October 20 is the birthday of 54 notable people we've found so far, including authors, musicians, entrepreneurs and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Pedro Moreira Salles is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, banker, and the chairman of Itaú Unibanco, founded by his father Walter Moreira Salles, and the largest non-government banking institution in Brazil.
Herbert Simon is an American real estate developer. He resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was educated at the City College of New York and is the owner of the Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever, and chairman emeritus of the shopping mall developer Simon Property Group.
IndyMayorsOffice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors24% (13 people)
Musicians22% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (10 people)
Actors17% (9 people)
Athletes17% (9 people)
Politicians17% (9 people)
Creators15% (8 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 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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~19Arthur RimbaudNotable work: A Season in Hell (1873)
~24Andrey RublevReceived the Order of Friendship (2021)
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, record executive, songwriter, and actor.
Bruce Baker from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Burke Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), where he was also a producer and occasional director.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades including an Actor Award and a Critics' Choice Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.
Ирина Лепнёва, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts.
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
İsak Andiç Ermay was a Turkish-Spanish businessman, co-founder of clothing retailer Mango. As Mango's largest shareholder, Andiç was worth an estimated US$4.5 billion at the time of his death, making him the richest person in Catalonia and one of the richest in Spain.
Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Ian Schwartz is an American businessman. He is president and CEO of CareZone, a firm intending to lower the price of prescription drugs for people with chronic illness.
James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Volkerding is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Volkerding is Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man".
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pavel Nikolayevich Grudinin is a Russian politician and businessman. He served as a municipal deputy of the urban settlement of Vidnoye from 1997 to 2011 and later as chairman of the Council of Deputies from 2017 to 2019.
Пресс-служба Президента Российской Федерации, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Francis Boyle is an English director and producer. He has been described by the British Film Institute as "one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of British directors, adept at shifting genres and bringing a personal quality to whatever he tackles".
Ademola Olajade Alade Aylola Lookman is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or second striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid. Born in England, he plays for the Nigeria national team.
Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Danielle Jane Minogue is an Australian singer, television personality, and actress. She first appeared on the television talent show Young Talent Time (1982–1988) before gaining recognition for her role as Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away (1988–1990).
Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jessica Hannah Glynne is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence with her guest performances on the 2014 singles "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and "My Love" by Route 94, both of which peaked the UK Singles Chart.
Cal Holman from Columbus, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ian James Rush is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the greatest Welsh players ever. Rush played for Liverpool from 1980 to 1987 and 1988 to 1996.
William Michael Zabka is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), and the TV series Cobra Kai (2018–2025).
Supercon Conventions, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daizen Maeda is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger or forward for Premier League club Ipswich Town and the Japan national team.
Claudio Ranieri is an Italian football executive and former manager and player who is the technical director of the Italy national team and is also the president of Club Italia.
Original: Майоров Владимир Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nargis Fakhri is an American actress and model who primarily works in Hindi-language films of India. After working as a model in America, Fakhri came to prominence in India with the 2011 romantic drama film Rockstar.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 5 in singles, which he achieved on 13 September 2021, and No. 44 in doubles, attained on 6 November 2023.
Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.
Pridan Moshe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 Academy Award nominations.
Simon Fernandez at https://www.flickr.com/people/40550965@N05, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michiko is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who has been the Empress Emerita of Japan since 1 May 2019. She was the Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019.
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale.
Clara Sipprell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca is a Cape Verdean politician, lawyer and university professor who served as the President of Cape Verde from 2011 to 2021. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1993.
Michel Armand Vorm is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Following his playing career, he was also a goalkeeping coach at Tottenham Hotspur.
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
Frank Edwin Churchill was an American film composer and songwriter. He wrote music for many classic films produced by Walt Disney, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo and Bambi.
Arthur Scherbius was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dragiša Binić is a Serbian former footballer who played for Red Star and was part of their European Cup victory in 1991. He had three caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, scoring one goal. His son Vladan Binić is also a footballer.
Branislav Nušić was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist. Nušić was the founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.
Creator:Milan Jovanović, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Isabelle de Charrière, also known as Madame de Charrière and in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen, was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Principality of Neuchâtel.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 54 people born on October 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 August 2026. 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 October 20. Read the full methodology.
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