| 19621 | February 20 | Event | 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack. |
| 19622 | February 20 | Event | 2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago. |
| 19623 | February 20 | Event | 2013 – The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered. |
| 19624 | February 20 | Event | 2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers. |
| 19625 | February 20 | Event | 2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services. |
| 19626 | February 20 | Birth | 1631 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1712) |
| 19627 | February 20 | Birth | 1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702) |
| 19628 | February 20 | Birth | 1705 – Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and composer (d. 1782) |
| 19629 | February 20 | Birth | 1726 – William Prescott, American colonel (d. 1795) |
| 19630 | February 20 | Birth | 1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (d. 1813) |
| 19631 | February 20 | Birth | 1751 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (d. 1826) |
| 19632 | February 20 | Birth | 1753 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1815) |
| 19633 | February 20 | Birth | 1757 – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and politician (d. 1834) |
| 19634 | February 20 | Birth | 1759 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (d. 1813) |
| 19635 | February 20 | Birth | 1761 – Ludwig Abeille, German pianist and composer (d. 1838) |
| 19636 | February 20 | Birth | 1763 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer (d. 1850) |
| 19637 | February 20 | Birth | 1792 – Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1859) |
| 19638 | February 20 | Birth | 1794 – William Carleton, Irish author (d. 1869) |
| 19639 | February 20 | Birth | 1802 – Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870) |
| 19640 | February 20 | Birth | 1819 – Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (d. 1882) |
| 19641 | February 20 | Birth | 1839 – Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC (d. 1908) |
| 19642 | February 20 | Birth | 1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906) |
| 19643 | February 20 | Birth | 1844 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909) |
| 19644 | February 20 | Birth | 1848 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909) |
| 19645 | February 20 | Birth | 1850 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931) |
| 19646 | February 20 | Birth | 1857 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923) |
| 19647 | February 20 | Birth | 1860 – Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (d. 1921) |
| 19648 | February 20 | Birth | 1866 – Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (d. 1936) |
| 19649 | February 20 | Birth | 1867 – Louise, Princess Royal of England (d. 1931) |
| 19650 | February 20 | Birth | 1870 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (d. 1937) |