Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 20

Births

 * 1768 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
 * 1772 - Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
 * 1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
 * 1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873) (pictured)
 * 1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
 * 1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
 * 1908 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
 * 1946 - Cher, American singer

Deaths

 * 1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
 * 1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
 * 1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)