April 20
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Events
- 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
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Births
- 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author, playwright, and poet (d. 1556)
- 1807 – Aloysius Bertrand, French poet (d. 1841)
- 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
- 1889 – Adolf Hitler, failed artist and leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Michel Leiris, French surrealist writer and ethnographer (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Karel Thole, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
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Deaths
- 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
- 1991 – Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
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