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April 20

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1920 Summer Olympics

106 years ago

Born this day

1889

Adolf Hitler

Would be 137

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1455th

Muhammad

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Famous births29

AD 571 · 1455 yrs

Muhammad

Muhammad (c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, military, and political leader, and the founder of Islam. According to Islam, he was the final prophet of God who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets in Islam.

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AD 702 · 1324 yrs

Jaafar Al-Sadiq

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (Arabic: جعفر ابن محمد الصادق, romanized: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq; c. 702–765) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, hadith transmitter and the sixth and last agreed-upon Shia Imam amongst Twelvers and Isma'ilis.

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1586 · 440 yrs

Rose of Lima

Rose of Lima (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima), was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own…

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ReligionDied aged 31

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1808 · 218 yrs

Napoleon III

Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and the last monarch of France.

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1839 · 187 yrs

Carol I of Romania

Carol I or Charles I of Romania (Romanian: Carol I; Romanian:, born Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; 20 April 1839 – 10 October 1914), nicknamed the King of Independence (Romanian: Regele Independenței; Romanian: ); was the monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling…

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RoyaltyDied aged 75

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1840 · 186 yrs

Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French:; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and painter. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works known as his noirs.

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ArtDied aged 76

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1889 · 137 yrs

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mirr-OH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan:; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealist with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism.

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1895 · 131 yrs

Henry de Montherlant

Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (French:; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. His most famous play written in 1942 is La Reine morte, still studied today in French high schools.

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1918 · 108 yrs

Kai Siegbahn

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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1927 · 99 yrs

Karl Alexander Müller

Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.

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Famous deaths9

1912 · 114 yrs

Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer, barrister, literary critic, and theatre manager. He was the author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula.

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1918 · 108 yrs

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun (German:; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible.

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1932 · 94 yrs

Giuseppe Peano

Giuseppe Peano (Italian:; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations.

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1947 · 79 yrs

Christian X of Denmark

Christian X (Danish: Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark and independent Iceland between 1918 and 1944.

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RoyaltyDied aged 76

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1970 · 56 yrs

Paul Celan

Paul Celan (German:; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.

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1995 · 31 yrs

Milovan Đilas

Milovan Djilas (Serbo-Croatian: Milovan Đilas / Милован Ђилас, pronounced; 12 June 1911 – 20 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government.

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2003 · 23 yrs

Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (German pronunciation:; 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction.

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2018 · 8 yrs

Avicii

Tim Bergling (8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. His musical style was primarily pop-oriented house music, and he is an influence on many artists.

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2021 · 5 yrs

Idriss Déby

Idriss Déby Itno (Arabic: إدريس ديبي إتنو Idrīs Daybī Itnū; 18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the sixth president of Chad from 1991 until his death in 2021 during the Northern Chad offensive. His term of 30 years makes him Chad's longest-serving president.

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Events5

1792 · 234 yrs

War of the First Coalition

The War of the First Coalition (French: Guerre de la première coalition) was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought from 1792 to 1797.

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War

1792 · 234 yrs

French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries.

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War

1920 · 106 yrs

1920 Summer Olympics

The 1920 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Dutch: Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Dutch: Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; German: Spiele der VII.

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Sports

1999 · 27 yrs

Columbine High School massacre

On April 20, 1999, high school senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 students and one teacher in a school shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. Twenty people were injured by the gunfire, and three others were injured while trying to escape.

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Tragedy

2014 · 12 yrs

2014 Chinese Grand Prix

The 2014 Chinese Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 20 April 2014 at the Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China.

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