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| January 20th, 2008 (January 20 2008) | Death | Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (born in 1927) | |
| January 20th, 2005 (January 20 2005) | Death | Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (born in 1913) | |
| January 20th, 2005 (January 20 2005) | Death | Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (born in 1921) | |
| January 20th, 2005 (January 20 2005) | Death | Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (born in 1913) | |
| January 20th, 2005 (January 20 2005) | Death | Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (born in 1908) | |
| January 20th, 2004 (January 20 2004) | Death | Guinn Smith, American athlete (born in 1920) | |
| January 20th, 2003 (January 20 2003) | Death | Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (born in 1903) | |
| January 20th, 2003 (January 20 2003) | Death | Nedra Volz, American actress (born in 1908) | |
| January 20th, 2003 (January 20 2003) | Death | Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (born in 1947) | |
| January 20th, 2002 (January 20 2002) | Death | Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (born in 1963) | |
| January 20th, 2001 (January 20 2001) | Event | Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. | |
| January 20th, 1999 (January 20 1999) | Event | The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes. | |
| January 20th, 1998 (January 20 1998) | Death | Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (born in 1924) | |
| January 20th, 1997 (January 20 1997) | Death | Curt Flood, baseball player (born in 1938) | |
| January 20th, 1996 (January 20 1996) | Death | Gerry Mulligan, American musician (born in 1927) | |
| January 20th, 1994 (January 20 1994) | Death | Sir Matt Busby, Scottish football player and coach (born in 1909) | |
| January 20th, 1993 (January 20 1993) | Death | Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (born in 1929) | Audrey Hepburn Quotes |
| January 20th, 1992 (January 20 1992) | Event | Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and 5 crew. | |
| January 20th, 1991 (January 20 1991) | Event | Sudan s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country s Muslim north and Christian south. | |
| January 20th, 1990 (January 20 1990) | Event | Black Januarycrackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku. | |
| January 20th, 1990 (January 20 1990) | Death | Hayedeh, Persian singer (born in 1942) | |
| January 20th, 1990 (January 20 1990) | Death | Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (born in 1907) | |
| January 20th, 1989 (January 20 1989) | Death | Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (born in 1938) | Kabir Quotes |
| January 20th, 1988 (January 20 1988) | Death | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (born in 1890) | |
| January 20th, 1988 (January 20 1988) | Death | Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (born in 1903) | |
| January 20th, 1987 (January 20 1987) | Event | Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon. | |
| January 20th, 1986 (January 20 1986) | Event | Martin Luther King, Jr., day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 20th, 1984 (January 20 1984) | Birth | Olivia Hallinan, English Actress | |
| January 20th, 1984 (January 20 1984) | Birth | Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer | |
| January 20th, 1984 (January 20 1984) | Death | Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (born in 1904) | |
| January 20th, 1983 (January 20 1983) | Birth | Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| January 20th, 1983 (January 20 1983) | Birth | Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter | |
| January 20th, 1983 (January 20 1983) | Death | Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (born in 1933) | |
| January 20th, 1981 (January 20 1981) | Event | Iran releases 52 American hostages twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| January 20th, 1981 (January 20 1981) | Birth | Freddy Guzman, Dominican baseball player | |
| January 20th, 1981 (January 20 1981) | Birth | Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host | |
| January 20th, 1981 (January 20 1981) | Birth | Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer | |
| January 20th, 1981 (January 20 1981) | Birth | Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress | |
| January 20th, 1980 (January 20 1980) | Birth | Philippe Cousteau Jr., Oceanographer/Environmentalist, grandson of Jacques Cousteau | |
| January 20th, 1980 (January 20 1980) | Birth | Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka | |
| January 20th, 1980 (January 20 1980) | Birth | Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine) | |
| January 20th, 1979 (January 20 1979) | Birth | Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park) | |
| January 20th, 1979 (January 20 1979) | Birth | Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century | |
| January 20th, 1979 (January 20 1979) | Birth | Will Young, British singer | |
| January 20th, 1979 (January 20 1979) | Death | Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (born in 1925) | |
| January 20th, 1978 (January 20 1978) | Birth | Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model | |
| January 20th, 1978 (January 20 1978) | Birth | Sonja Kesselschlager, German heptathlete | |
| January 20th, 1978 (January 20 1978) | Birth | Allan Sogaard, Danish footballer | |
| January 20th, 1977 (January 20 1977) | Birth | Melody, a Belgian singer | |
| January 20th, 1976 (January 20 1976) | Birth | Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater | |
| January 20th, 1975 (January 20 1975) | Birth | David Eckstein, American baseball player | |
| January 20th, 1975 (January 20 1975) | Birth | Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver | |
| January 20th, 1973 (January 20 1973) | Birth | Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant | |
| January 20th, 1973 (January 20 1973) | Death | Lorenz Bohler, Austrian physician (born in 1885) | |
| January 20th, 1971 (January 20 1971) | Birth | Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura) | |
| January 20th, 1971 (January 20 1971) | Birth | Gary Barlow, English singer, pianist, songwriter, band member of Take That and producer. | |
| January 20th, 1971 (January 20 1971) | Birth | Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots) | |
| January 20th, 1971 (January 20 1971) | Birth | Brian Giles, American baseball player | |
| January 20th, 1971 (January 20 1971) | Death | Gilbert M. Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (born in 1880) | |
| January 20th, 1970 (January 20 1970) | Birth | Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor | |
| January 20th, 1970 (January 20 1970) | Birth | Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress | |
| January 20th, 1970 (January 20 1970) | Birth | Skeet Ulrich, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1969 (January 20 1969) | Event | The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula. | |
| January 20th, 1969 (January 20 1969) | Birth | Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker | |
| January 20th, 1969 (January 20 1969) | Birth | Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers) | |
| January 20th, 1968 (January 20 1968) | Event | The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century. | |
| January 20th, 1968 (January 20 1968) | Birth | Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress | |
| January 20th, 1968 (January 20 1968) | Birth | Rainn Wilson, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1966 (January 20 1966) | Birth | Stacey Dash, American actress | |
| January 20th, 1966 (January 20 1966) | Birth | Tracii Guns, American guitarist | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Birth | Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Birth | Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring) | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Birth | Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Birth | John Michael Montgomery, American singer | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Birth | Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer | |
| January 20th, 1965 (January 20 1965) | Death | Alan Freed, American disk jockey (born in 1922) | |
| January 20th, 1964 (January 20 1964) | Birth | Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer | |
| January 20th, 1963 (January 20 1963) | Birth | James Denton, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1962 (January 20 1962) | Death | Robinson Jeffers, American poet (born in 1887) | Robinson Jeffers Quotes |
| January 20th, 1960 (January 20 1960) | Event | Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. | |
| January 20th, 1960 (January 20 1960) | Birth | Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa) | Frank Zappa Quotes |
| January 20th, 1960 (January 20 1960) | Birth | Will Wright, American computer game designer | |
| January 20th, 1958 (January 20 1958) | Birth | Lorenzo Lamas, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1956 (January 20 1956) | Birth | Maria Larsson, Swedish politician | |
| January 20th, 1956 (January 20 1956) | Birth | Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst | Bill Maher Quotes |
| January 20th, 1955 (January 20 1955) | Birth | Wyatt Knight, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1955 (January 20 1955) | Birth | Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member | |
| January 20th, 1955 (January 20 1955) | Birth | Hiromi Ota, Japanese singer | |
| January 20th, 1954 (January 20 1954) | Event | The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. | |
| January 20th, 1954 (January 20 1954) | Death | Fred Root, English cricketer (born in 1890) | |
| January 20th, 1952 (January 20 1952) | Birth | Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss) | |
| January 20th, 1951 (January 20 1951) | Birth | Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor | |
| January 20th, 1951 (January 20 1951) | Birth | Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest) | |
| January 20th, 1950 (January 20 1950) | Birth | Liza Goddard, British actress | |
| January 20th, 1950 (January 20 1950) | Birth | Edward Hirsch. American poet | |
| January 20th, 1950 (January 20 1950) | Birth | Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player | Chuck D Quotes |
| January 20th, 1950 (January 20 1950) | Birth | Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger | |
| January 20th, 1949 (January 20 1949) | Birth | Goran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden | |
| January 20th, 1948 (January 20 1948) | Birth | Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician | |
| January 20th, 1948 (January 20 1948) | Birth | Nancy Kress, American writer | |
| January 20th, 1947 (January 20 1947) | Birth | Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif | |
| January 20th, 1947 (January 20 1947) | Death | Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (born in 1911) | |
| January 20th, 1946 (January 20 1946) | Birth | David Lynch, American film director | |
| January 20th, 1945 (January 20 1945) | Event | Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies. | |
| January 20th, 1945 (January 20 1945) | Birth | Robert Olen Butler, American writer | |
| January 20th, 1945 (January 20 1945) | Birth | Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent | |
| January 20th, 1945 (January 20 1945) | Birth | Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc) | |
| January 20th, 1944 (January 20 1944) | Event | World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin. | |
| January 20th, 1944 (January 20 1944) | Birth | Jose Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker | |
| January 20th, 1944 (January 20 1944) | Death | James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (born in 1860) | |
| January 20th, 1943 (January 20 1943) | Birth | Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician | |
| January 20th, 1942 (January 20 1942) | Event | World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin agree on the "final solution to the Jewish problem". | |
| January 20th, 1941 (January 20 1941) | Birth | Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host | |
| January 20th, 1940 (January 20 1940) | Birth | Carol Heiss, American figure skater | |
| January 20th, 1940 (January 20 1940) | Birth | Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician | |
| January 20th, 1940 (January 20 1940) | Death | Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (born in 1861) | |
| January 20th, 1939 (January 20 1939) | Birth | Paul Coverdell, American politician (died in 2000) | |
| January 20th, 1938 (January 20 1938) | Birth | William Berger, Austrian actor (died in 1993) | |
| January 20th, 1938 (January 20 1938) | Birth | Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (died in 2007) | |
| January 20th, 1937 (January 20 1937) | Event | Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4. | |
| January 20th, 1937 (January 20 1937) | Birth | Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress | |
| January 20th, 1936 (January 20 1936) | Event | Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom. | |
| January 20th, 1936 (January 20 1936) | Death | King George V of the United Kingdom (born in 1865) | George V of the United Kingdom Quotes |
| January 20th, 1935 (January 20 1935) | Birth | Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (died in 1997) | |
| January 20th, 1934 (January 20 1934) | Birth | Tom Baker, British actor | |
| January 20th, 1933 (January 20 1933) | Birth | Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (died in 2001) | |
| January 20th, 1932 (January 20 1932) | Birth | Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 20th, 1931 (January 20 1931) | Birth | David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate | |
| January 20th, 1930 (January 20 1930) | Birth | Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., astronaut | Buzz Aldrin Quotes |
| January 20th, 1929 (January 20 1929) | Event | In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking film filmed outdoors, is released. | |
| January 20th, 1929 (January 20 1929) | Birth | Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer | |
| January 20th, 1929 (January 20 1929) | Birth | Bob Denard, French mercenary | |
| January 20th, 1929 (January 20 1929) | Birth | Arte Johnson, American actor | |
| January 20th, 1929 (January 20 1929) | Birth | Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (died in 1964) | |
| January 20th, 1926 (January 20 1926) | Birth | Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist | |
| January 20th, 1926 (January 20 1926) | Birth | Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (died in 2007) | |
| January 20th, 1926 (January 20 1926) | Birth | Patricia Neal, American actress | |
| January 20th, 1926 (January 20 1926) | Birth | David Tudor, American pianist and composer (died in 1996) | |
| January 20th, 1925 (January 20 1925) | Birth | Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and author and politician | |
| January 20th, 1924 (January 20 1924) | Birth | Slim Whitman, American singer | |
| January 20th, 1923 (January 20 1923) | Birth | Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer | |
| January 20th, 1922 (January 20 1922) | Birth | Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter and actor | |
| January 20th, 1921 (January 20 1921) | Event | The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty. | |
| January 20th, 1921 (January 20 1921) | Birth | Telmo Zarraonaindia, Spanish footballer (died in 2006) | |
| January 20th, 1920 (January 20 1920) | Event | The American Civil Liberties Union is founded. | |
| January 20th, 1920 (January 20 1920) | Birth | Federico Fellini, Italian film director (died in 1993) | |
| January 20th, 1920 (January 20 1920) | Birth | DeForest Kelley, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| January 20th, 1920 (January 20 1920) | Birth | Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (died in 2006) | |
| January 20th, 1920 (January 20 1920) | Death | Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (born in 1876) | |
| January 20th, 1919 (January 20 1919) | Birth | Juan Garcia Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (died in 2002) | |
| January 20th, 1915 (January 20 1915) | Birth | Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (died in 2006) | |
| January 20th, 1910 (January 20 1910) | Birth | Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (died in 1980) | |
| January 20th, 1907 (January 20 1907) | Birth | Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (died in 2000) | |
| January 20th, 1902 (January 20 1902) | Birth | Leon Ames, American actor (died in 1993) | |
| January 20th, 1901 (January 20 1901) | Death | Zenobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (born in 1826) | |
| January 20th, 1900 (January 20 1900) | Birth | Colin Clive, British actor (died in 1937) | |
| January 20th, 1900 (January 20 1900) | Death | John Ruskin, art critic (born in 1819) | John Ruskin Quotes |
| January 20th, 1899 (January 20 1899) | Birth | Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (died in 1990) | Ken Kay Quotes |
| January 20th, 1898 (January 20 1898) | Birth | U Razak, Burmese politician (died in 1947) | |
| January 20th, 1896 (January 20 1896) | Birth | George Burns, American actor, comedian (died in 1996) | |
| January 20th, 1896 (January 20 1896) | Birth | Isabel Withers, American actress (died in 1968) | |
| January 20th, 1894 (January 20 1894) | Birth | Walter Piston, American composer (died in 1976) | |
| January 20th, 1893 (January 20 1893) | Birth | Georg Aberg, Swedish athlete (died in 1946) | |
| January 20th, 1892 (January 20 1892) | Event | At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played. | |
| January 20th, 1891 (January 20 1891) | Birth | Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (died in 1967) | |
| January 20th, 1891 (January 20 1891) | Death | David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (born in 1836) | |
| January 20th, 1889 (January 20 1889) | Birth | Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; died in 1969) | |
| January 20th, 1887 (January 20 1887) | Event | The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. | |
| January 20th, 1885 (January 20 1885) | Event | L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. | |
| January 20th, 1880 (January 20 1880) | Birth | Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (died in 1962) | |
| January 20th, 1878 (January 20 1878) | Birth | Finlay Currie, British actor (died in 1968) | |
| January 20th, 1878 (January 20 1878) | Birth | Ruth St. Denis, dancer (died in 1968) | |
| January 20th, 1876 (January 20 1876) | Birth | Jozef Hofmann, Polish pianist (died in 1967) | |
| January 20th, 1875 (January 20 1875) | Death | Jean-Francois Millet, French painter (born in 1814) | |
| January 20th, 1873 (January 20 1873) | Birth | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (died in 1950) | |
| January 20th, 1873 (January 20 1873) | Death | The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (born in 1799) | |
| January 20th, 1867 (January 20 1867) | Birth | Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (died in 1944) | |
| January 20th, 1855 (January 20 1855) | Birth | Ernest Chausson, French composer (died in 1899) | |
| January 20th, 1850 (January 20 1850) | Death | Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet (born in 1779) | |
| January 20th, 1848 (January 20 1848) | Death | Christian VIII of Denmark (born in 1786) | |
| January 20th, 1841 (January 20 1841) | Event | Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British. | |
| January 20th, 1840 (January 20 1840) | Event | Dumont D Urville discovers Adelie Land, Antarctica. | |
| January 20th, 1840 (January 20 1840) | Event | Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands. | |
| January 20th, 1839 (January 20 1839) | Event | In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. | |
| January 20th, 1837 (January 20 1837) | Birth | David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1910) | |
| January 20th, 1834 (January 20 1834) | Birth | George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1896) | |
| January 20th, 1819 (January 20 1819) | Death | King Charles IV of Spain (born in 1748) | |
| January 20th, 1812 (January 20 1812) | Birth | Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (died in 1896) | |
| January 20th, 1810 (January 20 1810) | Death | Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (born in 1722) | |
| January 20th, 1804 (January 20 1804) | Birth | Eugene Sue, French novelist (died in 1857) | |
| January 20th, 1801 (January 20 1801) | Event | John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States. | John Marshall Quotes |
| January 20th, 1798 (January 20 1798) | Birth | Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (died in 1858) | |
| January 20th, 1788 (January 20 1788) | Event | The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides Botany Bay is unsuitable for location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson. | |
| January 20th, 1783 (January 20 1783) | Event | The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War. | |
| January 20th, 1783 (January 20 1783) | Birth | Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (died in 1860) | |
| January 20th, 1781 (January 20 1781) | Birth | Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (died in 1848) | |
| January 20th, 1779 (January 20 1779) | Death | David Garrick, English actor (born in 1717) | |
| January 20th, 1775 (January 20 1775) | Birth | Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist (died in 1836) | |
| January 20th, 1770 (January 20 1770) | Death | Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born in 1722) | |
| January 20th, 1751 (January 20 1751) | Death | John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (born in 1665) | |
| January 20th, 1739 (January 20 1739) | Death | Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (born in 1659) | |
| January 20th, 1716 (January 20 1716) | Birth | King Charles III of Spain (died in 1788) | |
| January 20th, 1716 (January 20 1716) | Birth | Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist (died in 1795) | |
| January 20th, 1709 (January 20 1709) | Death | Francois de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (born in 1624) | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
| January 20th, 1707 (January 20 1707) | Death | Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born in 1659) | |
| January 20th, 1667 (January 20 1667) | Event | The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to Imperial Russia in the treaty of Andrusovo. | |
| January 20th, 1666 (January 20 1666) | Death | Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (born in 1601) | |
| January 20th, 1664 (January 20 1664) | Birth | Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (died in 1718) | |
| January 20th, 1649 (January 20 1649) | Event | Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes". | |
| January 20th, 1612 (January 20 1612) | Death | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1552) | |
| January 20th, 1586 (January 20 1586) | Birth | Johann Schein, German composer (died in 1630) | |
| January 20th, 1576 (January 20 1576) | Event | The Mexican city of Leon is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martin Enriquez de Almansa. | |
| January 20th, 1568 (January 20 1568) | Death | Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator | |
| January 20th, 1554 (January 20 1554) | Birth | King Sebastian of Portugal (died in 1578) | |
| January 20th, 1523 (January 20 1523) | Event | Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. | |
| January 20th, 1502 (January 20 1502) | Event | The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored. | |
| January 20th, 1479 (January 20 1479) | Death | King John II of Aragon (born in 1397) | |
| January 20th, 1435 (January 20 1435) | Birth | Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (died in 1490) | |
| January 20th, 1358 (January 20 1358) | Birth | Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (died in 1382) | |
| January 20th, 1356 (January 20 1356) | Event | Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland. | |
| January 20th, 1320 (January 20 1320) | Event | Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland. | |
| January 20th, 1292 (January 20 1292) | Birth | Elisabeth I of Bohemia (died in 1330) | |
| January 20th, 1265 (January 20 1265) | Event | In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament". | |
| January 20th, 1191 (January 20 1191) | Death | Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (born in 1167) | |
| January 20th, 1156 (January 20 1156) | Event | According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Koylionjarvi in Finland. | |
| January 20th, 1156 (January 20 1156) | Death | Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland | |
| January 20th, 0250 (January 20 0250) | Event | Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian was martyredied in Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa. | |
| January 20th, 0225 (January 20 0225) | Birth | Gordian III, Roman Emperor (died in 244) | |
