April 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#309 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 20 birthdays
Napoleon III · President of the Second French Republic1808
Harold Lloyd · American actor and comedian1893
Joan Miró · Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist1893
Kai Siegbahn · Swedish physicist1918
Phil Hill · American racing driver1927
K. Alex Müller · Swiss physicist1927
George Takei · American actor, author and activist1937
Gro Harlem Brundtland · 29th Prime Minister of Norway1939
Ryan O'Neal · American actor1941
Paul Milgrom · American economist1948
Jessica Lange · American actress1949
Luther Vandross · American R&B singer1951
Svante Pääbo · Swedish geneticist1955
Miguel Díaz-Canel · First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top1960
Andy Serkis · British actor1964
Crispin Glover · American actor1964
Mike Portnoy · American drummer1967
Felix Baumgartner · Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper1969
Carmen Electra · American actress, model, and singer1972
Miranda Kerr · Australian model1983
On this day in history
1968Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, succeeding Lester B. Pearson.
1985The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and causing $700,000 in damage.
2008American racing driver Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar auto race.
2023SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight.
1922The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.
1939Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
1942World War II: German and Italian forces began a large-scale counter-insurgency operation in occupied Yugoslavia.
1945World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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