ON THIS DAY
Born in 1920
1189 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John Paul II
Pope, politician
- Isaac Asimov
crime fiction writer, science writer
- Yul Brynner
television director, circus performer
- Mickey Rooney
film director, television actor
- Ravi Shankar
politician, sitarist
- Montgomery Clift
stage actor, writer
- Ray Bradbury
prose writer, writer
- Charles Bukowski
columnist, diarist
- Rosalind Franklin
molecular biologist, geneticist
- Walter Matthau
director, actor
- Maureen O'Hara
television actor, musician
- Frank Herbert
prose writer, writer
- Gene Tierney
film actor, character actor
- Henrietta Lacks
homemaker, farmworker
- Toshirō Mifune
television actor, director
- Federico Fellini
draftsperson, journalist
- Timothy Leary
psychologist, writer
- Shelley Winters
stage actor, television actor
- Ricardo Montalbán
art collector, actor
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
politician, writer
- Mario Puzo
science fiction writer, novelist
- Charlie Parker
composer, musician
- Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
monarch, politician
- Farouk I of Egypt
king, politician
- Kathleen Cavendish
social activist, journalist
- Dave Brubeck
songwriter, recording artist
- Pran
actor
- DeForest Kelley
film actor, television actor
- Jack Lord
United States Merchant Marine, film actor
- Jack Warden
film actor, boxer
- Tony Randall
television actor, producer
- George Shultz
diplomat, politician
- Richard Farnsworth
television actor, stunt performer
- Peggy Lee
singer, recording artist
- Traudl Junge
memoirist, secretary
- Raaj Kumar
actor
- James Doohan
television actor, science fiction writer
- Patrick Troughton
film actor, actor
- Clarice Lispector
screenwriter, writer
- Jack Elam
actor, military personnel
- John Demjanjuk
military personnel, soldier
- Ronald Speirs
paratrooper, military officer
- Sun Myung Moon
religious leader, businessperson
- Frank Sheeran
trade unionist, labor leader
- Ray Harryhausen
animator, film director
- Denver Pyle
actor, television actor
- K. R. Narayanan
politician, diplomat
- William Conrad
television director, actor
- Byron De La Beckwith
military personnel
- Nanette Fabray
singer, film actor
- Bella Abzug
jurist, social activist
- P. D. James
novelist, politician
- Virginia Mayo
actor, film actor
- Christopher Robin Milne
writer
- Werner Klemperer
pianist, opera singer
- Tom of Finland
cartoonist, illustrator
- Jack Webb
television producer, screenwriter
- Esther Rolle
actor, dancer
- John Paul Stevens
naval officer, lawyer
- Leona Helmsley
real estate agent, hotel owner
- Éric Rohmer
screenwriter, writer
- Alf Ramsey
association football coach, association football player
- Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
non-fiction writer, autobiographer
- Ben Ferencz
lawyer, jurist
- Clive Dunn
actor, television actor
- Anders Lassen
sailor, military officer
- Robert Leckie
historian, writer
- Paul Frees
actor, comedian
- Viveca Lindfors
writer, film producer
- Stan Musial
baseball player
- Melina Mercouri
singer, politician
- Roy Jenkins
author, biographer
- Eddie Slovik
military personnel, soldier
- Heinz Hitler
military personnel
- Ross Martin
television actor, stage actor
- Saul Bass
graphic designer, graphic artist
- Leo McKern
television actor, actor
- Zecharia Sitchin
economist, orientalist
- Richard Bong
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Helmut Newton
photographer, fashion photographer
- Neville Brand
actor, stage actor
- Vincent Gardenia
film actor, stage actor
- Pamela Harriman
diplomat, socialite
- Carwood Lipton
military personnel, engineer
- LaWanda Page
television actor, film actor
- Mahendra I of Nepal
monarch, politician
- Helen Thomas
journalist, writer
- Clifton James
television actor, actor
- Prem Tinsulanonda
military personnel, politician
- Harold Sakata
actor, television actor
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
ambassador, head of government
- José López Portillo
lawyer, politician
- Richard Adams
environmentalist, science fiction writer
- Paul Celan
lyricist, translator
- Thomas Szasz
psychiatrist, human rights defender
- Ella Raines
television actor, actor
- Richard von Weizsäcker
politician, mayor
- Mary Pinchot Meyer
socialite, painter
- Laraine Day
stage actor, writer
- Tom Moore
tankman, motorcycle racer
- Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
singer, lyricist
- Michael Bates
television actor, stage actor
- Ralph Meeker
actor, stage actor
- Juan Antonio Samaranch
politician, functionary
- Sergei Bondarchuk
actor, public figure
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
statistician, university teacher
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
politician, economist
- Noel Neill
film actor, television actor
- Hazel Scott
musician, jazz musician
- Elliot Richardson
politician, prosecutor
- Ovadia Joseph
rabbi, Posek
- Philippa Foot
writer, philosopher
- Marcial Maciel
Legionary of Christ, Catholic priest
- G. D. Spradlin
lawyer, actor
- Frank Rizzo
politician, mayor
- Michèle Morgan
actor, film actor
- Roberto Calvi
banker
- Eileen Chang
novelist, translator
- Ruth Bell Graham
writer, philanthropist
- Irving Kristol
university teacher, journalist
- Karl Hans Albrecht
entrepreneur
- Setsuko Hara
film actor, actor
- Boris Vian
poet, musician
- Red Holzman
basketball coach, basketball player
- Syed Putra of Perlis
sovereign
- Dinah Sheridan
actor, film actor
- Yusef Lateef
musician, musicologist
- Iftekhar
actor
- Hannie Schaft
resistance fighter, law student
- Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire
politician, aristocrat
- Fritz Walter
association football coach, association football player
- Dorothea Binz
torturer, concentration camp guard
- Virginia Christine
stage actor, actor
- Beah Richards
stage actor, television actor
- Henry Heimlich
art collector, university teacher
- Elmo Zumwalt
military officer, admiral
- Lewis Gilbert
producer, film screenwriter
- Selma Diamond
voice actor, actor
- Isaac Stern
violinist, musician
- Dick Francis
equestrian, jockey
- Andrew Courage
stage actor, actor
- Siegfried Müller
military personnel, mercenary
- Keith Andes
television actor, stage actor
- Alberto Sordi
dub actor, film director
- Gene Nelson
film actor, film director
- Bharat Bhushan
actor
- Amália Rodrigues
recording artist, fado singer
- Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy
politician
- I. S. Johar
film actor, film director