Anniversaries 20 August
Birth
![Louis Bourdaloue photo]()
French serman writer
1632–1704
![Jöns Jacob Berzelius photo]()
Swedish chemist
1779–1848
![Ludwig von Rochau photo]()
German politician
1810–1873
![Henry Liddon photo]()
British theologian
1829–1890
![Benjamin Harrison photo]()
American politician, 23rd President of the United States (i…
1833–1901
![Bolesław Prus photo]()
leading figure in the history of Polish literature
1847–1912
![Omar Mukhtar photo]()
Libyan resistance leader
1858–1931
![Raymond Poincaré photo]()
10th President of the French Republic
1860–1934
![Edgar Guest photo]()
American writer
1881–1959
![Rudolf Karl Bultmann photo]()
German theologian
1884–1976
![Paul Tillich photo]()
German-American theologian and philosopher
1886–1965
![Eric Blom photo]()
Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicol…
1888–1959
![Cora Coralina photo]()
Brazilian writer and poet.
1889–1985
![H.P. Lovecraft photo]()
American author
1890–1937
![George Aiken photo]()
American politician
1892–1984
![Leopold Infeld photo]()
Polish physicist
1898–1968
![Roger Wolcott Sperry photo]()
American neuroscientist
1913–1994
![Kenneth E. Hagin photo]()
American theologian
1917–2003
![Jacqueline Susann photo]()
Novelist, actress
1918–1974
![Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh photo]()
Gaelic games commentator
1930
![Fredy Perlman photo]()
Czech anarchist
1934–1985
![Ron Paul photo]()
American politician and physician
1935
![Leighton W. Smith, Jr. photo]()
United States Navy admiral
1939
![Rajendra K. Pachauri photo]()
Indian academic
1940–2020
![Tom DeMarco photo]()
American software engineer, author, and consultant
1940
![Slobodan Milošević photo]()
Yugoslavian and Serbian politician
1941–2006
![Rajiv Gandhi photo]()
sixth Prime Minister of India
1944–1991
![Tomasz Peta photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1951
![Greg Bear photo]()
American writer best known for science fiction
1951
![Patricia Rozema photo]()
Canadian film director
1958
![Greg Egan photo]()
Australian science fiction writer and former computer progr…
1961
![Etgar Keret photo]()
Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter
1967
![John D. Carmack photo]()
American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
1970
![Demi Lovato photo]()
American singer, songwriter, actress, and author
1992
![Settlemania photo]()
Settlemania Is in Indian Video Content Creator and Social M…
1999
Death
![Bernard of Clairvaux photo]()
French abbot, theologian
1090–1153
![Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury photo]()
Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religiou…
1583–1648
![Charles Sedley photo]()
English politician
1639–1701
![Shah Waliullah Dehlawi photo]()
Indian muslim scholar
1703–1762
![Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling photo]()
German philosopher (idealism)
1775–1854
![Isaac McLellan photo]()
American writer
1806–1899
![William Miller photo]()
Scottish poet, born 1810
1810–1872
![William Booth photo]()
British Methodist preacher
1829–1912
![Pope Pius X photo]()
Catholic Pope and saint
1835–1914
![Robert Stanley Weir photo]()
Canadian judge and poet
1856–1926
![Revilo P. Oliver photo]()
American philologist
1908–1994
![A. M. Klein photo]()
writer, journalist, lawyer
1909–1972
![Fred Hoyle photo]()
British astronomer
1915–2001
![Phyllis Diller photo]()
American actress and stand-up comedianne
1917–2012
![B.K.S. Iyengar photo]()
Indian yoga teacher and scholar
1918–2014
![Leona Helmsley photo]()
American hotel owner
1920–2007
![Elmore Leonard photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1925–2013
![Jerry Lewis photo]()
American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film di…
1926–2017
![Meles Zenawi photo]()
Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia
1955–2012
