Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 20
Births
[edit]- 1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
- 1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
- 1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (pictured) (d. 1910)
- 1914 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
- 1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist (d. 2013)
- 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
- 1966 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)
- 1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
- 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
- 1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
- 1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
- 1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
Deaths
[edit]- 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
- 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
- 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- 1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
- 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)