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Feb 20 1494

Johan Friis chancellor (Denmark helped formed Lutheranism)

Feb 20 1523

Jan Blahoslav Czech humanistbishop (Bohemian brothers)

Feb 20 1632

Thomas Osborne Duke of Leeds English PM (1690-94)founder (Tories)

Feb 20 1745

Henry James Pye English poet British Poet Laureate (1790-1813) born in London (d. 1813)

Feb 20 1753

Louis Alexandre Berthier French marshal (d. 1815)

Feb 20 1757

John Mad Jack Fuller English philanthropist (d. 1834)

Feb 20 1763

Adalbert Gyrowetz composer born in esk Budjovice Bohemia

Feb 20 1779

Augustus Callcott landscape painter Kensington

Feb 20 1784

Adam Black politicianpublisher born in Edinburgh Scotland

Feb 20 1791

Carl Czerny pianistcomposer (Schule der Virtuosen) born in Vienna Austria

Feb 20 1792

Eliza Courtney English illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey and Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire born in Aix-en-Provence (d. 1859)

Feb 20 1796

Eduard W van Dam van Isselt Dutch militaryliberal politician

Feb 20 1802

Charles-Auguste de Beriot Belgian violinistcomposer

Feb 20 1805

Angelina Grimke reformerabolitionistpoliticianlawyer

Feb 20 1809

Albertus J Duymaer van Twist gov-gen of Neth-Indies

Feb 20 1809

Henry Walton Wessells American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Lietchfield Connecticut (d. 1889)

Feb 20 1816

Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski composer

Feb 20 1819

Alfred Escher Swiss politician railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)

Feb 20 1820

Mahlon Dickerson Manson American druggist politician and General (Union Army) born in Piqua Ohio (d. 1895)

Feb 20 1827

Edward Stuyvesant Bragg American politician lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Unadilla New York (d. 1912)

Feb 20 1838

James Barbour Terrill Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Feb 20 1839

Benjamin Waugh American minister founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)

Feb 20 1844

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann Austrian physicist (statistical mechanics)

Feb 20 1844

Joshua Slocum Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)

Feb 20 1844

Ludwig Boltzmann Austrian physicist (thermodynamics) born in Vienna Austria (d. 1906)

Feb 20 1848

Edward Henry Harriman American railroad executive (d. 1909)

Feb 20 1850

Nre Beauchemin Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)

Feb 20 1852

Nikolai Garin [Michailovski] Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)

Feb 20 1854

Louis van Westerhoven Dutch actor singer and opera director (Youth) born in Amsterdam Netherlands (d. 1912)

Feb 20 1866

Carl Westman Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)

Feb 20 1867

Louise Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)

Feb 20 1870

Pieter Cornelis Boutens Holland mystic poetscholar (Verzen)

Feb 20 1876

Thodore Fyodor Akimenko Ukrainian composer born in Kharkiv Drapeau Ukraine (d. 1945)

Feb 20 1472 Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland due to a dowry payment

Feb 20 1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois Is army

Feb 20 1547 King Edward VI of England crowned following the death of his father Henry VIII

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