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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of July 0070 | EVENT | First Jewish-Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem : Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. |
| 20th of July 0911 | EVENT | Rollo lays siege to Chartres. |
| 20th of July 1304 | EVENT | Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle : King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf. |
| 20th of July 1402 | EVENT | Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara : Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I. |
| 20th of July 1656 | EVENT | Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw. |
| 20th of July 1738 | EVENT | North America: Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Verendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. |
| 20th of July 1807 | EVENT | Nicephore Niepce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyreolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saone in France. |
| 20th of July 1810 | EVENT | Citizens of Bogota, New Granada declare independence from Spain. |
| 20th of July 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek : Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman. |
| 20th of July 1866 | EVENT | Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa : The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea. |
| 20th of July 1871 | EVENT | British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. |
| 20th of July 1877 | EVENT | Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland, by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths. |
| 20th of July 1881 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota |
| 20th of July 1885 | EVENT | The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association. |
| 20th of July 1894 | EVENT | The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled. |
| 20th of July 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: A boiler explodes on the USS Iowa off the coast of Santiago de Cuba. |
| 20th of July 1903 | EVENT | Ford Motor Company ships its first car. |
| 20th of July 1907 | EVENT | A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan, kills 30 and injures 70. |
| 20th of July 1916 | EVENT | World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek. |
| 20th of July 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. |
| 20th of July 1918 | EVENT | World War I: German troops cross the Marne. |
| 20th of July 1921 | EVENT | Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco. |
| 20th of July 1921 | EVENT | Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives. |
| 20th of July 1922 | EVENT | The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. |
| 20th of July 1924 | EVENT | Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice-consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people. |
| 20th of July 1926 | EVENT | A convention of the Southern Methodist Church votes to allow women to become ministers. |
| 20th of July 1928 | EVENT | The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. |
| 20th of July 1929 | EVENT | Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China. |
| 20th of July 1932 | EVENT | Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border. |
| 20th of July 1932 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House. |
| 20th of July 1933 | EVENT | Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations. |
| 20th of July 1933 | EVENT | In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. |
| 20th of July 1933 | EVENT | Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. |
| 20th of July 1934 | EVENT | Labor unrest in the U.S., as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. |
| 20th of July 1934 | EVENT | 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks. |
| 20th of July 1935 | EVENT | Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. |
| 20th of July 1936 | EVENT | The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. |
| 20th of July 1938 | EVENT | The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948. |
| 20th of July 1940 | EVENT | Denmark leaves the League of Nations. |
| 20th of July 1940 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act of 1939, limiting political activity by Federal government employees. |
| 20th of July 1940 | EVENT | California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. |
| 20th of July 1941 | EVENT | Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. |
| 20th of July 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The first unit of the Women's Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 20th of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the 20 July plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. |
| 20th of July 1945 | EVENT | The US Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement. |
| 20th of July 1947 | EVENT | Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet. |
| 20th of July 1947 | EVENT | The Viceroy of India says the people of the North-West Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India. |
| 20th of July 1948 | EVENT | U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. |
| 20th of July 1948 | EVENT | In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall. |
| 20th of July 1949 | EVENT | Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. |
| 20th of July 1950 | EVENT | Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs. |
| 20th of July 1951 | EVENT | King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. |
| 20th of July 1953 | EVENT | The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. |
| 20th of July 1954 | EVENT | Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany. |
| 20th of July 1954 | EVENT | At Geneva, Switzerland, an armistice is signed that ends fighting in Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th parallel. |
| 20th of July 1959 | EVENT | The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain. |
| 20th of July 1960 | EVENT | Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government. |
| 20th of July 1960 | EVENT | The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. |
| 20th of July 1960 | EVENT | Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the United States and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute. |
| 20th of July 1960 | EVENT | The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage. |
| 20th of July 1961 | EVENT | French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. |
| 20th of July 1964 | EVENT | The National Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole legal political party in the Republic of Congo. |
| 20th of July 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children). |
| 20th of July 1965 | EVENT | Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country. |
| 20th of July 1968 | EVENT | Special Olympics founded. |
| 20th of July 1969 | EVENT | Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon at 20:17 UTC on July 20. |
| 20th of July 1969 | EVENT | A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War" |
| 20th of July 1971 | EVENT | The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations |
| 20th of July 1973 | EVENT | The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. |
| 20th of July 1973 | EVENT | Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai. |
| 20th of July 1973 | EVENT | Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, the US Defense Department admits it lied to US Congress about bombing Cambodia . |
| 20th of July 1973 | EVENT | First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The National Black Network (NBN) begins operations. |
| 20th of July 1974 | EVENT | Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. |
| 20th of July 1975 | EVENT | India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship. |
| 20th of July 1976 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. |
| 20th of July 1976 | EVENT | The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. |
| 20th of July 1976 | EVENT | Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career. |
| 20th of July 1977 | EVENT | Johnstown is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. |
| 20th of July 1977 | EVENT | The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. |
| 20th of July 1980 | EVENT | The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. |
| 20th of July 1982 | EVENT | Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. |
| 20th of July 1983 | EVENT | The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. |
| 20th of July 1984 | EVENT | Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse publishes nude photos of her. |
| 20th of July 1985 | EVENT | The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. |
| 20th of July 1986 | EVENT | In South Africa, police fire tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees. |
| 20th of July 1987 | EVENT | UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the Iran : Iraq War and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted. |
| 20th of July 1989 | EVENT | Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it. |
| 20th of July 1989 | EVENT | Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. |
| 20th of July 1992 | EVENT | The first post-Soviet monetary reform in Latvia ended, as the Soviet rouble lost its status as legal tender. |
| 20th of July 1992 | EVENT | Vaclav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. |
| 20th of July 1994 | EVENT | Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so |
| 20th of July 1994 | EVENT | Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter. |
| 20th of July 1996 | EVENT | In Spain, an ETA bomb at Reus Airport injures 53 |
| 20th of July 1998 | EVENT | Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. |
| 20th of July 1999 | EVENT | Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched. |
| 20th of July 2000 | EVENT | In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade. |
| 20th of July 2000 | EVENT | Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. |
| 20th of July 2002 | EVENT | South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five. |
| 20th of July 2003 | EVENT | France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. |
| 20th of July 2006 | EVENT | Ethiopian troops enter Somalian territory. |
| 20th of July 0810 | BIRTHDAY | Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870) |
| 20th of July 1304 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374) |
| 20th of July 1537 | BIRTHDAY | Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604) |
| 20th of July 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681) |
| 20th of July 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836) |
| 20th of July 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811) |
| 20th of July 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852) |
| 20th of July 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Pawe? Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873) |
| 20th of July 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Owen, English biologist (d. 1892) |
| 20th of July 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Gregor Mendel, German scientist, father of modern genetics (d. 1884) |
| 20th of July 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899) |
| 20th of July 1838 | BIRTHDAY | George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928) |
| 20th of July 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935) |
| 20th of July 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918) |
| 20th of July 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932) |
| 20th of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925) |
| 20th of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931) |
| 20th of July 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939) |
| 20th of July 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932) |
| 20th of July 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944) |
| 20th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971) |
| 20th of July 1890 | BIRTHDAY | King George II of Greece (d. 1947) |
| 20th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915) |
| 20th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946) |
| 20th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian (d. 2011) |
| 20th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1996) |
| 20th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Leyland, English cricketer (d. 1967) |
| 20th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971) |
| 20th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984) |
| 20th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969) |
| 20th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1993) |
| 20th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Vilem Tausky, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004) |
| 20th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer (d. 1941) |
| 20th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970) |
| 20th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Charilaos Florakis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 2005) |
| 20th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 20th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008) |
| 20th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999) |
| 20th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician |
| 20th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005) |
| 20th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Berger, American novelist |
| 20th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mort Garson, Canadian composer (d. 2008) |
| 20th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961) |
| 20th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission |
| 20th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974) |
| 20th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Lola Albright, American actress |
| 20th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer |
| 20th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive |
| 20th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999) |
| 20th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (d. 2009) |
| 20th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress |
| 20th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Marsh, English racing driver |
| 20th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Nam June Paik, Video artist (d. 2006) |
| 20th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ove Verner Hansen, Danish actor |
| 20th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Schily, German politician |
| 20th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 20th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Williams, English snooker player |
| 20th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Cormac McCarthy, American author |
| 20th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Padgett, English cricketer |
| 20th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Johnson, German writer (d. 1984) |
| 20th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996) |
| 20th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Rogers, English comedian (d. 2001) |
| 20th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Mikulski, American politician |
| 20th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008) |
| 20th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Hunt, English footballer |
| 20th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player |
| 20th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981) |
| 20th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Diana Rigg, English actress |
| 20th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Chicago, American artist |
| 20th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988) |
| 20th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Bowden, Australian politician |
| 20th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer |
| 20th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Hamilton, American race car driver |
| 20th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver |
| 20th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009) |
| 20th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Paunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (d. 2010) |
| 20th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Craig, American politician |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues) |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980) |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005) |
| 20th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Ellenshaw, American matte painter |
| 20th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Randal Kleiser, American film director |
| 20th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 20th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist |
| 20th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Muse Watson, American actor |
| 20th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress |
| 20th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor |
| 20th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Rawle, English actor |
| 20th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress |
| 20th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Evans, Australian singer (AC/DC) |
| 20th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Friedman, American journalist |
| 20th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer |
| 20th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer |
| 20th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Levan, American DJ (d. 1992) |
| 20th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Moira Harris, American actress |
| 20th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues) |
| 20th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols) |
| 20th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gordon, American composer |
| 20th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Prentice, Canadian politician |
| 20th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ryo Ishibashi, Japanese actor |
| 20th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (d. 1990) |
| 20th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Dixon, American actress |
| 20th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mick MacNeil, Scottish musician (Simple Minds) |
| 20th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mays, American TV pitchman (d. 2009) |
| 20th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Frassmann, German footballer |
| 20th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Langes, Italian racing driver |
| 20th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian |
| 20th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver |
| 20th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Harris, English drummer (Talk Talk, .O.rang) |
| 20th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Whaley, American actor |
| 20th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave) |
| 20th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kool G Rap, American musician |
| 20th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin |
| 20th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Schneider, German racing driver |
| 20th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Winters, American actor |
| 20th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Anton du Beke, British ballroom dancer |
| 20th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad) |
| 20th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Pena Nieto, American politician |
| 20th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Reed Diamond, American actor |
| 20th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American musician (The Dandy Warhols) |
| 20th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player |
| 20th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Park, American actor |
| 20th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor |
| 20th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Holloway, American actor |
| 20th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies) |
| 20th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist |
| 20th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vitamin C, American singer |
| 20th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Agot Isidro, Filipina actress |
| 20th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Giddins, English cricketer |
| 20th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress |
| 20th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Johnson, American baseball player |
| 20th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Screw, American hip hop deejay (d. 2000) |
| 20th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Stumpel, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 20th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nixon McLean, West Indian cricketer |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Epps, American actor |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Reyna, American soccer player |
| 20th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mads Rieper, Danish footballer |
| 20th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Phofo, American musician |
| 20th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 20th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Rex, American actor |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Allen, American basketball player |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Greer, American actress |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Atiq-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer |
| 20th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | El Zorro, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 20th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer |
| 20th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother) |
| 20th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Erica Hill, American news anchor |
| 20th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver |
| 20th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer |
| 20th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro dos Santos, naturalized Japanese footballer |
| 20th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Will Solomon, American basketball player |
| 20th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete |
| 20th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player |
| 20th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant |
| 20th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Korsmo, American actor |
| 20th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress |
| 20th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Miklos Feher, Hungarian footballer (d. 2004) |
| 20th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Ortega, Spanish freestyle swimmer |
| 20th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model |
| 20th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) |
| 20th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Delaney, Irish footballer |
| 20th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Thorsten Engelmann, German rower |
| 20th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Daggs III, American actor |
| 20th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Gilroy, American Hockey Player |
| 20th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player |
| 20th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | John Francis Daley, American actor |
| 20th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | David Mundy, Australian rules footballer |
| 20th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasia Perraki, Greek fashion model |
| 20th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player |
| 20th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer |
| 20th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor |
| 20th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | William Tomlin, British actor |
| 20th of July 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Billi Bruno, American actress |
| 20th of July 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexandra of Hanover |
| 20th of July 0985 | DEATH | Pope Boniface VII |
| 20th of July 1031 | DEATH | King Robert II of France (Born 972) |
| 20th of July 1156 | DEATH | Emperor Toba of Japan (Born 1103) |
| 20th of July 1160 | DEATH | Peter Lombard, French theologian |
| 20th of July 1320 | DEATH | King Oshin of Armenia (Born 1282) |
| 20th of July 1351 | DEATH | Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (Born 1291) |
| 20th of July 1387 | DEATH | Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (Born 1356) |
| 20th of July 1398 | DEATH | Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, English noble (Born 1374) |
| 20th of July 1453 | DEATH | Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler |
| 20th of July 1454 | DEATH | King John II of Castile (Born 1405) |
| 20th of July 1524 | DEATH | Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (Born 1499) |
| 20th of July 1616 | DEATH | Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier |
| 20th of July 1704 | DEATH | Peregrine White, first English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World (Born 1620) |
| 20th of July 1752 | DEATH | Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (Born 1667) |
| 20th of July 1816 | DEATH | Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (Born 1743) |
| 20th of July 1866 | DEATH | Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (Born 1826) |
| 20th of July 1897 | DEATH | Jean Ingelow, English poet (Born 1820) |
| 20th of July 1901 | DEATH | William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (Born 1840) |
| 20th of July 1903 | DEATH | Pope Leo XIII (Born 1810) |
| 20th of July 1908 | DEATH | Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (Born 1835) |
| 20th of July 1908 | DEATH | Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (Born 1881) |
| 20th of July 1922 | DEATH | Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (Born 1856) |
| 20th of July 1923 | DEATH | Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican rebel (Born 1878) |
| 20th of July 1926 | DEATH | Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, Soviet law enforcement official (Born 1877) |
| 20th of July 1927 | DEATH | King Ferdinand of Romania (Born 1865) |
| 20th of July 1928 | DEATH | Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (Born 1896) |
| 20th of July 1932 | DEATH | Rene Bazin, French novelist (Born 1853) |
| 20th of July 1937 | DEATH | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (Born 1874) |
| 20th of July 1941 | DEATH | Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (Born 1867) |
| 20th of July 1944 | DEATH | Mildred Harris, American actress (Born 1901) |
| 20th of July 1944 | DEATH | Ludwig Beck, German colonel general, part of July 20 Plot (Born 1880) |
| 20th of July 1945 | DEATH | Paul Valery, French author and poet (Born 1871) |
| 20th of July 1951 | DEATH | Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, German prince (Born 1882) |
| 20th of July 1951 | DEATH | King Abdullah I of Jordan (Born 1882) |
| 20th of July 1953 | DEATH | Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (Born 1900) |
| 20th of July 1953 | DEATH | Jan Struther, British author (Born 1901) |
| 20th of July 1955 | DEATH | Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (Born 1869) |
| 20th of July 1956 | DEATH | James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (Born 1868) |
| 20th of July 1959 | DEATH | William D. Leahy, American admiral (Born 1875) |
| 20th of July 1969 | DEATH | Roy Hamilton, American singer (Born 1929) |
| 20th of July 1970 | DEATH | Iain Macleod, English politician (Born 1913) |
| 20th of July 1973 | DEATH | Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (Born 1940) |
| 20th of July 1973 | DEATH | Robert Smithson, American land artist (Born 1938) |
| 20th of July 1976 | DEATH | Joseph Rochefort, American Naval officer and cryptanalyst (Born 1900) |
| 20th of July 1977 | DEATH | Gary Kellgren, American music producer (Born 1939) |
| 20th of July 1982 | DEATH | Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (Born 1931) |
| 20th of July 1983 | DEATH | Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (Born 1923) |
| 20th of July 1987 | DEATH | Richard Egan, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 20th of July 1990 | DEATH | Herbert Jenkins, American law enforcement official (Born 1907) |
| 20th of July 1993 | DEATH | Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (Born 1945) |
| 20th of July 1998 | DEATH | June Byers, American professional wrestler (Born 1922) |
| 20th of July 1999 | DEATH | Sandra Gould, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 20th of July 2000 | DEATH | Gregory Hill American writer (Born 1941) |
| 20th of July 2001 | DEATH | Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (Born 1978) |
| 20th of July 2003 | DEATH | Nicolas Freeling, English writer (Born 1927) |
| 20th of July 2004 | DEATH | Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess (Born 1931) |
| 20th of July 2004 | DEATH | Scott Andrew Mink, American convicted murderer (Born 1963) |
| 20th of July 2005 | DEATH | James Doohan, Canadian actor (Born 1920) |
| 20th of July 2005 | DEATH | Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (Born 1926) |
| 20th of July 2005 | DEATH | Kayo Hatta, American film director (Born 1958) |
| 20th of July 2006 | DEATH | Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (Born 1913) |
| 20th of July 2006 | DEATH | Gerard Oury, French filmmaker (Born 1919) |
| 20th of July 2007 | DEATH | Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (Born 1942) |
| 20th of July 2008 | DEATH | Artie Traum, American guitarist (Born 1943) |
| 20th of July 2009 | DEATH | Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (Born 1957) |
| 20th of July 2009 | DEATH | Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (Born 1922) |