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.
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
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sophia Loren | 1934– | Italian actress |
| George R. R. Martin | 1948– | American writer and television producer |
| Tarō Asō | 1940– | Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009 |
| Chulalongkorn | 1853–1910 | King of Siam |
| Upton Sinclair | 1878–1968 | American writer |
| Khabib Nurmagomedov | 1988– | Russian professional mixed martial artist |
| Julian Draxler | 1993– | German association football player |
| Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | 1833–1918 | Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
| Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | 1778–1852 | Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer |
| Jean-Jacques Dessalines | 1758–1806 | Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti |
| Ananda Mahidol | 1925–1946 | eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII |
| Henrik Larsson | 1971– | Swedish association football player and manager and floorball player |
| James Dewar | 1842–1923 | Scottish chemist and physicist |
| Victor Ponta | 1972– | 63rd Prime Minister of Romania (2012-2015) |
| Juan Pablo Montoya | 1975– | Colombian racing driver; former Formula One driver |
| Jon Bernthal | 1976– | American actor |
| Leo Strauss | 1899–1973 | German-American political philosopher |
| Asia Argento | 1975– | Italian actress and filmmaker |
Died on 20 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Sibelius | 1865–1957 | Finnish composer |
| Giorgos Seferis | 1900–1971 | Greek poet and diplomat |
| Saint-John Perse | 1887–1975 | French poet and diplomat |
| Paul Erdős | 1913–1996 | Hungarian mathematician |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785–1863 | German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist |
| Annie Besant | 1847–1933 | British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator |
| Theodor Fontane | 1819–1898 | German novelist and poet |
| Simon Wiesenthal | 1908–2005 | Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter |
| Gherman Titov | 1935–2000 | Soviet cosmonaut |
| Burhanuddin Rabbani | 1940–2011 | Afghan politician, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 and in 2001 |
| Ludvík Svoboda | 1895–1979 | Czechoslovak general and politician |
| Erich Hartmann | 1922–1993 | German officer and fighter pilot during World War II |
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