20th of July
The July 20 is the 201st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 202nd in leap years ), thus remain 164 days by year end.
|
Historic anniversaries June · July · August |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events
Politics and world events
- 802: Charlemagne receives the elephant Abul Abbas and other gifts as a gift from Caliph Harun ar-Raschid in Aachen .
- 1402: Timur Lang's Mongols defeat the Turks under Sultan Bayezid I in the Battle of Ankara .
- 1546: A few days after the beginning of the Schmalkaldic war imposed Emperor Charles V , the imperial ban on Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony and Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse , the two leaders of the Protestant side.
- 1552: After the conquest of Temesvar , the Banat becomes part of the Ottoman Empire . The Ottomans spread Islam .
- 1630: The Swedish king . Gustav II Adolf moves to its intervention in the Thirty Years' War in Szczecin a. Part of the troops are quartered and take care of the fortification of the city.
- 1632: Before Wiesloch there is the first fighting between Swedish units under Gustav II Adolf and the Imperial Bavarian cavalry, which the Swedes win. Finally, on August 20, the battle of Wiesloch takes place .
- 1728: A French fleet begins bombing Tripoli . In the six-day bombardment, the North African corsair town is almost completely destroyed.
- 1808: Napoléon's brother Joseph Bonaparte enters Madrid as King of Spain .
- 1810: The Viceroyalty of New Granada (today's Colombia ) declares its independence from Spain and becomes the First Republic of Colombia .
- 1853: Prussia and Oldenburg sign the Jade Treaty , with which the area of the future city of Wilhelmshaven is ceded to Prussia.
- 1866: The Austrian Navy under Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeats the superior Italian Navy in the naval battle of Lissa . Due to the defeat in Königgrätz on July 3rd, this victory no longer has any effect on the outcome of the Austro-Prussian War .
- 1871: Indebted British Columbia joins the Canadian Federation after it promised to take over the loads and build the Canadian Pacific Railway .
- 1881: Sioux chief Sitting Bull and his companions surrender to the United States Army in Buford (North Dakota) . Hunger, homesickness and little chance of success in the further struggle have induced the Indians to return from exile in Canada.
- 1889: The founding congress of the Second International , the forerunner of today's Socialist International (SI), ends in Paris .
- 1905: The Maji Maji uprising begins in German East Africa .
- 1906: Finland is the first European country to introduce active and passive women's suffrage .
- 1917: The Declaration of Corfu paves the way for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , which is proclaimed in Belgrade on December 1, 1918 after the end of the First World War .
- 1920: The German government issues an arms embargo in view of the Polish-Soviet war , thereby underlining its declaration of neutrality for this conflict.
- 1932: The Prussian government is deposed by an emergency decree by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen provisionally takes over government affairs after the so-called Prussian strike .
- 1933: Franz von Papen and the Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli sign the Reich Concordat between the Holy See and the German Empire .
- 1936: The Treaty of Montreux gives Turkey back full sovereignty over the Dardanelles , the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus , which were placed under international control after the First World War, and regulates the free movement of ships through these waters.
- 1944: Operation Valkyrie : Claus von Stauffenberg committed an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler , which, however, fails.
- 1949: Syria is the last enemy in the Palestinian War to conclude a ceasefire agreement with Israel .
- 1951: King Abdallah I of Jordan is murdered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .
- 1954: Otto John , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , leaves for the German Democratic Republic .
- 1960: In Ceylon , the SLFP under Sirimavo Bandaranaike wins the parliamentary elections; This is the first time in the world that a woman is elected head of government of a country.
- 1963: The European Economic Community concludes the Yaoundé Agreement with 18 African countries . Economic cooperation and the granting of development aid funds from the European Development Fund are agreed in this.
- 1974: Cyprus conflict : Turkey occupies the northern part of the island as a result of the military coup of July 15, citing the London Guarantee Treaty in 1959 .
- 1975: The Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany ( BUND ) is founded.
- 1977: Libyan artillery units shell the Egyptian border town of as Sallum and the Halfaya Pass after a protest march against Egypt's rapprochement with Israel was stopped by Egyptian soldiers. This marks the beginning of the five-day Libyan-Egyptian border war .
- 1985: Race riots prompt the South African apartheid government to declare a state of emergency in 36 districts in the country .
- 1989: The military government of Myanmar places opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for the first time .
- 1999: The systematic persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China begins with a wave of arrests.
- 1999: Russia declares the art treasures looted in Germany in 1945 to be Russian property.
- 1999: Ernst-Volker Staub and Daniela Klette , members of the RAF , which was officially dissolved since April 1998 , attacked a money transporter in Duisburg with a bazooka .
- 2001: The Italian activist Carlo Giuliani is shot dead by a police officer during a demonstration for the G8 summit in Genoa .
economy
- 1796: The first sea hospital opens in Margate near the Thames estuary . The doctor John Coakley Lettsom hopes that this will improve the recovery of the sick through the stimulating ocean climate .
- 1873: Adele Spitzeder is sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulent bankruptcy with her Dachauer Volksbank . Due to high interest promises it has a snowballing damaged more than 30,000 depositors.
science and technology
- 1969: As part of the Apollo program of the USA takes place the first manned moon landing with Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin .
- 1976: The lander of the Viking 1 spacecraft reaches the surface of Mars and takes the first close-up of the surface of Mars.
Culture
- 1639: The lace maker Kirsten Svendsdatter discovers the longer of the two gold horns from Gallehus . They are the most famous archaeological finds in Denmark . The shorter one was also found by chance in 1734.
- 1940: The American music magazine Billboard announces the first top ten in the USA. Tommy Dorsey has the first number one hit .
religion
- 514: The widower and Roman deacon Hormisdas becomes Bishop of Rome .
- 1221: The construction of Burgos Cathedral begins in Castile .
Disasters
- 1783: In Iceland , after the beginning on June 8th, lava masses again emerge from the Laki craters . The pastor Jón Steingrímsson gives his famous fire sermon on this day . This is said to have caused the lava to spare Kirkjubæjarklaustur .
- 1944: The health authorities in Bombay announce that a cholera - epidemic has claimed in the past three months 34,000 lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1842: The highest mountain in the Pyrenees , the Aneto , is climbed for the first time by the Russian ex-officer Platon de Tchihatcheff and his companions.
- 1904: The Schwenninger ice and roller sports club , later the SERC Wild Wings , is founded.
- 1924: The world chess federation FIDE is established in Paris .
- 1936: The first Olympic torch relay starts in Greece .
- 1969: The first Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the 56th Tour de France .
- 1984: Uwe Hohn from the GDR sets the world record in javelin throwing to 104.80 m, whereupon the IAAF decides to make technical changes to the sports equipment.
- 2006: Professional cyclist Jan Ullrich receives an extraordinary dismissal from his T-Mobile team after he was unable to refute doping allegations against him .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries for World Cup games can be found in the bottoms of the Football World Cup . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 356 BC Chr .: Alexander the Great , Macedonian king
- 682: Taichō , Buddhist monk in Japan during the Nara period
- 1304: Francesco Petrarca , Italian poet
- 1369: Peter of Luxembourg , French cardinal and Bishop of Metz
- 1485: Giovan Battista Ramusio , Italian humanist, historian and geographer
- 1519: Innocent IX. , Italian lawyer and Pope
- 1574: Wilhelm Kettler , Duke of Courland
- 1593: Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg , Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
- 1620: Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder , Dutch scholar and poet
- 1638: Ulrich Friedrich Gyldenlöwe , Danish governor of Norway
- 1648: Johann Wilhelm Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland , Dutch-English courtier and diplomat
- 1656: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , Austrian architect
- 1671: Philip of Hessen-Darmstadt , governor of Mantua
- 1686: Johann Jacob Schoy , Austrian sculptor
- 1694: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , German historian, librarian and lexicographer
18th century
- 1721: Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg , German diplomat
- 1721: Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foy , French writer
- 1735: Ursula Wolf-Zellweger , Swiss citizen and founder
- 1738: Giuseppe Angeluni , Greek Catholic Archbishop
- 1742: Armand de Kersaint , French naval officer and politician
- 1744: Joshua Clayton , American politician, President / Governor of Delaware
- 1748: Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , German art collector
- 1754: Bernhard Christoph d'Arien , German playwright and librettist
- 1754: Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy , French philosopher
- 1758: Marguerite Élie Guadet , French revolutionary
- 1758: Sophie Friederike von Thurn und Taxis , German noblewoman
- 1762: Victor Hugues , French colonial administrator under Robespierre, Napoleon I and Louis XVIII.
- 1765: John Bell , American politician
- 1766: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin , British diplomat and archaeologist
- 1768: Franz Anton Schubert , German church composer and instrumentalist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden
- 1774: Johann Ernst Daniel Bornschein , German playwright and novelist
- 1774: Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont , French general
- 1785: Mahmud II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1796: Edward Hodges , American organist and composer
- 1797: Auguste Stourm , French politician, director general of the Post
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Richard Owen , British surgeon and zoologist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
- 1810: Friedrich Aulenbach , German poet
- 1811: James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin , British nobleman, colonial administrator and diplomat
- 1812: Louisa Anne Meredith , Australian illustrator and writer
- 1822: Gregor Mendel , Austrian priest and naturalist, father of genetics
- 1828: Fanny Janauschek , Czech actress
- 1830: Clements Markham , British explorer, author and geographer
- 1833: Carl von Hasenauer , Austrian architect ( Wiener Ringstrasse )
- 1835: Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
- 1836: Thomas Clifford Allbutt , British doctor, inventor of the clinical thermometer
- 1838: George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , British historian and statesman in the William Gladstone government
- 1840: Louis Andrieux , French politician, prefect of police of Paris and ambassador
- 1842: Aline von Kapff , German painter
- 1847: Max Liebermann , German painter and graphic artist, important representative of impressionism , president of the Berlin Secession
1851-1900
- 1864: Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1864: Gaston Carraud , French composer and music critic
- 1865: Hans Steffen , German geographer
- 1870: Luigi von Kunits , Austrian conductor and composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1871: Ernest Hutcheson , Australian pianist, music educator and composer
- 1872: Anna Schuster , German nativity scene carver and local poet
- 1873: Alberto Santos Dumont , Brazilian aeronaut, aviation pioneer and inventor
- 1876: Otto Blumenthal , German mathematician
- 1883: Hans Jauch , German colonel and free corps leader
- 1883: Christian Jensen , German classical philologist and papyrologist
- 1883: Siddy Wronsky , Jewish welfare politician
- 1885: Ulysse Paquin , Canadian singer
- 1885: Herman Wildenvey , Norwegian poet
- 1887: Heinrich Freyschmidt , German water diver
- 1887: Louis Rigal , French racing car driver
- 1888: Franz Jacobi , German steelworker and football official in Dortmund
- 1888: Selman Abraham Waksman , American researcher
- 1889: Elise Augustat , German member of the Reichstag
- 1889: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith , British Founding Father and Director General of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
- 1890: Richard Billinger , Austrian writer
.jpg)
- 1890: Enrico Giaccone , Italian racing car driver
- 1894: Odette du Puigaudeau , French writer and explorer
- 1895: Anton Arland , German crop scientist
- 1895: László Moholy-Nagy , Hungarian Bauhaus artist
- 1896: Henricus Jacobus Charles Tendeloo , Dutch chemist
- 1897: Camillo Berneri , Italian author and anarchist
- 1897: Tadeus Reichstein , Swiss chemist
- 1899: Fritz Glarner , Swiss-American painter
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Ida Mett , Russian anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist
- 1905: Harvey Perrin , Canadian violinist, violist, choir conductor and music teacher
- 1906: Heinz Krekeler , German chemist and politician
- 1907: Doris Thalmer , German actress
- 1908: Gunnar de Frumerie , Swedish composer
- 1908: Walter Strzygowski , German economic geographer
- 1909: Mireille Balin , French actress
- 1910: Muriel Evans , American actress
- 1910: Cicely Veronica Wedgwood , English historian
- 1912: Heinz Kohlhaas , German boxer
- 1913: Shalom Ben-Chorin , Israeli writer
- 1914: Elias Shaheen , Lebanese Archbishop in Canada
- 1914: Ersilio Tonini , Italian cardinal and archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia
- 1917: Paul Hubschmid , Swiss film and theater actor
- 1918: Liselotte Funcke , German politician
- 1918: Olga Ramos , Spanish chanson singer
- 1918: Cindy Walker , American country musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1919: Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer
- 1919: Helmut Meyer-Abich , German naval officer and geologist
- 1921: Mercedes Pardo , Venezuelan painter
- 1922: Alan Stephenson Boyd , American politician
- 1922: Joachim-Ernst Berendt , German music journalist and critic
- 1923: Mattityahu Peled , Israeli general, professor of Arabic studies and politician
- 1923: Giorgio Pellini , Italian fencer
- 1924: Tatiana Mikhailovna Liosnova , Soviet film director
- 1925: Lola Albright , American actress
- 1925: Jacques Delors , French politician
- 1925: Frantz Fanon , Martinique writer, doctor and politician
1926-1950
- 1926: Walter Schumacher , German soccer player
- 1927: Michael Gielen , German-Austrian conductor and composer
- 1927: Lyudmila Michailovna Alexejewa , Russian historian, human rights activist and former Soviet dissident
- 1927: Dick Stanfel , American football player
- 1928: Pavel Kohout , Czech-Austrian writer
- 1928: Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf , German sculptor and graphic artist
- 1930: Heinz Kubsch , German soccer player
- 1930: Lotte Ingrisch , Austrian writer
- 1931: Tony Marsh , British racing car driver
- 1931: Horst Prinzbach , German chemist
- 1932: Freddy Kottulinsky , German-Swedish motor sportsman
.jpg)
- 1932: Otto Schily , German lawyer and Federal Minister of the Interior
- 1933: Buddy Knox , American singer and songwriter
- 1933: Cormac McCarthy , American novelist
- 1933: Rex Williams , English snooker player and world champion in English billiards
- 1934: Uwe Johnson , German writer, member of Group 47
- 1934: Helmut Schmale , German writer
- 1935: Emil Beck , German fencing trainer
- 1935: Sleepy LaBeef , American rockabilly musician
- 1936: Christian Rode , German actor and voice actor
- 1937: Mario Arpino , Italian general
- 1938: Aslan Abashidze , Georgian politician
- 1938: Diana Rigg , British actress
- 1938: Natalie Wood , American actress
- 1939: Judy Chicago , American artist and writer
- 1940: Karl-Heinz Appelt , German sculptor, sculptor and graphic artist
- 1941: Björn-Uwe Abels , German archaeologist, chief curator of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments
- 1941: Kurt Raab , German actor
- 1943: Chris Amon , New Zealand racing car driver
- 1945: Kim Carnes , American musician and composer
- 1946: Roswitha Aulenkamp , German composer, piano teacher and pianist
- 1946: Heorhij Kirpa , Ukrainian minister
- 1947: Rolf Hartung , German rower
- 1947: Wilhelm Leber , German clergyman, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- 1947: Carlos Santana , Mexican musician and guitarist
- 1947: Gerd Binnig , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1948: Bernd Konrad , German jazz saxophonist and composer
- 1950: Elfriede Kern , Austrian writer
1951-1975
- 1951: Björn Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1951: Harald Grill , German writer
- 1953: Dave Evans , British-Australian rock singer
- 1953: Thomas L. Friedman , American journalist
- 1954: José Antonio Rodríguez , Dominican singer, composer and politician
- 1954: Keith Scott , Canadian musician
- 1955: Gerhard Zeiler , Austrian manager
- 1956: Paul Cook , British musician
- 1956: Julio Falcioni , Argentine football player and coach
- 1956: Ivo Medek , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1958: Pedro Amorim , Brazilian choir musician
- 1958: Michael MacNeil , British keyboardist
- 1959: Christian Ankowitsch , Austrian journalist and writer
- 1960: Kris Nissen , Danish racing car driver
- 1961: Ria Visser , Dutch speed skater
- 1961: Jürgen Wolf , German organist and conductor
- 1962: Giovanna Amati , Italian racing car driver
- 1962: Primož Ulaga , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1963: Paula Ivan , Romanian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1964: Bernd Schneider , German racing car driver
- 1964: Chris Cornell , American singer
- 1965: Joe Arlauckas , American basketball player
- 1966: Thomas Borchert , German musician and actor
- 1966: Cosima von Borsody , German actress
- 1966: Andreas Krieger , German athlete
- 1967: Giorgi Kvirikashvili , Georgian politician
- 1968: Kool G Rap , American rapper
- 1968: Rocco Clein , German music journalist
- 1969: Daniel Aegerter , Swiss financier and entrepreneur
- 1969: Josh Holloway , American actor
- 1970: Carmine Gautieri , Italian football player and coach
- 1971: Christian Ast , German basketball player
- 1972: Carmen Electra , American actress and model
- 1973: Haakon , Norwegian Crown Prince
- 1973: Peter Forsberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1975: Ray Allen , American basketball player
- 1975: Judy Greer , American actress
- 1975: Rodolfo Arruabarrena , Argentine football player
1976-2000
- 1976: Alex Yoong , Malaysian racing car driver
- 1977: Alpaslan Agüzüm , German boxer
- 1978: Pavel Valeryevich Dazjuk , Russian ice hockey player
- 1978: Ludwig Hartmann , German local politician
- 1979: Miklós Fehér , Hungarian football player
- 1980: Morten Ågheim , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1980: Éric Akoto , Togolese football player
- 1980: Gisele Bündchen , Brazilian model
- 1982: Lars Erik Bjørnsen , Norwegian handball player
- 1982: Andreas Kunz , German handball player
- 1983: Máximo González , Argentine tennis player
- 1984: Shūsaku Hosoyama , Japanese ski jumper
- 1984: Simret Sultan , Eritrean athlete
- 1986: Lars Bastian , German handball player
- 1986: Theresa Eslund , Danish soccer player
- 1988: Julianne Hough , American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1988: Anton Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- 1989: Cristian Pasquato , Italian soccer player
- 1989: Sarah Joelle Jahnel , German singer, actress and erotic model
- 1989: Amelie Plaas-Link , German actress
- 1990: Lars Unnerstall , German soccer player
- 1990: Wendie Renard , French soccer player
- 1991: Alec Burks , American basketball player
- 1991: Jonas Erwig-Drüppel , German soccer player
- 1992: Nicki Prian , Mexican-American actress
- 1993: Steven Adams , American basketball player
- 1993: Lucas Digne , French football player
- 1994: Brogan Crowley , British skeleton skier
- 1994: Koray Kaçınoğlu , German soccer player
- 1994: Andrea Vendrame , Italian racing cyclist
- 1996: Waldemar Anton , German soccer player
- 1996: Dominik Baumgartner , Austrian soccer player
- 1996: Ben Simmons , Australian basketball player
- 2000: Jessic Ngankam , German-Cameroonian football player
21st century
- 2001: Lydia Stemmler , German volleyball player
Died
Before the 17th century
- 935: Unwan , Bishop of Paderborn
- 940: Ibn Muqla , Arabic calligrapher
- 1031: Robert II , King of France
- 1039: Conrad II , Duke of Carinthia
- 1109: Adelheid , Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1154: Bernhard I , Bishop of Hildesheim
- 1156: Toba , 74th Tennō of Japan
- 1160: Petrus Lombardus , scholastic and bishop
- 1179: Wilhelm , Count of Aumale
- 1201: Agnes of Meran , Queen of France
- 1213: Baldwin Wake , Anglo-Norman nobleman
- 1293: Heinrich II. Von Burgau , Margrave of Burgau
- 1296: Jalal ud din Firoz Khalji , Sultan of Delhi
- 1320: Oshin of Armenia , King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- 1332: Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray , important figure in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- 1358: Albrecht II , Duke of Austria
- 1387: Johanna , Duchess of Durazzo
- 1398: Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March , English nobleman
- 1399: William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre , English nobleman and politician
- 1433: Jón Gerreksson , Bishop of Skálholt in southern Iceland
- 1454: John II of Castile , King of Castile and León
- 1502: Giovanni Battista Ferrari , Bishop of Modena
- 1514: György Dózsa , leader of the Hungarian peasant uprising
- 1515: Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones , Spanish politician
- 1524: Claude de France , Princess of France, wife of King Francis I.
- 1584: Elisabeth von Regenstein-Blankenburg , 29th abbess of the Reichsstift von Quedlinburg
17th to 18th centuries
- 1612: Marija Fyodorovna Nagaya , Tsarina of Russia
- 1613: Heinrich Julius , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.
.jpg)
- 1616: Aodh Mór Ó Néill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone , head of the Irish clan
- 1619: Virgil Pingitzer , German-Austrian legal scholar
- 1620: Jan Peider Danz , Swiss pastor
- 1627: Guðbrandur Þorláksson , Icelandic bishop, mathematician and cartographer
- 1650: Iwasa Matabē , Japanese painter
- 1681: Ludwig Günther II. , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen zu Ebeleben
- 1692: Heinrich Bach , German organist
- 1707: Korbinian von Prielmayr , Bavarian statesman
- 1716: Sigismund Christoph von Herberstein , Bishop of Laibach
- 1716: Diederik van Veldhuyzen , Utrecht aristocrat and politician
- 1725: Edward Jeffreys , British politician
- 1726: Johann Dientzenhofer , Bamberg master builder of the baroque period
- 1732: Francesco Bartolomeo Conti , Italian theorist and composer
- 1733: Johann Christian Joseph , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Sulzbach and Margrave of Bergen op Zoom, Hereditary Prince of the Electoral Palatinate
- 1735: Ejima Kiseki , Japanese writer
- 1738: Gustav Georg Zeltner , German Protestant theologian
- 1739: Francesco Alborea , Italian cellist and composer
- 1762: Christoph Nichelmann , German composer
- 1762: Paul Troger , Austrian painter
- 1768: Francesco Arcangeli , Italian murderer
- 1770: Francis Cotes , English painter
- 1775: Anna Maria Strada del Pò, Italian opera singer and Handel interpreter
- 1785: Johann Bücher , German Protestant theologian
- 1792: Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb , Islamic scholar, founder of Wahhabism
- 1793: Joseph Bruny d'Entrecasteaux , French navigator and explorer
- 1796: John Houstoun , American politician
- 1799: Karl Friedrich Walch , German legal scholar
19th century
- 1816: Gawriil Romanowitsch Derschawin , Russian poet
- 1821: Maurice-Jean-Magdalène de Broglie , French Bishop of Ghent
- 1824: Joan Melchior Kemper , Dutch politician and legal scholar
- 1831: Caroline de la Motte Fouqué , German writer
- 1832: Karl Julius Weber , German writer and satirist
- 1851: Albert von Schultze , German forest official
- 1854: Friedrich von Aschoff , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1861: Ferdinand Wachter , German historian and university professor
- 1862: Moritz Karl August Axt , German pedagogue and classical philologist
- 1866: Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician
- 1868: Johann Friedrich Kittl , Czech composer
- 1870: Albrecht von Graefe , royal Prussian secret medical advisor, founder of ophthalmology in Germany
- 1872: Archibald Hunter Arrington , American politician
- 1876: Hans Riddervold Norwegian Parliament President and Bishop of Trondheim
- 1877: Federico Errázuriz Zañartu , Chilean politician
- 1881: Theodor Bergk , German classical philologist
- 1888: Paul Langerhans , German pathologist
- 1889: Anton Ausserer , Austrian naturalist and arachnologist
- 1891: Frederick Weld , British sheep farmer, Prime Minister of New Zealand and Governor of Western Australia, Tasmania and Straits Settlements
- 1892: Friedrich Christian Avé-Lallemant , German criminalist and writer
- 1896: Friedrich Simony , Austrian geographer and alpine researcher
- 1898: Yuri Karlowitsch Arnold , Russian composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903: Leo XIII. , Pope and author of the social encyclical Rerum Novarum
- 1903: Samuel Mayes Arnell , American politician
- 1904: Friedrich von Schele , German officer and governor of German East Africa
- 1908: Dimitrios Vikelas , first President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- 1909: Johanna Mestorf , Germany's first female museum director
- 1911: Hermann Schubert , German mathematician
- 1912: Andrew Lang , British writer from Scotland
- 1917: Iwan von Müller , German classical philologist
- 1917: Ignaz Sowinski , Austrian architect
- 1918: Hermann Mutschmann , German classical philologist
- 1919: Maria Isabella d'Orléans-Montpensier , Franco-Spanish princess
- 1921: Franz Wärme , German theologian and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1922: Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger , German prehistorian, museum man and painter
- 1922: Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow , Russian mathematician
- 1923: Pancho Villa , Mexican freedom fighter
- 1926: Feliks Dzierżyński , Russian professional revolutionary
- 1927: Ferdinand I , Romanian king
- 1928: Christopher Aurivillius , Swedish entomologist
- 1929: Anton Führer , German teacher, headmaster and author
- 1936: Francisco Ascaso , Spanish anarchist
- 1936: Arthur Whiting , American composer, organist, and pianist
- 1937: Guglielmo Marconi , Italian radio pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1938: Alois Scheiwiler , Bishop of St. Gallen
- 1939: Walter Ackermann , Swiss pilot and writer
- 1939: Augustin Henninghaus , German missionary and bishop
- 1942: Moses Annenberg , American publicist
- 1942: Germaine Dulac , French film director
- 1942: Julio Salvador Sagreras , Argentine guitarist and composer
- 1944: Mildred Harris , American actress
- 1945: Paul Valéry , French poet of Corsican-Italian descent
- 1950: Albert Riemenschneider , American Bach researcher and music teacher
1951-2000
- 1951: Abdallah ibn Husain I , Emir and King of Jordan
- 1951: Wilhelm of Prussia , Crown Prince of the German Empire
- 1955: Calouste Gulbenkian , Armenian-British engineer, oil researcher, financial expert and art collector
- 1955: Joaquín Pardavé , Mexican actor, director, screenwriter and composer
- 1959: Karl Ansén , Swedish football player
- 1959: Bernhard Raestrup , German politician
- 1960: Hans Schlange-Schöningen , German politician
- 1970: Horst Muys , German pop singer and Cologne carnivalist
- 1972: Friedrich Flick , German industrialist in the coal and steel industry, war criminal, richest man in Germany
- 1972: Geeta Dutt , Indian singer
- 1973: Bruce Lee , American actor
- 1977: Friedrich Georg Jünger , German poet, narrator and essayist
- 1979: Hans-Joachim Schuke , German organ builder
- 1983: E. Preston Ames , American art director and production designer
- 1983: Åke Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1984: Gail Kubik , American composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1989: Forrest H. Anderson , American lawyer and politician
- 1989: Karen DeWolf , American screenwriter and writer
- 1993: Jacqueline Lamba , French abstract expressionist painter
- 1994: Suzanne Juyol , French opera singer
- 1994: Vladimir Alexejewitsch Lotarjow , Soviet designer of jet engines
- 1995: Ernest Mandel , Belgian Marxist economist, theorist
- 1995: Alexander Iwanowitsch Pirumow , Armenian-Russian composer and music teacher
- 1996: František Plánička , Czech football player
- 1997: Arshi Pipa , Albanian man of letters
- 1999: Emil Andres , American racing car driver
- 2000: Constanze Engelbrecht , German actress and singer
- 2000: Henning Schlüter , German actor
21st century
- 2001: Oscar Arredondo , Cuban paleontologist
- 2001: Carlo Giuliani , Italian activist
- 2003: Lauri Aus , Estonian cyclist
- 2003: Nicolas Freeling , English crime novel writer
- 2004: Antonio Gades , Spanish dancer and choreographer
- 2005: Horst Aschermann , German sculptor and professor of art
- 2005: James Doohan , Canadian actor
- 2006: Philipp von Bismarck , German farmer and politician
- 2006: Charles Bettelheim , French economist
- 2007: Ollie Bridewell , British motorcycle racer
- 2008: Uwe Claussen , German physician and human geneticist
- 2009: Detlef Müller , German screenwriter
- 2010: Dagmar Altrichter , German actress and voice actress
- 2011: Lucian Freud , British painter
- 2012: Karin Andersson , Swedish politician
- 2013: John Casablancas , Spanish-American entrepreneur and model
- 2013: Helen Thomas , American journalist
- 2014: Klaus Schmidt , German archaeologist
- 2014: Manfred Sexauer , German moderator
- 2015: Kafumba Konneh , Liberian representative of Islam and human rights activist
- 2015: Sieghardt Rupp , Austrian actor
- 2016: Pavel Grigoryevich Sheremet , Belarusian journalist
- 2016: Klaus Spürkel , German actor
- 2017: Chester Bennington , American singer ( Linkin Park )
- 2017: Andrea Jürgens , German pop singer
- 2018: Joachim Heermann , German physician
- 2018: Christoph Westerthaler , Austrian soccer player and coach
- 2019: Sheila Dikshit , Indian politician
- 2019: Eberhard Mannschatz , German educator and university professor
- 2020: Angela Spook , German street artist
- 2020: Viktor Alexandrovich Tschischikow , Russian illustrator
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Margaret of Antioch , Roman virgin, martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Elijah , Israelite prophet (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
- St. Aurelius of Carthage , theologian, Church Father and Bishop of Carthage (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Colombia , independence from Spain (1831)
- Germany: Anniversary of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944
- Others
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : July 20th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
