The Birthday Gazette

Born on April 20

April 20 birthdays & history

If you were born on April 20, you share a birthday with Napoleon III, Joan Miró and Jessica Lange. April 20 babies are Aries, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 20 is the 111th day of the year in leap years (110th in other years).

Famous people born on April 20

  • 1808Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire
  • 1893Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor
  • 1949Jessica Lange, American actress
  • 1964Andy Serkis, English actor and director
  • 1893Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer
  • 1937George Takei, American actor
  • 1983Miranda Kerr, Australian model
  • 1955Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
  • 1969Felix Baumgartner, Austrian daredevil
  • 1927K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on April 20

  • 1535Sun dogs were observed over Stockholm, Sweden, inspiring Vädersolstavlan, the oldest coloured depiction of the city.
  • 1800The Septinsular Republic is established.
  • 1828French explorer René Caillié reached Timbuktu in present-day Mali, and later received a 9,000-franc prize from the Société de Géographie for being the first European to return with a description of the city.
  • 1836U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
  • 1861Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
  • 1862Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
  • 1922The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.
  • 1939Billie Holiday recorded the song "Strange Fruit", which later became an emblem of the civil rights movement.
  • 1968Enoch Powell, a British Conservative member of Parliament, made a controversial speech in opposition to immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the shadow cabinet.
  • 1968Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, succeeding Lester B. Pearson.
  • 2008Fernando Lugo became the first candidate not from the Colorado Party candidate to be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years.
  • 2023SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight.

Also observed on April 20

  • 420 (cannabis culture)
  • Evacuee Flag Day (Finland)
  • UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)

Questions, answered

What star sign is April 20?

People born on April 20 are Aries. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.

Which famous people were born on April 20?

Napoleon III (1808), Joan Miró (1893), Jessica Lange (1949), Andy Serkis (1964), Harold Lloyd (1893), George Takei (1937) were all born on April 20.

What happened on April 20 in history?

Among other things: in 1968, Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, succeeding Lester B. Pearson; in 2008, Fernando Lugo became the first candidate not from the Colorado Party candidate to be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years; in 2023, SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight.

Can I get a newspaper front page from April 20?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 20 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 20”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.