June 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#69 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 20 birthdays
Frederick Gowland Hopkins · English biochemist1861
Lillian Hellman · American dramatist and screenwriter1905
Errol Flynn · Australian actor1909
Chet Atkins · American guitarist1924
Audie Murphy · American soldier and actor1925
Martin Landau · American actor1928
Jean-Marie Le Pen · French politician1928
Olympia Dukakis · American actress1931
Danny Aiello · American actor1933
John Mahoney · American actor1940
Brian Wilson · American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer1942
Lionel Richie · American singer, songwriter and actor1949
John Goodman · American actor1952
Droupadi Murmu · President of India since 20261958
Nicole Kidman · Australian-American actress, producer, and model1967
Robert Rodriguez · American filmmaker1968
Mateusz Morawiecki · 17th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland1968
Alexander Schallenberg · Chancellor of Austria in 2021 and 20251969
Josh Lucas · American actor1971
Frank Lampard · English association football player and manager1978
On this day in history
1782The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States (obverse pictured), used to authenticate documents issued by the U.S. federal government.
1926Approximately 250,000 spectators attended the opening procession of the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, United States.
1975Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.
2019Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries.
1944World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1945The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
1960The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
1963Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow.
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