February 20




Birthdays

William Prescott 1726 - American Revolutionary soldier, know for the quote "Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes."

Joseph Jefferson 1829 - Actor ("Rip Van Winkle")

Ansel Adams 1902 - Artist

Aleksei Kosygin 1904 - Soviet premier from 1964-1980

Carl Stotz 1910 - Founded Little League baseball organization

John Daly 1914 - Reporter, TV host ("What's My Line")

Chick (Melvin) Harbert 1915 - Golfer

Kenneth H. Olsen 1926

Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lillies of the Field", "To Sir With Love")

Gloria Vanderbilt 1924 - Fashion designer

Robert Altman 1925 - Director ("M*A*S*H")

Bob Richards 1926 - Olympic pole-vaulter

Roy Face (Roy Elroy Leon) 1928 - Baseball player

Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill) 1929 - Actress ("Gunsmoke", "The Glass Slipper")

Patricia Smith 1930 - Actress ("Save the Tiger")

Bobby Unser 1934 - Race car driver

Marj Dusay 1936

Nancy Wilson 1937 - Singer

Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver

Richard Beymer 1938 - Actor ("The Diary of Anne Frank", "West Side Story")

Barbara Ellis 1939 - Musician (Fleetwoods)

Buffy (Beverly) Sainte-Marie 1941 - Singer, songwriter

Clyde Wright 1941 - Baseball player

Phil Esposito 1942 - Hockey player

Sandy Duncan 1946 - Dancer, actress ("Peter Pan", "Roots")

Brenda Blethyn 1946

Jerome Geils 1946 - Musician (The J. Geils Band)

Peter Strauss 1947 - Actor ("Peter Gunn", "The Yearling")

Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42")

Pierre Bouchard 1948 - Hockey player

Ivana Trump 1949

Walter Becker 1950 - Musician (Steely Dan)

Edward Albert 1951 - Actor ("Mind Games", "The Heist", "Guarding Tess")

Kathie Baillie 1951

Randy California (Wolfe) 1951 - Singer (Spirit)

Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton

James Wilby 1958 - Actor ("A Summer Story", "Dreamchild")

Sebastian Steinberg 1959 - Musician (Soul Coughing)

Joel Hodgson 1960

Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player

Ian Brown 1963 - Singer (Stone Roses)

French Stewart 1964

Cindy Crawford 1966 - Supermodel, actress ("Fair Game")

Lili Taylor 1967 - Actress

Andrew Shue 1967 - Actor ("Melrose Place")

Kurt Cobain 1967 - Musician, singer (Nirvana)

Brian Littrell 1975 - Singer (The Backstreet Boys)

Jay Hernandez 1978 - Actor

Majandra Delfino 1981 - Actress

Chris Thile 1981 - Musician (Nickel Creek)

Jack Richardson 1985