Famous birthdays
Famous people born on August 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 20 include Benjamin Harrison (1833), Demi Lovato (1992), H. P. Lovecraft (1890) and Rajiv Gandhi (1944). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1625 (Thomas Corneille) and the most recent is 2003 (Prince Gabriel of Belgium). The most common fields on this date: actor, writer, politician.
Who was born on August 20?
- Benjamin Harrison 1833 President of the United States, 1889-1893
- Demi Lovato 1992 American singer-songwriter and actress
- H. P. Lovecraft 1890 American writer and editor
- Rajiv Gandhi 1944 Prime Minister of India
- Slobodan Milošević 1941 Yugoslav–Serbian politician
- Amy Adams 1974 American actress
- Salvatore Quasimodo 1901 Italian writer
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 Swedish chemist
- Ron Paul 1935 American politician
- Raymond Poincaré 1860 French statesman and lawyer, President of France
- Enrico Letta 1966 Italian politician
- Robert Plant 1948 English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin
- Hideki Shirakawa 1936 Japanese scientist
- Andrei Konchalovsky 1937 Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Bolesław Prus 1847 Polish novelist
- Laurent Fabius 1946 87th Prime Minister of France
- Bernardo O'Higgins 1778 Chilean independence leader
- Isaac Hayes 1942 American musician and actor
- Omar al-Mukhtar 1858 Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation
- Yuri Zhirkov 1983 Russian footballer
- Joan Allen 1956 American actress
- Roger Sperry 1913 American neuroscientist
- Paul Tillich 1886 German-American theologian and philosopher
- Álvaro Negredo 1985 Spanish former footballer
- Rudolf Bultmann 1884 German theologian
- Joshua Kennedy 1982 Australian association football player
- Ke Huy Quan 1971 American actor and stunt choreographer
- Eero Saarinen 1910 American architect
- Eduard Suess 1831 Austrian geologist
- Misha Collins 1974 American actor
- Ben Barnes 1981 British actor and singer
- David O. Russell 1958 American film director, screenwriter and producer
- Mijaín López 1982 Cuban wrestler
- David Walliams 1971 English actor, comedian and writer
- Vasily Aksyonov 1932 Soviet-Russian writer
- Eliel Saarinen 1873 Finnish-American architect
- Judd Trump 1989 English snooker player
- Etgar Keret 1967 Israeli writer and screenwriter
- Kristína Peláková 1987 Slovak singer
- John Noble 1948 Australian actor and director
- Abbas Mirza 1789 Qajar crown prince
- Neslihan Atagül 1992 Turkish actor
- Liana Liberato 1995 American actress
- Greg Bear 1951 American writer best known for science fiction
- James Marsters 1962 American actor
- Dimebag Darrell 1966 American guitarist
- Olga Rubtsova 1909 Russian chess player
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo 1990 Dutch swimmer
- Armi Kuusela 1934 Finnish charity worker and beauty pageant contestant
- Phil Lynott 1949 Irish rock musician
- Leopold Infeld 1898 Polish physicist
- KRS-One 1965 American rapper and record producer
- Zheng Zhi 1980 Chinese footballer
- Joe Willock 1999 English association football player
- Simon Donaldson 1957 English mathematician
- Tania Sachdev 1986 Indian chess player
- Stephen Ward 1985 Irish association football player
- Rajendra K. Pachauri 1940 Indian academic
- N. R. Narayana Murthy 1946 Indian businessman
- Evan Ndicka 1999 Ivorian-French footballer
- Shiso Kanakuri 1891 Japanese long-distance runner
- Tarjei Vesaas 1897 Norwegian author
- Jan Olszewski 1930 Polish lawyer and politician
- Tôn Đức Thắng 1888 President of North Vietnam
- Steve Daines 1962 American politician and businessman
- Dragan Čović 1956 Bosnian Croat politician
- Jean-Loup Chrétien 1938 French astronaut
- Giuseppe Giannini 1964 Italian association football player and manager
- Sylvester McCoy 1943 Scottish actor
- Asaf Jah I of Hyderabad 1671 18th-century Nizam of Hyderabad
- Ray Wise 1947 American actor
- Greg Egan 1961 Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
- Prince Gabriel of Belgium 2003 Elder son and second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Ralf Hütter 1946 German musician
- Alan Lee 1947 Illustrator and movie conceptual designer
- Randeep Hooda 1976 Indian actor
- Riccardo Ferri 1963 Italian association football player
- Cătălina Ponor 1987 Romanian artistic gymnast
- Ion I. C. Brătianu 1864 Romanian politician
- Maxim Vengerov 1974 Russian violinist, violist, and conductor
- Ziba Ganiyeva 1923 Soviet sniper, actor and philologist
- Klas Ingesson 1968 Swedish footballer and manager
- Geoffrey Blake 1962 American actor
- Don King 1931 American boxing promoter
- Jim Reeves 1923 American country singer
- George J. Mitchell 1933 American politician, diplomat, and judge
- Jacqueline Susann 1918 American writer and actress
- Joaquín Larrivey 1984 Argentine association football player
- Meghan Ory 1982 Canadian actress
- Thomas Corneille 1625 French dramatist
- Jacques Cheminade 1941 French politician
- Manuel Merino 1961 President of Peru from 10 to 15 November 2020
- Dan Martin 1986 Irish racing cyclist
- Mikio Naruse 1905 Japanese filmmaker
- Shaul Tchernichovsky 1875 Russian-born Hebrew poet
- Muhammad Husayn Haykal 1888 Egyptian writer
- Julius Schaub 1898 German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Adolf Hitler's long-time personal chief adjutant
- Gábor Vona 1978 Hungarian politician
- Ned Maddrell 1877 Manx fisherman
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 20 share the 20th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.