Famous Birthdays for January 20th

Pre-1600

• 225 – Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)^[14]
• 1029 – Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (probable;^[15] d. 1072)
• 1292 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1330)
• 1436 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (d. 1490)
• 1488 – Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)^[16]
• 1499 – Sebastian Franck, German humanist (probable;^[17] d. 1543)
• 1500 – Jean Quintin, French priest, knight and writer (d. 1561)^[18]
• 1502 – Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish-Mexican rancher and missionary (d. 1600)
• 1526 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)
• 1554 – Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
• 1569 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1629)
• 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1624)
• 1586 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)

1601–1900

• 1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (d. 1718)
• 1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741)
• 1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1795)
• 1716 – Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
• 1732 – Richard Henry Lee, American lawyer and politician, President of the Continental Congress (d. 1794)
• 1741 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish botanist and author (d. 1783)
• 1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1824)
• 1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
• 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1836)
• 1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (d. 1848)
• 1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
• 1799 – Anson Jones, American physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
• 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
• 1814 – David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (d. 1868)
• 1819 – Göran Fredrik Göransson, Swedish merchant, ironmaster and industrialist (d. 1900)^[19]
• 1834 – George D. Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
• 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
• 1856 – Harriot Stanton Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer (d. 1940)
• 1865 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)^[20]
• 1865 – Wilhelm Ramsay, Finnish geologist and professor (d. 1928)^[21]
• 1870 – Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1873 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1957)
• 1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor (d. 1968)
• 1879 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator (d. 1968)^[22]
• 1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
• 1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
• 1888 – Lead Belly, American folk/blues musician and songwriter (d. 1949)
• 1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
• 1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985)
• 1896 – George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer (d. 1996)
• 1898 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (d. 1947)
• 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English potter (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990)
• 1900 – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (d. 1983)
• 1900 – Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937)

1901–present

• 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 1920)
• 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Fleur Cowles, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1909 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (d. 1980)^[23]
• 1913 – W. Cleon Skousen, American author and academic (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor
• 1922 – Don Mankiewicz, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Slim Whitman, American country and western singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist and composer (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician (d. 2020)
• 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)^[24]
• 1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani journalist and academic (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Antonio de Almeida, French conductor and musicologist (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
• 1929 – Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese biologist
• 1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
• 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1931 – David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
• 1935 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Bailey Howell, American basketball player^[25]
• 1938 – Derek Dougan, Irish-English footballer and journalist (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (d. 2000)
• 1939 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist
• 1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater and actress
• 1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
• 1940 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Linda Moulton Howe, American journalist and producer
• 1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer
• 1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Pat Parker, American poet^[26] (d. 1989)
• 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1946 – David Lynch, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 – Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
• 1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1948 – Nancy Kress, American author and academic
• 1948 – Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
• 1949 – Göran Persson, Swedish lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
• 1950 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerien politician, President of Niger
• 1951 – Ian Hill, English rock bassist^[27]
• 1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer
• 1952 – Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet
• 1952 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1952 – John Witherow, South African-English journalist and author
• 1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (d. 2019)
• 1954 – Alison Seabeck, English lawyer and politician
• 1955 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
• 1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs
• 1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, political commentator, media critic, television host, and producer
• 1956 – John Naber, American swimmer
• 1957 – Andy Sheppard, English saxophonist and composer^[28]
• 1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 – Amanda Villepastour (née Vincent), Australian-born ethnomusicologist and professional musician^[29]
• 1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
• 1959 – R. A. Salvatore, American author
• 1963 – James Denton, American actor
• 1963 – Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator
• 1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 – Jack Lewis, American soldier and author
• 1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
• 1964 – Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
• 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer and manager^[30]
• 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
• 1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer and manager
• 1965 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
• 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
• 1967 – Stacey Dash, American actress and television journalist
• 1967 – Kellyanne Conway, American political strategist and pundit
• 1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Junior Murray, Grenadian cricketer
• 1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker and activist, co-founded MindVox
• 1969 – Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
• 1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer^[31]
• 1971 – Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
• 1972 – Nikki Haley, American accountant and politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
• 1973 – Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales
• 1973 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium^[32]
• 1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer and coach
• 1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentinian racing driver
• 1975 – Zac Goldsmith, English journalist and politician^[33]
• 1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter^[34]
• 1976 – Michael Myers, American football player
• 1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
• 1977 – Paul Adams, South African cricketer and coach
• 1978 – Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
• 1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Choo Ja-hyun, South Korean actress
• 1979 – Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 – Karl Anderson, American wrestler
• 1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer and journalist^[35]
• 1980 – Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer
• 1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
• 1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
• 1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
• 1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
• 1982 – Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer^[36]
• 1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
• 1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican-American baseball player^[37]
• 1984 – Toni Gonzaga, Filipino singer and television personality^[38][39]
• 1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
• 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
• 1988 – Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
• 1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Nick Foles, American football player
• 1989 – Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 – Ray Thompson, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Ciara Hanna, American actress and model
• 1991 – Tom Cairney, Scottish footballer^[40]
• 1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
• 1993 – Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer^[41]
• 1994 – Seán Kavanagh, Irish footballer^[42]
• 1994 – Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer^[43]
• 1995 – Joey Badass, American rapper and actor^[44]
• 1995 – Calum Chambers, English footballer^[45]
• 2003 – Antonia Ružić, Croatian tennis player^[46][47]