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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of August 0636 | EVENT | Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. |
| 20th of August 0917 | EVENT | Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army. |
| 20th of August 1000 | EVENT | The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. Today celebrated as a National Day in Hungary. |
| 20th of August 1083 | EVENT | Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric. |
| 20th of August 1391 | EVENT | Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order. |
| 20th of August 1672 | EVENT | Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague. |
| 20th of August 1775 | EVENT | The Spanish establish a presidio (fort) in the town that became Tucson, Arizona. |
| 20th of August 1794 | EVENT | Battle of Fallen Timbers : American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat. |
| 20th of August 1804 | EVENT | Lewis and Clark Expedition: the "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis. |
| 20th of August 1858 | EVENT | Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. |
| 20th of August 1866 | EVENT | President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. |
| 20th of August 1882 | EVENT | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow. |
| 20th of August 1888 | EVENT | Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile. |
| 20th of August 1910 | EVENT | The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) occurred in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2). |
| 20th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. |
| 20th of August 1920 | EVENT | The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 20th of August 1920 | EVENT | The National Football League, (NFL), is founded in the United States. |
| 20th of August 1926 | EVENT | Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is established. |
| 20th of August 1938 | EVENT | Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam : a record that still stands. |
| 20th of August 1940 | EVENT | In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramon Mercader. He dies the next day. |
| 20th of August 1944 | EVENT | WWII: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive. |
| 20th of August 1944 | EVENT | WWII: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp. |
| 20th of August 1953 | EVENT | The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. |
| 20th of August 1955 | EVENT | In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals. |
| 20th of August 1960 | EVENT | Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring its independence. |
| 20th of August 1975 | EVENT | Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. |
| 20th of August 1977 | EVENT | Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. |
| 20th of August 1979 | EVENT | The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens. |
| 20th of August 1982 | EVENT | Lebanese Civil War: a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon. |
| 20th of August 1986 | EVENT | In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. |
| 20th of August 1988 | EVENT | "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park |
| 20th of August 1988 | EVENT | Iran : Iraq War: a cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years of war. |
| 20th of August 1988 | EVENT | Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| 20th of August 1988 | EVENT | The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland (see Ballygawley bus bombing). |
| 20th of August 1989 | EVENT | The O-Bahn in Adelaide, the world's longest guided busway, opens. |
| 20th of August 1989 | EVENT | The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed. |
| 20th of August 1991 | EVENT | Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood. |
| 20th of August 1991 | EVENT | dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| 20th of August 1993 | EVENT | After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. |
| 20th of August 1997 | EVENT | Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped. |
| 20th of August 1998 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. |
| 20th of August 1998 | EVENT | U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
| 20th of August 2002 | EVENT | A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. |
| 20th of August 2008 | EVENT | Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive. |
| 20th of August 1517 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586) |
| 20th of August 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633) |
| 20th of August 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709) |
| 20th of August 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) |
| 20th of August 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761) |
| 20th of August 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791) |
| 20th of August 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783) |
| 20th of August 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842) |
| 20th of August 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Jons Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848) |
| 20th of August 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) |
| 20th of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916) |
| 20th of August 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889) |
| 20th of August 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Boles?aw Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912) |
| 20th of August 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Jakub Bart-Cisinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909) |
| 20th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Poincare, French statesman (d. 1934) |
| 20th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911) |
| 20th of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954) |
| 20th of August 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950) |
| 20th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959) |
| 20th of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Campana, Italian poet (d. 1932) |
| 20th of August 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965) |
| 20th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937) |
| 20th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970) |
| 20th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973) |
| 20th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) |
| 20th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) |
| 20th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964) |
| 20th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Reed, original voice of Fred Flintstone. (d. 1977) |
| 20th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005) |
| 20th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978) |
| 20th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961) |
| 20th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994) |
| 20th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian : German chess player (d. 1984) |
| 20th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974) |
| 20th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter |
| 20th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985) |
| 20th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Reeves, US country music singer (d. 1964) |
| 20th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | George Zuverink, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach |
| 20th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Geriatric1927, English video blogger |
| 20th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980) |
| 20th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Heffernan, Gaelic footballer |
| 20th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor |
| 20th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Randall, British George Medal recipient (d. 2007) |
| 20th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Don King, American boxing promoter |
| 20th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983) |
| 20th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004) |
| 20th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (d. 2009) |
| 20th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator |
| 20th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen |
| 20th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Mangold, British journalist and author |
| 20th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate |
| 20th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 20th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007) |
| 20th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bowen, English comedian |
| 20th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director |
| 20th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Vivien, French politician |
| 20th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004) |
| 20th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Hinojosa, American politician |
| 20th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer |
| 20th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind |
| 20th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Brooks, American football coach |
| 20th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Oakley, British journalist |
| 20th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author |
| 20th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006) |
| 20th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Norman, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008) |
| 20th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor |
| 20th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991) |
| 20th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Graig Nettles, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Chung, American journalist |
| 20th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman |
| 20th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ralf Hutter, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
| 20th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Lee, English conceptual artist |
| 20th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Noble, Australian actor |
| 20th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Plant, British Musician (Led Zeppelin) |
| 20th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer |
| 20th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter |
| 20th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988) |
| 20th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986) |
| 20th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Bear, American author |
| 20th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack) (d. 2010) |
| 20th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Emburey, English cricketer |
| 20th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Hiatt, American musician |
| 20th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Bertier, American wheelchair Olympian (d. 1981) |
| 20th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach |
| 20th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007) |
| 20th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Don Stark, American actor |
| 20th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Al Roker, American television personality |
| 20th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer |
| 20th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Allen, American actress |
| 20th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Greenidge, West Indian cricketer |
| 20th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player |
| 20th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| 20th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | John Stehr, American journalist |
| 20th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Egan, Australian author |
| 20th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pasquale, English comedian |
| 20th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Aldred, English actress |
| 20th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | James Marsters, American actor |
| 20th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player |
| 20th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Bialon, German footballer |
| 20th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | KRS-One, American rapper |
| 20th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | David Rees Snell, American actor (The Shield) |
| 20th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004) |
| 20th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Benes, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Poch, American yogini and professional wrestler |
| 20th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Cunningham, American actor |
| 20th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer |
| 20th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 20th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Droese, American professional wrestler |
| 20th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Els Callens, Belgian tennis player |
| 20th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer |
| 20th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit) |
| 20th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Stone, English footballer |
| 20th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | David Walliams, British comedian |
| 20th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese/American actor |
| 20th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chaney Kley, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 20th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Helton, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Adams, American actress |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Szabolcs Safar, Hungarian footballer |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End) |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007) |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Misha Collins, American actor and producer |
| 20th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist |
| 20th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Mastin, American author |
| 20th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Drury, American hockey player |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James Ormond, England cricketer |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress |
| 20th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Brown, English footballer |
| 20th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Sullivan, American baseball player |
| 20th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Haha, South Korean entertainer |
| 20th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Cullum, British musician |
| 20th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Carrier, American actor |
| 20th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Dumoulin, French cyclist |
| 20th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rochelle Gadd, British actress |
| 20th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Mendy, French footballer |
| 20th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Barnes, English actor |
| 20th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cleber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer |
| 20th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer |
| 20th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer |
| 20th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 20th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Schaefering, American football player |
| 20th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Garfield, American actor |
| 20th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tsokye Karchung, Bhutanese beauty queen, Miss Bhutan 2008 |
| 20th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor |
| 20th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Clark, Canadian actor |
| 20th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Catalina Ponor, Romanian gymnast |
| 20th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player |
| 20th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer |
| 20th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Marko ?okovic, Serbian tennis player |
| 20th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Luke O'Neill, English footballer |
| 20th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Demi Lovato, American actress and singer |
| 20th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Matej Delac, Croatian footballer |
| 20th of August 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Liana Liberato, American actress |
| 20th of August 0535 | DEATH | Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick |
| 20th of August 0917 | DEATH | Constantine Lips, Byzantine Admiral |
| 20th of August 0984 | DEATH | Pope John XIV |
| 20th of August 1384 | DEATH | Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (Born 1340) |
| 20th of August 1572 | DEATH | Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (Born 1502) |
| 20th of August 1580 | DEATH | Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (Born 1506) |
| 20th of August 1611 | DEATH | Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (Born 1548) |
| 20th of August 1639 | DEATH | Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (Born 1597) |
| 20th of August 1643 | DEATH | Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (Born 1591) |
| 20th of August 1648 | DEATH | Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (Born 1583) |
| 20th of August 1672 | DEATH | Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (Born 1625) |
| 20th of August 1672 | DEATH | Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (Born 1623) |
| 20th of August 1680 | DEATH | William Bedloe, English informer (Born 1650) |
| 20th of August 1701 | DEATH | Charles Sedley, English playwright (Born 1639) |
| 20th of August 1707 | DEATH | Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (Born 1627) |
| 20th of August 1773 | DEATH | Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (Born 1701) |
| 20th of August 1811 | DEATH | Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (Born 1729) |
| 20th of August 1823 | DEATH | Pope Pius VII (Born 1740) |
| 20th of August 1825 | DEATH | William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (Born 1753) |
| 20th of August 1854 | DEATH | Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (Born 1801) |
| 20th of August 1887 | DEATH | Jules Laforgue, French poet (Born 1860) |
| 20th of August 1904 | DEATH | Rene Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (Born 1846) |
| 20th of August 1912 | DEATH | William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (Born 1829) |
| 20th of August 1914 | DEATH | Pope Pius X (Born 1835) |
| 20th of August 1915 | DEATH | Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (Born 1854) |
| 20th of August 1917 | DEATH | Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1835) |
| 20th of August 1919 | DEATH | Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (Born 1869) |
| 20th of August 1930 | DEATH | Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (Born 1851) |
| 20th of August 1961 | DEATH | Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1882) |
| 20th of August 1963 | DEATH | Joan Voute, Dutch astronomer (Born 1879) |
| 20th of August 1965 | DEATH | Jonathan Myrick Daniels, American activist (Born 1939) |
| 20th of August 1971 | DEATH | Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (Born 1951) |
| 20th of August 1979 | DEATH | Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (Born 1922) |
| 20th of August 1980 | DEATH | Joe Dassin, American singer (Born 1938) |
| 20th of August 1982 | DEATH | Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Born 1929) |
| 20th of August 1986 | DEATH | Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (Born 1923) |
| 20th of August 1989 | DEATH | George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (Born 1906) |
| 20th of August 1993 | DEATH | Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (Born 1912) |
| 20th of August 1996 | DEATH | Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer (Born 1950) |
| 20th of August 1997 | DEATH | Norris Bradbury, American physicist (Born 1909) |
| 20th of August 1997 | DEATH | Leon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (Born 1922) |
| 20th of August 1998 | DEATH | Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (Born 1915) |
| 20th of August 2001 | DEATH | Kim Stanley, American actress (Born 1925) |
| 20th of August 2001 | DEATH | Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (Born 1915) |
| 20th of August 2005 | DEATH | Thomas Herrion, American football player (Born 1981) |
| 20th of August 2005 | DEATH | Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (Born 1970) |
| 20th of August 2006 | DEATH | Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (Born 1932) |
| 20th of August 2006 | DEATH | Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Born 1977) |
| 20th of August 2006 | DEATH | Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (Born 1911) |
| 20th of August 2007 | DEATH | Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (Born 1920) |
| 20th of August 2007 | DEATH | Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (Born 1942) |
| 20th of August 2008 | DEATH | Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (Born 1921) |
| 20th of August 2008 | DEATH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (Born 1949) |
| 20th of August 2008 | DEATH | Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (Born 1945) |
| 20th of August 2008 | DEATH | Ed "Too Tall" Freeman, former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1927) |
| 20th of August 2009 | DEATH | Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (Born 1940) |