February 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#244 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 20 birthdays
Ludwig Boltzmann · Austrian physicist and philosopher1844
Louis Kahn · Estonian-American architect1901
Ansel Adams · American photographer and environmentalist1902
Robert Altman · American filmmaker1925
Richard Matheson · American fiction writer1926
Sidney Poitier · Bahamian and American actor and diplomat1927
John Milnor · American mathematician1931
Mitch McConnell · American politician and lawyer1942
George Smoot · American astrophysicist and cosmologist1945
Ivana Trump · Czech-American businesswoman1949
Gordon Brown · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 20101951
Charles Barkley · American basketball player1963
Cindy Crawford · American model1966
Kurt Cobain · American rock musician1967
David Herman · American actor1967
Miles Teller · American actor1987
Rihanna · Barbadian singer1988
Jiah Khan · British−American Bollywood actress1988
Olivia Rodrigo · American singer-songwriter and actress2003
Joao Grimaldo · Peruvian association football player2003
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: The Union Army suffered a one-in-three casualty rate at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida.
1872The Metropolitan Museum of Art, today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of more than two million works, opened in New York.
1992Appearing on the talk show Larry King Live, U.S. industrialist Ross Perot announced that he would begin a presidential campaign if "ordinary people" wanted him to run for office.
1998At the age of 15, American figure skater Tara Lipinski became the then-youngest winner of an Olympic gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.
1962The Project Mercury stamp, designed by Charles R. Chickering, was released to commemorate the successful space flight of Colonel John Glenn.
1970Wat Phra Dhammakaya, one of the largest Buddhist temples in Thailand, was founded in Pathum Thani.
1971The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1988The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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