October 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#253 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 20 birthdays
Báb · Founder of Bábism and1819
Arthur Rimbaud · French poet1854
John Dewey · American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer1859
Charles Ives · American modernist composer1874
Bela Lugosi · Hungarian-American actor1882
James Chadwick · English physicist, who discovered the neutron in 19321891
Jomo Kenyatta · First Prime Minister and President of self-governing Kenya1893
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard · German biologist1942
Elfriede Jelinek · Austrian playwright and novelist1946
Tom Petty · American musician1950
Claudio Ranieri · Italian footballer and manager1951
Thomas Newman · American composer and conductor1955
Danny Boyle · English filmmaker1956
Viggo Mortensen · American actor1958
Kamala Harris · Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 20251964
William Zabka · American actor1965
Snoop Dogg · American rapper1971
Dannii Minogue · Australian singer and actress1971
John Krasinski · American actor and filmmaker1979
Nargis Fakhri · American actress and model1979
On this day in history
1967Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.
1973Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey President Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.
2022Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years.
2024Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.
1936British woman Mabel Freer was refused entry to Australia after failing a dictation test given in Italian, leading to a debate over Australia's immigration policy.
1939Pope Pius XII published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.
1944World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.
1969Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.
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