July 20
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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.
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Births [change]
- 356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and conqueror of Persia (d. 323 BC)
- 1304 – Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1374)
- 1519 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
- 1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
- 1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
- 1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian priest and geneticist (d. 1884)
- 1847 – Max Liebermann, German painter (d. 1935)
- 1852 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932)
- 1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
- 1868 - Miron Cristea, Patriarch of Romania (d. 1939)
- 1889 - John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, British broadcaster (d. 1971)
- 1890 – King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
- 1895 – Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian artist (d. 1946)
- 1896 – Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian, officially the second-oldest person in the world (d. 2011)
- 1897 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Mohamed Amin Didi, first President of the Maldives (d. 1954)
- 1919 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Jacques Delors, French politician
- 1928 - Pavel Kohout, Austria-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
- 1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author
- 1934 – Uwe Johnson, German writer (d. 1984)
- 1935 - Sleepy LaBeef, American musician
- 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 – Wendy Richard, British actress (d. 2009)
- 1947 – Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist
- 1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-American musician
- 1950 - Edward Leigh, British politician
- 1953 – Dave Evans, Australian singer (AC/DC)
- 1956 – Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
- 1958 – Billy Mays, American advertising figure (d. 2009)
- 1964 – Dean Winters, American actor
- 1964 - Terri Irwin, American naturalist
- 1965 - Abdourahman Waberi, Djiboutian writer
- 1966 - Anton du Beke, British ballroom dancer
- 1966 - Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican politician
- 1967 – Reed Diamond, American actor
- 1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor
- 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
- 1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
- 1977 – Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
- 1979 – Miklos Feher, Hungarian footballer (d. 2004)
- 1980 – Gisele Buendchen, Brazilian model
- 1988 – Julianne Hough, American dancer
- 1988 - Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player
- 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Monegasque royalty
Deaths [change]
- 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)
- 1816 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1866 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
- 1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1897 – Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
- 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)
- 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
- 1941 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
- 1944 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1945 – Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
- 1951 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1953 – Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
- 1953 – Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 film director (b. 1958)
- 2005 – Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)
Events [change]
- 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: King Edward I of England takes control of Stirling Castle.
- 1810 – Citizens of Bogota, New Granada (in present-day Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
- 1871 – British Columbia joins the Confederation of Canada.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: A boiler explodes on the USS Iowa, off the coast of Santiago de Cuba.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor company ships its first car.
- 1906 – Finland gives women the right to vote.
- 1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the postwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1924 – FIDE, the worldwide governing body of chess, is founded in Paris.
- 1944 – The 20 July plot to kill Adolf Hitler failed.
- 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is murdered by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- 1960 – In Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected as the world's first female Prime Minister.
- 1968 – The Special Olympics are founded.
- 1969 – A ceasefire ends the 6-day Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
- 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon, becoming the first-ever humans to do so.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The Turkish occupation of Cyprus begins.
- 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- 1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to separate from the Netherlands Antilles.
- 2000 – Leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to host the Winter Olympics, are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud and racketeering.
- 2007 – Heavy rain causes flooding across England and Wales.
- 2012 - A gunman opens fire at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado. The shooting kills 12 people and 59 are reported injured.
