July 20/Births

This page is to record people born on July 20.

1300-1899

• 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
• 1519 - Pope Innocent IX
• 1754 - Destutt de Tracy, philosopher
• 1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
• 1838- Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
• 1847 - Max Liebermann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1935)
• 1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
• 1865 - Carlos Avril, French actor (d. 1940)
• 1868 - Miron Cristea, First patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939)
• 1870 - Charles McHugh, American actor (d. 1931)
• 1870 - Gerard Wolst Trenité, Dutch writer
• 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
• 1877 - William Colman, American actor (d. 1930)
• 1881 - Clyde Benson, American actor (d. 1947)
• 1881 - Hugh Sothern, American actor (d. 1947)
• 1884 - Hellwig F. Rimmen, Danish actor
• 1889 - Erich Pommer, German actor (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Ruth Weijden (d. 1956)
• 1889 - John Reith, BBC director-general
• 1890 - Theda Bara (Theodosia Burr Goodman), American actress (d. 1955)
• 1890 - Gonzalo Roig, Cuban composer (d. 1970)
• 1890 - Richard Billinger, Austrian writer (d. 1965)
• 1890 - Freeman H. Owens, American cinematographer
• 1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
• 1891 - Ralph Faukner, American actor and fight choreographer for films (d. 1987)
• 1894 - Errett Cord, automobile entrepreneur
• 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1946)
• 1897 - Clifford Braughton, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1898 - Stepan Kayukov, Russian actor (d. 1960)
• 1899 - Melville De Lay, American actor (d. 1947)