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This Is HISTORY | Birthdays
Jun 20 1005
Ali az-Zahir Seventh Caliph of the Ftimids (1021-36) (d. 1036)
Jun 20 1389
John Plantagenet 1st Duke of Bedford English prince and statesman (d. 1435)
Jun 20 1583
Jacob De la Gardie Swedish soldier and statesman (1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia) born in Reval (Tallinn) Swedish Estonia (d. 1652)
Jun 20 1585
Lazaro Valvasensi Italian organist and composer born in Valvasone Italy (d. 1661)
Jun 20 1615
Salvatore Rosa Italian baroque painter poet musician and actor born in Arenella Italy (d. 1673)
Jun 20 1634
Charles Emmanuel II Duke of Savoy (1638-75) born in Turin Italy (d. 1675)
Jun 20 1642
George Hickes English linguist (Old German Philology) born in Newsham Thirsk Yorkshire (d. 1715)
Jun 20 1647
Johann Georg III Elector of Saxony (1680-91) born in Dresden Germany (d. 1691)
Jun 20 1674
Nicholas Rowe English poet and playwright (Tamerlane) Poet Laureate (1715-18) born in Little Barford Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
Jun 20 1694
Hans Adolph Brorson Danish Pietist bishop born in Randerup Denmark (d. 1764)
Jun 20 1717
Jacques Saly French sculptor born in Valenciennes France (d. 1776)
Jun 20 1723
Adam Ferguson Scottish sociologist and historian born in Logierait Perthshire Scotland (d. 1816)
Jun 20 1723
Theophilus Lindsey English theologian and clergyman born in Middlewich Cheshire (d. 1808)
Jun 20 1730
Nonnosus Madlseder German composer born in Merano (d. 1797)
Jun 20 1733
Betty Washington younger sister of George Washington born in Westmoreland County Colony of Virginia (d. 1797)
Jun 20 1737
Tokugawa Ieharu tenth shgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1760 to 1786) born in Edo Japan (d. 1786)
Jun 20 1743
Anna Laetitia Barbauld English poet and writer of hymns (Life I Know Not What Thou Art) born in Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire England (d. 1825)
Jun 20 1756
Joseph Martin Kraus German composer born in born in Miltenberg am Main Bavaria (d. 1792)
Jun 20 1770
Moses Waddel American educator minister and bestselling author (Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt) born in Rowan County North Carolina (d. 1840)
Jun 20 1771
Thomas Douglas 5th Earl of Selkirk Scottish philanthropist born in St Marys Isle Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland (d. 1820)
Jun 20 1786
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore French poet (Bouquets et prires) born in Douai France (d. 1859)
Jun 20 1808
Samson Raphael Hirsch German Orthodox rabbi and intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism born in Hamburg French Empire (d. 1888)
Jun 20 1819
Jacques Offenbach German-French composer (Tales of Hoffmann) born in Cologne Germany (d. 1880)
Jun 20 1823
Jesse Lee Reno American Major General (Union Army) born in Wheeling West Virginia (d. 1862)
Jun 20 1824
George Edmund Street English architect born in Woodford London (d. 1881)
Jun 20 1824
John Tyler Morgan American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Athens Tennessee (d. 1907)
Jun 20 1833
Lon Bonnat French painter born in Bayonne France (d. 1922)
Jun 20 1858
Medardo Rosso Italian sculptor (portraits) born in Turin Italy (d. 1928)
Jun 20 1858
Charles W. Chesnutt American writer (The Conjure Woman) born in Cleveland Ohio (d. 1932)
Jun 20 1860
Jack Worrall Australian cricketer (Australian batsman 1885-99 11 Tests) born in Maryborough Victoria Australia (d. 1937)
Jun 20 1861
Arthur Battelle Whiting American composer and teacher born in Cambridge Massachusetts (d. 1936)
Jun 20 1861
Frederick Gowland Hopkins British biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929) born in Eastbourne England (d. 1947)
Jun 20 1864
Pier Pander Dutch sculptor born in Drachten Friesland (d. 1919)
HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY
Jun 20 1212 French and Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
Jun 20 1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
Jun 20 1582 Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
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