On This Day — April 20
4355 noted people were born and 1945 died on April 20 in our archive, including Kai Siegbahn, Willi Hennig and Adolf Schärf.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 20
Kai Siegbahn
1918 – 2007
Willi Hennig
1913 – 1976
Adolf Schärf
1890 – 1965
Alan Beith
b. 1943
Albrecht von Stosch
1818 – 1896
Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
b. 1937
Aubrey Strahan
1852 – 1928
Aubrey de Grey
b. 1963
Benjamín Carrión
1897 – 1979
Bernardino Varisco
1850 – 1933
Charles David Keeling
1928 – 2005
Cécile Michel
b. 1962
David Goss
1952 – 2017
Elmira Glubokovskaya
b. 1957
Eric Pickles
b. 1952
Ferdinando Rosellini
1814 – 1872
Frances Adamson
b. 1961
Francesco Siacci
1839 – 1907
Gilles Brassard
b. 1955
Gro Harlem Brundtland
b. 1939
Guy Rocher
1924 – 2025
Hamao Arata
1849 – 1925
Jean Carbonnier
1908 – 2003
Jens Weidmann
b. 1968
Jeppe Bruus Christensen
b. 1978
Jessica Lange
b. 1949
José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior
1845 – 1912
Kakha Bendukidze
1956 – 2014
Karl Alexander Müller
1927 – 2023
Liang Sicheng
1901 – 1972
Lluís Homar
b. 1957
Mahmoud Al-Samra
1923 – 2018
Maksym Tymoshenko
b. 1972
Malik Ghulam Muhammad
1895 – 1956
Marcia Angell
b. 1939
Miquel Roca
b. 1940
Paul Milgrom
b. 1948
Piotr Gliński
b. 1954
Sibylle Günter
b. 1964
Svante Pääbo
b. 1955
Takashi Sugimura
1926 – 2020
Viacheslav Fetisov
b. 1958
Vijay Vazirani
b. 1957
Abulfaz Garayev
1885 – 1952
Adolf Busemann
1901 – 1986
Alan Dukes
b. 1945
Alan Lind
1913 – 1988
Alevtina Aparina
1941 – 2013
Alexander Lebed
1950 – 2002
Alexandr Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim
1839 – 1920
Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden
b. 1945
Alvin M. Weinberg
1915 – 2006
Amos Shapira
b. 1949
Ana Seneviratne
1927 – 2015
Andrzej Gawroński
1885 – 1927
Andrzej Gałażewski
b. 1944
André Sainte-Laguë
1882 – 1950
Anna Radziwiłł
1939 – 2009
Anne Kalmari
b. 1968
Anouchka van Miltenburg
b. 1967
Antonio Núñez Jiménez
1923 – 1998
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
b. 1952
Auguste Chapuis
1858 – 1933
Beatrice Ask
b. 1956
Benjamin Ball
1833 – 1893
Carol I of Romania
1839 – 1914
Chanmyr Udumbara
1948 – 2021
Charles Beigbeder
b. 1964
Charles Sargant
1856 – 1942
Chen Mengjia
1911 – 1966
Christian Hansen
1803 – 1883
Cindy Axne
b. 1965
Daniel Chester French
1850 – 1931
David Chalmers
b. 1966
David E. H. Jones
1938 – 2017
Desra Percaya
b. 1961
Domenico Corcione
1929 – 2020
Donald Pettit
b. 1955
Edouard de Pomiane
1875 – 1964
Edward L. Beach, Jr.
1918 – 2002
Emil Kapaun
1916 – 1951
Ernst von Leyden
1832 – 1910
Euan Wallace
1892 – 1941
Eudoxe Marcille
1814 – 1890
Evan Solomon
b. 1968
Evelin Ilves
b. 1968
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu
1910 – 1961
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook
1796 – 1866
Francis Campbell
b. 1970
Francis Whitmore
1872 – 1962
Frank Kabui
b. 1946
Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller
b. 1951
Gaston Méry
1866 – 1909
Georg Ossian Sars
1837 – 1927
Georg Wiegner
1883 – 1936
George Pehlivanian
b. 1964
Giga Bokeria
b. 1972
Giorgos Provopoulos
1950 – 2024
Giuseppe De Andrea
1930 – 2016
Gustavo Ponce
b. 1952
Gwendal Rouillard
b. 1976
Heidi Julavits
b. 1968
Henry de Montherlant
1895 – 1972
Hermann Muthesius
1861 – 1927
Hiram Emory Widener, Jr.
1923 – 2007
Holland Smith
1882 – 1967
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland
1785 – 1847
Igor Sergeyev
1938 – 2006
Ingrid Lieten
b. 1964
Inocencio Arias
b. 1940
Isabel dos Santos
b. 1973
Italo Gariboldi
1879 – 1970
Jacob Abraham de Mist
1749 – 1823
Jaime Saleh
b. 1941
James David Forbes
1809 – 1868
James Ernest Strachan
1883 – 1973
Jan Dobraczyński
1910 – 1994
Jens Glad Balchen
1926 – 2009
Jens Lauritz Arup
1793 – 1874
Jiří Dienstbier
1937 – 2011
Joel Spencer
b. 1946
Johannes Agricola
1494 – 1566
John A. Mead
1841 – 1920
John Paul Stevens
1920 – 2019
John R. McGuire
1916 – 2002
John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe
1801 – 1855
Juan Carlos Aparicio
b. 1955
Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
1845 – 1925
Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski
1924 – 1998
Justinien de Clary
1860 – 1933
Józef Michalik
1941 – 2026
Kariya Munda
b. 1936
Karo Ghafadaryan
1907 – 1976
Kristin Clemet
b. 1957
Kukrit Pramoj
1911 – 1995
Lee H. Hamilton
1931 – 2026
Leon Harris
b. 1961
Lester Lyles
b. 1946
Li Denghui
1873 – 1947
Louis Lee
b. 1947
Louis Pouzin
b. 1931
Louka Katseli
b. 1952
Ludwig Gattermann
1860 – 1920
Lydia Nsekera
b. 1967
Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm
1859 – 1939
Majda Širca
b. 1953
Manuel d'Almeida Trindade
1918 – 2008
Marc Rotenberg
b. 1960
Marc Seguin
1786 – 1875
Marcos Moshinsky
1921 – 2009
Margaret Newton
1887 – 1971
Marietta Slomka
b. 1969
Massimo D'Alema
b. 1949
Maurice Duplessis
1890 – 1959
Maurice Franck
1897 – 1983
Mieke Vogels
b. 1954
Miguel Díaz-Canel
b. 1960
Miroslav Komárek
1924 – 2013
Mother Angelica
1923 – 2016
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
1903 – 1997
Napoleon III
1808 – 1873
Nikolay Gredeskul
1865 – 1941
Nikolay Krymov
1884 – 1958
Nina Davuluri
b. 1989
Nina Foch
1924 – 2008
Olly Robbins
b. 1975
Ortensio Zecchino
b. 1943
Pat Roberts
b. 1936
Pat Young
b. 1983
Peter Baker
1921 – 1966
Philippe Pinel
1745 – 1826
Quirico Filopanti
1812 – 1894
Ran Blake
b. 1935
Richard Robert McNulty
1899 – 1980
Robert C. Frasure
1942 – 1995
Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr.
1910 – 1991
Robert Galambos
1914 – 2010
Robert Mair
b. 1950
Roberto Garofoli
b. 1966
Rosa Namises
b. 1958
Rudolf Deman
1880 – 1960
Rulan Chao Pian
1922 – 2013
Rémy Trudel
b. 1948
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
b. 1946
Saudatu Mahdi
b. 1957
Sebastian Faulks
b. 1953
Seyran Ateş
b. 1963
Sheffield Airey Neave
1879 – 1961
Sheina Marshall
1896 – 1977
Shin'ichi Kitaoka
b. 1948
Stephen J. Benkovic
b. 1938
Svetlana Ishmouratova
b. 1972
Svetlana Pletnyova
1926 – 2008
Taisuke Ono
b. 1974
Thein Sein
b. 1945
Torsten Rapp
1905 – 1993
Urmas Paet
b. 1974
Walter Edward Davidson
1859 – 1923
Walter Ristow
1908 – 2006
Wilhelm Körner
1839 – 1925
… and 4,155 more
Died on April 20
John Henry Wigmore
1863 – 1943
Archibald MacLeish
1892 – 1982
Bernard Katz
1911 – 2003
Bob Filner
1942 – 2025
George Cowan
1920 – 2012
Gian Carlo Wick
1909 – 1992
Giuseppe Peano
1858 – 1932
Halina Skibniewska
1921 – 2011
Henri Rolin
1891 – 1973
Huib Drion
1917 – 2004
James Cullen Martin
1928 – 1999
Johan Eichfeld
1893 – 1989
John Abernethy
1764 – 1831
John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
1877 – 1969
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton
1941 – 2026
Karl Ferdinand Braun
1850 – 1918
Kathleen Antonelli
1921 – 2006
Krystyna Łybacka
1946 – 2020
Ksente Bogoev
1919 – 2008
Llewellyn Thomas
1903 – 1992
Maurice Lauré
1917 – 2001
Mitsumasa Yonai
1880 – 1948
Paul Cohn
1924 – 2006
Peter Colotka
1925 – 2019
Qian Lingxi
1916 – 2009
Robert Manning Strozier
1906 – 1960
Tadeusz Sulimirski
1898 – 1983
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis
1899 – 1970
Ad Geelhoed
1942 – 2007
Aharon Lichtenstein
1933 – 2015
Alan Garen
1926 – 2022
Alessandro Mattei
1744 – 1820
Alfred Cort Haddon
1855 – 1940
Alfredo Palacios
1880 – 1965
Alistair MacLeod
1936 – 2014
Andrea Andreen
1888 – 1972
Andrew Hill
1931 – 2007
Anton Mailyan
1880 – 1942
Antonio Fais
1841 – 1925
Arthur Comyns Carr
1882 – 1965
Bernt Holtsmark
1859 – 1941
Bram Stoker
1847 – 1912
Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch
1772 – 1819
Charles de Brouckère
1796 – 1860
David A. Brading
1936 – 2024
Dmitrii Ivanovich Sosnowsky
1886 – 1953
Dorothy Height
1912 – 2010
Eduardo Cobián
1857 – 1918
Felix Landau
1910 – 1983
Francesco Alciati
1522 – 1580
Frédéric Bourguet
1889 – 1978
Gaston Wiet
1887 – 1971
Gediminas Kirkilas
1951 – 2024
George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
1860 – 1949
George Ferdinand Becker
1847 – 1919
Giuseppe Prina
1766 – 1814
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
1834 – 1885
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
1877 – 1946
Henry Brackenbury
1837 – 1914
Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski
1647 – 1706
Idriss Déby
1952 – 2021
Ivanoe Bonomi
1873 – 1951
Jerome F. O'Malley
1932 – 1985
Joe Armstrong
1950 – 2019
Johannes Bugenhagen
1485 – 1558
Johannes Sobotta
1869 – 1945
John Henry Gurney Sr.
1819 – 1890
John Mason
1503 – 1566
John Vachon
1914 – 1975
Jüri Jaakson
1870 – 1942
Lawrence J. Hogan
1928 – 2017
Lawrence Korb
1939 – 2026
Leonard Jaczewski
1858 – 1916
Ludwig Berwald
1883 – 1942
Ludwig Burmester
1840 – 1927
Magdalena Abakanowicz
1930 – 2017
Marian Rembowski
1878 – 1961
Mary McGrory
1918 – 2004
Michiharu Mishima
1897 – 1965
Mikhail Astangov
1900 – 1965
Milovan Đilas
1911 – 1995
Muhammad al-Fadl ibn Ashur
1909 – 1970
Neville Wran
1926 – 2014
Nikolai Simonov
1901 – 1973
Nikolay Novosiltsev
1761 – 1838
Otto Hellmuth
1896 – 1968
Paul Celan
1920 – 1970
Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn
1850 – 1918
Pedro Erquicia
1943 – 2018
Pedro Eugênio
1949 – 2015
Ramrao Deshmukh
1892 – 1981
Robert L. Coffey
1918 – 1949
Rudratej Singh
1973 – 2020
S. Muthiah
1930 – 2019
Salma Jayyusi
1926 – 2023
Sergei Brukhonenko
1890 – 1960
Sergei Stadler
1962 – 2026
Sergey Gerasimov
1885 – 1964
Seán Ó Faoláin
1900 – 1991
Sven-Olof Olson
1926 – 2021
Thomas Hunter
1876 – 1953
Tim Hetherington
1970 – 2011
Trevor Huddleston
1913 – 1998
Webb Gillman
1870 – 1933
Wilhelm Peters
1815 – 1883
William Mitchell Ramsay
1851 – 1939
William Rooke Creswell
1852 – 1933
William Tite
1798 – 1873
Xie Yingzhou
1894 – 1972
Zhou Gengsheng
1889 – 1971
Abdul Karim
1863 – 1909
Ada Mello
1953 – 2023
Adolphe-Philippe Caron
1843 – 1908
Ahmad Sa'd
1945 – 2010
Al Swift
1935 – 2018
Aleksander Sopliński
1942 – 2021
Alexander H. Bailey
1817 – 1874
Alexander Lange Johnson
1910 – 1989
Alfred Thompson
1869 – 1940
Andrew Davis
1944 – 2024
Andrzej Boryszewski
1435 – 1510
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou
1732 – 1795
Anton Höfle
1882 – 1925
Antonio Bello
1935 – 1993
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria
1866 – 1939
Arild Underdal
1946 – 2025
Arsen Yegiazarian
1970 – 2020
Arthur George Hammond
1843 – 1919
Assis Reis
1926 – 2011
Avicii
1989 – 2018
Benedikt Sarnov
1927 – 2014
Bernardin-François Fouquet
1705 – 1785
Bert Sutcliffe
1923 – 2001
Birger Ljungberg
1884 – 1967
Bob St. Clair
1931 – 2015
Bob Wyatt
1901 – 1995
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
1754 – 1842
Cantinflas
1911 – 1993
Carl Axel Gottlund
1796 – 1875
Carlos Bee
1867 – 1932
Carlos Ribbeck
1899 – 1990
Celestyn Myślenta
1588 – 1653
Chang Li-sheng
1901 – 1971
Charles Francis Meserve
1850 – 1935
Charles Frederic Francois, Marquis de Montholon
1814 – 1886
Charles Gifford
1821 – 1896
Charles Harper
1842 – 1912
Charles Henry Gilbert
1859 – 1928
Charles Herbert Allen
1848 – 1934
Charles Lagarde
1878 – 1954
Charles Noguès
1876 – 1971
Charles Stanley Blair
1927 – 1980
Charles Sumner Tainter
1854 – 1940
Charles Whitman Cross
1854 – 1949
Charles Zwick
1926 – 2018
Christian X of Denmark
1870 – 1947
Claude Evrard
1933 – 2020
Claude Ferval
1856 – 1943
Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain
1783 – 1843
Clement V
1264 – 1314
Cornelis Zwikker
1900 – 1985
David Gilbarg
1918 – 2001
David Pryor
1934 – 2024
David Rothe
1573 – 1650
Digambar Mitra
1817 – 1896
Djóni í Geil
1849 – 1912
Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen
1938 – 2024
Dragoslav Marković
1920 – 2005
Edmundson Parkes
1904 – 1997
Edward J. Hart
1893 – 1961
Edward Joseph DeSaulnier Jr.
1921 – 1989
Edward Patrick Johnson
1878 – 1959
Elisabeth Kirkby
1921 – 2026
Elmer Gedeon
1917 – 1944
Emmanuel Halgan
1771 – 1852
Eric Tigerstedt
1886 – 1925
Ewen Fergusson
1932 – 2017
Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle
1866 – 1941
Fumio Niwa
1904 – 2005
Georg Feigl
1890 – 1945
George Frederick Wright
1838 – 1921
George Grantham Bain
1865 – 1944
George Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt
1736 – 1809
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
1757 – 1802
Georgette Dorn
1934 – 2026
Germaine Ahidjo
1932 – 2021
Giuseppe Sinopoli
1946 – 2001
Grenville Cole
1859 – 1924
Gustav Hirschfeld
1847 – 1895
Gustav Veit
1824 – 1903
Hans Peter Ingerslev
1831 – 1896
Heherson Alvarez
1939 – 2020
Helen Brown Shaw
1879 – 1964
Helene Bechstein
1876 – 1951
Henry Bence Jones
1813 – 1873
Henry McKean
1930 – 2024
Henry Mucci
1911 – 1997
Herbert Lawford
1851 – 1925
Horst Sindermann
1915 – 1990
Hrant Vardanyan
1949 – 2014
… and 1,745 more