Top 10 February 20 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: February 20, 1901: René Dubos . The biologist's 1968 book So Human an Animal won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He coined the saying, "Think globally, act locally." Honorable Mention: February 20, 1902: Ansel Adams. The U.S. Department of the Interior hired him to take photographs of the National Parks. They made him the best-known American photographer of the 20th Century, and also led him to become one of the fathers of the environmental movement. Honorable Mention: February 20, 1924: Gloria Vanderbilt. She began her public life in a tug of war between the Vanderbilt, Whitney and Morgan families. She ended it as the mother of TV journalist Anderson Cooper. In between, despite already having more money than most people know what to do with, she became a major fashion designer. 10. February 20, 1984: Trevor Noah. His memoir was titled Born a Crime , because he was the son of a mixed-race marriage in apartheid-era South ...