Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 20

Births

• 1794 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) (pictured)
• 1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
• 1925 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
• 1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor (d. 2022)
• 1954 - Patty Hearst, American socialite and kidnapping victim
• 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)

Deaths

• 1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
• 1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
• 2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
• 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)