Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 20
Births
[edit]- 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
- 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
- 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
- 1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
- 1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)
- 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906) (pictured)
- 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
- 1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)
- 1950 - William Hurt, American actor (d. 2022)
- 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
Deaths
[edit]- 1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
- 1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- 1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)