, Greek Antiquity
January 20, 1703 Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer
January 20, 1681 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
January 20, 1654 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet
January 20, 1622 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
January 20, 1586 Johann Hermann Schein, German composer, Fontana d'Israel



History Home    Copyright 2007 BrainyMedia.com