July 20
July 20 is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 985 – Pope Boniface VII
- 1031 – King Robert II of France (b. 972)
- 1156 – Emperor Toba of Japan (1103)
- 1160 – Peter Lombard, French theologian (b. c. 1100)
- 1320 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
- 1351 – Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b.1291)
- 1387 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
- 1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
- 1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler (b. c. 400)
- 1454 – King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
- 1524 – Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
- 1616 – Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (b. c. 1550)
- 1704 – Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
- 1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
- 1793 - Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1737)
- 1796 - John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia (b. 1744)
- 1816 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1866 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
- 1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1891 - Frederick Weld, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1823)
- 1897 – Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
- 1903 – Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
- 1908 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)
- 1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
- 1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1926 – Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
- 1927 – King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
- 1932 - René Bazin, French author (b. 1853)
- 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
- 1941 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
- 1942 - Germaine Dulac, French movie director (b. 1882)
- 1944 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1945 – Paul Valéry, French writer and poet (b. 1871)
- 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
- 1951 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1953 – Dumarsais Estimé, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
- 1953 – Jan Struther, British writer (b. 1901)
- 1955 - Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
- 1959 – William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
- 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. c. 1898)
- 1970 - Iain Macleod, English politician (b. 1913)
- 1972 - Friedrich Flick, German industrialist and Nazi war criminal (b. 1893)
- 1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
- 1982 – Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
- 1983 – Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
- 1986 - Stanley Rous, English FIFA President
- 1987 - Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Forrest H. Anderson, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1920)
- 1990 – Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
- 1993 – Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
- 1997 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
From 2001
- 2001 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anti-globalist demonstrator (b. 1978)
- 2003 – Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
- 2004 - Antonio Gades, Spanish dancer and choreographer (b. 1936)
- 2005 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Kayo Hatta, American movie director (b. 1958)
- 2005 – Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (b. 1942)
- 2010 - Benedikt Gröndal, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)
- 2013 - Helen Thomas, American journalist (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Kadhal Dhandapani, Indian actor (b. 1943)
- 2014 - Victor G. Atiyeh, American politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist (b. 1953)
- 2014 - Kadhal Dhandapani, Indian actor (b. 1943)
- 2014 - Panna Rittikrai, Thai martial arts choreographer, actor and director (b. 1961)
- 2015 - Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German electronic musician (b. 1944)
- 2016 - Radu Beligan, Romanian actor, director and essayist (b. 1918)
- 2016 - Dimitri, Swiss clown (b. 1935)
- 2016 - Mohammed Shahid, Indian field hockey player (b. 1960)
- 2016 - Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist (b. 1971)
- 2017 - Marco Aurélio Garcia, Brazilian politician (b. 1941)
- 2017 - Chester Bennington, American singer and musician (Linkin Park) (b. 1976)
- 2017 - Bernhard Kempa, German handball player and coach (b. 1920)
- 2017 - Kenneth Jay Lane, American costume jewellery designer (b. 1932)
- 2017 - John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge and life peer (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Claude Rich, French actor (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Jonathan Shurberg, American attorney and politician (b. 1963)
- 2017 - Jadwiga Szubartowicz, Polish supercentenarian (b. 1905)
- 2017 - Pudsey, Border Collie performing dog (b. 2005)
- 2018 - Thaddeus Radzilowski, Polish-American historian and author (b. 1938)
- 2018 - Christoph Westerthaler, Austrian footballer (b. 1965)
- 2018 - Mitsuo Matayoshi, Japanese political activist (b. 1944)
- 2019 - Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
- 2019 - Ilaria Occhini, Italian actress (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player (b. 1955)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1910 – Mohamed Amin Didi, first President of the Maldives (d. 1954)
- 1914 - Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian philanthropist (d. 2018)
- 1914 - Magda Frank, Hungarian-Argentinian sculptor (d. 2010)
- 1914 - Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American attorney and politician (d. 2020)
- 1924 - Tatyana Lioznova, Russian movie director (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Jacques Delors, French politician
- 1925 - Frantz Fanon, Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer (d. 1961)
- 1925 - Lola Albright, American actress (d. 2017)
- 1927 - Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian and activist (d. 2018)
- 1928 - Pavel Kohout, Austrian-Bohemian writer
- 1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (d. 1993)
- 1932 – Nam June Paik, Korean video artist (d. 2006)
- 1932 – Otto Schily, German politician
- 1932 - Dick Giordano, American comic book artist and editor (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American writer
- 1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
- 1934 – Uwe Johnson, German writer (d. 1984)
- 1935 - Sleepy LaBeef, American musician
- 1936 - Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer (d. 2014)
- 1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
- 1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer
- 1938 – Dame Diana Rigg, British actress
- 1938 – Heinz Strehl, German footballer (d. 1986)
- 1938 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1939 – Judy Chicago, American artist
- 1943 - Chris Amon, New Zealand Formula One driver (d. 2016)
- 1943 - Willie Mathieson, Scottish footballer
- 1943 – Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009)
- 1944 - Mel Daniels, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- 1945 - Larry Craig, American politician
- 1946 - Htin Kyaw, former President of Myanmar
- 1947 – Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist
- 1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-American musician
- 1948 - Muse Watson, American actor
- 1950 - Edward Leigh, British politician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Larry Black, American athlete (d. 2006)
- 1953 – Dave Evans, Welsh-Australian singer (AC/DC)
- 1953 - Marcia Hines, American-Australian singer, actress and television personality
- 1953 - Dan Shaughnessy, American writer
- 1954 - Keith Scott, Canadian guitarist
- 1956 – Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
- 1956 - Julio César Falcioni, Argentine footballer
- 1958 – Billy Mays, American advertising figure (d. 2009)
- 1958 - Mick MacNeil, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
- 1960 - Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
- 1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1963 - Paula Ivan, Romanian athlete
- 1963 - Alexander Zhulin, Russian ice dancer
- 1963 - John Simmit, British actor and stand-up comedian
- 1964 – Dean Winters, American actor
- 1964 - Terri Irwin, American naturalist
- 1964 - Chris Cornell, American singer and musician (d. 2017)
- 1965 - Abdourahman Waberi, Djiboutian writer
- 1966 - Anton du Beke, British ballroom dancer
- 1966 - Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico
- 1966 - Stone Gossard, American musician
- 1967 - Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dandy Warhols)
- 1967 – Reed Diamond, American actor
- 1968 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian director
- 1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor
- 1969 - Tobi Vail, American musician
- 1971 - Sandra Oh, Canadian actress
- 1971 – DJ Screw, American DJ (d. 2000)
- 1973 – Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1973 – Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
- 1973 – Claudio Reyna, American footballer
- 1973 - Roberto Orci, Mexican-American screenwriter and producer
- 1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
- 1975 - Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Argentine footballer
- 1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
From 1976
- 1977 – Alessandro Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
- 1978 - Will Solomon, American basketball player
- 1978 - Nigel Quashie, British footballer
- 1979 – Miklos Feher, Hungarian footballer (d. 2004)
- 1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
- 1982 - Antoine Vermette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor and screenwriter
- 1986 - Osric Chau, Canadian actor and martial artist
- 1987 - Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist
- 1987 - Niall McGinn, Northern Irish footballer
- 1988 – Julianne Hough, American dancer
- 1988 - Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player
- 1989 - Cristiano Pasquato, Italian footballer
- 1989 - Javier Cortés, Mexican footballer
- 1990 - Wendie Renard, French footballer
- 1991 - Philipp Reiter, German mountaineer and runner
- 1993 - Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player
- 1993 - Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress
- 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Monegasque royalty
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day in Colombia
- Friend's Day in Argentina
- Engineer's Day (Costa Rica)
- International Chess Day