July 20th, 1947

Born on July 20th, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

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What happened on July 20th?

July 20th, 2015

A suicide attack in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed 34 people and injured 104 others.

July 20th, 2012

A gunman carried out a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.

July 20th, 1997

USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.

July 20th, 1982

Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses.

July 20th, 1977

Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and $340 in damages.

July 20th, 1976

The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.

July 20th, 1969

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later (bootprint pictured).

July 20th, 1950

Korean War: After a month-long campaign, much of the North Korean air force was destroyed by United Nations forces.

July 20th, 1917

Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić and Yugoslav Committee president Ante Trumbić signed the Corfu Declaration, agreeing to seek the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

July 20th, 1867

The United States Congress established the Indian Peace Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native American tribes.

July 20th, 1807

French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines.

July 20th, 1793

Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.

July 20th, 1651

Wars of the Three Kingdoms: After crossing the Firth of Forth, English Commonwealth forces defeated a Scottish army at the Battle of Inverkeithing, opening the rest of the country to occupation.

July 20th, 2021

American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.

July 20th, 2017

O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.

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

Born on July 20th, 1947

77

Carlos Santana

Mexican-American guitarist

*July 20th, 1947, Autlán de Navarro

77

Gerd Binnig

German physicist

*July 20th, 1947, Frankfurt

77

Rolf Hartung

German rower

*July 20th, 1947, Hanau

77

Camille Keaton

American actress

*July 20th, 1947, Pine Bluff

68

Mile Mrkšić

Croatian Serb war criminal

*July 20th, 1947, Gvozd †August 16th, 2015, Lisbon

77

Wilhelm Leber

German mathematician

*July 20th, 1947, Herford

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

82

Diana Rigg

English actress (1938–2020)

*July 20th, 1938, Doncaster †September 10th, 2020, London

66

Mick MacNeil

Scottish keyboardist

*July 20th, 1958, Barra

81

Christian Rode

German actor and voice actor (1936–2018)

*July 20th, 1936, Hamburg †February 15th, 2018, Berlin

92

Lola Albright

American actress and singer (1924–2017)

*July 20th, 1924, Akron †March 23rd, 2017, Toluca Lake

71

Marcia Hines

American-Australian singer, actress and TV personality

*July 20th, 1953, Boston

84

Dan Rooney

American football executive/owner, philanthropist and diplomat (1932-2017)

*July 20th, 1932, Pittsburgh †April 13th, 2017, Pittsburgh

73

Jeff Rawle

English actor

*July 20th, 1951, Birmingham

62

Carlos Alazraqui

American actor

*July 20th, 1962, Yonkers

53

Sandra Oh

Canadian and American actress (born 1971)

*July 20th, 1971, Ottawa

24

Csenge Braun

Hungarian beach handball player

*July 20th, 2000, Budapest

76

Muse Watson

American actor

*July 20th, 1948, Alexandria

79

Erwin Haas

German rower

*July 20th, 1945, Offenbach am Main

79

Kim Carnes

American singer and songwriter

*July 20th, 1945, Pasadena

96

Pavel Kohout

Czech poet, playwright, exil writer, film director, politic writer and bookwriter

*July 20th, 1928, Prague

43

Natalie Wood

American actress (1938–1981)

*July 20th, 1938, San Francisco †November 28th, 1981, Santa Catalina Island

76

Malcolm Stoddard

British actor

*July 20th, 1948, Epsom

58

Enrique Peña Nieto

President of Mexico from 2012 to 2018

*July 20th, 1966, Atlacomulco de Fabela

74

Naseeruddin Shah

Indian actor and director

*July 20th, 1950, Barabanki

91

Sally Ann Howes

British actor and singer

*July 20th, 1930, St John's Wood †December 19th, 2021, Palm Beach Gardens

31

Lucas Digne

French association football player

*July 20th, 1993, Meaux

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

77

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

77

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta

77

Dieter Riedel

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

77

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

77

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil, 3rd President of the BRICS Bank

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Harper University Hospital

77

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Betondorp †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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