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Famous people born on October 20
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 20 include Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), John Dewey (1859) and James Chadwick (1891). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 20 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1616 (Thomas Bartholin) and the most recent is 2003 (Carney Chukwuemeka). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on October 20?
- Arthur Rimbaud 1854 French poet
- Elfriede Jelinek 1946 Austrian playwright and novelist
- John Dewey 1859 American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
- James Chadwick 1891 English physicist, who discovered the neutron in 1932
- Snoop Dogg 1971 American rapper
- Isabelle de Charrière 1740 Dutch French-language writer and composer
- Jomo Kenyatta 1893 First Prime Minister (1963 to 1964) and President (1964 to 1978) of self-governing Kenya
- Viggo Mortensen 1958 American actor
- Báb 1819 Founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh
- Danny Boyle 1956 English filmmaker
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 1942 German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
- Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1784 British statesman and prime minister
- Bela Lugosi 1882 Hungarian-American actor
- Claudio Ranieri 1951 Italian footballer and manager
- John Krasinski 1979 American actor and filmmaker
- Dannii Minogue 1971 Australian singer and actress
- Li Peng 1928 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Candice Swanepoel 1988 South African model
- Julie Payette 1963 29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut
- Jorge Carlos Fonseca 1950 Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
- Mattia De Sciglio 1992 Italian association football player
- Tom Petty 1950 American musician
- Ian Rush 1961 Welsh association football player and manager
- Ademola Lookman 1997 Nigerian-English association football player
- Daizen Maeda 1997 Japanese association football player
- Empress Michiko 1934 Wife of Emperor Akihito of Japan
- Charles Ives 1874 American modernist composer
- Dragiša Binić 1961 Serbian association football player
- Stéphane Hessel 1917 French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor
- Stefan Raab 1966 German entertainer
- Tatsuya Shiji 1938 Japanese association football player
- Alphonse Allais 1854 French writer and humorist
- Nargis Fakhri 1979 American actress and model
- Michel Vorm 1983 Dutch association football player
- Jean-Pierre Melville 1917 French filmmaker and actor
- Hun Manet 1977 Prime Minister of Cambodia since 2023
- William Zabka 1965 American actor
- Pauline Bonaparte 1780 French princess
- Valeriy Borzov 1949 Ukrainian sprinter
- Thomas Newman 1955 American composer and conductor
- Ma Long 1988 Chinese table tennis player
- Aelbert Cuyp 1620 Dutch landscape painter
- Yéremy Pino 2002 Spanish association football player
- Jess Glynne 1989 British singer
- Art Buchwald 1925 Journalist, humorist, United States Marine
- Andrey Rublev 1997 Russian tennis player
- Janet Jagan 1920 President of Guyana, prime minister of Guyana, nurse
- Lepa Brena 1960 Singer
- Dan Fogler 1976 American actor, musician and filmmaker
- Jelly Roll Morton 1890 American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
- Yanina Wickmayer 1989 Belgian tennis player
- Jerry Orbach 1935 American actor and singer
- Carney Chukwuemeka 2003 Austrian association football player
- Sander Boschker 1970 Dutch association football player
- Vladimir Solovyov 1963 Russian television presenter
- Roger Hanin 1925 French and Algerian film actor/director
- Mickey Mantle 1931 American baseball player
- Samra Rahimli 1994 Azerbaijani singer
- Amet-khan Sultan 1920 Crimean Tatar WWII flying ace, test pilot, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anthony Taylor 1978 English football referee
- Inayatullah Khan 1888 King of Afghanistan in 1929
- Iurie Leancă 1963 9th Prime Minister of Moldova
- Thomas Bartholin 1616 Danish physician, mathematician and theologian
- Brian Schatz 1972 American educator and politician
- Sheldon Whitehouse 1955 American lawyer and politician
- Chavo Guerrero Jr. 1970 American professional wrestler
- Ted Chiang 1967 American science fiction writer
- Dalia Itzik 1952 Israeli politician
- Nicola Legrottaglie 1976 Italian footballer
- John Ratcliffe 1965 American lawyer and politician
- Dolores Hart 1938 American Roman Catholic religious nun, and former actress
- Wanda Jackson 1937 American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
- Florent Sinama Pongolle 1984 French footballer
- Emmanouíl Karalís 1999 Greek male pole vaulter
- Romeo Benetti 1945 Italian footballer
- Dmitri Alenichev 1972 Russian footballer
- Oscar Swahn 1847 Sport shooter
- Mare Dibaba 1989 Ethiopian marathon runner
- Maria Barbara Bach 1684 First wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Scott Hall 1958 American professional wrestler
- Frederic Bartlett 1886 British psychologist and academic
- Ivo Pogorelić 1958 Croatian pianist
- Lucien Van Impe 1946 Cyclist
- Virender Sehwag 1978 Former Indian cricketer
- Lamine Gassama 1989 Senegalese and French footballer
- Sam Witwer 1977 American actor
- Peter Lamborn Wilson 1945 American political writer, poet, and essayist
- Hilda Solis 1957 American politician
- James Michael Harvey 1949 American Roman Catholic priest, cardinal
- José Acasuso 1982 Argentine tennis player
- Debinha 1991 Brazilian association football player
- Monica Ali 1967 British writer, novelist
- Thomas Hughes 1822 English lawyer, judge, politician and author
- Kazimierz Twardowski 1866 Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician
- Don Stephen Senanayake 1884 Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- Robert Kerr 1757 Scottish scientific writer and translator
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 20 share the 20th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.