October 20th, 1570

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Born on October 20th, 1570 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on October 20th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on October 20th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (October 1570)

Born on October 20th, 1570

Weekday

Tuesday

October 20th, 1570 was a Tuesday.

Age

453

People born on October 20th, 1570 will turn 454 this year (2024), in exactly 176 days .

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

September 24th, 1570 - October 23rd, 1570

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 165,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 355 days, exactly on April 17th, 2025, people who were born on October 20th, 1570 will be 166,000 days old!

165,645 Days

23,663 Weeks

5,442 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 20th?

October 20th, 1986

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara (then Kuibyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.

October 20th, 1984

The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five-hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired.

October 20th, 1973

Watergate scandal: Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.

October 20th, 1967

Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.

October 20th, 1951

African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with face guards.

October 20th, 1944

World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.

October 20th, 1939

Pope Pius XII (pictured) published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.

October 20th, 1981

Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.

October 20th, 1977

A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.

October 20th, 1973

The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

October 20th, 1962

China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.

October 20th, 1961

The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.

October 20th, 1952

The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.

October 20th, 1951

The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies.

October 20th, 1948

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashes on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, killing 40.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 20th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 20th?

Jess Glynne

British singer

*October 20th, 1989, London

Fayard Nicholas

Choreographer, dancer, actor

*October 20th, 1914, Mobile †January 24th, 2006, Los Angeles

Liis Lemsalu

Estonian singer

*October 20th, 1992, Pärnu

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting

Indonesian badminton player

*October 20th, 1996, Cimahi City

Andries Malan

Badminton player

*October 20th, 1994, Bellville

Aki Akao

Badminton player

*October 20th, 1982, Hita

Kamala Harris

Vice president of the United States since 2021

*October 20th, 1964, Oakland Medical Center

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

Andrew Watt

American record producer and songwriter

*October 20th, 1990, New York City

Raymond Tam

Australian badminton player

*October 20th, 1986, Hong Kong

Niklas Krütten

German racing driver

*October 20th, 2002, Trier

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian writer

*October 20th, 1946, Mürzzuschlag

John Krasinski

American actor and filmmaker (born 1979)

*October 20th, 1979, Newton

Dan Fogler

American actor, musician and filmmaker

*October 20th, 1976, Brooklyn

John Dewey

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)

*October 20th, 1859, Burlington †June 1st, 1952, New York City

Snoop Dogg

American rapper and actor (born 1971)

*October 20th, 1971, Long Beach

Dolores Hart

American Roman Catholic religious sister, and former actress

*October 20th, 1938, Chicago

James Chadwick

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

*October 20th, 1891, Bollington †July 24th, 1974, Cambridge

Viggo Mortensen

American actor

*October 20th, 1958, Watertown

Jerry Orbach

American actor and singer (1935-2004)

*October 20th, 1935, New York City †December 28th, 2004, New York City

Same year
Born in 1570

Guy Fawkes

English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

*March 31st, 1570, York †January 31st, 1606, Westminster

Erasmus Schmidt

German philologist and mathematician

*April 17th, 1570, Delitzsch †September 22nd, 1637, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Simon Ulrich Pistoris

*December 3rd, 1570, Leipzig †June 24th, 1615, Berlin

John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Jena

*May 22nd, 1570, Weimar †October 31st, 1605, Weimar

Thomas Lupo

English composer and viol player

*November 30th, 1570, London †December 1st, 1627, London

Franz von Dietrichstein

Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (1570-1636)

*August 22nd, 1570, Madrid †September 19th, 1636, Brno

Jakob Martini

German theologian and philosopher

*October 17th, 1570, Langenstein †May 30th, 1649, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Péter Pázmány

Hungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman

*October 4th, 1570, Oradea †March 19th, 1637, Bratislava

Giovanni Tiepolo

Patriarch of Venice

*April 12th, 1570, Venice †May 7th, 1631, Venice

Wolfgang Hirschbach

German legal scholar

*January 19th, 1570, Gotha †September 13th, 1620, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg

Co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1570-1606)

*August 21st, 1570, Harburg †July 7th, 1606, Harburg

Adam Tanner

Austrian mathematician (1571–1632)

*November 30th, 1570, Innsbruck †May 15th, 1632, Unken

Günther XLII van Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

German aristocrat

*September 7th, 1570, Sondershausen †January 7th, 1643, Arnstadt

Joan Pau Pujol

Spanish/Catalan composer and organist (1570-1626)

*June 18th, 1570, Mataró †May 17th, 1626, Barcelona

Volkert Overlander

Lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam, Mayor of Amsterdam

*October 7th, 1570, Amsterdam †October 18th, 1630, The Hague

Esther Imbert

French noblewoman

*December 11th, 1570, Fontenay-le-Comte †November 30th, 1592

Ludolf Münchhausen

German librarian (1570-1640)

*April 28th, 1570, Apelern †September 21st, 1640

Cornelius Gobelius

*November 7th, 1570, Cochem †June 7th, 1611, Erfurt

Hans Lippershay

German-Dutch spectacle-maker

*November 30th, 1570, Germany †August 31st, 1619, Middelburg

Francisco Medrano

Spanish writer

*January 1st, 1570, Seville †January 1st, 1607, Seville

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 20th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast days) which are celebrated on October 20th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XX.X.MDLXX

20.10.1570

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

L = 50

X = 10

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1570 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
October 1570

October 1570

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October 20th, 1570

Born on October 20th, 1570

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 165,000 days old!

165,645 Days

23,663 Weeks

5,442 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 20th?

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara (then Kuibyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.

The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five-hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired.

Watergate scandal: Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.

Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.

African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with face guards.

World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.

Pope Pius XII (pictured) published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.

Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.

A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.

The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.

The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.

The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.

The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies.

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashes on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, killing 40.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 20th

Same Day Who's birthday is on October 20th?

Same year Born in 1570

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 20th

Acca of Hexham

Aderald

Artemius

Caprasius of Agen

Hedwig (in Canada, moved from Oct. 16)

Irene of Tomar

Magdalene of Nagasaki

Margaret Marie Alacoque (in Canada, moved from Oct. 16)

Paul of the Cross (in USA, moved from Oct. 19)

Maria Bertilla Boscardin

Mater Admirabilis

October 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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