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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |