The 263rd day of the year, the 264th in a leap year

Born on 20 September

Every 20 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.

Star sign
VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
Birthstone
SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
Most common weekdays
Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 20 September. The marked arc is every position it has held on 20 September, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 20 September in any year.

Which weekday 20 September falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 September falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.

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How common a birthday 20 September is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,922 babies were born on 20 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 14th 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 September

18 people born on 20 September, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Sophia Loren1934–Italian actress
George R. R. Martin1948–American writer and television producer
Tarō Asō1940–Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
Chulalongkorn1853–1910King of Siam
Upton Sinclair1878–1968American writer
Khabib Nurmagomedov1988–Russian professional mixed martial artist
Julian Draxler1993–German association football player
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta1833–1918Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen1778–1852Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer
Jean-Jacques Dessalines1758–1806Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti
Ananda Mahidol1925–1946eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
Henrik Larsson1971–Swedish association football player and manager and floorball player
James Dewar1842–1923Scottish chemist and physicist
Victor Ponta1972–63rd Prime Minister of Romania (2012-2015)
Juan Pablo Montoya1975–Colombian racing driver; former Formula One driver
Jon Bernthal1976–American actor
Leo Strauss1899–1973German-American political philosopher
Asia Argento1975–Italian actress and filmmaker

Died on 20 September

12 people who died on 20 September, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Jean Sibelius1865–1957Finnish composer
Giorgos Seferis1900–1971Greek poet and diplomat
Saint-John Perse1887–1975French poet and diplomat
Paul Erdős1913–1996Hungarian mathematician
Jacob Grimm1785–1863German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist
Annie Besant1847–1933British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Theodor Fontane1819–1898German novelist and poet
Simon Wiesenthal1908–2005Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter
Gherman Titov1935–2000Soviet cosmonaut
Burhanuddin Rabbani1940–2011Afghan politician, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 and in 2001
Ludvík Svoboda1895–1979Czechoslovak general and politician
Erich Hartmann1922–1993German officer and fighter pilot during World War II

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