July 20 Birthdays
July 20 Birthdays of important people from throughout history.
356 BC – Alexander the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king and military leader, (d. 323 BC)
810 – Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
1304 – Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet (Italia Mia)
1513 – Gaspar Schetz, Dutch treasurer-general
1519 – Innocent IX, [Giovanni A Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591)
1537 – Arnaud d’Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1600 – Simon Ives, composer
1659 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1663 – Pierre Drevet, French engraver
1709 – James Harris, philosopher
1720 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer
1726 – William Jones, composer
1744 – Henri Hamal, composer
1754 – Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
1761 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer
1762 – Jakob Haibel, composer
1766 – Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat
1774 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1779 – Ignaz Schuster, composer
1785 – Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
1793 – Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski)
1796 – Edward Hodges, composer
1797 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1803 – Jakob Zeugheer, composer
1804 – Richard Owen, British zoologist
1806 – John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian)
1811 – James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)
1814 – Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist
1816 – William Bowman, English anatomist
1819 – Paul Henrion, composer
1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), (d. 1884)
1824 – Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1836 – Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart)
1837 – Hans Sommer, composer
1838 – Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1838 – George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 – Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter
1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1852 – Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, lawyer/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-13) [or 1/20]=
1853 – Geo[rge] Poggenbeek, Dutch water colors painter
1858 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
1860 – Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
1864 – Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous)
1868 – Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
1870 – Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19)
1872 – Alick Maclean, composer
1872 – Deodat de Severac, composer
1873 – Witold Maliszewski, composer
1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1876 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1880 – Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
1881 – Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
1885 – Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic
1887 – Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer
1889 – John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st dir-gen BBC (1927-38)
1890 – Theda Bara, [Theodosia Goodman], Cincinnati, actress (Love Goddeses)
1890 – Verna Felton, Salinas California, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
1893 – Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20)
1893 – Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came)
1893 – George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950)
1900 – Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist
1900 – Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria’s Life)
1900 – Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman (England)
1901 – Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
1901 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
1902 – Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus)
1902 – Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1903 – Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician
1905 – Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer
1908 – Gunnar de Frumerie, composer
1908 – [Vincent] Mad Dog Coll, Gweedore, Irish-American mob hitman
1909 – Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII)
1909 – Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
1910 – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian (William the Silent)
1910 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 – Baqa Jilani, Indian cricket fast bowler (Test 1936)
1911 – William Dillard, trumpeter/singer
1912 – Andrew Long, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales)
1912 – Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
1912 – John Dacie, hematologist
1912 – Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
1912 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
1914 – William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man)
1918 – Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Edmund Hillary, Auckland NZ, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), (d. 2008)
1920 – Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1920 – Jack Harman, British general
1920 – Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat
1920 – Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950)
1921 – Frederick Schroeder Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1942)
1922 – Miroslav “Standa” Bares, Czech/Dutch actor/director (Billy Budd)
1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
1923 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 – Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self)
1924 – Lola Albright, Akron Ohio, actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad)
1924 – Thomas Berger, American novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man), born in Cincinnati, Ohio, (d. 2014)
1924 – Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1925 – Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee (1985-95)
1925 – Frantz Fanon, Martinique, France, psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth), (d. 1961)
1926 – Lola Albright, American actress
1926 – Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
1927 – Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker
1927 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
1928 – Jan Meyers, (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985- )
1928 – Pavel Kohout, writer
1928 – Peter Ind, jazz musician
1928 – Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1929 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
1930 – Arthur U Spronken, sculptor
1930 – Sally Ann Howes, actress (Dead of Night), born in London, England
1930 – Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14)
1931 – Tony Marsh, English racing driver
1932 – Nam June Paik, Seoul Korea, video artist (Medium is the Medium)
1932 – Otto Schily, German politician
1933 – Aliki Vouyouklaki, actress (Madalena)
1933 – Jose Vicente Asuar, composer
1933 – Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets)
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author
1934 – Doug Padgett, cricketer (England batsman twice in 1960)
1934 – Ralph C RInzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
1934 – Uwe Johnson, German writer
1935 – Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1935 – Ted Rogers, comedian (Aladdin, Cinderella), born in London, England
1936 – Barbara A Mikulski, (Rep-D-MD, 1977-86/Sen-D-MD, 1986- )
1936 – Butch Baird, PGA golfer (1961 Waco Turner Open), born in Chicago, Illinois
1936 – Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina
1937 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1938 – Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)
1938 – Jo Ann Campbell, Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk’s champagne lady
1938 – Lord McGowan
1938 – Natalie Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause)
1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer
1939 – Judy Chicago [Judith Cohen], American artist (Dinner Party), born in Chicago Illinois
1940 – Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964)
1941 – Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 32/34, T-9, TM-6)
1941 – Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1942 – T G Sheppard, [William Browder], Humbolt Tn, singer (Devil in Bottle)
1942 – Ron Bowden, Australian politician
1943 – Dennis Yost, vocalist (The Classics IV), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2008)
1943 – Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer
1943 – Wendy Richard, English actress
1944 – Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy
1945 – Betty Burfeindt, LPGA golfer
1945 – John Lodge, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin), born in Birmingham, England
1945 – Larry E Craig, (Rep-R-Idaho, 1981- )
1945 – Viscount Petersham, English large landowner
1945 – Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes)
1945 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1947 – Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1947 – James Harris, Monroe La, NFL quarterback (Buffalo, LA, San Diego)
1948 – Mary Dwyer, LPGA golfer
1948 – Richard H Lehman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1950 – Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1950 – Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1951 – Larry Black, 4×100 runner (Olympic-gold-1972), born in Miami, Florida
1951 – Jeff Rawle, English actor
1952 – Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1953 – Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1953 – Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1953 – Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
1954 – Jay Jay French, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), born in NYC, New York
1954 – Moira Harris, American actress
1956 – Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer (1983)
1956 – Mima Jausovec, Maribor Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977)
1956 – Paul Cook, English rock drummer (Sex Pistols), born in London
1956 – Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1957 – Donna Dixon, Virginia, actress and wife of actor Dan Aykroyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
1957 – Larry Rinker, Stuart FL, Nike golfer (1985 Bing Crosby Pro-Am-2nd)
1957 – Merlina Defranco, rocker (Defranco Family)
1958 – Michael McNeill, synthesizer (Simple Minds-Don’t You Forget About Me)
1958 – Mike McNeil, rocker
1959 – Radney Foster, Del Rio Tx, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1960 – Katie Rabbet, Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend, born in London, England
1960 – Lauren Gregg, Rochester Minn, US women’s soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1962 – Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver
1963 – Jenny Spangler, Monroe Wisc, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 – Paula Ivan, Romanian runner (world record mile)
1963 – Frank Whaley, American actor
1964 – Murray Craven, Medicine Hat, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 – Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1964 – Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
1964 – Kool G Rap, American musician
1964 – Dean Winters, American actor
1965 – Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam
1966 – Beth Coats, Albuquerque NM, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 – Carlo L’Ami, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1966 – Mike Pero, Picton Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA Winter)
1966 – Tracey Mcfarlane, US breaststroke swimmer (US record 100m)
1967 – Akihito Sugisawa, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1967 – Ian Beckles, NFL guard (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 – Jon Normile, Cleve Oh, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 – Reed Diamond, American actor
1968 – Chris Kennedy, actor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
1968 – Chris Tsangaris, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 – Robert Rodriguez, director (El Mariachi, Desperado)
1968 – Michael Park, American actor
1968 – Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor
1969 – Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 – Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 – Vitamin C, American singer
1970 – Dean Wells, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 – Shannon Baker, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 – Tom Sherrer, Syracuse NY, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Cleveland Open-2nd)
1971 – Bernard Whittington, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 – Charles Johnson, Fort Pierce Fla, catcher (US Olympics 1992, Marlins)
1971 – Ed Giddins, cricketer (promising Sussex pace bowler, England A 1995)
1971 – Ron Stone, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 – Tom Tovo, WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
1971 – William Deering Jr, South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter
1971 – Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
1971 – DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
1972 – Jay Barker, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 – Jozef Stumpel, NHL forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998, LA Kings)
1972 – Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1973 – Peter Forsberg, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1973 – Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1973 – Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1974 – Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist
1974 – Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Simon Rex, American actor
1975 – Ray Allen, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
1975 – Judy Greer, American actress
1975 – Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 – El Zorro, Mexican professional wrestler
1976 – Erica Hill, American news anchor
1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer
1976 – Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1976 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
1977 – Julia Syriani, Miss Universe-Lebanon (1996)
1977 – Shany Kedmy, Israel, Women’s 470 yachter (Oly-14th-1996)
1977 – Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 – Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
1978 – Charlie Korsmo, actor (Dick Tracy, What About Bob)
1978 – Denny Mendez, Miss Italy Universe (1997)
1978 – Jen Grubb, Elk Hart Indiana, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1978 – Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
1978 – Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1978 – Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1978 – Will Solomon, American basketball player
1979 – Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
1979 – Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
1979 – David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
1980 – Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1981 – Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
1981 – Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
1982 – Percy Daggs III, American actor
1984 – Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Troy Smith, American football player
1985 – John Francis Daley, American actor
1987 – Brent Wilson, former bassist for Panic At The Disco
1988 – Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
1989 – Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor
1991 – Scout Larue Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1991 – William Tomlin, British actor
1992 – Paige Hurd, American actress
1997 – Billi Bruno, American actress
1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco
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