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Born on July 20?
You share your birthday with 26 famous people in our archive.
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1999–2020Pop Smoke
American rapper whose hits Welcome to the Party and Dior brought Brooklyn drill to the world before his death at twenty
Did you know? His deep, gravelly voice became the signature sound of Brooklyn drill.
b. 1993Lucas Digne
French international defender who has played for several top European clubs
Did you know? While on holiday in Barcelona, he famously helped victims of the 2017 Las Ramblas terrorist attack by providing water and towels.
b. 1980Gisele Bündchen
Brazilian fashion model and former Victoria's Secret Angel
Did you know? She was discovered by a modelling scout while eating at a McDonald's during a school excursion.
b. 1977Alessandro Santos
Brazilian-born footballer who represented Japan in two World Cups
Did you know? He moved to Japan as a teenager to play high school football before eventually becoming a naturalised citizen of the country.
b. 1973Haakon VIII of Norway
Crown Prince and heir apparent to the Norwegian throne
Did you know? He represented Norway as a member of their delegation to the United Nations and holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics.
b. 1971Sandra Oh
Award-winning actress known for Grey's Anatomy and Killing Eve
Did you know? She turned down a journalism scholarship to study drama, despite her parents being initially concerned about her choice of career.
1964–2017Chris Cornell
Lead singer of the American rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave
Did you know? He was the first American male artist to write and perform a theme song for a James Bond film.
b. 1962Carlos Alazraqui
Actor and comedian known for providing numerous iconic animated voices
Did you know? He provided the original voice for the popular Taco Bell chihuahua mascot in a series of commercials during the late 1990s.
b. 1954Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Former President and Prime Minister of Vietnam
Did you know? He grew up in a family of revolutionaries and worked his way up through various provincial administrative roles before reaching national office.
b. 1947Gerd Binnig
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-invented the scanning tunnelling microscope
Did you know? His invention allows scientists to see individual atoms, earning him the Nobel Prize just five years after the first prototype was built.
1938–1981Natalie Wood
American actress who starred in West Side Story
Did you know? She was terrified of deep water and sadly died in a drowning accident during a boat trip to Catalina Island.
1938–2020Diana Rigg
British actress known for The Avengers and Game of Thrones
Did you know? She is the only woman to have played a character who officially married James Bond on screen.
1933–2023Cormac McCarthy
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist known for his bleak and violent Westerns
Did you know? He used the same typewriter for nearly fifty years, writing millions of words on it before the machine was auctioned for charity.
1929–2007Jean Baudrillard
French philosopher known for his theories on hyperreality and media
Did you know? His philosophical concepts, particularly his theories on simulation, were a major influence on the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix.
1925–1961Frantz Fanon
Influential psychiatrist and philosopher known for his work on decolonisation
Did you know? He served in the Free French Forces during the Second World War and received a medal for his bravery under fire.
1925–2023Jacques Delors
French politician who led the European Commission for a decade
Did you know? He was a primary architect of the euro and the establishment of the European single market.
1919–2008Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer who with Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest in 1953
Did you know? In addition to his mountaineering exploits, he was a professional beekeeper in New Zealand for many years.
1895–1946László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist and influential professor at the Bauhaus school
Did you know? He was a pioneer of the photogram, a method of creating photographic images without using a camera.
1873–1932Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer who developed early airships and aircraft
Did you know? He asked his friend Louis Cartier to design a wristwatch so he could keep both hands on his aircraft controls while timing flights.
1864–1931Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Swedish poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know? He is the only person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature after their death, as he had turned the award down previously.
1847–1935Max Liebermann
Prominent German painter and leading figure of the German Impressionist movement
Did you know? He served as the president of the Prussian Academy of Arts until he was forced to resign by the Nazi regime.
1822–1884Gregor Mendel
Augustinian friar whose pea-plant experiments revealed the basic laws of heredity, founding the science of genetics
Did you know? His ground-breaking research on pea plants was almost entirely ignored by other scientists until decades after his death.
1804–1892Richard Owen
Naturalist who coined the word dinosaur in the nineteenth century
Did you know? He was a driving force behind the creation of London's Natural History Museum to house the nation's vast specimen collections.
1785–1839Mahmud II
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who implemented major administrative reforms
Did you know? He is best remembered for the forceful abolition of the Janissary corps, an elite military unit that had become politically disruptive.
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🇺🇸Bruce LeeHong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmakerView profile Photo (modified): National General Pictures · Public domain1973Died
🇮🇹Guglielmo MarconiItalian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless…View profile Photo (modified): Pach Brothers · Public domain1937Died
Leo XIIIHead of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903View profile Photo (modified): Braun et Compagnie · Public domain1903Died
Bernhard RiemannGerman mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometryView profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain1866Died
🇺🇸Chester BenningtonAmerican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin ParkView profile Photo (modified): Stefan Brending ( 2eight ) · CC BY-SA 3.02017Died
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July 20: birthdays, history and star sign
26 famous people were born on July 20, including Edmund Hillary, Gregor Mendel and Carlos Alazraqui. Anyone born on July 20 is a Cancer, a water sign ruled by Moon. Notable events on July 20 include Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969) and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Famous people born on July 20
- 1993Lucas Digne · French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national…
- 1980Gisele Bündchen · Brazilian model and activist
- 1973Haakon VIII of Norway · King of Norway
- 1964Chris Cornell · American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist for the rock bands…
- 1962Carlos Alazraqui · American actor and comedian
- 1947Gerd Binnig · German physicist
- 1938Natalie Wood · American actress
- 1938Diana Rigg · English actress of stage and screen
- 1933Cormac McCarthy · American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western…
- 1929Jean Baudrillard · French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies
- 1925Frantz Fanon · French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies…
- 1925Jacques Delors · French politician who served as president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995
- 1919Edmund Hillary · New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist
- 1873Alberto Santos-Dumont · Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early…
- 1864Erik Axel Karlfeldt · Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in…
- 1822Gregor Mendel · Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St
- 1804Richard Owen · English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- 1785Mahmud II · Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839
- 1519Innocent IX · Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 October to 30 December 1591
- AD 810Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī · 9th-century Muslim muhaddith and one of the foremost authorities on hadith, widely regarded as the most…
On July 20 in history
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon Landing · Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to land on the Moon
- 19961996 Summer Olympics · The 1996 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 194420 July plot · The 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, and overthrow…
- 1402Battle of Ankara · The Battle of Ankara or Angora was fought on 28 July 1402, at the Çubuk plain near Ankara, between the forces of Timur and the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. The…
- 1974Turkish invasion of Cyprus · Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974 in an operation that progressed in two phases over the following month
Zodiac sign
Cancer · Water · ruled by Moon · Nurturing, Intuitive, Loyal, Protective
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1899–1961Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Prize-winning American novelist of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, famed for his spare style
Did you know? He survived two separate plane crashes on consecutive days while travelling through Africa in the mid-fifties.
1304–1374Petrarch
Italian poet and scholar whose love sonnets to Laura shaped European poetry and who is called the father of humanism
Did you know? He is often credited with inventing the concept of the Dark Ages to describe the period of intellectual decline following the fall of Rome.
1951–2014Robin Williams
American comedian and actor of Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society and Aladdin who won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting
Did you know? Before finding fame, he studied at the Juilliard School where he became lifelong friends with fellow actor Christopher Reeve.
1893–1930Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian Futurist poet and playwright of A Cloud in Trousers and The Bedbug who became the voice of the revolution
Did you know? He designed propaganda posters for the state news agency and helped revolutionise the visual style of Soviet graphic design.
1834–1917Edgar Degas
French Impressionist painter and sculptor famous for his ballet dancers and the sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Did you know? Although primarily known for his paintings and pastels, he was also a prolific sculptor who worked extensively in wax.
b. 2000Erling Haaland
Prolific Norwegian striker who broke numerous Premier League scoring records
Did you know? As a five-year-old, he set a world record for his age group in the standing long jump.
b. 1976Benedict Cumberbatch
British actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Strange
Did you know? He once survived a terrifying kidnapping attempt while filming a television miniseries on location in South Africa.
b. 1947Brian May
Lead guitarist of the rock band Queen and astrophysicist
Did you know? He built his iconic Red Special guitar by hand with his father using wood from an old fireplace mantel.
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- Who was born on July 20?
- Famous people born on July 20 include Edmund Hillary (1919), Gregor Mendel (1822), Carlos Alazraqui (1962), Gisele Bündchen (1980) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864). In total, 26 famous people in our archive were born on July 20.
- Which celebrities share a July 20 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a July 20 birthday include Carlos Alazraqui, Gisele Bündchen, Gerd Binnig and Haakon VIII of Norway.
- What star sign is someone born on July 20?
- People born on July 20 are Cancer, a water sign ruled by Moon. Cancer runs from June 21 to July 22.
- What happened on July 20 in history?
- Notable events on July 20 include Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969), 1996 Summer Olympics (1996) and 20 July plot (1944).
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- July 20 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on July 20, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Edmund HillaryOf the 26 famous people who share your birthday, Edmund Hillary is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Cancer zodiac signAs a Cancer you're known for being nurturing, intuitive and loyal, just like Edmund Hillary. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in JulySee the best-known people born on every day of July, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
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