The 201st day of the year, the 202nd in a leap year
Born on 20 July
Every 20 July birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Cancer, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CancerWater, cardinal, ruled by the Moon.
- Birthstone
- RubyThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Larkspur, Water lilyUsually taken today to mean an open heart and purity.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 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 July in any year.
Which weekday 20 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 July falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 20 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,829 babies were born on 20 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 134th 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 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Petrarch | 1304–1374 | Italian scholar and poet |
| Edmund Hillary | 1919–2008 | New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist |
| Gregor Mendel | 1822–1884 | Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar |
| Carlos Alazraqui | 1962– | American actor |
| Gisele Bündchen | 1980– | Brazilian fashion model |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 1864–1931 | Swedish poet |
| Enrique Peña Nieto | 1966– | President of Mexico from 2012 to 2018 |
| Mahmud II | 1785–1839 | 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808–1839) |
| Carlos Santana | 1947– | American guitarist |
| Pope Innocent IX | 1519–1591 | pope of the Catholic Church in 1591 |
| Haakon VIII | 1973– | King of Norway since 2026 |
| Frantz Fanon | 1925–1961 | French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher |
| Natalie Wood | 1938–1981 | American actress |
| Gerd Binnig | 1947– | German physicist |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933–2023 | American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter |
| Tadeusz Reichstein | 1897–1996 | Polish-Swiss chemist |
| Diana Rigg | 1938–2020 | English actress |
| Richard Owen | 1804–1892 | English biologist and paleontologist |
Died on 20 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Lee | 1940–1973 | Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1874–1937 | Italian inventor and radio pioneer |
| Pope Leo XIII | 1810–1903 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 |
| Bernhard Riemann | 1826–1866 | German mathematician |
| Chester Bennington | 1976–2017 | American singer, songwriter and musician |
| Paul Valéry | 1871–1945 | French poet, essayist, and philosopher |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | 1877–1926 | Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs |
| Pancho Villa | 1878–1923 | Mexican revolutionary |
| Gavrila Derzhavin | 1743–1816 | Russian poet |
| Abdullah I of Jordan | 1882–1951 | Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951 |
| Robert II of France | 972–1031 | king of the Franks from 996 to 1031 |
| Ferdinand I of Romania | 1865–1927 | King of Romania from 1914 to 1927 |
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