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20th of February 1339 EVENT The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
20th of February 1472 EVENT Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
20th of February 1547 EVENT Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
20th of February 1685 EVENT Rene-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
20th of February 1792 EVENT The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
20th of February 1798 EVENT Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
20th of February 1810 EVENT Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
20th of February 1813 EVENT Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pio de Tristan during the Battle of Salta.
20th of February 1835 EVENT Concepcion, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
20th of February 1864 EVENT American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs : the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
20th of February 1872 EVENT In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
20th of February 1873 EVENT The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
20th of February 1877 EVENT Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
20th of February 1901 EVENT The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
20th of February 1909 EVENT Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
20th of February 1913 EVENT King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
20th of February 1931 EVENT The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco : Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
20th of February 1933 EVENT The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
20th of February 1933 EVENT Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
20th of February 1935 EVENT Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
20th of February 1942 EVENT Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
20th of February 1943 EVENT The Paricutin volcano begins to form in Paricutin, Mexico.
20th of February 1943 EVENT American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
20th of February 1943 EVENT 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.
20th of February 1944 EVENT World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
20th of February 1944 EVENT World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
20th of February 1952 EVENT Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
20th of February 1959 EVENT The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
20th of February 1962 EVENT Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
20th of February 1965 EVENT Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
20th of February 1978 EVENT The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
20th of February 1987 EVENT Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
20th of February 1988 EVENT The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
20th of February 1989 EVENT An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
20th of February 1991 EVENT A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
20th of February 1998 EVENT American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
20th of February 2003 EVENT During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
20th of February 2005 EVENT Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
20th of February 2009 EVENT Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
20th of February 2010 EVENT In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
20th of February 1631 BIRTHDAY Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
20th of February 1633 BIRTHDAY Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
20th of February 1745 BIRTHDAY Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
20th of February 1751 BIRTHDAY Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (d. 1826)
20th of February 1753 BIRTHDAY Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
20th of February 1757 BIRTHDAY John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
20th of February 1759 BIRTHDAY Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1813)
20th of February 1794 BIRTHDAY William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
20th of February 1802 BIRTHDAY Charles de Beriot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
20th of February 1819 BIRTHDAY Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
20th of February 1839 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Waugh, social reformer; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
20th of February 1844 BIRTHDAY Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
20th of February 1844 BIRTHDAY Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
20th of February 1848 BIRTHDAY Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
20th of February 1850 BIRTHDAY Neree Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
20th of February 1866 BIRTHDAY Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
20th of February 1867 BIRTHDAY Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
20th of February 1880 BIRTHDAY Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
20th of February 1887 BIRTHDAY Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
20th of February 1888 BIRTHDAY Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
20th of February 1893 BIRTHDAY Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
20th of February 1893 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
20th of February 1898 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
20th of February 1899 BIRTHDAY Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
20th of February 1901 BIRTHDAY Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
20th of February 1901 BIRTHDAY Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987)
20th of February 1902 BIRTHDAY Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
20th of February 1904 BIRTHDAY Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
20th of February 1906 BIRTHDAY Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
20th of February 1907 BIRTHDAY Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 1992)
20th of February 1912 BIRTHDAY Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
20th of February 1913 BIRTHDAY Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009)
20th of February 1914 BIRTHDAY John Daly, South African : born broadcaster (d. 2001)
20th of February 1917 BIRTHDAY Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer
20th of February 1918 BIRTHDAY Leonore Annenberg, American billionaire (d. 2009)
20th of February 1919 BIRTHDAY James O'Meara, British Battle of Britain Spitfire Flying Ace (d. 1974)
20th of February 1920 BIRTHDAY Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
20th of February 1923 BIRTHDAY Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
20th of February 1924 BIRTHDAY Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
20th of February 1925 BIRTHDAY Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
20th of February 1925 BIRTHDAY Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)
20th of February 1925 BIRTHDAY Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader (d. 2005)
20th of February 1926 BIRTHDAY Richard Matheson, American author
20th of February 1927 BIRTHDAY Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986)
20th of February 1927 BIRTHDAY Sidney Poitier, American actor
20th of February 1927 BIRTHDAY Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
20th of February 1929 BIRTHDAY Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
20th of February 1930 BIRTHDAY Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
20th of February 1932 BIRTHDAY Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
20th of February 1934 BIRTHDAY Bobby Unser, American racing driver
20th of February 1936 BIRTHDAY Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
20th of February 1936 BIRTHDAY Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
20th of February 1936 BIRTHDAY Marj Dusay, American actress
20th of February 1937 BIRTHDAY Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate
20th of February 1937 BIRTHDAY Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur
20th of February 1937 BIRTHDAY Nancy Wilson, American singer
20th of February 1938 BIRTHDAY Richard Beymer, American actor
20th of February 1939 BIRTHDAY Frank Arundel, English footballer (d.1994)
20th of February 1940 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
20th of February 1941 BIRTHDAY Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
20th of February 1941 BIRTHDAY Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia
20th of February 1942 BIRTHDAY Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
20th of February 1942 BIRTHDAY Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ
20th of February 1942 BIRTHDAY Mitch McConnell, American politician
20th of February 1942 BIRTHDAY Claude Miller, French film director and screenwriter
20th of February 1943 BIRTHDAY Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
20th of February 1943 BIRTHDAY Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
20th of February 1943 BIRTHDAY Mike Leigh, British film director
20th of February 1944 BIRTHDAY Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
20th of February 1944 BIRTHDAY Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
20th of February 1945 BIRTHDAY Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director
20th of February 1945 BIRTHDAY Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
20th of February 1945 BIRTHDAY Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
20th of February 1946 BIRTHDAY Brenda Blethyn, English actress
20th of February 1946 BIRTHDAY Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
20th of February 1946 BIRTHDAY Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
20th of February 1946 BIRTHDAY J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
20th of February 1947 BIRTHDAY Andre van Duin, Dutch comedian
20th of February 1947 BIRTHDAY Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
20th of February 1947 BIRTHDAY Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
20th of February 1947 BIRTHDAY Peter Strauss, American actor
20th of February 1948 BIRTHDAY Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
20th of February 1948 BIRTHDAY Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress
20th of February 1949 BIRTHDAY Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite
20th of February 1950 BIRTHDAY Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
20th of February 1950 BIRTHDAY Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
20th of February 1950 BIRTHDAY Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
20th of February 1951 BIRTHDAY Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
20th of February 1951 BIRTHDAY Gordon Brown, British Member of Parliament, Prime Minister (2007 : 2010)
20th of February 1951 BIRTHDAY Phil Neal, English footballer
20th of February 1951 BIRTHDAY Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
20th of February 1953 BIRTHDAY Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor
20th of February 1953 BIRTHDAY Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
20th of February 1954 BIRTHDAY Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick)
20th of February 1954 BIRTHDAY Billy Pontoni, Colombian musician
20th of February 1954 BIRTHDAY Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
20th of February 1954 BIRTHDAY Patty Hearst, American socialite
20th of February 1956 BIRTHDAY Charlie Adler, American voice actor
20th of February 1956 BIRTHDAY Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
20th of February 1957 BIRTHDAY Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
20th of February 1959 BIRTHDAY Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
20th of February 1960 BIRTHDAY Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
20th of February 1960 BIRTHDAY Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
20th of February 1961 BIRTHDAY Imogen Stubbs, British actress
20th of February 1962 BIRTHDAY Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author
20th of February 1963 BIRTHDAY Charles Barkley, American basketball player
20th of February 1963 BIRTHDAY Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
20th of February 1963 BIRTHDAY Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
20th of February 1963 BIRTHDAY Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
20th of February 1964 BIRTHDAY Rodney Rowland, American actor
20th of February 1964 BIRTHDAY French Stewart, American actor
20th of February 1965 BIRTHDAY Ron Eldard, American actor
20th of February 1966 BIRTHDAY Cindy Crawford, American model
20th of February 1967 BIRTHDAY David Herman, American comedian
20th of February 1967 BIRTHDAY Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
20th of February 1967 BIRTHDAY Katherine Soucie, American voice actress
20th of February 1967 BIRTHDAY Andrew Shue, American television actor
20th of February 1967 BIRTHDAY Lili Taylor, American actress
20th of February 1968 BIRTHDAY Ted Hankey, English darts player
20th of February 1969 BIRTHDAY Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
20th of February 1969 BIRTHDAY Danis Tanovic, Bosnian film director and screenwriter
20th of February 1969 BIRTHDAY Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
20th of February 1969 BIRTHDAY Tommy Vardell, American football player
20th of February 1969 BIRTHDAY Sinisa Mihajlovic, Serbian footballer
20th of February 1971 BIRTHDAY Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
20th of February 1971 BIRTHDAY Calpernia Addams, transgender activist
20th of February 1971 BIRTHDAY Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
20th of February 1972 BIRTHDAY Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
20th of February 1972 BIRTHDAY K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
20th of February 1973 BIRTHDAY Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
20th of February 1974 BIRTHDAY Ophelie Winter, French actress
20th of February 1975 BIRTHDAY Livan Hernandez, Cuban baseball player
20th of February 1975 BIRTHDAY Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
20th of February 1976 BIRTHDAY Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
20th of February 1976 BIRTHDAY Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
20th of February 1976 BIRTHDAY Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
20th of February 1977 BIRTHDAY Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
20th of February 1977 BIRTHDAY T.J. Slaughter, American football player
20th of February 1977 BIRTHDAY Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
20th of February 1977 BIRTHDAY Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
20th of February 1978 BIRTHDAY Lauren Ambrose, American actress
20th of February 1978 BIRTHDAY Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
20th of February 1978 BIRTHDAY Jay Hernandez, American actor
20th of February 1978 BIRTHDAY Julia Jentsch, German actress
20th of February 1980 BIRTHDAY Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
20th of February 1980 BIRTHDAY Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
20th of February 1981 BIRTHDAY Tony Hibbert, English footballer
20th of February 1981 BIRTHDAY Chris Thile, American musician
20th of February 1982 BIRTHDAY Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
20th of February 1983 BIRTHDAY Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
20th of February 1983 BIRTHDAY Justin Verlander, American baseball player
20th of February 1984 BIRTHDAY Gilles Pagnon, French-German rugby player
20th of February 1984 BIRTHDAY Brian McCann, American baseball player
20th of February 1984 BIRTHDAY Ramzee Robinson, American football player
20th of February 1985 BIRTHDAY Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
20th of February 1985 BIRTHDAY Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
20th of February 1986 BIRTHDAY Diego Reis, Brazilian footballer
20th of February 1988 BIRTHDAY Jiah Khan, Indian actress
20th of February 1988 BIRTHDAY Rihanna, Barbadian singer
20th of February 1989 BIRTHDAY Iga Wyrwal, Polish glamour model
20th of February 1991 BIRTHDAY Giovanni Kyeremateng Italian footballer
20th of February 0702 DEATH K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (Born 635)
20th of February 1154 DEATH Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
20th of February 1171 DEATH Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (Born 1138)
20th of February 1194 DEATH King Tancred of Sicily (Born 1138)
20th of February 1258 DEATH Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (Born 1213)
20th of February 1408 DEATH Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (Born 1342)
20th of February 1431 DEATH Pope Martin V (Born 1368)
20th of February 1524 DEATH Tecun Uman, last leader of the K'iche' (Quiche) Maya people
20th of February 1579 DEATH Nicholas Bacon, English politician (Born 1509)
20th of February 1618 DEATH Philip William, Prince of Orange (Born 1554)
20th of February 1626 DEATH John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (Born 1563)
20th of February 1762 DEATH Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (Born 1723)
20th of February 1771 DEATH Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (Born 1678)
20th of February 1773 DEATH King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (Born 1701)
20th of February 1778 DEATH Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (Born 1711)
20th of February 1790 DEATH Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1741)
20th of February 1803 DEATH Marie Dumesnil, French actress (Born 1713)
20th of February 1806 DEATH Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (Born 1725)
20th of February 1810 DEATH Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (Born 1767)
20th of February 1862 DEATH William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (Born 1850)
20th of February 1871 DEATH Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (Born 1810)
20th of February 1893 DEATH P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (Born 1818)
20th of February 1895 DEATH Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (Born 1818)
20th of February 1905 DEATH Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
20th of February 1907 DEATH Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1852)
20th of February 1916 DEATH Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1844)
20th of February 1917 DEATH Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (Born 1884)
20th of February 1920 DEATH Robert Peary, American explorer (Born 1856)
20th of February 1936 DEATH Max Schreck, German actor (Born 1879)
20th of February 1941 DEATH La Bolduc, Canadian singer and songwriter (Born 1894)
20th of February 1961 DEATH Percy Grainger, Australian composer (Born 1882)
20th of February 1963 DEATH Jacob Gade, Danish composer(Born 1879)
20th of February 1963 DEATH Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (Born 1914)
20th of February 1965 DEATH Fred Immler, German actor (Born 1880)
20th of February 1966 DEATH Chester Nimitz, American admiral (Born 1885)
20th of February 1968 DEATH Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (Born 1902)
20th of February 1969 DEATH Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (Born 1883)
20th of February 1970 DEATH Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (Born 1885)
20th of February 1972 DEATH Walter Winchell, American journalist (Born 1897)
20th of February 1972 DEATH Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1906)
20th of February 1974 DEATH David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (Born 1888)
20th of February 1976 DEATH Rene Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1887)
20th of February 1976 DEATH Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (Born 1907)
20th of February 1981 DEATH Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (Born 1904)
20th of February 1983 DEATH Fritz Koberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (Born 1910)
20th of February 1985 DEATH Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (Born 1904)
20th of February 1992 DEATH Dick York, American actor (Born 1928)
20th of February 1992 DEATH Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (Born 1944)
20th of February 1993 DEATH Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (Born 1916)
20th of February 1993 DEATH Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (Born 1908)
20th of February 1994 DEATH Burt Lancaster, American actor (Born 1913)
20th of February 1996 DEATH Solomon Asch, American psychologist (Born 1907)
20th of February 1996 DEATH Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (Born 1930)
20th of February 1997 DEATH Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (Born 1960)
20th of February 1999 DEATH Gene Siskel, American film critic (Born 1946)
20th of February 1999 DEATH Sarah Kane, English playwright (Born 1971)
20th of February 2000 DEATH Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (Born 1937)
20th of February 2001 DEATH Donella Meadows, American scientist (Born 1941)
20th of February 2001 DEATH Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (Born 1910)
20th of February 2003 DEATH Maurice Blanchot, French author (Born 1907)
20th of February 2003 DEATH Harry Jacunski, American football player (Born 1915)
20th of February 2003 DEATH Orville Freeman, American politician (Born 1918)
20th of February 2003 DEATH Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (Born 1971)
20th of February 2003 DEATH Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (Born 1947)
20th of February 2005 DEATH Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (Born 1954)
20th of February 2005 DEATH Sandra Dee, American actress (Born 1944)
20th of February 2005 DEATH John Raitt, American actor (Born 1917)
20th of February 2005 DEATH Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Born 1937)
20th of February 2005 DEATH Tom Willmore, English geometer (Born 1919)
20th of February 2006 DEATH Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (Born 1919)
20th of February 2006 DEATH Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (Born 1920)
20th of February 2007 DEATH F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (Born 1930)
20th of February 2007 DEATH Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (Born 1913)
20th of February 2008 DEATH Emily Perry, English actress (Born 1907)
20th of February 2009 DEATH Larry H. Miller, American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (Born 1944)
20th of February 2010 DEATH Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician (Born 1924)