Today in History
20 August
291 births · 112 deaths · 61 events recorded
Notable Births
All 291 ›
Prince Gabriel of Belgium
b. 2003
Belgian prince (born 2003)
Lieke Klaver
b. 1998
Dutch sprinter (born 1998)
Kaho Minagawa
b. 1997
Japanese rhythmic gymnast
Daniel Vladař
b. 1997
Czech ice hockey player (born 1997)
Bunty Afoa
b. 1996
Samoan international rugby league footballer
Liana Liberato
b. 1995
American actress (born 1995)
Demi Lovato
b. 1992
American singer (born 1992)
Fabio Ulloa
b. 1976
Honduran footballer (born 1976)
Notable Deaths
All 112 ›
Al Attles
d. 2024
American basketball player and coach (1936–2024)
Darya Dugina
d. 2022
Russian journalist and activist (1992–2022)
Igor Vovkovinskiy
d. 2021
Ukrainian-American known for being America's tallest person
Uri Avnery
d. 2018
Israeli politician, journalist and author (1923–2018)
Jerry Lewis
d. 2017
American comedian, actor and filmmaker (1926–2017)
Egon Bahr
d. 2015
German politician
Frank Wilkes
d. 2015
Australian politician
Anton Buslov
d. 2014
Russian blogger and writer (1983–2014)
On This Day in History
All 61 ›
2020
Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Joe Biden
2016
Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
August 2016 Gaziantep bombing
2014
Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
Hiroshima Prefecture
2012
A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
2012 Yare prison riot
2011
First Air Flight 6560 crashes 1 mile from the Resolute Bay runway, killing 12 of the 15 aboard.
First Air Flight 6560
2008
Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
Spanair Flight 5022
2007
China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
China Airlines Flight 120
2006
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
Sri Lankan civil war