Born on October 20
October 20 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 20, you share a birthday with Kamala Harris, Elfriede Jelinek and John Dewey. October 20 babies are Libra, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 20 is the 294th day of the year in leap years (293rd in other years).
Famous people born on October 20
- 1964Kamala Harris, American politician and lawyer, 49th Vice President of the United States
- 1946Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1859John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher
- 1891James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1740Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet
- 1971Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1958Viggo Mortensen, American-Danish actor and producer
- 1819Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism
- 1956Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1942Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
What happened on October 20
- 1740Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction, Maria Theresa ascended the Habsburg throne.
- 1803The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
- 1818The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
- 1904Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
- 1910British ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched.
- 1967Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.
- 1969Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.
- 1973The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
- 1995Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-73.
- 2002Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC.
- 2003The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.
- 2024Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.
Also observed on October 20
- Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
- Heroes' Day (Kenya)
- Revolution Day (Guatemala), one of the two Patriotic Days (Guatemala)
- Vietnamese Women's Day (Vietnam)
- World Osteoporosis Day
- World Statistics Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 20?
People born on October 20 are Libra. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 20?
Kamala Harris (1964), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), John Dewey (1859), James Chadwick (1891), Isabelle de Charrière (1740), Snoop Dogg (1971) were all born on October 20.
What happened on October 20 in history?
Among other things: in 2002, Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC; in 2003, The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University; in 2024, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 20?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 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, “October 20”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.