July 20 is the birthday of 44 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, authors and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Sheldon Henry Solow was an American real estate developer and art collector who lived and worked in New York City. In August 2020, he had a net worth of $4.4 billion.
Stéphane Bancel is a French billionaire businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna, known for its COVID-19 vaccine. Before joining Moderna, Bancel was the CEO of French diagnostics company BioMérieux.
Share of the 44 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs25% (11 people)
Actors23% (10 people)
Authors23% (10 people)
Scientists20% (9 people)
Politicians18% (8 people)
Creators14% (6 people)
Artists9% (4 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
France4 (4 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Austrian Empire1 (1 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
Canada1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on July 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.
~53Tadeusz ReichsteinReceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1950)
~54Vehbi KoçFounded Beko (1955)
The standouts
The most successful people born on July 20
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
musician
Chris Cornell
Top tier
Musician
1964–2017 · United States
Christopher John Cornell was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to numerous movie soundtracks.
Matthew Straubmuller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres.
From dust jacket: "Photograph of Cormac McCarthy by David Styles", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Judith Therese Evans, known professionally as Judy Greer, is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has appeared in a wide variety of films.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gerd Karl Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
The original uploader was Stefan Kühn at German Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ahmet Vehbi Koç was a Turkish billionaire, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Koç Group, one of Turkey's largest groups of companies. During his lifetime, he became one of Turkey's wealthiest citizens.
Daniel Simon Aegerter is a Swiss businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly CEO of Tradex Technologies, he later founded Armada Investment AG to manage his wealth. He was an early investor in Nutmeg (company), N26, Lilium GmbH, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Sandra Miju Oh is a Canadian and American actress. She is best known as Rita Wu in Arliss (1996–2002), Dr. Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy (2005–2014), and Eve Polastri in Killing Eve (2018–2022).
Peabody Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi films. One of the most prolific actors of Indian cinema, especially in the parallel cinema movement, he has also starred in various international productions.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frantz Omar Fanon, an Algerian psychiatrist and political philosopher, developed ideas which have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Omar Hashim Epps is an American actor, rapper, and producer. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, prior to making his film debut alongside Tupac Shakur in the 1992 crime drama Juice.
watchwithkristin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alejandro "Álex" Baena Rodríguez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.
Walter Ray Allen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Allen played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2018.
Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joshua Lee Holloway is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James "Sawyer" Ford on the ABC television show Lost (2004–2010), as Will Bowman on the USA Network science fiction drama Colony (2016–2018), and as Jim Ellis in the Max crime series Duster (2025).
Kristin Dos Santos from Los Angeles, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.
José Rosael/Hélio Nobre/Museu Paulista da USP, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Loren Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1804–1892 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Lock and Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (see [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.
Hugo Erfurth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
AnonymousUnknown author / Imagno, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc is a Vietnamese former politician who served as the 11th president of Vietnam from 2021 until his resignation in 2023 amidst a series of corruption scandals.
Max Liebermann was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important collection of French Impressionist works.
Max Liebermann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alessandro Santos, often known as Alex, is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Brazil, he became a Japanese citizen and made 82 appearances for the Japan national team.
Htin Kyaw is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as ninth president of Myanmar from 2016 until his resignation 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the office with no ties to the military since the 1962 coup d'état.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy.
Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.
Monkaen Kaenkoon is a famous Thai Mor lam, Luk thung singer from Isan area. Monkaen Kaenkoon is signed to mor lam and luk thung record label Grammy Gold, a subsidiary of GMM Grammy.
Jonas Cabungcal Cortes is a Filipino politician who served as the Mayor of Mandaue (2019-2025), a position he previously held from 2007 to 2016. He previously served as representative of the sixth district of Cebu from 2016 to 2019.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 44 people born on July 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 2023. 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 July 20. Read the full methodology.
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