Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 20

Births

 * 1650 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
 * 1808 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873) (pictured)
 * 1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
 * 1889 - Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
 * 1949 - Jessica Lange, American actress

Deaths

 * 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
 * 1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
 * 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
 * 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
 * 1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre:
 * Rachel Scott (b. 1981)
 * Cassie Bernall (b. 1981)