August 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#40 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 20 birthdays
Benjamin Harrison · President of the United States, 1889-18931833
Raymond Poincaré · French statesman and lawyer, President of France1860
Paul Tillich · German-American theologian and philosopher1886
H. P. Lovecraft · American writer and editor1890
Salvatore Quasimodo · Italian writer1901
Eero Saarinen · American architect1910
Roger Wolcott Sperry · American neuroscientist1913
Ron Paul · American politician1935
Slobodan Milošević · Yugoslav–Serbian politician1941
Isaac Hayes · American musician and actor1942
Rajiv Gandhi · Prime Minister of India1944
Robert Plant · English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin1948
Joan Allen · American actress1956
David O. Russell · American film director, screenwriter and producer1958
Enrico Letta · Italian politician1966
Ke Huy Quan · American actor and stunt choreographer1971
Amy Adams · American actress1974
Misha Collins · American actor1974
Andrew Garfield · English actor1983
Demi Lovato · American singer-songwriter and actress1992
On this day in history
1909Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
1920The American Professional Football Conference, a predecessor of the National Football League, was established in Canton, Ohio.
1988More than 150,000 acres (610 km2) were burned on the worst day of the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
2018Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.
1950Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
1975Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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