February 20th: What is special about this date?

February 20th marks the 51st day of the Gregorian calendar year. There are 314 days remaining until the end of the year (or 315 days in case of leap years). Discover famous birthdays on February 20th, celebrities died on this date, the zodiac sign associated to February 20th and what happened on February 20th in history. On this page we will address all your questions and curiosities about February 20th.

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February 20th: what famous birthdays are on this date?

On February 20th there are the following famous birthdays:


  • Kurt Cobain
    Kurt Cobain (1967)

    Musician (nirvana) (born 1967).

  • Cindy Crawford
    Cindy Crawford (1966)

    American model.

  • Ivana Trump
    Ivana Trump (1949)

    Czechoslovakian-american news figure and socialite.

  • Sidney Poitier
    Sidney Poitier (1927)

    American actor.

  • Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown (1951)

    Scottish member of parliament.

  • Gloria Vanderbilt
    Gloria Vanderbilt (1924)

    American entrepreneur and heiress.

  • Lili Taylor
    Lili Taylor (1967)

    Actress (ransom and short cuts, role model).

  • Jennifer O'Neill
    Jennifer O'Neill (1948)

    American actress.

  • Lauren Ambrose
    Lauren Ambrose (1978)

    Lauren Ambrose is an American actress known for her roles in the television series Six Feet Under and Servant.

  • Robert Altman
    Robert Altman (1925)

    American film producer.

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February 20th: who died on this date?

On February 20th the following celebrities died:


  • Sandra Dee
    Sandra Dee (2005)

    American actress, and teenage film idol in the late 50s and 60s.

  • Dick York
    Dick York (1992)

    American actor who played the role of darren in "bewitched", a long-running series starring elizabeth montgomery.

  • Alexander Haig
    Alexander Haig (2010)

    American soldier & civil servant, 7th supreme all allied commander europe (7th white house chief of staff, 59th united states secretaryof...

  • John Raitt
    John Raitt (2005)

    American actor, singer, and recording artist.

  • Rosemary DeCamp
    Rosemary DeCamp (2001)

    American actress, who was known as "yankee doodle", after playing james cagneyaeur (tm)'s mother in 1942's "yankee doodle dandy.

  • Max Schreck
    Max Schreck (1936)

    German actor (born 1879).

  • Thurston Hall
    Thurston Hall (1958)

    Actor (mr schuyler topper), dies at 75.

  • Jack Ingram
    Jack Ingram (1969)

    Actor (law of the west), suffers a heart attack at the age of 66.

  • Milderd Dresselhaus (2017)

    Pioneering researcher in the field of carbon science and nanotechnology.

  • Fredderick Douglass (1895)

    Prominent African American abolitionist and writer.

  • See all famous people who died on February 20th

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February 20th: what zodiac sign is associated with this date?


On February 20th, the zodiac sign associated with this date is Pisces according to the Western Zodiac.

Pisces zodiac sign

February 20th: what is special about the Pisces sign?

The Pisces sign encompasses people born between February 19th and March 20th.

You can discover Pisces's personality traits and attitude and Pisces's most and least compatible signs.

If you're a Pisces born in February discover why February born are so special.

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February 20th: what happened on this date in history?

Here's what happened on February 20th in history:


  • Feb 20, 1909: Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • Feb 20, 1915: (to December 4) The Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco. The event is held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, and the 400th anniversary of Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Feb 20, 1935: Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
  • Feb 20, 1952: 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified
  • Feb 20, 1965: Beatles record That Means a Lot
  • Feb 20, 1966: Author Valery Tarsis banished in the USSR
  • Feb 20, 1981: James Sanford equals 50 metre indoor world record (5.61 seconds).
  • Feb 20, 1985: Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
  • Feb 20, 1988: Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for US$37.6 million.
  • Feb 20, 2002: Robert William Pickton, the most prolific serial killer of Canadian history, is being charged with the first two (27) counts of first-degree killing.
  • Feb 20, 2004: Stanislaw Ryniak (88), who was the first to be imprisoned in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, is buried at Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Feb 20, 2014: Euromaidan: There is a shaky truce broken by police and protesters re-entering clashes at Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Numerous deaths have been reported. (Kiev Post), Associated Press. Volodymyr Makeyenko announces that he will be leaving his position as mayor of Kiev and will leave the Party of Regions, Ukraine's ruling party. (RIA Novosty). The European Union imposes sanctions on Ukraine, including asset freezes as well as visa bans.
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What day of the year is February 20th?


February 20th marks the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

There are 314 days remaining until the end of the year (or 315 days in case of leap years).

February 20th is the 20th day of the month of February.