August 20
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August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 2 – Lucius Caesar, heir of Augustus Caesar (b. 17 BC)
- 14 – Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vespasianus Agrippa and Julia the Elder (b. 12 BC)
- 480 – Leonidas I of Sparta
- 768 – Eadberht of Northumbria
- 984 – Pope John XIV
- 1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
- 1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
- 1572 – Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b.1502)
- 1580 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
- 1611 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. in the 1500s)
- 1639 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
- 1643 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
- 1648 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
- 1672 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
- 1672 – Cornelius de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
- 1680 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
- 1701 – Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. in the 1600s)
- 1707 – Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
- 1773 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
- 1823 – Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
- 1823 – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (b. 1772)
- 1854 – Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1801)
- 1854 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (b. 1775)
- 1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1901 – 2000
- 1912 – William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- 1914 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
- 1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1854)
- 1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
- 1919 – Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
- 1930 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
- 1942 – Istvan Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1904)
- 1947 – Albert Henderson, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
- 1961 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1965 – Jonathan Daniels, American activist (b. 1939)
- 1979 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
- 1980 – Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
- 1982 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
- 1986 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
- 1993 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Rio Reiser, German rock musician (b. 1950)
From 2001
- 2001 – Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
- 2005 – Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
- 2006 – Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1912)
- 2008 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist party (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Virginia Dwyer, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and ex-President of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
- 2013 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Ted Post, American director (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Marian McPartland, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
- 2014 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918)
- 2014 – Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and translator (b. 1946)
- 2014 – Anton Buslov, Russian scientist and blogger (b. 1983)
- 2014 – Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Lev Durov, Russian actor (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Lina Morgan, Spanish actress and playwright (b. 1937)
- 2015 – Harry Volkman, American meteorologist (b. 1926)
- 2017 – Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress (b. 1919)
- 2017 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
- 2017 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
- 2017 – Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer and conductor (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Gordon M. Williams, Scottish writer (b. 1934)
- 2018 – John N. Abrams, American general (b. 1946)
- 2018 – Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Eddie Willis, American guitarist (b. 1936)
- 2019 – Rudolf Hundstorfer, Austrian politician (b. 1951)
- 2019 – John H. McArthur, Canadian-American theorist (b. 1934)
- 2019 – Larry Siegel, American comedy writer (b. 1925)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (d. 1968)
- 1905 – Jack Teagarden, jazz musician (d. 1964)
- 1905 – Jean Gebser, writer, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Vidrik Bootare, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Al Lopez, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1910 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
- 1913 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Jacqueline Susann, novelist (d. 1974)
- 1919 – Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and film producer
- 1919 – Thomas G. Morris, American politician (d. 2016)
- 1920 – George Zuverink, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Ursula B. Marvin, American planetary geologist (d. 2018)
- 1923 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (d. 1964)
- 1927 – Peter Oakley, English blogger (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Luciano De Crescenzo, Italian writer, actor and director (d. 2019)
- 1930 – Jan Olszewski, Polish politician (d. 2019)
- 1931 – Don King, American boxing promoter
- 1932 – Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- 1933 – George J. Mitchell, American politician and businessman
- 1934 – Armi Kuusela, Finnish model
- 1935 – Ron Paul, American politician
- 1936 – Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize, laureate
- 1937 – Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (d. 2018)
- 1937 – Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian movie director
- 1937 – Jim Bowen, English comedian and television personality (d. 2018)
- 1937 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 2018)
- 1939 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino movie actor and politician (d. 2004)
- 1940 – Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
- 1940 – Ronnie McKinnon, Scottish footballer
- 1941 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
- 1943 – Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
- 1944 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
- 1944 – José Wilker, Brazilian television director and actor (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1946 – Ryszard Czerniawski, Polish lawyer and economist (d. 2019)
- 1946 – Laurent Fabius, French politician
- 1946 – Connie Chung, American journalist
- 1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
- 1948 – Robert Plant, British singer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1948 – Kees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
- 1949 – Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Greg Bear, American science fiction writer
- 1952 – John Hiatt, musician
- 1954 – Al Roker, American television broadcaster
- 1954 – Don Stark, American actor
- 1955 – Danny Murphy, American actor (d. 2014)
- 1955 – Agnes Chan, singer, professor of education, essayist
- 1955 – Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician
- 1956 – Joan Allen, actress
- 1956 – Roberto Regazzi, Italian violin maker
- 1958 – Nigel Dodds, Northern Irish politician of the Democratic Unionist Party
- 1960 – Annabelle Ewing, Scottish politician
- 1961 – Joe Pasquale, English comedian
- 1961 – Steve McMahon, English footballer
- 1962 – James Marsters, American actor
- 1962 – Sophie Aldred, English voice actress
- 1963 – Riccardo Ferri, Italian footballer
- 1964 – Giuseppe Giannini, Italian footballer and coach
- 1965 – KRS-One (Lawrence Krisna Parker), American rapper
- 1966 – Dimebag Darrell Abbott, American lead guitar player in Pantera, heavy metal band
- 1966 – Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy
- 1966 – Markus Gandler, Austrian skier
- 1968 – Yuri Shiratori, Japanese seiyū
- 1968 – Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
- 1970 – John Carmack, computer game programmer
- 1970 – Fred Durst, American singer
- 1971 – Jonathan Ke Quan, American actor
- 1971 – David Walliams, British actor and comedian (Little Britain)
- 1973 – Todd Helton, American baseball player
- 1974 – Amy Adams, American actress
- 1974 – Misha Collins, American actor
- 1974 – Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
From 1976
- 1976 – Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
- 1977 – Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1977 – Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer
- 1977 – Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
- 1977 – Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
- 1978 – Neco Martínez, Colombian footballer
- 1979 – Jamie Cullum, British musician
- 1979 – Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
- 1981 – Bernard Mendy, French footballer
- 1982 – Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
- 1983 – Andrew Garfield, British-American actor
- 1985 – Alvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer
- 1985 – Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
- 1988 – Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
- 1990 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
- 1990 – Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer
- 1991 – Cory Joseph, American basketball player
- 1992 – Demi Lovato, American singer and actress
- 1995 – Liana Liberato, American actress