Anniversarial — 2020
1820
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2020:
Births
- Royal Astronomical Society (founded 1820), English academy, learned society, scientific society
- Royal Astronomical Society, Council of the (founded c. 1820), English academy, learned society, scientific society
Deaths
- Allaire, Peter (born 1740–died 1820), American [unknown occupation]
- Auget, Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert, baron de Montyon (born 1733–died 1820), French philanthropist
- Bacon, Reverend John (born 1738–died 1820), American churchman, Presbyterian, lawyer, civil servant, judge
- Bancroft, Edward (born 1744–died 1820), American physician, spy, academician, scientist, secret agent
- Banks, Sir Joseph, 1st baronet (born 1743–died 1820), English explorer, collector, curator, scientist, patron, academician, benefactor
- Beljambe, Pierre Guillaume Alexandre (born 1759–died 1820), French engraver
- Blagden, Doctor Sir Charles Brian (born 1748–died 1820), English physician, physiologist, chemist, academician
- Bollioud de Saint-Julien, Anne Madeleine Louise Charlotte Auguste, baronne d’Argental [née de La Tour Du Pin] (born 1729–died 1820), French aristocrat
- Brunet, Marguerite [“Mademoiselle Montansier”] (born 1730–died 1820), French actress, theatre director, socialite
- Burrell, Peter, 1st Baron Gwydyr (born 1754–died 1820), English politician, member of Parliament
- Chappelow, Reverend Leonard (born 1744–died 1820), English academic, classicist, naturalist, author, poet
- Chassebœuf de Boisgirais, Constantin François de, comte de Volney (born 1757–died 1820), French philosopher, Orientalist
- Colquhoun, Patrick (born 1745–died 1820), Scottish magistrate, merchant
- Cooke, Edward (born 1755–died 1820), English politician, member of Parliament
- Cubières-Palmézeaux, Michel de (born 1752–died 1820), French author, playwright, politician, revolutionary
- Dalberg, Nils (born 1736–died 1820), Swedish physician
- Davie, William Richardson (born 1756–died 1820), American [unknown occupation]
- Davies, Reverend Reynold (born 1752–died 1820), English churchman, schoolteacher
- Decrès, Denis, duc Decrès (born 1761–died 1820), French naval officer, government minister
- Delandine, Antoine François (born 1756–died 1820), French lawyer, librarian, archivist
- Dewes Granville, John [née Dewes] (born 1744–died 1820), English churchman
- Douglas, Thomas, 5th earl of Selkirk (born 1771–died 1820), Scottish aristocrat, philanthropist, colonizer
- Du Gas de Bois, Jean Louis Marie, marquis de Saint-Just (born 1743–died 1820), French aristocrat, army officer, author
- Eliot, Samuel (born 1739–died 1820), American merchant, banker, philanthropist
- Ellery, William (born 1727–died 1820), American merchant, politician
- Ellicott, Andrew (born 1754–died 1820), American mathematician, astronomer, civil servant, surveyor
- Fouché, Joseph, 1st duc d’Otrante (born 1759–died 1820), French aristocrat, policeman, civil servant, government minister
- George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1738–died 1820), English monarch
- Gibbs, Sir Vicary (born 1751–died 1820), English lawyer, judge, politician, member of Parliament, civil servant
- Harris, Thomas (died 1820), English theatre manager
- Hazlitt, William [the elder] (born 1737–died 1820), Irish churchman, Unitarian minister, author
- Hill, Jeremiah (born 1747–died 1820), American merchant, politician, tax-official
- Hosier, John (born 1754–died 1820), English theatre trustee
- Inglis, Sir Hugh, 1st baronet (born 1744–died 1820), Scottish merchant, East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament
- Jones, David (born 1736–died 1820), American churchman, missionary
- Jonte, Antonio Álvarez (born 1784–died 1820), Argentinian politician
- Lafosse, père Jean (born 1745–died 1820), French churchman, Catholic, abolitionist
- Leslie, Alexander, Lord Balgonie (born 1749–died 1820), Scottish aristocrat
- Lévesque de Pouilly, Jean Simon (born 1734–died 1820), French academician
- Linley, Mary [née Johnson] (born 1729–died 1820), English singer
- Mackenzie, Alexander (born c. 1763–died 1820), Scottish explorer, fur-trader, tradesman
- Mathews, Thomas (born 1743–died 1820), Welsh gentleman
- Moline, Pierre Louis (born 1739–died 1820), French poet, author
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (born 1761–died 1820), American [unknown occupation]
- Nicolay, Ludwig Heinrich (born 1737–died 1820), French librarian, scholar, tutor, private secretary, civil servant, poet, playwright, academician
- North, Reverend Brownlow, bishop of Winchester (born 1741–died 1820), English churchman
- Poole, Joseph (born 1754–died 1820), American naval officer, politician
- Redit, James (died 1820), English lawyer
- Robinet, Jean Baptiste René (born 1735–died 1820), French author, translator
- Rush, Jacob (born 1747–died 1820), American [unknown occupation]
- Sargent, Winthrop (born 1753–died 1820), American soldier, civil servant, author
- Stevens, Edward (born 1745–died 1820), American colonist, plantation-owner, politician, army officer
- Sutherland, Alexander Hendras (born 1753–died 1820), English merchant, bibliophile, collector, bibliophile, collector, collector
- Taulès, Pierre de, chevalier de Taulès (born 1731–died 1820), French civil servant, diplomat
- Topham, Edward (born 1751–died 1820), English author, journalist, playwright
- Towers, James (died 1820), Scottish physician
- Vans, William (born c. 1730–died 1820), American merchant, tax-official
- Vergani, Paolo (born 1753–died 1820), Italian churchman, legal author, economist
- Waite, John (born 1733–died 1820), American police-officer
- West, Benjamin (born 1738–died 1820), American painter
- Weston, Jacob (born 1742–died 1820), English steward, estate manager
- Young, Arthur (born 1741–died 1820), English agriculturalist, author
