April 20 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, entrepreneurs, authors and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
$33.6Bolder estimate, as of November 2024 · Forbes
Reinhold Würth is a German businessman and art collector. In 1954, at the age of 19, he took over his father's wholesale screw business and built it into the Würth Group, which posted €19.9 billion in sales in 2022.
Glen Albert Taylor is an American billionaire business magnate and former politician from Minnesota. Taylor made his fortune as the founder and owner of Minnesota-based Taylor Corporation, one of North America's largest graphic communication companies.
Paolo Barilla is a businessman and winner of the 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans. A former Formula One driver who raced for the Minardi team, Barilla is now the Deputy Chairman of the Barilla Group and, as of January 2017, had a net worth of US$1.39 billion.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors26% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs26% (13 people)
Scientists22% (11 people)
Politicians18% (9 people)
Actors16% (8 people)
Artists16% (8 people)
Creators12% (6 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France6 (6 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Austria2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on April 20 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~25Henry de MontherlantBecame general secretary (1920)
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 by the ATP achieved in June 2022 and in 2026.
Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and the last monarch of France.
Mayer & Peirson, France, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress and photographer. With a career spanning over five decades, she is known for her roles on stage and screen.
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
Isabel Kukanova dos Santos is an Angolan businesswoman, the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country from 1979 to 2017.
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest is a Honduran politician who served as President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006. A member of the National Party of Honduras (PNH), Maduro was previously chairman of the Central Bank of Honduras.
U.S. Navy photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj was a Thai politician, author, scholar and professor. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Thailand between 1973 and 1974.
Gregory Hammond Olsen is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures.
Carmen Electra is an American actress, model, media personality, and singer. Known for her public image, she has been regarded as a sex symbol and pop culture icon since the late 1990s.
Carmen_Electra.jpg: dodge challenger1 derivative work: Tabercil (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Felix Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
12. Internationale Sportnacht Davos from Davos, Schweiz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Takei is an American actor, author, and activist. He is known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
James V was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England.
Corneille de Lyon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Stephen Portnoy is an American musician best known as the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gro Brundtland, known as Gro Harlem Brundtland, is a Norwegian stateswoman and former physician, who thrice served as the Prime Minister of Norway, as the leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1992, and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003.
Marguerite de Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre.
Paul Robert Milgrom is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987.
Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008.
European University Institute from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Željko Joksimović is a Serbian singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He plays 12 different musical instruments including accordion, piano, guitar and drums.
Zeljko Joksimovic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philippe Pinel was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.
Anne-Louise Moreau, dite Anna Mérimée (1775-1852), mother of Prosper Mérimée, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. His most famous play written in 1942 is La Reine morte, still studied today in French high schools. It was translated into English under the title 'Queen After Death'.
Henri Manuel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Bartram was an American naturalist, writer and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title Bartram's Travels, which chronicled his explorations of the Southern Colonies of North America from 1773 to 1777.
Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before.
Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.
Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1809–1868 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James David Forbes (1809–1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.
Forbes_James_David.jpg: John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly derivative work: Karshan (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on April 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of May 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 20. Read the full methodology.
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