The 20t o Julie is the 201st day o the year (202nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 164 days ti come.
Events
Births
- 356 BC - Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC)
- 1304 - Petrarch, Italian poet an scholar (d. 1374)
- 1519 - Pape Innocent IX (d. 1591)
- 1673 - John Dalrymple, 2nt Yerl o Stair, Scots sodger an diplomat (d. 1747)
- 1766 - Thomas Bruce, 7t Yerl o Elgin, Scots nobleman an diplomat (d. 1844)
- 1785 - Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1839)
- 1822 - Gregor Mendel, Austrick scientist (d. 1884)
- 1838 - Sir George Trevelyan, 2nt Baronet, Breetish statesman an author (d. 1928)
- 1844 - John Douglas, 9t Marquess o Queensberry, Scots nobleman (d. 1900)
- 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swadish writer (d. 1931)
- 1889 - John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scots braidcastin executive, Director-General o the BBC (d. 1971)
- 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand muntaneer an splorer (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Jacques Delors, French politeecian
- 1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American writer
- 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, Inglis actress (d. 2020)
- 1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1943 - Willie Mathieson, Scots fitbawer
- 1946 - Htin Kyaw, Burmese politeecian an scholar, umwhile Preses o Myanmar
- 1947 - Gerd Binnig, German pheesicist
- 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-American muisicker
- 1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, American comedian, actor an producer
- 1964 - Chris Cornell, American sangster an muisicker (d. 2017)
- 1966 - Enrique Peña Nieto, Preses o Mexico
- 1973 - Haakon, Croun Prince o Norawa
- 1978 - Nigel Quashie, Inglis-Scots fitbawer
- 1980 - Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
- 1987 - Nicola Benedetti, Scots violinist
- 1987 - Niall McGinn, Northren Erse fitbawer
Daiths
- 985 - Pape Boniface VII
- 1031 - Robert II o Fraunce (b. 972)
- 1332 - Thomas Randolph, 1st Yerl o Moray, Scots sodger (b. 1278)
- 1816 - Gavrila Derzhavin, Roushie poet (b. 1743)
- 1819 - John Playfair, Scots scientist an mathemateecian (b. 1748)
- 1866 - Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, German mathemateecian (b. 1826)
- 1903 - Pape Leo XIII (b. 1810)
- 1912 - Andrew Lang, Scots poet, novelist an leeterar creetic (b. 1844)
- 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1927 - Ferdinand I o Romanie (b. 1865)
- 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian radio pioneer (b. 1874)
- 1973 - Bruce Lee, Cheenese-American martial airtist an actor (b. 1940)
- 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
- 2011 - Lucian Freud, German-Inglis penter (b. 1922)
- 2017 - Chester Bennington, American sangster an muisicker (Linkin Park) (b. 1976)
Halidays