The Birthday Gazette

Born on July 20

July 20 birthdays & history

If you were born on July 20, you share a birthday with Gregor Mendel, Edmund Hillary and Gisele Bündchen. July 20 babies are Cancer, with ruby as their birthstone and the larkspur as their birth flower. July 20 is the 202nd day of the year in leap years (201st in other years).

Famous people born on July 20

  • 1822Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist
  • 1919Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer
  • 1980Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model, fashionista, and businesswoman
  • 1962Carlos Alazraqui, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1864Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1966Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican lawyer and politician, 57th President of Mexico
  • 1947Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1519Pope Innocent IX, Head of the Catholic Church in 1591
  • 1925Frantz Fanon, French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher
  • 1947Gerd Binnig, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on July 20

  • 1793Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
  • 1807French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines.
  • 1810Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
  • 1831Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
  • 1848The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
  • 1871British Columbia joins the Canadian Confederation.
  • 1903The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  • 1906In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
  • 1922The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
  • 1938The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • 1969The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
  • 1976The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.

Also observed on July 20

  • Birthday of Crown Prince Haakon Magnus (Norway)
  • Día del Amigo (Argentina, Brazil)
  • Engineer's Day (Costa Rica)
  • Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombia from Spain in 1810.
  • International Chess Day
  • Lempira Day (Honduras)

Questions, answered

What star sign is July 20?

People born on July 20 are Cancer. Their birthstone is ruby and their birth flower is the larkspur.

Which famous people were born on July 20?

Gregor Mendel (1822), Edmund Hillary (1919), Gisele Bündchen (1980), Carlos Alazraqui (1962), Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864), Enrique Peña Nieto (1966) were all born on July 20.

What happened on July 20 in history?

Among other things: in 1938, The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948; in 1969, The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later; in 1976, The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.

Can I get a newspaper front page from July 20?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any July 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, “July 20”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.