Births on 20 April
2000s
Tallyn Da Silva
2005
Australian rugby league player
1900s
Alexander Zverev
1997
German tennis player (born 1997)
Luke Kuechly
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Kyle Higashioka
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Jason Behrendorff
1990
Australian cricketer (born 1990)
Vannesa Rosales
1989
Venezuelan activist and teacher
Brandon Belt
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Jorge Pinto
1987
Portuguese politician (born 1987)
Harris Wittels
1984
American actor, comedian, writer, and musician (1984–2015)
Miranda Kerr
1983
Australian model (born 1983)
Emma Husar
1980
Former Australian politician
Carl Greenidge
1978
English cricketer
Killer Mike
1975
American rapper and activist (born 1975)
Randy Fine
1974
American politician (born 1974)
Julie Powell
1973
American author (1973–2022)
Carmen Electra
1972
American actress and model (born 1972)
Stephen Marley
1972
American musician (born 1972)
Allan Houston
1971
American basketball player (born 1971)
Shemar Moore
1970
American actor (born 1970)
Felix Baumgartner
1969
Austrian skydiver and extreme sportsman (1969–2025)
Will Hodgman
1969
45th Premier of Tasmania, Australia
Julia Morris
1968
Australian comedian
Lara Jill Miller
1967
American actress (born 1967)
Mike Portnoy
1967
American drummer (born 1967)
David Chalmers
1966
Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
David Filo
1966
American businessman (born 1966)
Kostis Hatzidakis
1965
Greek politician (born 1965)
Léa Fazer
1965
Swiss film director
Mark Mallia
1965
Maltese outsider artist (1965–2024)
John Carney (American football)
1964
American football player (born 1964)
Crispin Glover
1964
American actor (born 1964)
Andy Serkis
1964
English actor (born 1964)
Rosalynn Sumners
1964
American figure skater
Rachel Whiteread
1963
English artist (born 1963)
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig
1962
Mongolian politician
Don Mattingly
1961
American baseball player and manager (born 1961)
Konstantin Lavronenko
1961
Soviet and Russian actor
Debbie Flintoff-King
1960
Australian athletics competitor
Perry Haddock
1959
Australian rugby league footballer
Viacheslav Fetisov
1958
Russian ice hockey player (born 1958)
Beatrice Ask
1956
Swedish politician (born 1956)
Peter Chelsom
1956
British film director, writer, and actor
Kakha Bendukidze
1956
Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist (1956–2014)
Donald Pettit
1955
American astronaut and engineer (born 1955)
Svante Pääbo
1955
Swedish geneticist (born 1955)
Sebastian Faulks
1953
British novelist, journalist and broadcaster
James Chance
1953
American musician (1953–2024)
Louka Katseli
1952
Greek economist and politician
Luther Vandross
1951
American singer (1951–2005)
Alexander Lebed
1950
Soviet and Russian military officer and politician (1950–2002)
N. Chandrababu Naidu
1950
13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1950)
Veronica Cartwright
1949
British actress (born 1949)
Toller Cranston
1949
Canadian figure skater and painter
Massimo D'Alema
1949
Italian politician (born 1949)
Jessica Lange
1949
American actress (born 1949)
Matthias Kuhle
1948
German geographer (1948–2015)
Rita Dionne-Marsolais
1947
Canadian politician
Viktor Suvorov
1947
Russian author, former GRU officer (born 1947)
Niko Lekishvili
1947
Georgian politician (1947–2025)
Sandro Chia
1946
Italian painter and sculptor (born 1946)
Michael Brandon
1945
American actor (born 1945)
Olga Karlatos
1945
Greek actress (born 1945)
Thein Sein
1945
President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016
Naftali Temu
1945
Kenyan long-distance runner (1945–2003)
Steve Spurrier
1945
American football player and coach (born 1945)
Toivo Aare
1944
Estonian journalist (1944–1999)
Alan Beith
1943
British politician
John Eliot Gardiner
1943
English conductor (born 1943)
Ryan O'Neal
1941
American actor (1941–2023)
James Gammon
1940
American actor (1940–2010)
Peter S. Beagle
1939
American novelist and screenwriter (born 1939)
Gro Harlem Brundtland
1939
Norwegian politician (born 1939)
Betty Cuthbert
1938
Australian sprinter (1938–2017)
Manfred Kinder
1938
German sprinter (born 1938)
Eszter Tamási
1938
Johnny Tillotson
1938
American singer-songwriter (1938–2025)
Jiří Dienstbier
1937
Czech politician and journalist
Harvey Quaytman
1937
American painter (1937 - 2002)
George Takei
1937
American actor, author and activist (born 1937)
Lisa Davis (actress)
1936
British actress
Pauli Ellefsen
1936
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1981–1985)
Pat Roberts
1936
American politician and journalist (born 1936)
Myriam Bru
1932
French retired actress
Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby
1931
British politician and hereditary peer (1931–2014)
John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
1931
British viscount (born 1931)
Dwight Gustafson
1930
American classical composer
Antony Jay
1930
English writer, broadcaster, and director
Robert Byrne (chess player)
1928
American chess grandmaster (1928–2013)
Johnny Gavin (footballer)
1928
Irish footballer (1928–2007)
Bud Cullen
1927
Canadian politician
Phil Hill
1927
American racing driver (1927–2008)
K. Alex Müller
1927
Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate (1927–2023)
Ernie Stautner
1925
American football player and coach
Elena Verdugo
1925
American actress (1925–2017)
Nina Foch
1924
American actress (1924–2008)
Leslie Phillips
1924
British actor (1924–2022)
Guy Rocher
1924
Canadian academic and sociologist (1924–2025)
Mother Angelica
1923
Religious sister (1923–2016)
Irene Lieblich
1923
Polish-American painter
Tito Puente
1923
American Latin jazz and mambo musician (1923–2000)
Katarína Kolníková
1921
Slovak actress (1921–2006)
Frances Ames
1920
South African physician
Clement Isong
1920
Nigerian politician and banker (1920–2000)
John Paul Stevens
1920
United States Supreme Court justice from 1975 to 2010
Richard Hillary
1919
Australian flying ace (1919–1943)
Kai Siegbahn
1918
Swedish physicist (1918–2007)
Yoko Matsuoka (writer)
1916
Japanese critic and translator (1916–1979)
Nasiba Zeynalova
1916
Azerbaijani actress (1916–2004)
Joseph Wolpe
1915
American behavior therapist (1915–1997)
Betty Lou Gerson
1914
American actress (1914–1999)
Mimis Fotopoulos
1913
Greek actor, writer, poet and academic
Willi Hennig
1913
German biologist and zoologist (1913–1976)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu
1910
Turkish politician (1910–1961)
Lionel Hampton
1908
American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader (1908–2002)
Miran Bakhsh
1907
Pakistani cricketer (1907–1991)
Augoustinos Kantiotes
1907
Bruce Cabot
1904
American actor (1904–1972)
1800s
Alan Arnett McLeod
1899
Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Henry de Montherlant
1895
French writer (1895–1972)
Harold Lloyd
1893
American actor and comedian (1893–1971)
Joan Miró
1893
Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)
Dave Bancroft
1891
American baseball player and manager (1891-1972)
Maurice Duplessis
1890
Premier of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959
Adolf Schärf
1890
President of Austria from 1957 to 1965
Albert Jean Amateau
1889
Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer, and social activist (1889–1996)
Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland
1889
Swedish prince (1889–1918)
Marie-Antoinette de Geuser
1889
French nun (1889–1918)
Adolf Hitler
1889
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
Tonny Kessler
1889
Dutch footballer (1889–1960)
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1884
Duchess of Galliera (1884–1966)
Oliver Kirk
1884
American boxer (1884–1960)
Daniel Varoujan
1884
Armenian poet
Holland Smith
1882
United States Marine Corps general
Paul Poiret
1879
French fashion designer (1879–1944)
Vladimir Vidrić
1875
Croatian poet
James Harcourt
1873
English actor (1873–1951)
Sydney Chapman (economist)
1871
English economist and civil servant
Justinien Clary
1860
French sport shooter (1860–1933)
Aleksandr Dianin
1851
Russian chemist (1851–1918)
Siegmund Lubin
1851
American motion picture pioneer
Daniel Chester French
1850
American sculptor (1850–1931)
Odilon Redon
1840
French painter (1840–1916)
Carol I of Romania
1839
Monarch of Romania from 1866 to 1914
Dinah Craik
1826
English novelist and poet (1826–1887)
Heinrich Göbel
1818
German-born American inventor
Bogoslav Šulek
1816
Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer
Napoleon III
1808
Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870
Before 1800
Georg Michael Telemann
1748
German composer and theologian
Philippe Pinel
1745
French psychiatrist (1745–1826)
Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
1727
Austrian diplomat
Cornelius Harnett
1723
American Founding Father and politician
David Brainerd
1718
Missionary in colonial North America
William Bedloe
1650
English fraudster and Popish Plot informer
Charles Plumier
1646
French botanist (1646–1704)
Emperor Go-Kōmyō
1633
Emperor of Japan from 1643 to 1654
Geoffrey Shakerley (1619–1696)
1619
English politician
Rose of Lima
1586
Peruvian saint (1586–1617)
Renata of Lorraine
1544
Duchess of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597
Johannes Agricola
1494
German Protestant Reformer (1494–1566)