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James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
Famous Birthdays on February 20
1951 — Gordon Brown
Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
February 20 has 160 recorded notable births across history, from 1358 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on February 20
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- 1943 The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms. Source
- 1865 End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance. Source
- 1962 Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes. Source
- 1846 Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence. Source
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Jimmy Greaves is England's fifth-highest international goalscorer with 44 goals, which includes an English record of six hat-tricks, and is Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest all-time top goalscorer.
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During his time in the CBA, Marbury won three CBA championships, was named Finals MVP in 2015, and made three CBA All-Star Games.
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The first two works were adapted into the television miniseries Normal People (2020) and Conversations with Friends (2022).
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Jari Litmanen was the first-choice captain of the Finland national team between 1996 and 2008 in an international career that ran from 1989 to 2010.
More major people born on February 20
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1940
Jimmy Greaves
English footballer and TV pundit (died 2021)
James Peter Greaves was an English professional footballer who played as a forward and is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of England's best ever players.
1977
Stephon Marbury
American basketball player
Stephon Xavier Marbury is an American former professional basketball player and coach. A point guard, Marbury played college basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for one season.
1991
Sally Rooney
Irish novelist
Sally Rooney is an Irish author. She is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024).
1971
Jari Litmanen
Finnish footballer
Jari Olavi Litmanen is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a second striker.
1951
Phil Neal
English footballer and manager
Philip George Neal is an English retired footballer who played for Northampton Town, Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers as a full-back.
1888
Georges Bernanos
French soldier and author (died 1948)
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism.
1936
Shigeo Nagashima
Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2025)
Shigeo Nagashima was a Japanese professional baseball player and manager.
1631
Thomas Osborne
1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1712)
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, was an English Tory statesman. During the reign of Charles II of England, he was the leading figure in the English government for roughly five years in the mid-1670s.
1744
William Cornwallis
English admiral and politician (died 1819)
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, was a Royal Navy officer and politician.
1913
Tommy Henrich
American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2009)
Thomas David Henrich, nicknamed "the Clutch" and "Old Reliable", was an American professional baseball player of German descent.
1901
René Dubos
French-American biologist and author (died 1982)
René Jules Dubos was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal.
1469
Thomas Cajetan
Italian philosopher (died 1534)
Thomas Cajetan, also known as Gaetanus or Cajetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio or Thomas de Vio, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, the Master of the Order of Preachers 1508 to 1518, and cardinal from 1517 until his…
1951
Edward Albert
American actor (died 2006)
Edward Laurence Albert was an American actor. The son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo, he starred opposite Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free (1972), a role for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New…
1964
Willie Garson
American actor and director (died 2021)
William Garson Paszamant was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes.
1927
Sidney Poitier
Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (died 2022)
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
1998
Emam Ashour
Egyptian footballer
Emam Ashour Metwally Abdel Ghany is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, winger or second striker for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team.
1748
Luther Martin
American politician (died 1826)
Luther Martin was a Founding Father of the United States, framer of the U.S. Constitution, politician, lawyer, and slave owner.
1753
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1815)
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
1928
Jean Kennedy Smith
American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland (died 2020)
Jean Ann Kennedy Smith was an American diplomat, activist, humanitarian, and author who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998.