November 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#71 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 20 birthdays
Selma Lagerlöf · Swedish writer1858
Edwin Hubble · American astronomer1889
Otto von Habsburg · Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician1912
Robert Byrd · American politician1917
Nadine Gordimer · South African writer1923
Benoit Mandelbrot · Polish-born, French and American mathematician1924
Robert F. Kennedy · American politician and lawyer1925
Maya Plisetskaya · Russian ballet dancer1925
Estelle Parsons · American actress1927
Don DeLillo · American novelist, playwright and essayist1936
Joe Biden · 46th President of the United States1942
Bob Einstein · American comedian, actor1942
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow · Bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishop1946
John Bolton · American lawyer and diplomat1948
Bo Derek · American actress1956
Goodluck Jonathan · President of Nigeria from 2010 to 20151957
Sean Young · American actress1959
Ming-Na Wen · American actress and model1963
Joel McHale · American actor and comedian1971
Future · American rapper1983
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee saw the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.
1969A group of Native American activists began a 19-month occupation (graffiti pictured) of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1985Windows 1.0, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public, was released.
1994In accordance with the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan government signed a ceasefire with UNITA rebels in a failed attempt to end the Angolan Civil War.
1943World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1947Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who was given the title Duke of Edinburgh.
1962Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1974The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
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