Jean Theodoor Toorop was born on 20 December 1858 in Purworejo, Java, Dutch East Indies.

St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

Bennett was ranked # 12 by a survey of Canadian historians out of the then 20 Prime Ministers of Canada through Jean Chrétien.

* Raymond Radiguet, French literary prodigy, died of typhoid at age 20 while on a trip with his mentor, Jean Cocteau.

* September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer ( b. 1865 )

* February 20 – Jean Erdman, American dancer

* December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician

* February 20 – Jean Jacques d ' Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist ( b. 1678 )

* March 20 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor ( d. 1828 )

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

Jean Moulin ( 20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943 ) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II.

* 20 October 1998 – Jean Glavany succeeds Le Pensec as Minister of Agriculture and Forests.

He later lost to Billie Jean King in The Battle of the Sexes at the Houston, Texas, Astrodome, on 20 September 1973.

Historian Claudia Orange claims that the Colonial Office had initially planned a " Māori New Zealand " in which European settlers would be accommodated, but by 1839 had shifted to " a settler New Zealand in which a place had to be kept for Māori " due to pressure from the New Zealand Company which hurriedly dispatched the Tory to New Zealand on 12 May 1839 ( arriving in Port Nicholson ( Wellington ) on 20 September 1839 to purchase land ) and plans by French Captain Jean François L ' Anglois for a French colony in Akaroa.

The Battle of Diersheim ( 20 – 21 April 1797 ) saw a First French Republic army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau clash with a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Anton Count Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly.

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors ( born 20 July 1925 ) is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office ( between January 1985 and December 1994 ).

* 20 September – In the famed Battle of the sexes at Houston's Astrodome – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 3straight sets.

* Address given by Jean Rey on the merger of the executive bodies ( Strasbourg, 20 September 1967 )

Several opponents were noted for their particular skill in the event with Åke Grönhagen of Sweden coming first with 24 wins, Jean de Mas Latrie of France second with 23, Sidney Stranne of Sweden in third with 21 and Patton of the United States close behind with 20.

* 20 March 1894 – Jean Marty becomes Minister of Posts and Telegraphs as well as Minister of Commerce and Industry.

** 24 November 1958 – 20 June 1960 Jean Charles Sicurani ( b. 1915 – d. 1977 ); during his term on 4 April 1959 this Sudanese Republic and Senegal ( cfr.

* Jean Allard (-January 20, 1868 ), ( 1872 – 1876 ) and ( February 5, 1894-August 26, 1895 Death )

* July 20: Meeting of the Estates of Dauphiné, known as the Assembly of Vizille and led by Jean Joseph Mounier, to elect deputies to the Estates-General, adopts measures to increase the influence of the Third Estate.

Two months later, General Jean François Carteaux ( Léon Courtois ), in control of a French army, is ineffectively besieging the port of Toulon, held by 20, 000 English, Spanish and Italian troops.

Jean Frédéric Bazille ( December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870 ) was a French Impressionist painter.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

Jean Richards ( April 18, 1921 — December 12, 2001 ) was a French actor.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

* December 4 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( b. 1585 )

* December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer ( d. 1957 )

* December 2 – American missionary Jean Donovan and three Roman Catholic nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while volunteering to do charity work during the country's civil war.

* December 19 – Jean Genet, French writer ( d. 1986 )

* December 27 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat ( b. 1632 )

* December 31 – Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer ( d. 1813 )

* December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet ( d. 1967 )

* December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet ( d. 1674 )

* December 22 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

* December – Jean de Montfort-Castres, Count of Squillace

* December 21 – Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general ( d. 1812 )

* December 25 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer ( d. 1772 )

* December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter ( b. 1702 )

* December 5 – Jean François Sarrazin, French writer

* December 21, Jean de la Cassière, 51st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1502 )

* William Gilbreth ( December 18, 1912 – April 14, 1990 ) ( age 77 ); married Jean Irvin ; two children ( Lillian, Bill Gilbreth ).

* December 26 – Jean de Marigny, French bishop

* December 14 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris ( d. 1429 )

* On 11 December 1998, the European Council awarded him the title Honorary Citizen of Europe, a title which only Jean Monnet had received before.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin ( December 6, 1805 – June 13, 1871 ) was a French magician.