Anniversaries 20 July

Birth

Alexander the Great22

King of Macedon -356–-323 BC

Francesco Petrarca73

Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374

Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau5

French naval engineer, botanist and agronomist 1700–1782

Richard Owen4

English biologist 1804–1892

Abbott Eliot Kittredge24

American minister 1834–1912

Джон Шедд1

1850–1926

Erik Axel Karlfeldt1

Swedish poet 1864–1931

Santos Dumont1

Brazilian aviation pioneer 1873–1932

Claude Scudamore Jarvis1

British journalist 1879–1953

Hermann von Keyserling5

German philosopher 1880–1946

Giorgio Morandi28

Italian painter 1890–1964

László Moholy-Nagy4

Hungarian artist 1895–1946

Fritz Glarner1

Swiss artist 1899–1972

Jimmy Kennedy12

Irish songwriter 1902–1984

Edmund Hillary25

New Zealand mountaineer 1919–2008

Frantz Fanon46

Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutiona… 1925–1961

Jacques Delors22

French economist and politician 1925

Nam June Paik10

American video art pioneer 1932–2006

Cormac McCarthy270

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

Alistair MacLeod2

Canadian author and professor of English 1936–2014

Natalie Wood1

American actress 1938–1981

Judy Chicago1

American artist 1939

Larry Craig6

American politician 1945

Gerd Binnig1

German physicist 1947

Carlos Santana3

Mexican and American rock musician 1947

Massad Ayoob2

American firearms and self-defence instructor 1948

Thomas Friedman31

American journalist and author 1953

Anita Stansfield2

American writer 1961

Óscar Elías Biscet1

Cuban activist 1961

Paul Marwan Tabet1

1961

Chris Cornell71

American singer-songwriter, musician 1964–2017

Jess Walter20

American writer 1965

Abdourahman A. Waberi9

Djiboutian writer 1965

Enrique Peña Nieto5

57th President of Mexico 1966

Julian Rhind-Tutt2

British actor 1968

Jamal Simmons1

American journalist 1971

Colleen Fitzpatrick13

American singer and actress 1972

Katrina Pierson8

Political spokesperson 1976

Timothy Ferriss29

American author, entrepreneur, angel investor and public sp… 1977

Mónica Esmeralda León3

actress 1991

Death

Peter Mere Latham16

English physician and educator 1789–1875

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury1

British politician 1800–1873

Pope Leo XIII4

256th Pope of the Catholic Church 1810–1903

Jean Ingelow39

British writer 1820–1897

Bernhard Riemann43

German mathematician 1826–1866

Andrew Lang10

Scots poet, novelist and literary critic 1844–1912

Sarada Devi77

Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853–1920

Adolphe Tavernier1

French writer, art critic, collector and journalist 1853–1945

Ashraf Ali Thanwi5

Indian Muslim scholar 1863–1943

Paul Valéry89

French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871–1945

Guglielmo Marconi3

Italian inventor and radio pioneer 1874–1937

William D. Leahy4

United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff 1875–1959

Pancho Villa6

Mexican revolutionary 1878–1923

Herbert Butterfield11

British historian 1900–1979

Jan Struther9

British writer 1901–1953

Bruno de Finetti1

Italian mathematician 1906–1985

Тед Грант1

South African activist 1913–2006

Edward T. Hall3

American anthropologist 1914–2009

José Hermano Saraiva6

Historian, Jurist, Politician 1919–2012

Helen Thomas20

American author and journalist 1920–2013

Lucian Freud7

British painter and engraver 1922–2011

Ernest Mandel11

Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher 1923–1995

Carol Grace1

American actress 1924–2003

Colin Campbell Mitchell2

British Army officer and politician 1925–1996

Marisa Merz1

Italian artist 1931–2019

Elio Fiorucci1

Italian designer and businessperson 1935–2015

Robert Smithson5

American artist 1938–1973

Bruce Lee193

Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

Gregory Hill2

American writer and founder of Discordianism 1941–2000

Chester Bennington1

American singer-songwriter 1976–2017