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January 20th, 1940...

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TIME Magazine: Charles Lindley - Viscount Halifax

(TIME Cover: January the 15th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1940

Rebecca
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter) and Joan Fontaine (Mrs de Winter)

Designed in 1940

The Pelican chair
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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