List of Famous people born on January 20th
Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria
Ferdinand of Bavaria was born 20 January 1550, in Landshut, in the Duchy of Bavaria, and died 30 January 1608 in Munich, at the age of 58. He was the second surviving son of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Archduchess Anna of Austria, and consequently was prepared for a military career. Ferdinand is also known for the two extraordinary diaries he kept, one as fifteen-year-old boy on a journey from Munich to Florence, for his aunt's wedding, and a second journey to Florence, this time as young and experienced man of affairs.
Susanna Wesley
Susanna Wesley was the daughter of Dr Samuel Annesley and Mary White, and the mother of John and Charles Wesley.
“…although she never preached a sermon or published a book or founded a church, (she) is known as the Mother of Methodism. Why? Because two of her sons, John Wesley and Charles Wesley, as children consciously or unconsciously will, applied the example and teachings and circumstances of their home life.”
Lou Fontinato
Louis Joseph "Leapin' Louie" Fontinato was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1954 to 1961 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1961 to 1963.
Juan Garcia Oliver
Juan García Oliver (1901–1980) was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and Minister of Justice of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leading figure of anarchism in Spain.
Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko
Count Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko was a Russian writer, publisher and philanthropist.
Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka is a Japanese designer and artist.
Ricardo Drubscky
Sebastião Ricardo Drubscky de Campos, known as Ricardo Drubscky, is a Brazilian football manager.
Greg K
Gregory David Kriesel, known professionally as Greg K., is an American musician known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the American rock band the Offspring from 1984 to 2018.
William Bonaparte-Wyse
Captain William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse was an Irish soldier and poet.
Kenjiro Takayanagi
Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".