Famous people born on 20 July

• Edmund HillaryNew Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist · 1919–2008
  88 yrs
• John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer · 1509–1564
  54 yrs
• Gregor MendelMoravian scientist and Augustinian friar · 1822–1884
  61 yrs
• Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish poet · 1864–1931
  66 yrs
• Mahmud II30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1785–1839
  53 yrs
• Frantz FanonFrench West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher · 1925–1961
  36 yrs
• Natalie WoodAmerican actress · 1938–1981
  43 yrs
• Cormac McCarthyAmerican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter · 1933–2023
  89 yrs
• Tadeusz ReichsteinPolish-Swiss chemist · 1897–1996
  99 yrs
• Diana Rigg ↗English actress · 1938–2020
  82 yrs
• Richard Owen ↗English biologist and paleontologist · 1804–1892
  88 yrs
• Jacques Delors ↗French economist and politician · 1925–2023
  98 yrs
• Chris Cornell ↗American musician · 1964–2017
  52 yrs
• Alberto Santos-Dumont ↗Brazilian aviation pioneer · 1873–1932
  59 yrs
• Max Liebermann ↗German painter · 1847–1935
  87 yrs
• László Moholy-Nagy ↗Hungarian artist · 1895–1946
  51 yrs
• Mamadou Tandja ↗President of Niger from 1999 to 2010 · 1938–2020
  82 yrs
• Auguste de Marmont ↗French General, nobleman and Marshal of France · 1774–1852
  77 yrs
• Miklós Fehér ↗Hungarian footballer · 1979–2004
  24 yrs
• Giorgio Morandi ↗Italian painter and printmaker · 1890–1964
  73 yrs
• Roger Hunt ↗English associsation football player · 1938–2021
  83 yrs
• Billy Mays ↗European-American salesperson · 1958–2009
  50 yrs
• Lola Albright ↗American actress and singer · 1924–2017
  92 yrs
• Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach ↗Sculptor and architect from Austria · 1656–1723
  66 yrs
• Lyudmila Alexeyeva ↗Soviet-Russian human rights activist · 1927–2018
  91 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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