Anniversaries 20 July
Birth
![Alexander the Great photo]()
King of Macedon
-356–-323 BC
![Francesco Petrarca photo]()
Italian scholar and poet
1304–1374
![Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau photo]()
French naval engineer, botanist and agronomist
1700–1782
![Richard Owen photo]()
English biologist
1804–1892
![Abbott Eliot Kittredge photo]()
American minister
1834–1912
![Santos Dumont photo]()
Brazilian aviation pioneer
1873–1932
![Claude Scudamore Jarvis photo]()
British journalist
1879–1953
![Hermann von Keyserling photo]()
German philosopher
1880–1946
![Giorgio Morandi photo]()
Italian painter
1890–1964
![László Moholy-Nagy photo]()
Hungarian artist
1895–1946
![Jimmy Kennedy photo]()
Irish songwriter
1902–1984
![Edmund Hillary photo]()
New Zealand mountaineer
1919–2008
![Frantz Fanon photo]()
Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutiona…
1925–1961
![Jacques Delors photo]()
French economist and politician
1925
![Nam June Paik photo]()
American video art pioneer
1932–2006
![Cormac McCarthy photo]()
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1933
![Alistair MacLeod photo]()
Canadian author and professor of English
1936–2014
![Natalie Wood photo]()
American actress
1938–1981
![Carlos Santana photo]()
Mexican and American rock musician
1947
![Massad Ayoob photo]()
American firearms and self-defence instructor
1948
![Thomas Friedman photo]()
American journalist and author
1953
![Chris Cornell photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician
1964–2017
![Enrique Peña Nieto photo]()
57th President of Mexico
1966
![Colleen Fitzpatrick photo]()
American singer and actress
1972
![Katrina Pierson photo]()
Political spokesperson
1976
![Timothy Ferriss photo]()
American author, entrepreneur, angel investor and public sp…
1977
Death
![Peter Mere Latham photo]()
English physician and educator
1789–1875
![Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury photo]()
British politician
1800–1873
![Pope Leo XIII photo]()
256th Pope of the Catholic Church
1810–1903
![Bernhard Riemann photo]()
German mathematician
1826–1866
![Andrew Lang photo]()
Scots poet, novelist and literary critic
1844–1912
![Sarada Devi photo]()
Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
1853–1920
![Adolphe Tavernier photo]()
French writer, art critic, collector and journalist
1853–1945
![Ashraf Ali Thanwi photo]()
Indian Muslim scholar
1863–1943
![Paul Valéry photo]()
French poet, essayist, and philosopher
1871–1945
![Guglielmo Marconi photo]()
Italian inventor and radio pioneer
1874–1937
![William D. Leahy photo]()
United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
1875–1959
![Pancho Villa photo]()
Mexican revolutionary
1878–1923
![Herbert Butterfield photo]()
British historian
1900–1979
![Bruno de Finetti photo]()
Italian mathematician
1906–1985
![Тед Грант photo]()
South African activist
1913–2006
![Edward T. Hall photo]()
American anthropologist
1914–2009
![José Hermano Saraiva photo]()
Historian, Jurist, Politician
1919–2012
![Helen Thomas photo]()
American author and journalist
1920–2013
![Lucian Freud photo]()
British painter and engraver
1922–2011
![Ernest Mandel photo]()
Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher
1923–1995
![Carol Grace photo]()
American actress
1924–2003
![Colin Campbell Mitchell photo]()
British Army officer and politician
1925–1996
![Elio Fiorucci photo]()
Italian designer and businessperson
1935–2015
![Robert Smithson photo]()
American artist
1938–1973
![Bruce Lee photo]()
Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f…
1940–1973
![Gregory Hill photo]()
American writer and founder of Discordianism
1941–2000
![Chester Bennington photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1976–2017
