Born on August 20
August 20 birthdays & history
If you were born on August 20, you share a birthday with Benjamin Harrison, Demi Lovato and Andrew Garfield. August 20 babies are Leo, with peridot as their birthstone and the gladiolus as their birth flower. August 20 is the 233rd day of the year in leap years (232nd in other years).
Famous people born on August 20
- 1833Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States
- 1992Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
- 1890H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist
- 1974Amy Adams, American actress
- 1901Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1779Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic
- 1948Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
- 1936Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
What happened on August 20
- 1858Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
- 1882Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
- 1892Celtic Park, the largest football stadium in Scotland and home of Celtic F.C., opened.
- 1905Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1909Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
- 1920The American Professional Football Conference, a predecessor of the National Football League, was established in Canton, Ohio.
- 1920The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
- 1926Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- 1949Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People's Republic.
- 1960Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
- 1975Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- 1989The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia, was finished, completing at the time the world's longest and fastest guided busway, with buses travelling 12 km (7.5 mi) at speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph).
Also observed on August 20
- Feast of Asmá’ (Baháʼí Faith, only if Baháʼí Naw-Rúz falls on March 21)
- Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)
- Revolution of the King and the People (Morocco)
- Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
- World Mosquito Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is August 20?
People born on August 20 are Leo. Their birthstone is peridot and their birth flower is the gladiolus.
Which famous people were born on August 20?
Benjamin Harrison (1833), Demi Lovato (1992), Andrew Garfield (1983), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Amy Adams (1974), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901) were all born on August 20.
What happened on August 20 in history?
Among other things: in 1960, Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence; in 1975, Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars; in 1989, The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia, was finished, completing at the time the world's longest and fastest guided busway, with buses travelling 12 km (7.5 mi) at speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph).
Can I get a newspaper front page from August 20?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any August 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, “August 20”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.