The 324th day of the year, the 325th in a leap year
Born on 20 November
Every 20 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 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 November in any year.
Which weekday 20 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 November falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 20 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,819 babies were born on 20 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 154th 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 1942– | 46th President of the United States (2021–2025) |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858–1940 | Swedish writer |
| Nadine Gordimer | 1923–2014 | South African writer |
| Edwin Hubble | 1889–1953 | American astronomer |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1925–1968 | American politician and lawyer |
| Pope Pius VIII | 1761–1830 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1829 to 1830 |
| Benoit Mandelbrot | 1924–2010 | Polish-born, French and American mathematician |
| Patriarch Kirill of Moscow | 1946– | Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' since 2009 |
| Goodluck Jonathan | 1957– | President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015 |
| Otto von Habsburg | 1912–2011 | Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician |
| Maya Plisetskaya | 1925–2015 | Russian ballet dancer |
| Tipu Sultan | 1751–1799 | Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799 |
| Otto von Guericke | 1602–1686 | German scientist, inventor, and politician; born 20 November in the Julian calendar, which is 30 November in the Gregorian |
| Karl von Frisch | 1886–1982 | German-Austrian ethologist |
| Maximinus Daza | 270–313 | Roman emperor from 310 to 313 |
| John Bolton | 1948– | American lawyer and diplomat |
| Mikhail Ulyanov | 1927–2007 | Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director |
| Arieh Warshel | 1940– | chemist, biochemist and biophysicist |
Died on 20 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828–1910 | Russian author |
| Francisco Franco | 1892–1975 | Spanish general and dictator |
| Benedetto Croce | 1866–1952 | Italian philosopher |
| Francis William Aston | 1877–1945 | British chemist |
| Robert Altman | 1925–2006 | American filmmaker |
| Giorgio de Chirico | 1888–1978 | Italian artist |
| Aaron Klug | 1926–2018 | British chemist and biophysicist |
| Alexandra of Denmark | 1844–1925 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910 |
| Anton Rubinstein | 1829–1894 | Russian pianist, composer and conductor |
| Buenaventura Durruti | 1896–1936 | Spanish anarchist |
| Amintore Fanfani | 1908–1999 | Italian politician, five times Prime Minister of Italy |
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