Anniversarial — 2020
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Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2020:
Births
- Açarq, Jean Pierre d’ (born c. 1720–died 1795), French linguist, scholar, academic
- Aquin de Château-Lyon, Pierre Louis d’ (born 1720–died 1796), French author, newspaper editor
- Baillon, Jean Baptiste Alexandre de (born 1720–died after 1792), French army officer
- Baudouin, Mathurin (born c. 1720–died 1772), French churchman, Catholic
- Beauvau, Charles Juste de, prince de Beauvau-Craon (born 1720–died 1793), French aristocrat, army officer, government minister
- Bedingfield, Robert (born c. 1720–died 1768), English poet
- Bérault-Bercastel, Antoine Henri de (born 1720–died 1794), French author, poet, historian
- Berthier de Sauvigny, Louise Bernarde [née Durey d'Harnoncourt] (born 1720–died 1775), French home-maker
- Bertin, Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste (born 1720–died 1792), French government minister
- Blumenthal, Joachim Christian von, graf von Blumenthal (born 1720–died 1800), German aristocrat, civil servant
- Bonnet, Charles (born 1720–died 1793), Swiss biologist, philosopher, academician, entomologist
- Bouchard d’Esparbes de Laussan, Marie Françoise, marquise d’Aubeterre (born 1720), French aristocrat
- Bouthillier de Beaumont, Jacob (born 1720–died 1784), Swiss army officer, politician
- Burgh, John Smith de, 11th earl of Clanricarde [née Bourke] (born 1720–died 1782), Irish aristocrat, antiquarian, academician
- Carmichael, Patrick (born 1720–died 1792), Scottish army officer, military surgeon, physician
- Castin, père Anthelme, abbé Castin (born 1720–died 1782), French churchman
- Clermont-Tonnerre, Charles Henry Jules de, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 1720–died 1794), French aristocrat
- Dauphin, Anne Marie, baronne de Verna [née Cholier] (born 1720–died c. 1789), French aristocrat
- d’Hacqueville, Mme — [née Rémond de Montmort] (born before 1720), French aristocrat
- Digges, West (born 1720–died 1786), English actor
- Dolgorukov, Prince Vladimir Sergeevich (born 1720–died 1803), Russian aristocrat, army officer, diplomat
- Donelson, Colonel John (born c. 1720–died 1785), American politician, civil servant, explorer, pioneer
- Edgcumbe, George, earl of Mount Edgcumbe (born 1720–died 1795), English naval officer
- Eisen, Charles (born 1720–died 1778), French draughtsman, illustrator
- Fabry, Louis Gaspard (born 1720–died 1791), French civil servant, politician
- Farsetti, Tommasso Giuseppe (born 1720–died 1791), Italian bibliophile, collector, poet
- Fordyce, James (born 1720–died 1796), Scottish churchman, Presbyterian, moralist
- Frederick II, landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (born 1720–died 1785), German monarch
- Gal, Jean (born 1720–died 1790), French churchman, Huguenot
- Galloway, David (born 1720), Scottish merchant
- Geer, Count Carl de (born 1720–died 1778), Swedish courtier, entomologist
- Gérard, père Antoine (born c. 1720), French churchman, Catholic
- Griffiths, Ralph (born 1720–died 1803), Welsh newspaper editor, publisher
- Guéneau de Montbeillard, Philippe (born 1720–died 1785), French ornithologist
- Hawkesworth, John (born 1720–died 1773), English author, editor, East India Company official
- Hurd, Reverend Doctor Richard, bishop of Worcester (born 1720–died 1808), English churchman, author
- La Michodière, Jean Baptiste François de (born 1720–died 1797), French lawyer, civil servant, demographer, politician
- Larcher, Jean Chrysostome de, comte de La Touraille (born c. 1720–died 1794), French courtier, academician
- La Tour-Châtillon, Béat Fidèle Antoine Jean Dominique de, baron de Zurlauben (born 1720–died 1799), Swiss army officer, historian
- Lautie, James (born 1720–died 1791), Scottish churchman, Presbyterian
- Le Brigant, Jacques (born 1720–died 1804), French philologist
- Leroy, Jean Baptiste (born 1720–died 1800), French scientist
- Lewis, Brigadier-general Andrew (born 1720–died 1781), American pioneer, military surveyor, militia officer, army officer, surveyor
- Louisa Ulrica, queen of Sweden (born 1720–died 1782), Swedish monarch
- Lumisden, Andrew (born 1720–died 1801), Scottish lawyer, civil servant, Jacobite, antiquarian, author, academician
- Merrick, James (born 1720–died 1769), English academic, classicist, author, poet, translator, editor
- Moreau de La Rochette, François Thomas (born 1720–died 1791), French agronomist
- Morgan, MacNamara (born c. 1720–died 1762), Irish author, playwright
- The Northampton Mercury (founded 1720), English newspaper
- Ougspurger, Karl Ludwig (born 1720–died 1795), Swiss soldier, army officer, politician
- Prades, Jean Martin de (born 1720–died 1782), French author, theologian
- Puisieux, Madeleine de [née d’Arsant] (born 1720–died 1798), French novelist
- Rey, Marc Michel (born 1720–died 1780), Swiss publisher, bookseller
- Rivington, John (born 1720–died 1792), English printer, bookseller
- Rochemont, Daniel de (born 1720–died 1769), Swiss churchman, Protestant
- Rouet, William (born c. 1720–died 1785), Scottish Orientalist
- Russel, James (born c. 1720–died 1773), Scottish physician, surgeon, scientist
- Russell, Eleazer (born c. 1720–died 1798), American tax-official
- Schmid, Georg Ludwig (born 1720–died 1805), Swiss diplomat, politician, legal author
- Serre, Suzanne (born 1720–died 1755), French home-maker
- Simolin, Ivan Matveyevich (born 1720–died 1799), Russian diplomat
- Stanhope, Lovell (born 1720–died 1783), English lawyer, politician, member of Parliament
- Sulzer, Johann Georg (born 1720–died 1779), Swiss mathematician, philosopher, academician
- Thierry, François (born c. 1720–died after 1791), French physician, author
- Thornton, John (born 1720–died 1790), English financier, Evangelical
- Traill, Robert (born 1720–died 1775), Scottish churchman, university teacher
- Tronchin Du Breuil, Jean Pierre (born 1720–died 1789), Dutch journalist
- Vaughan, Samuel [senior] (born 1720–died 1802), English merchant, plantation-owner, political radical, garden designer
- Vignerod Du Plessis de Richelieu, Emmanuel Armand de, duc d’Aiguillon (born 1720–died 1788), French aristocrat, army officer, governor, civil servant
- Yorke, Philip, 2nd earl of Hardwicke (born 1720–died 1790), English antiquarian, author, politician, member of Parliament, academician
Deaths
- Amfrye de Chaulieu, père Guillaume, abbé d’Aumâle (born 1639–died 1720), French author, poet, conversationalist
- Cary, John (born 1649–died c. 1720), English merchant, author
- Chamberlen, Hugh (born c. 1632–died after 1720), English physician, midwife, speculator, academician, author
- Chetwood, Reverend Doctor Knightly (born 1650–died 1720), English churchman, author
- Courcillon, Philippe de, marquis de Dangeau (born 1638–died 1720), French aristocrat, army officer, author
- Davenant, Henry Molins (born 1679–died c. 1720), English diplomat
- Dodington, George (born c. 1662–died 1720), English politician, civil servant, businessman, East India Company official
- Dudley, Joseph (born 1647–died 1720), American army officer, judge, regional governor, colonial governor
- Gregory of Kinnairdy, David (born 1625–died 1720), Scottish laird
- Harcourt, Honourable Simon (born c. 1684–died 1720), English politician, member of Parliament
- Heinsius, Antonie (born 1641–died 1720), Dutch politician, Dutch East India Company official, diplomat, civil servant
- Hughes, John (born 1678–died 1720), English author, poet, librettist
- Massue, Henri de, 2nd marquis de Ruvigny (born 1648–died 1720), French Huguenot, army officer, soldier, diplomat
- Renaudot, père Eusèbe, abbé Renaudot (born 1646–died 1720), French Orientalist, theologian
- Sewel, William (born 1653–died 1720), Dutch author, historian, translator, lexicographer
- Stratton, Peter (born 1674–died 1720), English mercer, landowner, tradesman
- Waring, Jane (born c. 1674–died 1720), Irish home-maker
