On This Day — October 20
4198 noted people were born and 1956 died on October 20 in our archive, including Christopher Wren, James Chadwick and Jennifer Widom.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 20
Christopher Wren
1632 – 1723
James Chadwick
1891 – 1974
Jennifer Widom
b. 1960
Stéphane Hessel
1917 – 2013
William Henry Young
1863 – 1942
Antonia Romeo
b. 1974
Austin Flint I
1812 – 1886
Carlos Augusto León
1914 – 1997
Eddie August Schneider
1911 – 1940
Frederic Bartlett
1886 – 1969
George W. Snedecor
1881 – 1974
Hans Lewy
1904 – 1988
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
1784 – 1865
Hilda Solis
b. 1957
Ikuo Oyama
1880 – 1955
Isah Ali Ibrahim
b. 1972
Joan Guàrdia i Olmos
b. 1958
John Dewey
1859 – 1952
Jorge Carlos Fonseca
b. 1950
Julie Payette
b. 1963
Kazimierz Twardowski
1866 – 1938
Konrad Wolf
1925 – 1982
Ksente Bogoev
1919 – 2008
Li Zhaoxing
b. 1940
Mario Luzi
1914 – 2005
Mary Earle
1929 – 2021
Matthew Sands
1919 – 2014
Mário Júlio de Almeida Costa
1927 – 2025
Piet Hein Donner
b. 1948
Ralph Erskine Cleland
1892 – 1971
Rosemarie Köhn
1939 – 2022
Sabino Cassese
b. 1935
Samuel von Cocceji
1679 – 1755
Sigrid Friis Proschowsky
b. 1994
Stefan Raab
b. 1966
Vladimir Tumanov
1926 – 2011
Wayne Morse
1900 – 1974
Werner Maihofer
1918 – 2009
Z. K. Matthews
1901 – 1968
Adam Naruszewicz
1733 – 1796
Agi Mishol
b. 1946
Akabori Shirō
1900 – 1992
Aleksandar Popović
b. 1971
Alexander T. McGill
1845 – 1900
Alexandru Rosetti
1895 – 1990
Alfredo Bengzon
1935 – 2026
Amparo Rubiales
b. 1945
Anna Tsing
b. 1952
Arlene Francis
1907 – 2001
Aurélien Agbénonci
b. 1958
Bakharev Konstantin
b. 1972
Barbara Wohlmuth
b. 1967
Ben Hill Griffin, Jr.
1910 – 1990
Bernadino Leon
b. 1964
Betsy McCaughey
b. 1948
Brian Boquist
b. 1958
Bruce Scott
b. 1943
Carey Foster
1835 – 1919
Caroline Désir
b. 1976
Charles Booker
b. 1984
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
b. 1942
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
1792 – 1863
Daniel Drake
1785 – 1852
David M. Young, Jr.
1923 – 2008
Diane Lamoureux
b. 1954
Dmitri Alenichev
b. 1972
Dmitry Bulgakov
b. 1954
Dmitry Chernov
1839 – 1921
Dmitry Lelyushenko
1901 – 1987
Dolores Hart
b. 1938
Domingos Simoes Pereira
b. 1963
Dumitru Matcovschi
1939 – 2013
Eduardo Stein
b. 1945
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
1926 – 2015
Emmanuele Fergola
1830 – 1915
Empress Michiko
b. 1934
Erzsébet Nováky
b. 1945
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken
1752 – 1837
Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi
1886 – 1955
František Mareš
1857 – 1942
François Crouzet
1922 – 2010
Fred Chaney, Sr.
1914 – 2001
Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham
1866 – 1958
Gaidis Bērziņš
b. 1970
Gary Birch
b. 1957
George Yeh
1904 – 1981
Giuseppe Pericu
1937 – 2022
Günter Kießling
1925 – 2009
Hanke Bruins Slot
b. 1977
Hans Reidar Holtermann
1895 – 1966
Harris Khalique
b. 1966
Henry Winneke
1908 – 1985
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright
1840 – 1903
Heorhii Kriuchkov
1929 – 2021
Hiromu Nonaka
1925 – 2018
Isak Andic
1953 – 2024
Ismail Fahmi
1922 – 1997
Iurie Leancă
b. 1963
Ivan Rybkin
b. 1946
James M. Cutts
1837 – 1903
James Michael Harvey
b. 1949
James Thomas Patterson
1908 – 1989
Jan Waterink
1890 – 1966
Janez Kocijančič
1941 – 2020
Jean Clair
b. 1940
Johan Erik Rydqvist
1800 – 1877
John Chancellor
1870 – 1952
John Davis Lodge
1903 – 1985
John McCarthy
b. 1947
Jomo Kenyatta
1893 – 1978
Jori Harju
b. 1964
Konstantin Khokhlov
1885 – 1956
L. Dana Wilgress
1892 – 1969
Leigh Ashton
1897 – 1983
Leonas Bistras
1890 – 1971
Leopoldo López Gil
b. 1944
Li Peng
1928 – 2019
Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott
1839 – 1911
Louis Giscard d'Estaing
b. 1958
Mai Der Vang
b. 1981
Manfred Abelein
1930 – 2008
Marc Newson
b. 1963
Marco Arana
b. 1962
Margaret Jane Benson
1859 – 1936
Marie Colton
1922 – 2018
Marnix Gijsen
1899 – 1984
Martin Joseph Wade
1861 – 1931
Martin Rosemann
b. 1976
Matthew Hutchinson
1843 – 1926
Mel King
1928 – 2023
Meredith Gardner
1912 – 2002
Michael McClure
1932 – 2020
Mikhail Yanshin
1902 – 1976
Muhammad Musa
1908 – 1991
Nikita Mandryka
1940 – 2021
Nikolai Borchsenius
1906 – 1965
Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
1892 – 1978
Osamu Tsuno
b. 1938
Otto Julius Zobel
1887 – 1970
Pat Meehan
b. 1955
Patrick Volkerding
b. 1966
Paul Bigot
1870 – 1942
Paul Thomas
b. 1941
Pavel Grudinin
b. 1960
Peter Durack
1926 – 2008
Peter Fitzgerald
b. 1960
Peter Ozsváth
b. 1967
Pia Kauma
b. 1966
Ralph McKenzie
b. 1941
Raul Manglapus
1918 – 1999
Ray Zirkelbach
b. 1978
Robert Lochner
1918 – 2003
Robert Pinsky
b. 1940
Robert Tasker
1868 – 1959
Roberto Vannacci
b. 1968
Roland Paskoff
1933 – 2005
Roy Bailey
1935 – 2018
Rudolf Zahradník
1928 – 2020
Russell Bowers
b. 1952
Ruth DeFries
b. 1956
Scott Sheffield
b. 1973
Sekazi Mtingwa
b. 1949
Sergei Rudenko
1904 – 1990
Shimazu Tadashige
1886 – 1968
Shuping Wang
1959 – 2019
Shōjirō Nishio
b. 1951
Simon Emil Ammitzbøll
b. 1977
Spiros Evangelatos
1940 – 2017
Susanne Raab
b. 1984
Svante Samuel Murbeck
1859 – 1946
Taj McWilliams-Franklin
b. 1970
Taku Mayumura
1934 – 2019
Theodore Hall
1925 – 1999
Thomas Bartholin
1616 – 1680
Thomas Hastie Bryce
1862 – 1946
Timothy M. Kennedy
b. 1976
Tommy Douglas
1904 – 1986
Tracy Hall
1919 – 2008
Urszula Krupa
b. 1949
Valeriia Hontareva
b. 1964
Veerasamy Ringadoo
1920 – 2000
Vladimir Solovyov
b. 1963
Vsevolod Murakhovsky
1926 – 2017
Wilhelm Munthe
1883 – 1965
Will Rogers, Jr.
1911 – 1993
William J. Murphy
1895 – 1973
William MacGregor
1846 – 1919
William Wurster
1895 – 1973
Wolfgang Härdle
b. 1953
Xiong Qinglai
1893 – 1969
Xuedong D. Huang
b. 1962
Yasuhiko Asaka
1887 – 1981
Yi Un
1897 – 1970
Yoshinobu Shiba
b. 1930
Zhong Nanshan
b. 1936
Ada Fijał
b. 1976
Agnimitra Paul
b. 1970
Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad
b. 1983
Aimée de Jongh
b. 1988
Alan R. H. Baker
b. 1938
… and 3,998 more
Died on October 20
Paul Dirac
1902 – 1984
Anders Nygren
1890 – 1978
Bernhard Karlgren
1889 – 1978
France Bučar
1923 – 2015
Frank Gillard
1908 – 1998
Félix Tisserand
1845 – 1896
Gilbert Archey
1890 – 1974
Harlow Shapley
1885 – 1972
Karl Gustav Homeyer
1795 – 1874
Lawrence Klein
1920 – 2013
Lawrence Kolb
1911 – 2006
Michael Rostovtzeff
1870 – 1952
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1934 – 2021
Mikhail Bakharev
1947 – 2025
Niko Miljanić
1892 – 1957
Rudi Schmid
1922 – 2007
William Johnson Sollas
1849 – 1936
Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel
1908 – 1990
Aleksandr Karpov
1917 – 1944
Alexander Beresford Hope
1820 – 1887
Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord
1736 – 1821
Alma Theodora Lee
1912 – 1990
Andrey Kolmogorov
1903 – 1987
Anthony Hecht
1923 – 2004
Archibald Campbell Jordan
1906 – 1968
Archibald Levin Smith
1836 – 1901
Arno Gruen
1923 – 2015
Benedict Read
1945 – 2016
Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
1815 – 1879
Bogdan Wojtuś
1937 – 2020
Carl Christian Rafn
1795 – 1864
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 – 1984
Caroline Jackson
1946 – 2025
Charles Marr
1880 – 1960
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
1706 – 1758
Christophe de Margerie
1951 – 2014
Chuck Coleman
1963 – 2024
David Fleming, Lord Fleming
1877 – 1944
David Pearce Penhallow
1854 – 1910
E. Donnall Thomas
1920 – 2012
Edoardo Menichelli
1939 – 2025
Eugen von Knilling
1856 – 1927
Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby
1867 – 1935
Frederick Stock
1872 – 1942
Friedrich Althoff
1839 – 1908
Gaétan Gervais
1944 – 2018
Gerhard Jahn
1927 – 1998
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
1931 – 2019
Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli
1848 – 1932
Hans Haselböck
1928 – 2021
Haydn Gwynne
1957 – 2023
Henry Barkly
1815 – 1898
Herbert Hoover
1874 – 1964
Ion Strat
1836 – 1879
Irina Skobtseva
1927 – 2020
Jacques Brault
1933 – 2022
Jacques Copeau
1879 – 1949
James Anthony Froude
1818 – 1894
John H. Terry
1924 – 2001
John Scott, 4th Earl of Eldon
1899 – 1976
John Tonkin
1902 – 1995
Junko Tabei
1939 – 2016
Koča Popović
1908 – 1992
Lawrence Dale Bell
1894 – 1956
Marion Talbot
1858 – 1948
Mark Evans Austad
1917 – 1988
Mary Chase
1907 – 1981
Max Kohnstamm
1914 – 2010
Michael Meacher
1939 – 2015
Miloš Vasić
1859 – 1935
Muammar Gaddafi
1942 – 2011
Noël Le Maresquier
1903 – 1982
Paul Kurtz
1925 – 2012
Pavle Merkù
1927 – 2014
Robert Brooke-Popham
1878 – 1953
Robert E. Kramek
1939 – 2016
Robert Medley
1905 – 1994
Sergei Bondarchuk
1920 – 1994
Shigeru Yoshida
1878 – 1967
Stephan Burián von Rajecz
1851 – 1922
Stroe Belloescu
1838 – 1912
Tone Pavček
1928 – 2011
Ulrich Grigull
1912 – 2003
Vadim Kozhevnikov
1909 – 1984
Varvara Massalitinova
1878 – 1945
Vittorio Foa
1910 – 2008
Walter Farquhar Hook
1798 – 1875
Warner R. Schilling
1925 – 2013
Werner Janensch
1878 – 1969
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
1749 – 1804
Wim Kok
1938 – 2018
Yehoshua Blau
1919 – 2020
Éric Yung
1948 – 2024
Adolphe Régnier
1804 – 1884
Adolphus Greely
1844 – 1935
Agustín Ross
1844 – 1926
Alain Lascoux
1944 – 2013
Albert O. Connor
1914 – 1989
Alexander Bogen
1916 – 2010
Alexander III of Russia
1845 – 1894
Alexandre de Laborde (1773-1842)
1773 – 1842
Alfred Partikel
1888 – 1945
Aline Coutrot
1927 – 1987
Andrée Viénot
1901 – 1976
Andy Ireland
1930 – 2024
Anne Sullivan
1866 – 1936
Anne de Joyeuse
1560 – 1587
Anthony Quayle
1913 – 1989
Anthony de Francisci
1887 – 1964
Anton Donchev
1930 – 2022
Antoni Bohdziewicz
1906 – 1970
Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
1933 – 2019
Archibald Pitcairne
1652 – 1713
Armas Saastamoinen
1886 – 1932
Arthur Henderson
1863 – 1935
Arthur Waskow
1933 – 2025
Arthur Young
1854 – 1938
Asutosh Laha
1940 – 2013
Axel Otto Mörner
1774 – 1852
Bartolomeo D’Avanzo
1811 – 1884
Bernard Fresson
1931 – 2002
Bert Sas
1892 – 1948
Betty Holtrop-van Gelder
1866 – 1962
Bill Bedford
1920 – 1996
Burt Lancaster
1913 – 1994
C. V. Sridhar
1933 – 2008
Carlo Salvioni
1858 – 1920
Charles Herbert Levermore
1856 – 1927
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1685 – 1740
Clifford Hansen
1912 – 2009
Dane Zajc
1929 – 2005
Dariusz Gnatowski
1961 – 2020
Deborah R. Cochran
1939 – 2004
Derryl Cousins
1946 – 2020
Dimitar Talev
1898 – 1966
Dmitry Faddeev
1907 – 1989
Dong Zhiming
1937 – 2024
Doyle Overton Hickey
1892 – 1961
E. Bruce Heilman
1926 – 2019
Edward Joseph Kelly
1876 – 1950
Endon Mahmood
1940 – 2005
Eric Birley
1906 – 1995
Eric Cooper
1966 – 2019
Ernst Freund
1864 – 1932
Eugene V. Debs
1855 – 1926
Farooq Leghari
1940 – 2010
Felicito Payumo
1947 – 2025
Francis B. Wai
1917 – 1944
Frank LaMar Christian
1876 – 1955
Frank Liddell
1862 – 1939
Frank Robert Miller
1908 – 1997
Frank Wesbrook
1868 – 1918
Franz Leitner
1918 – 2005
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas
1756 – 1826
Fred Atkinson
1865 – 1941
Friedrich Welwitsch
1806 – 1872
Friedrich Wilhelm Theile
1801 – 1879
Fujita Haruko
1918 – 2001
Gabriel Grovlez
1879 – 1944
Georg Dietloff von Arnim
1679 – 1753
George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
1797 – 1883
Gilberto Jiménez Narváez
1937 – 2015
Giorgos Pavlidis
1956 – 2016
Govardhan Asrani
1941 – 2025
Gunnar Asplund
1885 – 1940
Hakob Karapents
1925 – 1994
Halvor Løvold
1875 – 1950
Harald Slott-Møller
1864 – 1937
Harold S. Johnston
1920 – 2012
Harold Stanley Ruse
1905 – 1974
Harry F. Byrd
1887 – 1966
Helmut Kuhlmann
1940 – 2022
Henry Clay Drexler
1901 – 1924
Henry J. M. Barnett
1922 – 2016
Henry L. Stimson
1867 – 1950
Henry Wells
1898 – 1973
Herbert Gilles
1921 – 2015
Herbert Taylor MacPherson
1827 – 1886
Hirose Katsuhiko
1862 – 1920
Howard Saunders
1835 – 1907
Igor Demidov
1873 – 1946
Irene Galitzine
1916 – 2006
Ivan Martinov
1771 – 1833
J. Graham Parsons
1907 – 1991
Jacek Szmatka
1950 – 2001
Jack Brennan
1937 – 2023
Jack Elam
1920 – 2003
Jack Lynch
1917 – 1999
James Randi
1928 – 2020
Jane Wardle
1950 – 2015
Jane Wyatt
1910 – 2006
Janusz Olejniczak
1952 – 2024
Jason E. Hammond
1862 – 1957
Jean Zyromski
1890 – 1975
Jean de Noailles
1739 – 1824
Jeanelle C. Moore
1911 – 1999
Jenny Oropeza
1957 – 2010
Jerry Pinkney
1939 – 2021
Jim Bateman
1925 – 1987
Joe Hendricks
1903 – 1974
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