Famous birthdays
Famous people born on April 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 20 include Napoleon III (1808), Joan Miró (1893), Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939) and Jessica Lange (1949). Our list below has 106 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1586 (Rose of Lima) and the most recent is 2003 (Johan Bakayoko). The most common fields on this date: actor, singer, writer.
Who was born on April 20?
- Napoleon III 1808 President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last…
- Joan Miró 1893 Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
- Gro Harlem Brundtland 1939 29th Prime Minister of Norway
- Jessica Lange 1949 American actress
- Miguel Díaz-Canel 1960 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
- Andy Serkis 1964 British actor
- Harold Lloyd 1893 American actor and comedian
- George Takei 1937 American actor, author and activist
- Miranda Kerr 1983 Australian model
- Felix Baumgartner 1969 Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper
- Svante Pääbo 1955 Swedish geneticist
- Karl Alexander Müller 1927 Swiss physicist
- Kai Siegbahn 1918 Swedish physicist
- Atifete Jahjaga 1975 President of Kosovo from 2011 to 2016
- Carmen Electra 1972 American actress, model, and singer
- Massimo D'Alema 1949 Italian politician
- Ryan O'Neal 1941 American actor
- Rose of Lima 1586 Dominican saint from Peru
- Carol I of Romania 1839 King of Romania from 1881 to 1914
- Dragan Đokanović 1958 Bosnian politician of Serbian origin
- Thein Sein 1945 Former President and Prime Minister of Myanmar
- Henry de Montherlant 1895 French writer
- Charles Maurras 1868 French author, politician, poet, and critic
- Toshihide Saito 1973 Japanese association football player
- Shay Given 1976 Irish association football player
- Željko Joksimović 1972 Serbian singer-songwriter
- Phil Hill 1927 American racing driver
- Arto Paasilinna 1942 Finnish poet, novelist, screenwriter, and jourrnalist
- Paul Milgrom 1948 American economist
- Alexander Lebed 1950 Russian general
- Crispin Glover 1964 American actor
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl 1946 German politician, last leader of East Germany
- Ryosuke Yamanaka 1993 Japanese association football player
- Mike Portnoy 1967 American drummer
- Philippe Pinel 1745 French psychiatrist
- Svetlana Ishmouratova 1972 Russian biathlete
- Bernardo Fernandes da Silva 1965 Brazilian association football player
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1805 German painter and lithographer
- Luther Vandross 1951 American R&B singer
- Shemar Moore 1970 American actor
- Tito Puente 1923 American musician
- David Chalmers 1966 Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
- Adolf Schärf 1890 Austrian politician, President of Austria 1957–1965
- Veronica Cartwright 1949 British actress
- Viktor Suvorov 1947 Soviet and Russian writer
- Lionel Hampton 1908 American jazz musician
- Ludovic Magnin 1979 Swiss football player and manager
- Betty Cuthbert 1938 Australian sprinter
- Edie Sedgwick 1943 American socialite, actress and model
- Nelson Évora 1984 Ivory Coast-born Portuguese triple jumper
- Lu Han 1990 Chinese singer
- John Paul Stevens 1920 United States Supreme Court justice
- David Filo 1966 American businessman
- Dinah Craik 1826 British novelist and poet
- Go-Kōmyō 1633 Emperor of Japan
- Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson 1962 Prime Minister of Iceland from 2016 to 2017
- Anna Rossinelli 1987 Swiss singer
- Isabel dos Santos 1973 Angolan businesswoman
- Leslie Phillips 1924 British actor
- Aloysius Bertrand 1807 French poet
- Gabry Ponte 1973 Italian DJ and record producer
- Nina Žižić 1985 Montenegrin singer
- Wiliame Katonivere 1964 6th President of Fiji
- Nina Foch 1924 American actress
- Herman Bang 1857 Danish writer
- Wim Hof 1959 Dutch extreme athlete and motivational speaker
- Ricardo Maduro 1946 President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006
- Ermal Meta 1981 Albanian-Italian singer-songwriter
- Donald Pettit 1955 American astronaut
- Danny Granger 1983 American basketball player
- Mother Angelica 1923 American religious sister
- Aubrey de Grey 1963 British writer and biomedical gerontologist
- Lucas Rijneveld 1991 Dutch author
- Waylon 1980 Dutch singer
- Marc Seguin 1786 French engineer
- Willi Hennig 1913 German biologist
- Italo Gariboldi 1879 Italian general
- Sotaro Yasunaga 1976 Japanese association football player and manager
- Gregory Itzin 1948 American actor
- Alyssa Naeher 1988 American soccer player
- Michel Leiris 1901 French surrealist writer and ethnographer
- Mamta Kulkarni 1972 Indian actress
- Pat Roberts 1936 United States Senator from Kansas
- Clint Howard 1959 American actor
- Edna Ruth Parker 1893 American supercentenarian
- Daniel Varujan 1884 Armenian poet
- Johan Bakayoko 2003 Belgian association football player
- Ladislav Krejčí 1999 Czech association football player
- John Eliot Gardiner 1943 English conductor
- Nara Chandrababu Naidu 1950 Indian politician
- Georg Ossian Sars 1837 Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist
- Yelena Välbe 1968 Russian cross-country skier and coach
- Viacheslav Fetisov 1958 Russian ice hockey player
- James David Forbes 1809 Scottish physicist and glaciologist
- Sebastian Ingrosso 1983 Swedish DJ and music producer
- Billy Magnussen 1985 American actor
- Joey Lawrence 1976 American actor, singer and songwriter
- Gregory Olsen 1945 American astronaut and businessman
- Peter Segal 1962 American film director
- Daniel Chester French 1850 American sculptor
- Babita Kapoor 1948 Bollywood actress
- Jiří Dienstbier 1937 Czech journalist and politician
- Vibeke Skofterud 1980 Norwegian cross country skier
- Igor Sergeyev 1938 Russian military officer
- Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland 1889 Swedish prince
- Kukrit Pramoj 1911 Thai politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 20 share the 20th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.