Born on June 20
June 20 birthdays & history
If you were born on June 20, you share a birthday with Nicole Kidman, Jacques Offenbach and Frank Lampard. June 20 babies are Gemini, with pearl as their birthstone and the rose as their birth flower. June 20 is the 172nd day of the year in leap years (171st in other years).
Famous people born on June 20
- 1967Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
- 1819Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer
- 1978Frank Lampard, English footballer
- 1952John Goodman, American actor
- 1928Martin Landau, American actor and producer
- 1928Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician
- 1909Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor
- 1949Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
- 1861Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942Brian Wilson, American singer, songwriter and producer
What happened on June 20
- 1837Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign.
- 1840Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1877Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1895The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1900Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
- 1926Approximately 250,000 spectators attended the opening procession of the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, United States.
- 1960The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
- 1975Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.
- 1990Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- 1991The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin.
- 1996Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module.
- 2003The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Also observed on June 20
- Day of the National Flag (Argentina)
- Gas Sector Day (Azerbaijan)
- West Virginia Day (West Virginia)
Questions, answered
What star sign is June 20?
People born on June 20 are Gemini. Their birthstone is pearl and their birth flower is the rose.
Which famous people were born on June 20?
Nicole Kidman (1967), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Frank Lampard (1978), John Goodman (1952), Martin Landau (1928), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928) were all born on June 20.
What happened on June 20 in history?
Among other things: in 1991, The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin; in 1996, Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module; in 2003, The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Can I get a newspaper front page from June 20?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any June 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, “June 20”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.