In the year 1820, 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 6), Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism (Apr), the last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain takes place as the Cato Street conspirators meet their fate (May 1), the Argentine Confederation established a penal colony in the Falkland Islands, man’s quest in Antarctica widens - and all these fine people were born:
1820-xxxx Winnemucca* Paiute leader - born a Shoshone in what would later become the Oregon Territory (1882/c.62)
1820-0110 Louisa Lane Drew* (b Lane) British-American actress/theater owner/an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family - London, England (1897/77)
1820-0117 Anne Brontë* novelist/poet - Thornton, West Riding o Yorkshire, England (1849/29)
1820-0121 Joseph Wolf* wildlife artist - Mörz, Germany (1899/79)
1820-0206 Thomas C. Durant* financier/railroad promoter - Lee, MA USA (1885/65)
1820-0208 William Sherman* Union Army general/businessman/educator - Lancaster, OH USA (1891/71)
1820-0215 Susan B. Anthony* social reformer/ activist - Adams, MA USA (1906/86)
1820-0215 Nikolai Kiseleff* Russian-Finnish merchant/patron of arts - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1883/63)
1820-0215 Arvid Posse* politician/PM - Helsingborg, Sweden (1901/81)
1820-0229 Friedrich Oser* parson/ poet - Basel, Swiss Confederation (1891/71)
1820-0304 Francesco Bentivegna* revolutionary - Corleone, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1856/36)
1820-0314 Victor Emmanuel II* King of Italy/the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century - Turin, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (1878/57)
1820-0324 Fanny Crosby* mission worker/ lyricist - Brewster, NY USA (1915/94)
1820-0408 John Taylor Johnston* businessman/patron of the arts/one of the founders of The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, NY USA (1893/72)
1820-0427 Herbert Spencer* biologist/sociologist/philosopher - Derby, Derbyshire, England (1903/83)
1820-0512 Florence Nightingale* English social reformer - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1910/90)
1820-0613 Prince Henry of the Netherlands* Hendrik Willem Frederik - Soestdijk Castle, Baarn, Netherlands (1879/58) StreetView in The Hague
1820-0709 John Wright Oakes* landscape painter - Middlewich, Cheshire, England (1887/)
1820-0710 A. J. Weänänen* (b Wenell) writer/ journalist/translator - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1863/42)
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1820-0903 George Hearst* businessman/politician/father of William Randolph Hearst - Sullivan, Missouri Territory (1891/70)
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1820-0928 Ernst Fredrik Sallmén** father of Maria Sofia Yli-Jussila - Lapua, GD of Finland (1887/66)
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1820-1006 Jenny Lind* opera singer - Stockholm, Sweden (1887/67)
1820-1016 Gillis Bildt* military officer/politician/PM - Gothenburg, Sweden (1894/74)
1820-1024 Eugène Fromentin* painter/active in Algeria/writer - La Rochelle, Kingdom of France (1876/55)
1820-1122 Katherine Plunket* botanical illustrator/the oldest person ever to die in Ireland - Kilsaran, County Louth, Ireland (1932/111)
1820-1128 Friederich Engels* social scientist/businessman - Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia (1895/74)
1820-1203 Thomas Beecham* chemist/entrepreneur - Curbridge, Oxfordshire, England (1907/86)
1820-1209 Josef Mánes* painter - Prague, Austrian Empire (1871/51)
1820-1219 Mary Livermore* journalist/abolitionist/women’s rights activist - Boston, MA USA (1905/84)
1820-1221 William H. Osborn* railroad tycoon - Salem, MA USA (1894/73)
Updated 30.3.2023-6
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