Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 20

Births

• 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
• 1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
• 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
• 1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
• 1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)
• 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906) (pictured)
• 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
• 1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)
• 1950 - William Hurt, American actor (d. 2022)
• 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director

Deaths

• 1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
• 1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
• 2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)