Famous Births on 20 Oct

Famous Births on 20 Oct

1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)--
1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1700 - Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
1784 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
1822 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)