Famous Births on 20 Jan

Famous Births on 20 Jan

1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1878 - Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
1878 - Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)
1893 - Georg Ã…berg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1902 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
1907 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1919 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and politician
1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress
1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1929 - Glenn Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary
1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)
1934 - Tom Baker, British actor
1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress
1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1944 - José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
1945 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer
1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)
1946 - David Lynch, American film director
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1949 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss)
1955 - Hiromi ÅŒta, Japanese singer
1955 - Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)
1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist
1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor
1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress
1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
1970 - Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1971 - Brian Giles, American baseball player
1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)
1973 - Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1975 - David Eckstein, American baseball player
1975 - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
1978 - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
1978 - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
1978 - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
1979 - Will Young, British singer
1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1980 - Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
1980 - Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
1981 - Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host
1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer
1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1983 - Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1983 - Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 - Olivia Hallinan, English Actress
1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer
225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)