Anniversaries 20 August

Birth

Louis Bourdaloue1

French serman writer 1632–1704

Jöns Jacob Berzelius6

Swedish chemist 1779–1848

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz6

French painter 1807–1876

Ludwig von Rochau1

German politician 1810–1873

Henry Liddon19

British theologian 1829–1890

Benjamin Harrison13

American politician, 23rd President of the United States (i… 1833–1901

Bolesław Prus10

leading figure in the history of Polish literature 1847–1912

Omar Mukhtar7

Libyan resistance leader 1858–1931

Raymond Poincaré26

10th President of the French Republic 1860–1934

Edgar Guest61

American writer 1881–1959

Rudolf Karl Bultmann10

German theologian 1884–1976

Paul Tillich61

German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

Eric Blom3

Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicol… 1888–1959

Cora Coralina1

Brazilian writer and poet. 1889–1985

H.P. Lovecraft203

American author 1890–1937

George Aiken2

American politician 1892–1984

Tarjei Vesaas3

Norwegian poet 1897–1970

Leopold Infeld2

Polish physicist 1898–1968

Roger Wolcott Sperry32

American neuroscientist 1913–1994

Kenneth E. Hagin1

American theologian 1917–2003

Jacqueline Susann8

Novelist, actress 1918–1974

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh11

Gaelic games commentator 1930

George Mitchell1

American politician 1933

Fredy Perlman1

Czech anarchist 1934–1985

Ron Paul148

American politician and physician 1935

Leighton W. Smith, Jr.8

United States Navy admiral 1939

Rajendra K. Pachauri2

Indian academic 1940–2020

Tom DeMarco8

American software engineer, author, and consultant 1940

Slobodan Milošević14

Yugoslavian and Serbian politician 1941–2006

Rajiv Gandhi32

sixth Prime Minister of India 1944–1991

N. R. Narayana Murthy21

Indian businessman 1946

Lawrence Kudlow8

American economist 1947

Tomasz Peta1

Roman Catholic bishop 1951

Greg Bear38

American writer best known for science fiction 1951

Patricia Rozema9

Canadian film director 1958

Greg Egan23

Australian science fiction writer and former computer progr… 1961

James Rollins10

American writer 1961

James Marsters9

American actor 1962

Maya Banks46

Author 1964

Etgar Keret9

Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter 1967

John D. Carmack31

American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman 1970

Misha Collins1

American actor 1974

Mayra Veronica1

model 1980

Nikki SooHoo2

American actress 1988

Страйфи1

1988

Demi Lovato19

American singer, songwriter, actress, and author 1992

Antje Utgaard3

American actress 1994

Settlemania5

Settlemania Is in Indian Video Content Creator and Social M… 1999

Death

Bernard of Clairvaux24

French abbot, theologian 1090–1153

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury9

Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religiou… 1583–1648

Charles Sedley2

English politician 1639–1701

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi16

Indian muslim scholar 1703–1762

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling12

German philosopher (idealism) 1775–1854

Isaac McLellan2

American writer 1806–1899

William Miller1

Scottish poet, born 1810 1810–1872

William Booth10

British Methodist preacher 1829–1912

Pope Pius X10

Catholic Pope and saint 1835–1914

Robert Stanley Weir6

Canadian judge and poet 1856–1926

Revilo P. Oliver37

American philologist 1908–1994

A. M. Klein5

writer, journalist, lawyer 1909–1972

Fred Hoyle19

British astronomer 1915–2001

Phyllis Diller2

American actress and stand-up comedianne 1917–2012

B.K.S. Iyengar83

Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

Ram Sharan Sharma2

historian 1919–2011

Leona Helmsley3

American hotel owner 1920–2007

Uri Avnery9

Israeli writer 1923–2018

Elmore Leonard9

American novelist and screenwriter 1925–2013

Jerry Lewis3

American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film di… 1926–2017

Meles Zenawi6

Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia 1955–2012