What happened on January 20 ?

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)

1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)

1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)

1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)

1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)

1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)

1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)

1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)

1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)

1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)

1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)

1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)

1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)

1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)

1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)

1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)

1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)

1878 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968)

1880 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)

1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)

1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)

1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)

1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)

1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)

1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)

1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan

1918 - Juan Garcia Esquivel, Mexican musician (d. 2002)

1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)

1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)

1920 - John O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)

1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)

1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer

1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer

1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and author and politician

1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress

1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer

1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary

1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor

1929 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)

1930 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut

1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1934 - Tom Baker, British actor

1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)

1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer

1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)

1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater

1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and chief cricket correspondent of The Times

1946 - David Lynch, American film director

1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician

1949 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden

1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger

1950 - Liza Goddard, actress

1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)

1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor

1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (KISS)

1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor

1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst

1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor

1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer

1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)

1963 - James Denton, American actor

1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)

1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer

1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress

1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American writer, hacker

1969 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor

1971 - Brian Giles, Major League Baseball player

1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)

1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater

1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)

1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer

1982 - Erin Wasson, American supermodel

1986 - Tiffany Holiday, American pornographic actress