July 20 facts for kids

July 20 is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 164 days remain until the end of the year.

July 20th is a day filled with many important events throughout history, from ancient battles to modern space exploration. It's also a day when many famous people were born and passed away. Let's explore some of the key moments that happened on this date.

Historical Events

Ancient Times and Middle Ages

• 70 – During the Siege of Jerusalem, the Roman army, led by Titus, attacked the Antonia Fortress. This led to street fights with the Zealot defenders.
• 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria won a battle against Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
• 911 – Rollo began a siege of the city of Chartres.
• 1189 – Richard I of England officially became the Duke of Normandy.
• 1225 – The Treaty of San Germano was signed between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. This agreement was negotiated by a monk named Guala.
• 1398 – The Battle of Kellistown took place. English forces, led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, fought against Irish groups led by Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach.
• 1402 – In the Ottoman-Timurid Wars, Timur, ruler of the Timurid Empire, defeated the Ottoman Empire's sultan Bayezid I at the Battle of Ankara.
• 1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces captured Pyongyang. However, they could not hold the city for long.

17th to 19th Centuries

• 1705 – A large fire in Oulu, Finland, almost completely destroyed a major part of the city.
• 1715 – In the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War, the Ottoman Empire captured Nauplia. This city was the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea".
• 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reached the western shore of Lake Michigan.
• 1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I began his first time as Emperor of Ethiopia. He would rule six times in total.
• 1807 – Nicéphore Niépce received a patent from Napoleon for the Pyréolophore. This was the world's first internal combustion engine, which successfully powered a boat on the Saône river in France.
• 1810 – People in Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declared their independence from Spain.
• 1831 – The Seneca and Shawnee tribes agreed to give up their land in western Ohio. In return, they received land west of the Mississippi River.
• 1848 – The first Women's Rights Convention ended in Seneca Falls, New York. This two-day event was a big step for women's rights.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces attacked Union troops at the Battle of Peachtree Creek. The attack was not successful.
• 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: The Austro-Hungarian Navy defeated the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea during the Battle of Lissa.
• 1871 – British Columbia joined the country of Canada.
• 1885 – The Football Association made it legal for association football players to be paid.

20th and 21st Centuries

• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sent out its very first car.
• 1906 – Finland approved a new election law. This law gave all citizens, including women, the right to vote equally. Finnish women were the first in Europe to get this right.
• 1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration was signed. This agreement helped create the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the war.
• 1920 – The Greek Army took control of Silivri after the city was given to Greece by the Paris Peace Conference.
• 1922 – The League of Nations gave control of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
• 1932 – In an event called the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg placed Prussia directly under the national government's control.
• 1934 – West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police used tear gas and clubs on striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon called out the National Guard to stop a strike in Portland.
• 1936 – The Montreux Convention was signed in Switzerland. This allowed Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits, but guaranteed free passage for ships during peacetime.
• 1938 – The United States Department of Justice sued the motion picture industry. They claimed the industry was breaking antitrust laws regarding the studio system.
• 1940 – Denmark left the League of Nations.
• 1940 – California opened its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
• 1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin combined two government departments to form the NKVD. He named Lavrentiy Beria as its new head.
• 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survived an attempt to assassinate him. The plot was led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
• 1949 – The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission helped create the last of four agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• 1950 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold admitted to spying for the Soviet Union. He had passed secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
• 1950 – After a month of fighting, most of North Korea's Air Force was destroyed by anti-communist forces.
• 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while attending prayers in Jerusalem.
• 1954 – Germany: Otto John, who was the head of West Germany's secret service, moved to East Germany.
• 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike as Prime Minister. She was the world's first elected female head of government.
• 1960 – The Polaris missile was successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
• 1961 – French military forces ended the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attacked Cái Bè, killing many military personnel and civilians, including children.
• 1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held in Chicago. About 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities took part.
• 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 11 crew made the first human landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Hours later, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.
• 1969 – A ceasefire was announced between Honduras and El Salvador. This happened six days after the start of the "Football War".
• 1974 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invaded Cyprus after a military takeover against President Makarios.
• 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully landed on Mars.
• 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency released documents. These documents showed that the agency had been involved in mind-control experiments.
• 1977 – The Johnstown flood of 1977 caused 84 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.
• 1985 – The government of Aruba passed a law to separate from the Netherlands Antilles.
• 1989 – Burma's ruling military government placed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
• 1992 – Václav Havel resigned as president of Czechoslovakia.
• 1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (also known as Old Ironsides) celebrated its 200th birthday. It sailed for the first time in 116 years.
• 1999 – The Chinese Communist Party began a campaign against Falun Gong, arresting many people.
• 2005 – The Civil Marriage Act made same-sex marriage legal in Canada.
• 2012 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) took control of the cities of Amuda and Efrîn without a fight.
• 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ended. Islamist forces were driven out of the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG).
• 2015 – The United States and Cuba started full diplomatic relations again after five decades.
• 2017 – O. J. Simpson was granted parole and released from prison after serving nine years for armed robbery.
• 2021 – American businessman Jeff Bezos flew to space aboard New Shepard NS-16, operated by his company Blue Origin.

Famous Birthdays

Before 1600

• 682 – Taichō, a Japanese monk and scholar.
• 1304 – Petrarch, a famous Italian poet and scholar.
• 1313 – John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot.
• 1346 – Margaret, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of King Edward III of England.
• 1470 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, an English noble.
• 1519 – Pope Innocent IX.
• 1537 – Arnaud d'Ossat, a French cardinal.
• 1583 – Alban Roe, an English Benedictine martyr.
• 1591 – Anne Hutchinson, an English Puritan preacher.
• 1592 – Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden.

1601 to 1900

• 1601 – Robert Wallop, an English politician.
• 1620 – Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, a Dutch poet and scholar.
• 1649 – William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.
• 1754 – Antoine Destutt de Tracy, a French philosopher.
• 1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, a Georgian politician and diplomat.
• 1762 – Jakob Haibel, an Austrian singer and composer.
• 1774 – Auguste de Marmont, a French general.
• 1789 – Mahmud II, an Ottoman sultan.
• 1804 – Richard Owen, an English biologist and paleontologist.
• 1816 – Sir William Bowman, an English surgeon and anatomist.
• 1822 – Gregor Mendel, an Austro-German monk and the "father of genetics."
• 1830 – Clements Markham, an English explorer.
• 1838 – Augustin Daly, an American playwright.
• 1838 – William Paine Lord, an American lawyer and politician, and Governor of Oregon.
• 1838 – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, an English civil servant and politician.
• 1847 – Max Liebermann, a German painter.
• 1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, an American lawyer and politician, and Mayor of New York City.
• 1852 – Theo Heemskerk, a Dutch lawyer and politician, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1854 – Philomène Belliveau, a Canadian artist.
• 1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, a Swedish poet and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1864 – Ruggero Oddi, an Italian physiologist.
• 1868 – Miron Cristea, a Romanian cleric and politician, and Prime Minister of Romania.
• 1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian pilot.
• 1876 – Otto Blumenthal, a German mathematician.
• 1877 – Tom Crean, an Irish sailor and explorer.
• 1882 – Olga Hahn-Neurath, an Austrian mathematician and philosopher.
• 1889 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, a Scottish broadcaster who helped found the BBC.
• 1890 – Verna Felton, an American actress.
• 1890 – Julie Vinter Hansen, a Danish-Swiss astronomer.
• 1890 – Giorgio Morandi, an Italian painter.
• 1893 – George Llewelyn Davies, an English soldier.
• 1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, a Hungarian painter and sculptor.
• 1897 – Tadeusz Reichstein, a Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1900 – Maurice Leyland, an English cricketer.

1901 to Present

• 1901 – Vehbi Koç, a Turkish businessman who founded Koç Holding.
• 1901 – Eugenio Lopez Sr., a Filipino businessman.
• 1901 – Heinie Manush, an American baseball player.
• 1901 – Ida Mett, a Belarusian Jewish anarchist.
• 1902 – Leonidas Berry, an American doctor specializing in gastroenterology.
• 1905 – Joseph Levis, an American foil fencer.
• 1909 – Eric Rowan, a South African cricketer.
• 1910 – Vilém Tauský, a Czech-English conductor and composer.
• 1911 – Baqa Jilani, an Indian cricketer.
• 1911 – José Zabala-Santos, a Filipino author and illustrator.
• 1911 – Loda Halama, a Polish dancer and actress.
• 1912 – George Johnston, an Australian journalist and author.
• 1914 – Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian philanthropist.
• 1914 – Charilaos Florakis, a Greek politician.
• 1914 – Ersilio Tonini, an Italian cardinal.
• 1918 – Cindy Walker, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1919 – Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer, famous for climbing Mount Everest.
• 1919 – Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge, an English writer.
• 1920 – Elliot Richardson, an American politician, and Secretary of Defense.
• 1921 – Henri Alleg, an English-French journalist.
• 1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, an American lawyer and politician, and the first Secretary of Transportation.
• 1923 – Stanisław Albinowski, a Polish economist.
• 1924 – Lola Albright, an American actress and singer.
• 1924 – Thomas Berger, an American author.
• 1924 – Mort Garson, a Canadian-American songwriter.
• 1925 – Jacques Delors, a French economist and President of the European Commission.
• 1925 – Frantz Fanon, a French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher.
• 1927 – Barbara Bergmann, an American economist.
• 1927 – Heather Chasen, an English actress.
• 1927 – Michael Gielen, an Austrian conductor.
• 1927 – Ian P. Howard, an English-Canadian psychologist.
• 1928 – Józef Czyrek, a Polish economist and politician.
• 1928 – Belaid Abdessalam, Prime Minister of Algeria.
• 1929 – Hazel Hawke, an Australian social worker and pianist.
• 1929 – Mike Ilitch, an American businessman who founded Little Caesars.
• 1929 – Rajendra Kumar, a Pakistani-Indian actor.
• 1929 – David Tonkin, an Australian politician.
• 1930 – Giannis Agouris, a Greek journalist.
• 1930 – Chuck Daly, an American basketball coach.
• 1930 – William H. Goetzmann, an American historian.
• 1930 – Sally Ann Howes, an English-American singer and actress.
• 1931 – Shakuntala Karandikar, an Indian biographer and philanthropist.
• 1931 – Tony Marsh, an English race car driver.
• 1932 – Nam June Paik, an American artist.
• 1932 – Otto Schily, a German lawyer and politician.
• 1933 – Buddy Knox, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1933 – Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist.
• 1933 – Rex Williams, an English snooker player.
• 1935 – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, an English businessman.
• 1936 – Alistair MacLeod, a Canadian novelist.
• 1936 – Barbara Mikulski, an American social worker and politician.
• 1938 – Deniz Baykal, a Turkish lawyer and politician.
• 1938 – Roger Hunt, an English footballer.
• 1938 – Tony Oliva, a Cuban-American baseball player.
• 1938 – Diana Rigg, an English actress.
• 1938 – Natalie Wood, an American actress.
• 1939 – Judy Chicago, an American feminist artist.
• 1941 – Don Chuy, an American football player.
• 1941 – Periklis Korovesis, a Greek author.
• 1941 – Kurt Raab, a German actor.
• 1942 – Pete Hamilton, an American race car driver.
• 1943 – Chris Amon, a New Zealand race car driver.
• 1943 – John Lodge, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1943 – Bob McNab, an English footballer.
• 1943 – Adrian Păunescu, a Romanian poet.
• 1943 – Wendy Richard, an English actress.
• 1944 – Mel Daniels, an American basketball player.
• 1944 – W. Cary Edwards, an American politician.
• 1944 – Olivier de Kersauson, a French sailor.
• 1944 – T. G. Sheppard, an American country music singer.
• 1945 – Charles Bowden, an American author and journalist.
• 1945 – Kim Carnes, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1945 – Larry Craig, an American politician.
• 1945 – Bo Rein, an American football player and coach.
• 1946 – Randal Kleiser, an American director.
• 1947 – Gerd Binnig, a German physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1947 – Carlos Santana, a Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1948 – Muse Watson, an American actor.
• 1950 – Edward Leigh, an English lawyer and politician.
• 1950 – Lucille Lemay, a Canadian archer.
• 1951 – Jeff Rawle, an English actor.
• 1953 – Dave Evans, a Welsh-Australian singer.
• 1953 – Thomas Friedman, an American journalist and author.
• 1953 – Marcia Hines, an American-Australian singer.
• 1954 – Moira Harris, an American actress.
• 1954 – Jay Jay French, an American guitarist.
• 1955 – Desmond Douglas, a Jamaican-English table tennis player.
• 1955 – René-Daniel Dubois, a Canadian actor and playwright.
• 1955 – Jem Finer, an English banjo player.
• 1956 – Paul Cook, an English drummer.
• 1956 – Thomas N'Kono, a Cameroonian footballer.
• 1956 – Jim Prentice, a Canadian politician, and Premier of Alberta.
• 1958 – Mick MacNeil, a Scottish keyboard player.
• 1958 – Billy Mays, an American salesman.
• 1959 – Radney Foster, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1960 – Claudio Langes, an Italian race car driver.
• 1960 – Prvoslav Vujčić, a Serbian-Canadian poet.
• 1960 – Sudesh Berry, an Indian actor.
• 1961 – Óscar Elías Biscet, a Cuban physician and activist.
• 1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, an American actor.
• 1962 – Giovanna Amati, an Italian race car driver.
• 1962 – Julie Bindel, an English journalist.
• 1963 – Frank Whaley, an American actor and director.
• 1964 – Chris Cornell, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1964 – Terri Irwin, an American-Australian zoologist and author.
• 1964 – Sebastiano Rossi, an Italian footballer.
• 1964 – Bernd Schneider, a German race car driver.
• 1965 – Jess Walter, an American journalist.
• 1966 – Anton Du Beke, an English dancer.
• 1966 – Stone Gossard, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1966 – Enrique Peña Nieto, a Mexican lawyer and President of Mexico.
• 1967 – Courtney Taylor-Taylor, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1968 – Jimmy Carson, an American ice hockey player.
• 1968 – Hami Mandıralı, a Turkish footballer.
• 1968 – Kool G Rap, an American hip-hop artist.
• 1969 – Josh Holloway, an American actor.
• 1969 – Kreso Kovacec, a Croatian-German footballer.
• 1969 – Giovanni Lombardi, an Italian cyclist.
• 1969 – Joon Park, a South Korean-American singer.
• 1969 – Tobi Vail, an American singer.
• 1969 – Vitamin C, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1971 – Charles Johnson, an American baseball player.
• 1971 – Sandra Oh, a Canadian actress.
• 1972 – Jamie Ainscough, an Australian rugby league player.
• 1972 – Jozef Stümpel, a Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1972 – Erik Ullenhag, a Swedish jurist.
• 1973 – Omar Epps, an American actor.
• 1973 – Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway.
• 1973 – Peter Forsberg, a Swedish ice hockey player.
• 1973 – Nixon McLean, a Caribbean cricketer.
• 1973 – Roberto Orci, a Mexican-American screenwriter.
• 1973 – Claudio Reyna, an American soccer player.
• 1975 – Ray Allen, an American basketball player.
• 1975 – Judy Greer, an American actress.
• 1975 – Erik Hagen, a Norwegian footballer.
• 1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson, a Swedish journalist and politician.
• 1975 – Jason Raize, an American singer and actor.
• 1975 – Yusuf Şimşek, a Turkish footballer.
• 1976 – Erica Hill, an American journalist.
• 1976 – Debashish Mohanty, an Indian cricketer.
• 1976 – Andrew Stockdale, an Australian singer-songwriter.
• 1976 – Alex Yoong, a Malaysian race car driver.
• 1977 – Kiki Musampa, a Congolese footballer.
• 1977 – Yves Niaré, a French shot putter.
• 1977 – Alessandro Santos, a Brazilian-Japanese footballer.
• 1978 – Pavel Datsyuk, a Russian ice hockey player.
• 1978 – Will Solomon, an American basketball player.
• 1978 – Elliott Yamin, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1978 – Ieva Zunda, a Latvian runner.
• 1979 – Miklós Fehér, a Hungarian footballer.
• 1979 – Charlotte Hatherley, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1979 – David Ortega, a Spanish swimmer.
• 1980 – Tesfaye Bramble, an English-Montserratian footballer.
• 1980 – Gisele Bündchen, a Brazilian model.
• 1981 – Viktoria Ladõnskaja, an Estonian journalist.
• 1982 – Antoine Vermette, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 – Alexi Casilla, a Dominican baseball player.
• 1984 – Matt Gilroy, an American ice hockey player.
• 1985 – John Francis Daley, an American actor and screenwriter.
• 1985 – Harley Morenstein, a Canadian YouTube personality.
• 1985 – David Mundy, an Australian footballer.
• 1986 – Osric Chau, a Canadian actor.
• 1987 – Nicola Benedetti, a Scottish violinist.
• 1987 – Niall McGinn, an Irish footballer.
• 1988 – Julianne Hough, an American singer and dancer.
• 1988 – Stephen Strasburg, an American baseball player.
• 1988 – Shahram Mahmoudi, an Iranian volleyball player.
• 1989 – Javier Cortés, a Mexican footballer.
• 1989 – Cristian Pasquato, an Italian footballer.
• 1990 – Lars Unnerstall, a German footballer.
• 1991 – Chiyoshōma Fujio, a Mongolian sumo wrestler.
• 1991 – Ryan James, an Australian rugby league player.
• 1991 – Kira Kazantsev, Miss America 2015.
• 1991 – Philipp Reiter, a German mountaineer.
• 1991 – Tawan Vihokratana, a Thai actor.
• 1993 – Steven Adams, a New Zealand basketball player.
• 1993 – Nick Cousins, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1995 – Moses Leota, a New Zealand rugby league player.
• 1996 – Ben Simmons, an Australian basketball player.
• 1999 – Pop Smoke, an American rapper and singer.

Notable Deaths

Before 1600

• 518 – Amantius, a Byzantine official.
• 833 – Ansegisus, a Frankish abbot and saint.
• 985 – Boniface VII, an antipope.
• 1031 – Robert II, King of France.
• 1156 – Toba, Emperor of Japan.
• 1320 – Oshin, King of Armenia.
• 1332 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland.
• 1387 – Robert IV, a French nobleman.
• 1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, a Welsh nobleman.
• 1405 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, son of King Robert II of Scotland.
• 1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a French historian.
• 1454 – John II, King of Castile and León.
• 1514 – György Dózsa, a Transylvanian peasant revolt leader.
• 1524 – Claude, Queen of France.
• 1526 – García Jofre de Loaísa, a Spanish explorer.
• 1600 – William More, an English courtier.

1601 to 1900

• 1616 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, an Irish nobleman and rebel.
• 1704 – Peregrine White, an English-American farmer.
• 1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, a German-English composer.
• 1816 – Gavrila Derzhavin, a Russian poet and politician.
• 1866 – Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician.
• 1897 – Jean Ingelow, an English poet.

1901 to Present

• 1901 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, an English poet.
• 1903 – Leo XIII, Pope of the Catholic Church.
• 1908 – Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek businessman and author.
• 1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, a German geophysicist.
• 1910 – Anderson Dawson, an Australian politician.
• 1917 – Ignaz Sowinski, a Galician architect.
• 1922 – Andrey Markov, a Russian mathematician.
• 1923 – Pancho Villa, a Mexican general and politician.
• 1926 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Soviet politician.
• 1927 – Ferdinand I, King of Romania.
• 1928 – Kostas Karyotakis, a Greek poet.
• 1932 – René Bazin, a French author.
• 1937 – Olga Hahn-Neurath, an Austrian mathematician.
• 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist and Nobel Prize winner, known for his work on radio.
• 1941 – Lew Fields, an American actor.
• 1944 – Ludwig Beck, a German general.
• 1944 – Mildred Harris, an American actress.
• 1945 – Paul Valéry, a French author and poet.
• 1951 – Abdullah I, King of Jordan.
• 1953 – Dumarsais Estimé, a Haitian lawyer and President of Haiti.
• 1953 – Jan Struther, an English author.
• 1955 – Calouste Gulbenkian, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist.
• 1956 – James Alexander Calder, a Canadian politician.
• 1959 – William D. Leahy, an American admiral and diplomat.
• 1965 – Batukeshwar Dutt, an Indian activist.
• 1968 – Bray Hammond, an American historian.
• 1970 – Iain Macleod, an English politician.
• 1972 – Geeta Dutt, an Indian singer.
• 1973 – Bruce Lee, an American actor and martial artist.
• 1973 – Robert Smithson, an American artist.
• 1974 – Allen Jenkins, an American actor.
• 1974 – Kamal Dasgupta, a Bengali music director.
• 1976 – Joseph Rochefort, an American captain and codebreaker.
• 1977 – Gary Kellgren, an American record producer.
• 1980 – Maria Martinez, a Native American potter.
• 1981 – Kostas Choumis, a Greek-Romanian footballer.
• 1983 – Frank Reynolds, an American journalist.
• 1987 – Richard Egan, an American actor.
• 1989 – Forrest H. Anderson, an American judge and Governor of Montana.
• 1990 – Herbert Turner Jenkins, an American police officer.
• 1993 – Vince Foster, an American lawyer and political figure.
• 1994 – Paul Delvaux, a Belgian painter.
• 1997 – M. E. H. Maharoof, a Sri Lankan politician.
• 1998 – June Byers, an American wrestler.
• 1999 – Sandra Gould, an American actress.
• 2002 – Michalis Kritikopoulos, a Greek footballer.
• 2003 – Nicolas Freeling, an English author.
• 2004 – Lala Mara, a Fijian politician.
• 2004 – Valdemaras Martinkėnas, a Lithuanian footballer.
• 2005 – James Doohan, a Canadian-American actor, known for Star Trek.
• 2005 – Finn Gustavsen, a Norwegian journalist.
• 2005 – Kayo Hatta, an American director.
• 2006 – Ted Grant, a South African-English activist.
• 2006 – Gérard Oury, a French actor and director.
• 2007 – Tammy Faye Messner, an American Christian evangelist.
• 2008 – Artie Traum, an American guitarist.
• 2008 – Dinko Šakić, a Croatian concentration camp commander.
• 2009 – Vedat Okyar, a Turkish footballer.
• 2009 – Mark Rosenzweig, an American psychologist.
• 2011 – Lucian Freud, a German-English painter.
• 2012 – Alastair Burnet, an English journalist.
• 2012 – Jack Davis, an American hurdler.
• 2012 – José Hermano Saraiva, a Portuguese historian and politician.
• 2013 – Pierre Fabre, a French pharmacist and businessman.
• 2013 – Khurshed Alam Khan, an Indian politician.
• 2013 – Augustus Rowe, a Canadian physician.
• 2013 – Helen Thomas, an American journalist.
• 2014 – Victor G. Atiyeh, an American businessman and Governor of Oregon.
• 2014 – Constantin Lucaci, a Romanian sculptor.
• 2014 – Bob McNamara, an American football player.
• 2014 – Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist.
• 2015 – Wayne Carson, an American singer-songwriter.
• 2015 – Fred Else, an English footballer.
• 2015 – Dieter Moebius, a Swiss-German keyboard player.
• 2016 – Radu Beligan, a Romanian actor.
• 2017 – Chester Bennington, an American singer.
• 2020 – Michael Brooks, a political commentator.

Holidays and Observances

• Birthday of Crown Prince Haakon Magnus (Norway)
• Christian feast day:
  • Ansegisus
  • Apollinaris of Ravenna
  • Aurelius
  • Ealhswith (or Elswith)
  • Elijah
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • John Baptist Yi (one of The Korean Martyrs)
  • Margaret the Virgin
  • Thorlac (relic translation)
  • Wilgefortis (cult suppressed)
  • July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Día del Amigo (Argentina, Brazil)
• Engineer's Day (Costa Rica)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombia from Spain in 1810.
• International Chess Day
• Lempira Day (Honduras)
• Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)

See also

In Spanish: 20 de julio para niños