Famous People Born on July 20
Famous people born on July 20 include Edmund Hillary (1919), Gregor Mendel (1822) and Petrarch (1304).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Petrarch
Italian scholar and poet (1304–1374)
Gisele Bündchen
Brazilian fashion model (born 1980)
Carlos Alazraqui
American actor (born 1962)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Swedish poet
Enrique Peña Nieto
President of Mexico from 2012 to 2018
Mahmud II
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 to 1839
Carlos Santana
Mexican and American guitarist (born 1947)
Haakon VIII
King of Norway since 2026
Pope Innocent IX
Head of the Catholic Church in 1591
Frantz Fanon
French psychiatrist and philosopher (1925-1961)
Gerd Binnig
German physicist (born 1947)
Natalie Wood
American actress (1938–1981)
Cormac McCarthy
American writer (1933–2023)
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897–1996)
Diana Rigg
English actress (1938–2020)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Guglielmo Marconi
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Pancho Villa
Mexican revolutionary general
Bruce Lee
Martial arts legend, Enter the Dragon
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Chester Bennington
American singer (1976–2017)
Paul Valéry
French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Soviet revolutionary and politician (1877–1926)
Gavrila Derzhavin
Russian poet (1743–1816)
Andrey Markov
Russian mathematician (1856–1922)
Lucian Freud
British painter and engraver (1922–2011)
Ludwig Beck
German general (1880–1944)
Helen Thomas
American journalist (1920–2013)
Paul Delvaux
Belgian painter (1897–1994)
Sources
- July 20 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
- Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
- Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths