The 232nd day of the year, the 233rd in a leap year
Born on 20 August
Every 20 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 20 August in any year.
Which weekday 20 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 August falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 20 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,860 babies were born on 20 August in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 62nd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 20 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Harrison | 1833–1901 | President of the United States, 1889-1893 |
| Demi Lovato | 1992– | American singer-songwriter and actress |
| Andrew Garfield | 1983– | English and American actor |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890–1937 | American writer and editor |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1944–1991 | Prime Minister of India (1984-1989) |
| Slobodan Milošević | 1941–2006 | Yugoslav–Serbian politician |
| Amy Adams | 1974– | American actress |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | 1901–1968 | Italian writer |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius | 1779–1848 | Swedish chemist |
| Ron Paul | 1935– | American politician |
| Raymond Poincaré | 1860–1934 | French statesman and lawyer, President of France |
| Enrico Letta | 1966– | Italian politician |
| Robert Plant | 1948– | English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin |
| Andrei Konchalovsky | 1937– | Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| Hideki Shirakawa | 1936–2026 | Japanese scientist |
| Bolesław Prus | 1847–1912 | Polish novelist |
| Laurent Fabius | 1946– | Prime Minister of France from 1984 to 1986 |
| Bernardo O'Higgins | 1778–1842 | Chilean independence leader |
Died on 20 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pope Pius X | 1835–1914 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint |
| Pope Pius VII | 1742–1823 | head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 |
| Bernard of Clairvaux | 1090–1153 | Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian |
| Paul Ehrlich | 1854–1915 | Jewish-German physician and scientist |
| Jerry Lewis | 1926–2017 | American comedian, actor and film director |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | 1882–1961 | American physicist |
| Adolf von Baeyer | 1835–1917 | German chemist |
| Pope John XIV | died 984 | pope |
| Meles Zenawi | 1955–2012 | Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia |
| Fred Hoyle | 1915–2001 | British astronomer |
| Hua Guofeng | 1921–2008 | 2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China |
| Phyllis Diller | 1917–2012 | American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist |
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