Avvakum
Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Boyarynya Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.
20 November 1620
Born on the same birth day (20 November): Anastasiya Kapachinskaya • Atsushi Yoneyama • Bo Derek • Charles Bettelheim • David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home • Eli Ben Rimoz • Florian David Fitz • Geoffrey Keezer • Jenő Vincze • José Leandro Andrade • Mark Christian • Naide Gomes • Otto von Habsburg • Philipp Schmitt • Shaolin Sándor Liu • Sébastien Hamel • Takeshi Kusao • Willem Jacob van Stockum
Born in the same month (November 1620): Ninon de l'Enclos