Events

Pre-1600

• 1339 The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.

• 1472 Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.

• 1521 Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León sets out from San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.

• 1547 Edward VI is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

• 1553 Yohannan Sulaqa professes his Catholic belief and is ordained as bishop shortly after; this marks the beginning of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

1601–1900

• 1685 René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

• 1792 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.

• 1798 Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.

• 1813 Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.

• 1816 Gioachino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

• 1824 William Buckland formally announces the name Megalosaurus, the first scientifically validly named non-avian dinosaur species.

• 1835 The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.

• 1846 Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.

• 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.

• 1865 End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.

• 1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.

• 1877 Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

• 1894 20 February bombings by Désiré Pauwels during the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).

1901–present

• 1901 The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.

• 1905 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

• 1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.

• 1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.

• 1920 An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.

• 1931 The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.

• 1931 An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.

• 1933 The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.

• 1933 Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.

• 1935 Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.

• 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi rally in United States history is convened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present.

• 1942 World War II: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

• 1943 World War II: American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.

• 1943 The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.

• 1944 World War II: The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

• 1944 World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.

• 1952 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.

• 1956 The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.

• 1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

• 1962 Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.

• 1965 Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

• 1968 The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.

• 1971 The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.

• 1979 An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.

• 1986 The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

• 1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

• 1991 In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.

• 1998 American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

• 2002 A cooking gas cylinder explodes on board an Egyptian National Railways train in El Ayyat, causing a fire and killing over 370 people.

• 2003 During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.

• 2005 Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

• 2009 Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

• 2010 In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.

• 2014 Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters die in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.

• 2015 Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.

• 2016 Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1358 Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (died 1382)

• 1469 Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (died 1534)

• 1523 Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer (died 1571)

• 1549 Francesco Maria II della Rovere, last Duke of Urbino (died 1631)

• 1552 Sengoku Hidehisa, Daimyō (died 1614)

1601–1900

• 1608 Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham, English politician (died 1649)

• 1631 Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1712)

• 1633 Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (died 1702)

• 1705 Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and composer (died 1782)

• 1726 William Prescott, American colonel (died 1795)

• 1744 William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (died 1819)

• 1745 Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (died 1813)

• 1748 Luther Martin, American politician (died 1826)

• 1751 Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (died 1826)

• 1753 Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1815)

• 1756 Angelica Schuyler Church, American socialite, sister-in-law to Alexander Hamilton (died 1814)

• 1759 Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (died 1813)

• 1774 Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Spanish cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida (died 1829)

• 1784 Judith Montefiore, British linguist, travel writer, philanthropist (died 1862)

• 1792 Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (died 1859)

• 1794 William Carleton, Irish author (died 1869)

• 1802 Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (died 1870)

• 1819 Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (died 1882)

• 1839 Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC (died 1908)

• 1844 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1906)

• 1844 Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (died 1909)

• 1848 E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1909)

• 1857 A. P. Lucas, English cricketer (died 1923)

• 1866 Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (died 1936)

• 1867 Louise, Princess Royal of England (died 1931)

• 1870 Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (died 1937)

• 1874 Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (died 1967)

• 1879 Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1907)

• 1880 Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (died 1923)

• 1882 Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (died 1946)

• 1887 Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (died 1967)

• 1888 Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (died 1948)

• 1889 Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician (died 1948)

• 1893 Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (died 1993)

• 1895 Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (died 1924)

• 1897 Ivan Albright, American painter (died 1983)

• 1898 Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher (died 1992)

• 1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1992)

1901–present

• 1901 René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (died 1982)

• 1901 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (died 1984)

• 1901 Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (died 1978)

• 1906 Gale Gordon, American actor (died 1995)

• 1912 Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (died 1994)

• 1912 Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War (died 2006)

• 1913 Tommy Henrich, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2009)

• 1914 John Charles Daly, South African–American journalist and game show host (died 1991)

• 1916 Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer (died 2020)

• 1918 Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat (died 2009)

• 1919 James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot (died 1974)

• 1920 Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (died 2014)

• 1921 Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (died 1992)

• 1923 Victor G. Atiyeh, American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (died 2014)

• 1923 Forbes Burnham, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Guyana (died 1985)

• 1923 Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (died 2004)

• 1925 Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (died 2006)

• 1925 Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (died 1990)

• 1926 Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (died 2013)

• 1926 Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 2018)

• 1926 Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1926 Bob Richards, American Olympic track and field athlete (died 2023)

• 1926 María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (died 1998)

• 1927 Roy Cohn, American lawyer and political activist (died 1986)

• 1927 Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer and musician (died 2005)

• 1927 Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (died 2022)

• 1928 Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland (died 2020)

• 1929 Amanda Blake, American actress (died 1989)

• 1931 John Milnor, American mathematician and academic

• 1932 Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (died 2007)

• 1935 Ellen Gilchrist, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 2024)

• 1936 Marj Dusay, American actress (died 2020)

• 1936 Larry Hovis, American actor and singer (died 2003)

• 1936 Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2025)

• 1937 Robert Huber, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1939 Herbert Kohler Jr., American businessman (died 2022)

• 1940 Jimmy Greaves, English footballer and TV pundit (died 2021)

• 1941 Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian lawyer and politician

• 1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1943 Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician (died 2022)

• 1944 Robert de Cotret, Canadian economist and politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1999)

• 1944 Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (died 2015)

• 1944 Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1945 Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)

• 1945 George Smoot, American astrophysicist and cosmologist, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics (died 2025)

• 1946 J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

• 1947 Peter Osgood, English footballer (died 2006)

• 1948 Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1949 Eddie Hemmings, English cricketer

• 1949 Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model (died 2022)

• 1950 Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017)

• 1950 Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer

• 1950 Tony Wilson, English journalist and businessman (died 2007)

• 1951 Edward Albert, American actor (died 2006)

• 1951 Gordon Brown, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 1951 Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)

• 1951 Phil Neal, English footballer and manager

• 1953 Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1954 Jon Brant, American bass player

• 1957 Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1959 Scott Brayton, American race car driver (died 1996)

• 1959 David Corn, American journalist and author

• 1959 Bill Gullickson, American baseball player

• 1960 Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (died 2014)

• 1961 Steve Lundquist, American swimmer

• 1962 Dwayne McDuffie, American author, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Milestone Media (died 2011)

• 1963 Joakim Nystrom, Swedish tennis player

• 1963 Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health

• 1963 Cui Yongyuan, Chinese former anchor

• 1964 Willie Garson, American actor and director (died 2021)

• 1964 Tom Harris, Scottish journalist and politician

• 1964 Jeff Maggert, American golfer

• 1967 Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier

• 1967 Kurt Cobain, American musician (died 1994)

• 1967 David Herman, American comedian and actor

• 1969 Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete

• 1969 Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager (died 2022)

• 1969 Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter

• 1971 Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer

• 1971 Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player (died 2017)

• 1974 Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager

• 1975 Liván Hernández, Cuban-American baseball player

• 1975 Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1977 Gail Kim, Canadian wrestler

• 1977 Stephon Marbury, American basketball player

• 1980 Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player

• 1980 Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer

• 1980 Artur Boruc, Polish footballer

• 1981 Tony Hibbert, English footballer

• 1983 Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1983 Justin Verlander, American baseball player

• 1984 Brian McCann, American baseball player

• 1985 Killian Dain, Northern Irish wrestler

• 1985 Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player

• 1985 Julia Volkova, Russian singer and actress

• 1986 Julio Borbón, American baseball player

• 1987 Luke Burgess, English rugby league player

• 1987 Martin Hanzal, Czech ice hockey player

• 1987 James Johnson, American basketball player

• 1987 Miles Teller, American actor

• 1988 Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer

• 1988 Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and actress

• 1990 Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer

• 1991 Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter

• 1991 Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player

• 1991 Sally Rooney, Irish novelist

• 1993 Jurickson Profar, Curaçaoan baseball player

• 1994 Kateryna Baindl, Ukrainian tennis player

• 1994 Luis Severino, Dominican baseball player

• 1995 Elle Purrier St. Pierre, American track and field athlete

• 1996 Clarke Schmidt, American baseball player

• 1998 Emam Ashour, Egyptian footballer

• 1999 Jarrett Culver, American basketball player

• 2000 Josh Sargent, American soccer player

• 2002 Gavin Bazunu, Irish footballer

• 2003 Olivia Rodrigo, American actress and singer

• 2004 Jared McCain, American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 789 Leo of Catania, saint and bishop of Catania (born 709)

• 922 Theodora, Byzantine empress

• 1054 Yaroslav the Wise, grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kyiv (born 978)

• 1154 Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (born c. 1080)

• 1171 Duke Conan IV of Brittany (born 1138)

• 1194 Tancred, King of Sicily (born 1138)

• 1258 Al-Musta'sim, Iraqi caliph (born 1213)

• 1408 Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician, Earl Marshal of England (born 1341)

• 1431 Pope Martin V (born 1368)

• 1458 Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia

• 1513 King Hans (John) of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (born 1455)

• 1524 Tecun Uman, Mayan ruler (born 1500)

• 1579 Nicholas Bacon, English politician (born 1509)

1601–1900

• 1618 Philip William, Prince of Orange (born 1554)

• 1626 John Dowland, English lute player and composer (born 1563)

• 1762 Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (born 1723)

• 1771 Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (born 1678)

• 1773 Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia (born 1701)

• 1778 Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (born 1711)

• 1790 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1741)

• 1806 Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (born 1725)

• 1810 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (born 1767)

• 1850 Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (born 1794)

• 1862 William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (born 1850)

• 1871 Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (born 1810)

• 1893 P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (born 1818)

• 1895 Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (born c. 1818)

• 1900 Washakie, American tribal leader (born 1798)

1901–present

• 1907 Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

• 1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1844)

• 1920 Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (born 1910)

• 1920 Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (born 1856)

• 1933 Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (born 1903)

• 1936 Max Schreck, German actor (born 1879)

• 1947 Viktor Gutić, Croatian fascist official (born 1901)

• 1957 Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (born 1878)

• 1961 Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (born 1882)

• 1963 Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (born 1879)

• 1965 Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer (born 1904)

• 1966 Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (born 1885)

• 1968 Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (born 1902)

• 1969 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (born 1883)

• 1972 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

• 1972 Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (born 1897)

• 1976 René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

• 1976 Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (born 1907)

• 1981 Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (born 1904)

• 1987 Wayne Boring, American illustrator (born 1905)

• 1992 A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (born 1898)

• 1992 Barbara Lüdemann, German politician (born 1922)

• 1992 Dick York, American actor (born 1928)

• 1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (born 1916)

• 1993 Ernest L. Massad, American general (born 1908)

• 1996 Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (born 1907)

• 1996 Audrey Munson, American model (born 1891)

• 1996 Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (born 1930)

• 1999 Sarah Kane, English playwright (born 1971)

• 1999 Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (born 1946)

• 2001 Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (born 1910)

• 2001 Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (born 1941)

• 2003 Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani air marshal (born 1947)

• 2003 Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (born 1907)

• 2003 Orville Freeman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (born 1918)

• 2005 Sandra Dee, American actress (born 1942)

• 2005 Josef Holeček, Czech canoeist (born 1921)

• 2005 John Raitt, American actor and singer (born 1917)

• 2005 Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (born 1937)

• 2006 Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (born 1919)

• 2006 Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (born 1920)

• 2008 Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (born 1907)

• 2009 Larry H. Miller, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)

• 2010 Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (born 1924)

• 2012 Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1960)

• 2012 Katie Hall, American educator and politician (born 1938)

• 2013 Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (born 1970)

• 2013 David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (born 1936)

• 2013 Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (born 1932)

• 2014 Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1923)

• 2014 Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1921)

• 2014 Garrick Utley, American journalist (born 1939)

• 2015 Govind Pansare, Indian author and activist (born 1933)

• 2015 Henry Segerstrom, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1923)

• 2015 John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (born 1925)

• 2016 Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (born 1934)

• 2017 Vitaly Churkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (born 1952)

• 2017 Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (born 1930)

• 2017 Steve Hewlett, British journalist (born 1958)

• 2020 Joaquim Pina Moura, Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (born 1952)

• 2021 Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (born 1944)

• 2021 Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (born 1950)

• 2024 Andreas Brehme, German footballer (born 1960)

• 2024 Yoko Yamamoto, Japanese actress (born 1942)

• 2025 David Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma (born 1941)

• 2025 Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939)

• 2025 Peter Jason, American actor (born 1944)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Eleutherius of Tournai

• Eucherius of Orléans

• Julia Rodzińska

• Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto

• Frederick Douglass (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Wulfric of Haselbury

• February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Heavenly Hundred Heroes (Ukraine)

• World Day of Social Justice

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 20