On This Day — July 20
4053 noted people were born and 1794 died on July 20 in our archive, including John Hymers, Olivier De Schutter and Richard Owen.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 20
John Hymers
1803 – 1887
Olivier De Schutter
b. 1968
Richard Owen
1804 – 1892
Thomas Clifford Allbutt
1836 – 1925
Alfredo Buzaid
1914 – 1991
Antoine Compagnon
b. 1950
Antonio Loprieno
b. 1955
Barbara Mikulski
b. 1936
Clements Markham
1830 – 1916
Czesław Mroczek
b. 1964
Diana Rigg
1938 – 2020
Edmund Hillary
1919 – 2008
Georgios Konstantinos Vouris
1802 – 1860
Gerd Binnig
b. 1947
Gregor Mendel
1822 – 1884
Igor Zubarev
b. 1966
Jacques Delors
1925 – 2023
Jeffrey M. Friedman
b. 1954
Jens Henrik Thulesen Dahl
b. 1961
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
1889 – 1971
José Manuel Campa
b. 1964
Józef Czyrek
1928 – 2013
Kazuo Aichi
1937 – 2024
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
b. 1964
Louis Finot
1864 – 1935
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
1927 – 2018
Marc Trévidic
b. 1965
Max Liebermann
1847 – 1935
Michèle Audette
b. 1971
Mohammad Tahir Shah
b. 1956
Pita Sharples
b. 1941
Raymond Priestley
1886 – 1974
Robert Manning Strozier
1906 – 1960
Seth Shostak
b. 1943
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
1816 – 1892
Stéphane Bancel
b. 1972
Tarō Kimura
1965 – 2017
Theo Heemskerk
1852 – 1932
Tim Roughgarden
b. 1975
Václav Chvátal
b. 1946
William Warner Bishop
1871 – 1955
Yves Mourousi
1942 – 1998
Zofia Kuratowska
1931 – 1999
Émile-Guillaume Léonard
1891 – 1961
Abdourahman Waberi
b. 1965
Adrian Păunescu
1943 – 2010
Aisha Abubakar
b. 1966
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 – 1932
Aleksei Yuryevich German
1938 – 2013
Alexander Condie Stephen
1850 – 1908
Alfred de Rothschild
1842 – 1918
Alistair MacLeod
1936 – 2014
Anatoly Stepin
1940 – 2020
Andreas D. Mavroyiannis
b. 1956
Andrei Sangheli
b. 1944
André Isoir
1935 – 2016
Anna Dymna
b. 1951
Anne Hutchinson
1591 – 1643
Anni Sinnemäki
b. 1973
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
1754 – 1836
Argam Aivazian
b. 1947
Arminio Fraga
b. 1957
Artur Taymazov
b. 1979
Aslan Abashidze
b. 1938
Bakhshi Qalandarli
1903 – 1985
Benoit Mouchart
b. 1976
Bertram Meier
b. 1960
Birgitta Ohlsson
b. 1975
Bosun Tijani
b. 1977
Carl Gershman
b. 1943
Carlos Saldanha
b. 1968
Charles Beitz
b. 1949
Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt
1784 – 1861
Christian Feest
b. 1945
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher
1694 – 1758
Ciprian Foias
1933 – 2020
Cormac McCarthy
1933 – 2023
Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
1851 – 1913
Dan Rooney
1932 – 2017
David Wootton
b. 1950
David Zhvania
1967 – 2022
Deniz Baykal
1938 – 2023
Dohi Keizō
1866 – 1931
Domenico Cavagnari
1876 – 1966
Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg
1828 – 1896
Edward Leigh
b. 1950
Edward Theodore Salvesen
1857 – 1942
Ellen Louise Mertz
1896 – 1987
Elliot Richardson
1920 – 1999
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864 – 1931
Erik Ullenhag
b. 1972
Ernst von Mohl
1849 – 1929
Ersilio Tonini
1914 – 2013
Fakrul Alam
b. 1951
Fidelino de Sousa Figueiredo
1888 – 1967
Francisco Tudela
b. 1955
Frank Natterer
b. 1941
Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg
1665 – 1689
G. D. Agrawal
1932 – 2018
Gaspare Gorresio
1808 – 1891
Gilles Pennelle
b. 1962
Giorgio Morandi
1890 – 1964
Giuseppe La Farina
1815 – 1863
Giuseppe Prina
1766 – 1814
Gonzalo Moliner Tamborero
b. 1944
Gordon Guggisberg
1869 – 1930
Gunnar de Frumerie
1908 – 1987
Haakon VIII of Norway
b. 1973
Hartwig Masuch
b. 1954
He Luting
1903 – 1999
Henry Sidney
1529 – 1586
Herbert Eugene Bolton
1870 – 1953
Hideo Itokawa
1912 – 1999
Howard Morrison
b. 1949
Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe
1844 – 1924
Ilya Berezin
1818 – 1896
Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk
1906 – 1989
Isiah M. Warner
b. 1946
Jakob Sederholm
1863 – 1934
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
1811 – 1863
James D. Foley
b. 1942
Jarosław Rusiecki
b. 1961
Jean-Louis Cohen
1949 – 2023
Jean-Paul Rodrigue
b. 1967
Jim Warren
1936 – 2021
Johan Bleeker
b. 1942
Johannes Hoops
1865 – 1949
Johannes Poeppel
1921 – 2007
Johannes Walther
1860 – 1937
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
1673 – 1747
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
1844 – 1900
John Frederick Collins
1919 – 1995
José María Espejo-Saavedra Conesa
b. 1976
José María Quijano Wallis
1847 – 1922
Jozef Schell
1935 – 2003
Judy Chicago
b. 1939
Jules Anspach
1829 – 1879
Julie Bindel
b. 1962
Karin Ahrland
1931 – 2019
Karl Lark-Horovitz
1892 – 1958
Karl von Hasenauer
1833 – 1894
Katrina Pierson
b. 1976
Kees Neggers
b. 1947
Kenneth Dodge
b. 1954
Lyudmila Chursina
1941 – 2026
László Babai
b. 1950
Maria Alexandrova
b. 1978
Marijn Franx
b. 1960
Mark J. Post
b. 1957
Markus Wallner
b. 1967
Martin Green
b. 1948
Mattityahu Peled
1923 – 1995
Matvey Sulkevich
1865 – 1920
May Chidiac
b. 1963
Menachem Amir
1930 – 2015
Michael Stolleis
1941 – 2021
Monica Dominique
b. 1940
Naama Goren-Inbar
b. 1948
Nam June Paik
1932 – 2006
Natalie Wood
1938 – 1981
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
b. 1954
Nima Elbagir
b. 1978
Otto Blumenthal
1876 – 1944
Otto Schily
b. 1932
Patriarch Miron of Romania
1868 – 1939
Patrick Rimbert
b. 1944
Paul Bujor
1862 – 1952
Paul Harteck
1902 – 1985
Pavel Kohout
b. 1928
Percy Thompson Dean
1877 – 1939
Philippe Bas
b. 1958
Pierre Puiseux
1855 – 1928
Prijono
1907 – 1969
Robert Dollfus
1887 – 1976
Roberto Orci
1973 – 2025
Roddam Narasimha
1933 – 2020
Ruggero Oddi
1864 – 1913
Sergio Panunzio
1886 – 1944
Sidney Rowlatt
1862 – 1945
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
1838 – 1928
Su Huan-chih
b. 1956
Tatyana Lioznova
1924 – 2011
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
1766 – 1841
Thomas Friedman
b. 1953
Thomas Urban
b. 1954
Théobald Chartran
1849 – 1907
Toma T. Socolescu
1883 – 1960
Urmas Varblane
b. 1961
Victor J. Dowling
1866 – 1934
Victoria Stilwell
b. 1969
Violet Palmer
b. 1964
Vladimir Kulishov
b. 1957
Volodymyr Nykyforov
b. 1964
Wendy Richard
1943 – 2009
Wiley Rutledge
1894 – 1949
William Rooke Creswell
1852 – 1933
Witold Maliszewski
1873 – 1939
Witold Nowacki
1911 – 1986
Zahara Schatz
1916 – 1999
Abdul Jerri
b. 1932
… and 3,853 more
Died on July 20
Hermann Schubert
1848 – 1911
John Playfair
1748 – 1819
Kai Siegbahn
1918 – 2007
Klaus Schmidt
1953 – 2014
Aadu Must
1951 – 2023
Bruce Greatbatch
1917 – 1989
Calouste Gulbenkian
1869 – 1955
Donald L. Klein
1930 – 2025
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937
Herbert Butterfield
1900 – 1979
Jan Czekanowski
1882 – 1965
Jean Casimir Félix Guyon
1831 – 1920
José Hermano Saraiva
1919 – 2012
Marco Aurélio Garcia
1941 – 2017
Marian Massonius
1862 – 1945
Maurycy Pius Rudzki
1862 – 1916
Michele Lessona
1823 – 1894
Mirasadulla Mirgasimov
1883 – 1958
Paul Valéry
1871 – 1945
Raoul Kopelman
1933 – 2023
Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley
1871 – 1954
Rodney Baxter
1940 – 2025
Seitarō Gotō
1867 – 1935
Alberto Cavallari
1927 – 1998
Aleksandr Manuylov
1861 – 1929
Alexandre Lavalley
1821 – 1892
Alexis Stamatis
1960 – 2026
Alfred de Vast-Vimeux
1826 – 1888
Alice Harnoncourt
1930 – 2022
André Isoir
1935 – 2016
Antônio Carlos Magalhães
1927 – 2007
Arus Voskanyan
1889 – 1943
Bernhard Riemann
1826 – 1866
Bianca Maria Piccinino
1924 – 2025
Bijay Mohanty
1950 – 2020
Caesar Hawkins
1798 – 1884
Charles Bettelheim
1913 – 2006
Chester R. Bender
1914 – 1996
David Lucas
1968 – 2026
Dimitrios Vikelas
1835 – 1908
Dmitry Lelyushenko
1901 – 1987
Eva Vezhnavets
1972 – 2026
Felix Dzerzhinsky
1877 – 1926
Ferdinand I of Romania
1865 – 1927
Ferdinand Lot
1866 – 1952
Florence Fifer Bohrer
1877 – 1960
Francis Bond Head
1793 – 1875
Frederick Weld
1823 – 1891
Friedrich Simony
1813 – 1896
Gail Kubik
1914 – 1984
Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida
1859 – 1920
Grenfell Price
1892 – 1977
György Kéri
1950 – 2016
Hamiduzzaman Khan
1946 – 2025
Hans Riddervold
1795 – 1876
Hans Schlange-Schöningen
1886 – 1960
Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
1862 – 1933
Helen Thomas
1920 – 2013
Henri-Étienne Beaunis
1830 – 1921
Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran
1880 – 1950
Iwakura Tomomi
1825 – 1883
James Alexander Calder
1868 – 1956
James Doohan
1920 – 2005
James Muirhead
1925 – 1999
Jean-François de Bourgoing
1748 – 1811
Johanna Mestorf
1828 – 1909
John Tinsley
1919 – 1992
Joost van Vollenhoven
1877 – 1918
Karl Lambert
1815 – 1865
Liane Russell
1923 – 2019
Lucian Freud
1922 – 2011
Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1829 – 1870
Lü Chao
1890 – 1951
Maine de Biran
1766 – 1824
Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
1883 – 1958
Masanobu Tsuji
1901 – 1968
Merrill J. Fernando
1930 – 2023
Michael Maschler
1927 – 2008
Michail Ivanovič Karinskij
1840 – 1917
Mikhail Katkov
1818 – 1887
Natalia Shpiller
1909 – 1995
Nikolai Aksyonenko
1949 – 2005
Norbert Casteret
1897 – 1987
Panagiotis Kavvadias
1850 – 1928
Pavel Sheremet
1971 – 2016
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
1935 – 2022
Peter van Geersdaele
1933 – 2018
Philipp von Bismarck
1913 – 2006
Pierre Viénot
1897 – 1944
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury
1800 – 1873
Ross Dallow
1937 – 2020
Sergei Parajanov
1924 – 1990
Sheila Dikshit
1938 – 2019
Sir Henry Willink, 1st Baronet
1894 – 1973
Thaddeus Radzilowski
1938 – 2018
Theodor Bergk
1812 – 1881
Ubaldo Soddu
1883 – 1949
Valentin Brück
1911 – 1980
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi
1887 – 1941
Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan
1932 – 2011
William D. Leahy
1875 – 1959
Abdullah I of Jordan
1882 – 1951
Abram Kardiner
1891 – 1981
Aharon Dolgopolsky
1930 – 2012
Albrecht von Graefe
1828 – 1870
Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł
1589 – 1636
Aleksandar Lilov
1933 – 2013
Aleksandr Bibikov
1765 – 1822
Aleksey Konsovsky
1912 – 1991
Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan
1891 – 1966
Alexander MacWhorter
1734 – 1807
Alexander Simpson
1872 – 1953
Andrew Lang
1844 – 1912
Anna Chandy
1905 – 1996
Arshi Pipa
1920 – 1997
Arthur Whiting
1861 – 1936
Asa Grover
1818 – 1887
Athanasios Psalidas
1767 – 1829
Athos Valsecchi
1919 – 1985
Benal Nevzat Arıman
1903 – 1990
Bernard Callinan
1913 – 1995
Blair Moody
1902 – 1954
Bruce Lee
1940 – 1973
Bruno de Finetti
1906 – 1985
Carle Augustus Woodruff
1841 – 1913
Cesare Emiliani
1922 – 1995
Charles Bowen Howry
1844 – 1928
Charles Chibitty
1921 – 2005
Charles E. Pickett
1866 – 1930
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
1861 – 1936
Charles S. Moore
1857 – 1915
Charles T. Lanham
1902 – 1978
Charles Yeater
1861 – 1943
Claude Rich
1929 – 2017
Count Ludvig Douglas, 12th Count of Skenninge and Stjernorp
1849 – 1916
Cyril Mayne
1877 – 1962
Célio de Castro
1932 – 2008
Cícero Romão Batista
1844 – 1934
Dick Corballis
1946 – 2016
Diego Venini
1889 – 1981
Don Steinbrunner
1932 – 1967
Doug Rogers
1941 – 2020
Earl Robinson
1910 – 1991
Edmund Glaise-Horstenau
1882 – 1946
Edmund Rice
1842 – 1906
Edward Chandler
1668 – 1750
Edward John Cameron
1858 – 1947
Elliot Norton
1903 – 2003
Emlen Etting
1905 – 1993
Ernest Mandel
1923 – 1995
Eyvind Earle
1916 – 2000
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
1825 – 1877
Forrest H. Anderson
1913 – 1989
Franciscus Raphelengius
1539 – 1597
Frank Crowther
1870 – 1955
Frank Nabarro
1916 – 2006
Frank Reynolds
1923 – 1983
François Delsarte
1811 – 1871
François Joseph Bouvet
1753 – 1832
Françoise Arnoul
1931 – 2021
Frederic R. Harris
1875 – 1949
Friedrich Flick
1883 – 1972
Friedrich Georg Jünger
1898 – 1977
Fritz Joachim Weyl
1915 – 1977
George Foster Shepley
1819 – 1878
George Gordon Hyde
1883 – 1946
George Shirtcliffe
1862 – 1941
Giuseppe Valle
1886 – 1975
Gustaf Wachtmeister
1757 – 1826
Gustav Georg Zeltner
1672 – 1738
Guðbrandur Þorláksson
1541 – 1627
Gyula Hernádi
1926 – 2005
Gérard Oury
1919 – 2006
Harry L. Snead
1890 – 1979
Hastings Edward Harrington
1832 – 1861
Hena Das
1924 – 2009
Henry Hoyle
1852 – 1926
Hjalmar Théel
1848 – 1937
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
1772 – 1851
Iain Macleod
1913 – 1970
Ilaria Occhini
1934 – 2019
Isaac Barré
1726 – 1802
Ivan von Müller
1830 – 1917
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer
1839 – 1917
Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds
1698 – 1746
James A. Piper
1947 – 2023
James Henry Blake
1845 – 1941
James Hobson Morrison
1908 – 2000
James Montague
1568 – 1618
Jamie McGrigor
1949 – 2025
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
1732 – 1817
Jean-Marc Sylvestre
1946 – 2026
Joan Melchior Kemper
1776 – 1824
Joe Bailey
1890 – 1974
Joe Nelson
1927 – 2009
Johann Christoph Pepusch
1667 – 1752
Johann Friedrich Kittl
1806 – 1868
John Claudius Beresford
1766 – 1846
John E. Wilkes
1895 – 1957
John Thomas Axton
1870 – 1934
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