The 293rd day of the year, the 294th in a leap year
Born on 20 October
Every 20 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 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 October in any year.
Which weekday 20 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 October falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 20 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,790 babies were born on 20 October in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 235th 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Kamala Harris | 1964– | Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025 |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854–1891 | French poet |
| Elfriede Jelinek | 1946– | Austrian playwright and novelist |
| John Dewey | 1859–1952 | American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer |
| James Chadwick | 1891–1974 | English physicist, who discovered the neutron in 1932 |
| Snoop Dogg | 1971– | American rapper |
| Isabelle de Charrière | 1740–1805 | Dutch French-language writer and composer |
| Viggo Mortensen | 1958– | American actor |
| Báb | 1819–1850 | founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh |
| Danny Boyle | 1956– | English filmmaker |
| Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | 1784–1865 | British statesman and prime minister |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | 1942– | German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize) |
| Bela Lugosi | 1882–1956 | Hungarian-American actor |
| Claudio Ranieri | 1951– | Italian footballer and manager |
| John Krasinski | 1979– | American actor and filmmaker |
| Stanisław Leszczyński | 1677–1766 | King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania |
| Dannii Minogue | 1971– | Australian singer and actress |
| Mattia De Sciglio | 1992– | Italian association football player |
Died on 20 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Muammar Gaddafi | 1942–2011 | Libyan military officer and politician who ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011 |
| Herbert Hoover | 1874–1964 | president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 |
| Paul Dirac | 1902–1984 | British theoretical physicist |
| Fethullah Gülen | 1941–2024 | Turkish preacher and imam |
| Burt Lancaster | 1913–1994 | American actor |
| Pope Urban III | died 1187 | Pope from 1185 to 1187 |
| Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor | 1685–1740 | 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor |
| Andrey Kolmogorov | 1903–1987 | Russian mathematician |
| Richard Francis Burton | 1821–1890 | British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar |
| Carl Ferdinand Cori | 1896–1984 | Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist |
| Sergei Bondarchuk | 1920–1994 | Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor |
| Junko Tabei | 1939–2016 | Japanese mountain climber |
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