February 20th, 1965

Born on February 20th, 1965

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 21,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 392 days, exactly on May 16th, 2025, people who were born on February 20th, 1965 will be 22,000 days old!

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What happened on February 20th, 1965?

February 20th, 1965

Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

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February 20th, 1965

The NASA spacecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned in Mare Tranquillitatis.

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What else happened on February 20th?

February 20th, 1988

The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

February 20th, 1970

The Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, one of the largest Buddhist temples in Thailand, was founded.

February 20th, 1959

Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow (pictured) interceptor-aircraft program amid much political debate.

February 20th, 1943

A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of Michoacán and continued to erupt for nine years, forming the cinder cone Parícutin .

February 20th, 1905

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that states had the authority to order compulsory vaccination.

February 20th, 1872

The Metropolitan Museum of Art , today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of more than two million works, opened in New York.

February 20th, 1864

American Civil War: The Union Army suffered a one-in-three casualty rate at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida.

February 20th, 1846

Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising attempting to incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later.

February 20th, 1835

An earthquake registering approximately 8.5 Mw devastated Concepción, Chile, and triggered a tsunami that destroyed neighbouring Talcahuano.

February 20th, 1816

Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome to jeers from the audience.

February 20th, 1685

The French colonization of Texas began with the landing of colonists led by Robert de La Salle near Matagorda Bay.

February 20th, 1998

At the age of 15, American figure skater Tara Lipinski became the youngest gold-medal winner in the history of the Winter Olympic Games at the time.

February 20th, 2010

Severe flooding and mudslides on the island of Madeira, Portugal, killed 51 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 20th

Born on February 20th, 1965

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

59

Inna Zhelannaya

Russian singer-songwriter

*February 20th, 1965, Moscow

59

Federica Moro

Italian model and actress

*February 20th, 1965, Carate Brianza

59

Steve Diet Goedde

American photographer

*February 20th, 1965, St. Louis

59

Paul Faries

American baseball player

*February 20th, 1965, Berkeley

59

Jagbir Singh

Indian field hockey player and coach

*February 20th, 1965, Agra

59

Manuel Ocampo

Filipino painter and installation artist, born 1965, active in the United States

*February 20th, 1965, Quezon City

59

Dirk Schulz

German illustrator

*February 20th, 1965, Minden

59

Silvius Kessel

German church organist

*February 20th, 1965, Oldenburg

59

Denis Wirtz

Belgian molecular biologist

*February 20th, 1965, Brussels-Capital Region

59

Ron Eldard

American actor

*February 20th, 1965, Long Island

59

Anna Stieblich

German actress

*February 20th, 1965, Bremen

59

Tony Menéndez

Cuban baseball player

*February 20th, 1965, Havana

59

Thierry Saidi

French canoeist

*February 20th, 1965, Épinal

59

Mark Kachowski

Canadian ice hockey player

*February 20th, 1965, Edmonton

59

Bogusław Ogrodnik

Polish mountaineer

*February 20th, 1965, Wrocław

59

Margot Kober

Austrian skier

*February 20th, 1965, Hopfgarten im Brixental

59

Philip Hensher

British writer

*February 20th, 1965, London

59

Pedro Agostinho

Portuguese athletics competitor

*February 20th, 1965, Portalegre

59

Anouk van Dijk

Dutch dancer and choreographer

*February 20th, 1965, Velp

59

Percy Hoven

German television presenter and voice actor

*February 20th, 1965, Munich

59

Peter Nadig

Swiss association football player

*February 20th, 1965, Basel

40

Jim Zulevic

American actor (1965-2006)

*February 20th, 1965, Chicago †January 7th, 2006, Chicago

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Who's birthday is on February 20th?

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

30

Mathias Christiansen

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1994, Bornholm

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta City

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

*February 20th, 1967, Aberdeen †April 5th, 1994, Seattle

58

Cindy Crawford

American model, actress, and television personality

*February 20th, 1966, DeKalb

36

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and actress (born 1988)

*February 20th, 1988, Saint Michael

21

Olivia Rodrigo

American singer and actress (born 2003)

*February 20th, 2003, Murrieta

62

Stephan van den Berg

Olympic sailor form The Netherlands

*February 20th, 1962, Hoorn

61

Charles Barkley

American basketball player

*February 20th, 1963, Leeds

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

70

Patty Hearst

American kidnapping victim

*February 20th, 1954, San Francisco

65

Sabine Kaack

German actress (1959-)

*February 20th, 1959, Nortorf

57

Lili Taylor

American actress

*February 20th, 1967, Glencoe

52

Corinna Harney

American actress and model

*February 20th, 1972, Bremerhaven

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

72

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

German politician

*February 20th, 1952, Limburg an der Lahn

63

Andrei Shleifer

American economist

*February 20th, 1961, Moscow

Same year
Born in 1965

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

58

Zhao Jianhua

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

58

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

58

Chris Jogis

Estonian-American badminton player

*May 24th, 1965, Palo Alto

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No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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