420 Historic Events for January 20
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| 1894 |
Birth |
Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
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| 1894 |
Birth |
Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
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| 1896 |
Death |
Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Mae Busch, Australian/US actress (Cowboy Socialist)
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| 1898 |
Birth |
Colin Clive, [Greig], St Malo France, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Doris Deane, WI, entertainer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer
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| 1900 |
Death |
John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81
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| 1900 |
Death |
Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr Ed, Father of the Bride)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point)
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas)
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
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| 1905 |
Death |
Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
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