January 20 - Births

Births

225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1292 – Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330) (d. 1330)
1435 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 – King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1716 – King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1732 – Richard Henry Lee, American statesman (d. 1794)
1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1824)
1761 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian/French composer and music-theorist (d. 1842)
1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 – Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1783 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1834 – George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 – David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
1876 – Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1878 – Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician and 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
1880 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (d. 1961)
1886 – Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)
1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
1896 – George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1896 – Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1898 – U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 – Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (d. 1972)
1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
1900 – Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1908 – Fleur Cowles, American writer, editor and artist (d. 2009)
1908 – Jean S. MacLeod (aka Catherine Airlie), Scottish writer (d. 2011)
1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
1911 – Wendell J. Westcott, American carillonneur (d. 2010)
1912 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1913 – Cleon Skousen, American author (d. 2006)
1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1918 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
1918 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American food scientist
1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
1920 – Frank Kush, American football player and coach
1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1921 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1922 – Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (d. 2012)
1922 – Graham Stark, British actor
1923 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 – Slim Whitman, American singer
1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and politician
1926 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian and Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1928 – Rudy Boesch, Contestant on Survivor: Borneo (3rd Place) and Survivor: All-Stars (17th Place)
1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor
1929 – Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
1931 – David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 – Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
1934 – Tom Baker, British actor
1935 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (d. 1990)
1935 – Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1937 – Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress (d. 2010)
1938 – William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1938 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1939 – Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater
1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1940 – Mandé Sidibé, prime minister of Mali (d. August 2009)
1941 – Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television host
1942 – Linda Moulton Howe, American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor
1943 – Rick Evans, American singer (Zager and Evans)
1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician (d. 2002)
1945 – Robert Olen Butler, American writer
1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1945 – Dave Boswell, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1945 – Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc, Hotlegs and The Mindbenders)
1946 – David Lynch, American film director
1946 – Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, journalist, writer, photographer, architect and filmmaker
1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 – Nancy Kress, American writer
1948 – Mel Pritchard, British musician
1948 – Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1949 – Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1996–2006)
1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
1950 – Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 – Edward Hirsch, American poet
1950 – Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 – Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1951 – Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 – Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender
1953 – Colleen Zenk Pinter, American actress
1954 – Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
1954 – Ken Page, American cabaret singer and actor
1955 – Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1955 – Wyatt Knight, American actor
1955 – Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1956 – Bill Maher, American author, comedian, and political analyst
1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
1959 – Tami Hoag, American novelist
1959 – R.A. Salvatore, American author
1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, summitted Everest 19 times
1960 – Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)
1960 – Will Wright, American computer game designer
1963 – Firebreaker Chip, American professional wrestler
1963 – James Denton, American actor
1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-born baseball player and manager
1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player
1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer
1965 – Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1965 – Heather Small, British singer (Hot House and M People)
1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1966 – Stacey Dash, American actress
1966 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist (L.A. Guns, Brides of Destruction and Contraband)
1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player
1968 – Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress
1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1969 – Nicky Wire, British musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 – Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter and actor
1970 – Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 – Brian Giles, American baseball player
1971 – Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)
1971 – Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
1971 – Gerard McDonnell, Irish mountaineer (d. 2008)
1971 – Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1973 – Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer
1975 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter
1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
1977 – Melody, Belgian singer
1977 – Sid Wilson, American Musician, (Slipknot)
1978 – Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
1978 – Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer
1979 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese singer
1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
1979 – Will Young, British singer
1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr., French oceanographer
1980 – Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
1981 – Daniel Cudmore, Canadian actor
1981 – Brendan Fevola, Australian Rules football player
1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
1981 – Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
1982 – Joe Swash, English actor
1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 – Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume and ZYX)
1984 – Victoria Asher, American keytarist (Cobra Starship)
1984 – Toni Gonzaga, Filipina actress and singer
1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
1986 – Derek Fathauer, American professional golfer
1986 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
1988 – Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
1989 – Washington, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English racing driver