Who are famous people born on May 20?

Famous people born on May 20 include Toussaint Louverture (1743), Honoré de Balzac (1799), John Stuart Mill (1806), Emile Berliner (1851), James Stewart (1908).

What star sign is someone born on May 20?

Someone born on May 20 is a Taurus.

What is the birthstone for May 20?

The birthstone for May is emerald.

How common is a birthday on May 20?

In the US, May 20 is the No. 230 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,192 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on May 20

Famous people born on May 20, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♉ Star sign
Taurus
💎 Birthstone
Emerald
👶 How common
No. 230 of 366

Born on May 20

Toussaint Louverture
born 1743 · Haitian national hero (1743–1803)
Honoré de Balzac
born 1799 · French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
John Stuart Mill
born 1806 · British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
Emile Berliner
born 1851 · German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
James Stewart
born 1908 · American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
Cher
born 1946 · American musician, singer, actress and television personality (born 1946)
Iker Casillas
born 1981 · Spanish association football player
Joe Cocker
born 1944 · British singer (1944–2014)
Boris Akunin
born 1956 · Russian writer, translation, and historian
Chris Froome
born 1985 · British cyclist (born 1985)
Roger Milla
born 1952 · Cameroonian footballer and manager (born 1952)
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Aleksandr Dedyushko
born 1962 · Russian actor (1962-2007)
Enes Kanter Freedom
born 1992 · Turkish-American basketball player (born 1992)
Stanislav Markelov
born 1974 · Russian lawyer (1974-2009)
Astrid Kirchherr
born 1938 · German photographer and artist (1938-2020)
Ramy Rabia
born 1993 · Egyptian association football player
Vyacheslav Karavayev
born 1995 · Russian association football player
Sadaharu Oh
born 1940 · Taiwanese professional baseball player, coach (1940-)
Goh Chok Tong
born 1941 · 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004
Dietrich Mateschitz
born 1944 · Austrian businessman (1944–2022)
Vladimiro Montesinos
born 1945 · Lawyer and former de facto Chief of the National Intelligence Service of Peru
Anton Zeilinger
born 1945 · Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
Jhala Nath Khanal
born 1950 · Nepalese politician
Anton Corbijn
born 1955 · Dutch film director, video director and photographer (born 1955)
Yoshihiko Noda
born 1957 · Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
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Juan Carlos Letelier
born 1959 · Chilean footballer
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Petr Kellner
born 1964 · Czech businessman (1964-2021)
Miodrag Belodedici
born 1964 · Romanian footballer
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
born 1967 · former Crown Prince of Greece
Omurbek Babanov
born 1970 · Kyrgyz politician
José Manuel Rey
born 1975 · Venezuelan footballer
Leo Franco
born 1977 · Argentine footballer
Juliana Pasha
born 1980 · Albanian singer
Wes Hoolahan
born 1982 · Irish association football player
Petr Čech
born 1982 · Czech footballer (born 1982)
Óscar Cardozo
born 1983 · Paraguayan footballer
Stéphane Mbia
born 1986 · Cameroonian and French professional footballer
Mike Havenaar
born 1987 · Japanese association football player
Aldo Corzo
born 1989 · Peruvian association football player
Damir Džumhur
born 1992 · Bosnian-Herzegovinian tennis player (born 1992)

May 20 in history

2022Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege.
2009An Indonesian Air Force Lockheed L-100 Hercules crashes in Magetan Regency, killing 99.
1983First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
1965One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International Airport.
1948Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
1932The American Friends of Lafayette is founded at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
1883Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1862U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening eighty-four million acres (340,000 km2) of public land to settlers.
1775The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1521Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
1426King Mohnyin Thado formally ascends to the throne of Ava.
921Christopher Lekapenos is crowned Byzantine co-emperor by his father, emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, on the feast of Whitsun.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abercius and Helena
Christian feast day: Alcuin of York
Christian feast day: Aurea of Ostia
Christian feast day: Austregisilus
Christian feast day: Baudilus
Christian feast day: Bernardino of Siena
Christian feast day: Columba of Rieti
Christian feast day: Lydia of Thyatira
Christian feast day: Lucifer of Cagliari
Christian feast day: Sanctan

May 20 in every year

Pick a year to see the world on that exact day: the news, the No. 1 song and who else was born.

Questions about May 20 birthdays

Who are famous people born on May 20?: Famous people born on May 20 include Toussaint Louverture (1743), Honoré de Balzac (1799), John Stuart Mill (1806), Emile Berliner (1851), James Stewart (1908).
What star sign is someone born on May 20?: Someone born on May 20 is a Taurus.
What is the birthstone for May 20?: The birthstone for May is emerald.
How common is a birthday on May 20?: In the US, May 20 is the No. 230 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,192 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).