January 20
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
<< January 19 | January 21 >> |
---|
[edit]
Art and culture
- 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome.
[edit]
Births
- 1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
- 1877 - Raymond Roussel, French writer and artist (d. 1933)
- 1899 - Pierre Gandon French illustrator and engraver (d. 1990)
- 1913 - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
- 1919 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
- 1929 - Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (d. 2016)
- 1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Elza Soares, a Brazilian singer (d. 2022)
- 1942 - William Powell, American musician (The O'Jays) (d. 1977)
- 1946 - David Lynch, American film director
- 1963 - Mark Ryden, American painter
[edit]
Deaths
- 1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, statesman and art patron (b. 1552)
- 1859 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer and novelist (b. 1785)
- 1871 - Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, French writer (Rocambole) (b. 1829)
- 1875 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
- 1900 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
- 1938 - Émile Cohl, French caricaturist (b. 1857)
- 1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)
- 1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "January 20" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.