20 October Births

Published : 20 Oct 2017, 10:55

Jagoroniya Desk

October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 72 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Births

888 – Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (d. 923)
1475 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai Italian poet and playwright (d. 1525)
1496 – Claude, Duke of Guise (d. 1550)
1554 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (d. 1594)
1603 – Simon de Vos, Flemish painter (d. 1676)
1612 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (d. 1698)
1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 – Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
1632 – Edward Hungerford, English politician (d. 1711)
1660 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1723)
1677 – Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, (d. 1795)
1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German historian, economist, and jurist (d. 1772)
1740 – Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet (d. 1805)
1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825)
1784 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
1785 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (d. 1873)
1790 – Patrick Matthew. Scottish farmer and biologist (d. 1874)
1801 – Melchior Berri, Swiss architect and educator, designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (d. 1854)
1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (d. 1875)
1819 – Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism (d. 1850)
1819 – Karol Mikuli, Ukrainian-Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1897)
1822 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and judge (d. 1896)
1832 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (d. 1894)
1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer (d.1900)
1847 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (d. 1906)
1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French soldier and poet (d. 1891)
1858 – John Burns, English union leader and politician, President of the Board of Trade (d. 1943)
1859 – John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1952)
1864 – James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1873 – Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1951)
1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
1885 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1941)
1887 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (d. 1981)
1889 – Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint (d. 1944)
1890 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (d. 1968)
1891 – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (d. 1973)
1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, NobePrize laureate (d. 1974)
1893 – Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1894 – Olive Thomas, American model and actress (d. 1920)
1895 – Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
1895 – Morrie Ryskind, American writer/director (d. 1985)
1897 – Yi Un, South Korean general (d. 1970)
1900 – Wayne Morse, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1974)
1901 – Frank Churchill, American film composer (d. 1942)
1901 – Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (d. 1993)
1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1986)
1904 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (d. 2006)
1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress, singer, and producer (d. 1986)
1907 – Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality (d. 2001)
1908 – Stuart Hamblen, American singer-songwriter, actor, and radio show host (d. 1989)
1909 – Carla Laemmle, American actress and photographer (d. 2014)
1909 – Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1910 – Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (d. 2013)
1910 – Hopper Read, English cricketer (d. 2000)
1910 – Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
1912 – Ruhi Su, Turkish singer-songwriter (d. 1985)
1913 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)
1914 – Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2006)
1917 – Stéphane Hessel, German-French activist and diplomat (d. 2013)
1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1918 – Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot (d. 2013)
1918 – Robert Lochner, American-German soldier and journalist (d. 2003)
1919 – Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic (d. 2008)
1920 – Nick Cardy, American illustrator (d. 2013)
1920 – Fanny de Sivers, Estonian-French linguist and academic (d. 2011)
1920 – Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 2010)
1921 – Manny Ayulo, American racing driver (d. 1955)
1921 – Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (d. 2001)
1922 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
1922 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (d. 2012)
1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor and musicologist (d. 2015)
1924 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2014)
1925 – Art Buchwald, American soldier and journalist (d. 2007)
1925 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (d. 2002)
1925 – Roger Hanin, Algerian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1926 – Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English lieutenant and politician, founded the National Motor Museum (d. 2015)
1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (d. 2013)
1927 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (d. 2007)
1928 – Michael O'Donnell, English physician, author, and journalist
1931 – Richard Caliguiri, American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 1988)
1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1995)
1931 – Ken Morrison, English businessman (d. 2017)
1932 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (d. 2004)
1932 – William Christopher, American actor and singer (d. 2016)
1932 – Rokurō Naya, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
1933 – Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer
1934 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player (d. 1974)
1934 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (d. 1996)
1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
1936 – Bobby Seale, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party
1937 – Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)
1937 – Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player and sportscaster
1937 – Emma Tennant, English author
1938 – Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1938 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer and educator (d. 2006)
1939 – Patrick Hughes, English painter, illustrator, and photographer
1940 – Kathy Kirby, English singer (d. 2011)
1940 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
1942 – Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (d. 1992)
1943 – Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano and actress
1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher
1944 – David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft (d. 2016)
1945 – Ric Lee, English drummer (Ten Years After)
1946 – Diana Gittins, American-English sociologist, author, and academic
1946 – Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (d. 1994)
1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Richard Loncraine, English director and screenwriter
1946 – Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
1946 – Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (d. 2015)
1948 – Peter Combe, Australian entertainer
1948 – Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress and composer
1948 – Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
1948 – Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, Mayor of Ankara
1949 – Valeriy Borzov, Ukrainian-Russian sprinter
1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2017)
1950 – William Russ, American actor and director
1951 – Al Greenwood, American keyboard player
1951 – Patrick Hall, English lawyer and politician
1951 – Ken Ham, Australian-American evangelist
1951 – Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish businessman and politician
1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
1952 – Melanie Mayron, American actress and director
1952 – Derek Ridgers, English photographer and art director
1953 – Keith Hernandez, American baseball player and sportscaster
1953 – Richard McWilliam, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (d. 2013)
1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor (d. 2016)
1954 – Steve Orich, American composer and conductor
1955 – Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
1955 – David Profumo, English author and academic
1955 – Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1956 – Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Martin Taylor, English guitarist
1957 – Jane Bonham-Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, English politician
1957 – Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer and sportscaster
1957 – Hilda Solis, American academic and politician, 25th United States Secretary of Labor
1958 – Valerie Faris, American director and producer
1958 – Lynn Flewelling, American author and academic
1958 – Scott Hall, American wrestler
1958 – Mark King, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1958 – Dave Krieg, American football player
1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor and producer
1959 – Mark Little, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (d. 2004)
1961 – Audun Kleive, Norwegian drummer and composer
1961 – Kate Mosse, English author and playwright
1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer and manager
1961 – Les Stroud, Canadian director, producer, and harmonica player
1961 – Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1962 – David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian engineer and astronaut
1963 – Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1963 – Stan Valckx, Dutch footballer and manager
1964 – Kamala Harris, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Attorney General of California
1964 – Tomoko Yamaguchi, Japanese actress and singer
1965 – Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Jonathan I. Schwartz, American businessman
1965 – Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1965 – William Zabka, American actor and producer
1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant Islamist (d. 2006)
1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer and coach
1966 – Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer, founded Slackware
1967 – Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
1967 – Kerrod Walters, Australian rugby league player
1967 – Kevin Walters, Australian rugby league player and coach
1968 – Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
1969 – Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player and coach
1969 – Juan González, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1969 – Labros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
1970 – Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer
1970 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (d. 2011)
1970 – Aapo Ilves, Estonian poet and illustrator
1970 – Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor
1971 – Eddie Jones, American basketball player
1971 – Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner
1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1972 – Pie Geelen, Dutch swimmer
1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby player and sportscaster
1972 – Brian Schatz, American academic and politician, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
1974 – Bashar Rahal, Emirati-American actor and producer
1974 – Ed Hale, American singer-songwriter, writer and socio-political activist
1976 – Nikolaos Bacharidis, Greek footballer
1976 – Dan Fogler, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer and manager
1977 – Matt Jansen, English footballer and manager
1977 – Leila Josefowicz, Canadian-American violinist
1977 – Erko Saviauk, Estonian footballer
1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1979 – Vasyl Baranov, Ukrainian footballer
1979 – Paul Ifill, English footballer
1979 – John Krasinski, American actor, director, and producer
1979 – Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
1979 – Paul Terek, American decathlete
1980 – Gary Jarman, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1980 – Chad Robinson, Australian rugby league player (d. 2016)
1980 – José Veras, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1982 – Kristian Bak Nielsen, Danish footballer
1982 – Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
1982 – Katie Featherston, American actress
1983 – Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player
1983 – Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 – Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
1984 – Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
1984 – Florent Sinama Pongolle, French footballer
1984 – Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player
1985 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1985 – Alphonso Smith, American football player
1985 – James Sutton, English race car driver
1986 – Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer
1986 – Elyse Taylor, Australian model
1987 – Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
1988 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
1989 – Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
1989 – Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1990 – Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player
1992 – Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
1992 – Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
1992 – Ferhat Yazgan, Turkish footballer
1994 – Corey Oates, Australian rugby league player

Source: wikipedia

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