September 20 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, actors, authors and creators, and 6 of them are billionaires.
Henry Samueli is an American businessman and engineer. He is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, California, community. He is chairman of Broadcom Inc.
Todd L. Boehly is an American businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO) and controlling member of Eldridge Industries, a holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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Rudolf August Oetker colloquially also R. A. Oetker was a German industrialist, businessman, ship owner and philanthropist. Most notably he turned Dr. Oetker, founded by his grandfather August Oetker, into a multinational food conglomerate.
American business executive · Goldman Sachs · finance
1954 · United States
$1.2Bolder estimate, as of 2024 · Forbes
Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American billionaire investment banker who has served as senior chairman of Goldman Sachs since 2019, and chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) from 2006 until the end of 2018.
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Industries of the companies the 6 wealthy people born on September 20 founded or led.
finance50% (1 people)
technology50% (1 people)
Who shares September 20
What kind of people are born on September 20?
Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs24% (10 people)
Actors22% (9 people)
Authors20% (8 people)
Creators20% (8 people)
Politicians17% (7 people)
Scientists17% (7 people)
Athletes12% (5 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
Spain4 (4 people)
Canada3 (3 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on September 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.
By 25
~16ChulalongkornReceived the Order of the Crown of Thailand (1869)
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Jon Bernthal
Top tier
Actor
1976 · United States
Jonathan Edward Bernthal is an American actor. Known for playing brash, hard-edged, ethically complex characters, he first achieved prominence for his portrayal of Shane Walsh on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2012).
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with appearances in XXX (2002), Land of the Dead (2005), and Marie Antoinette (2006).
Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired the motto of the European Union.
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Edward Henrik Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who played 106 times for the Swedish national team. A striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK.
Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2021.
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Sterling Price was an American politician and military officer who was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, fighting in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War.
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Jean-Claude Biver is a Luxembourg-born Swiss watchmaking executive. He previously served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of TAG Heuer. From 2014 until 2018, he was the president of LVMH's watchmaking division until his retirement after 43 years in the industry.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dan Grigore Adamescu was a Romanian businessman who was the founder of the Nova Group, and was the second richest Romanian in 2013. In 2016, he was sentenced to four years and four months in jail for bribing judges at his companies' insolvency trials.
Anne Meara was an American comedian and actress. With her husband Jerry Stiller, she was half of the 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. In 2007, Stiller and Meara were honored with a joint star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mahesh Bhatt is a retired Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. Known for his unconventional narratives and exploration of bold themes, he was one of the most prominent filmmakers in 80s and 90s Hindi cinema.
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
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Alejandro "Álex" Grimaldo García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left wing-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.
Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the study of classical political thought.
Namie Amuro is a retired Japanese singer. She rose to prominence as a teen idol, and transitioned into a leading pop artist due to her versatility across music styles and visual presentation.
Eileen Chang (traditional Chinese: 張愛玲; simplified Chinese: 张爱玲; pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Ai4-ling2；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her sometime pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese and American writer.
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Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in March 2015 and doubles ranking of world No. 9 in November 2016.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement.
Victor David Sjöström, also known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924.
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1842–1923 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of gases.
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Safura Alizadeh is an Azerbaijani pop singer. In 2009, she became the winner of the eighth season of Pop Idol. She represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Drip Drop", finishing in fifth place.
Sidney Dillon Ripley II was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, leading the institution through its period of greatest growth and expansion.
This page lists 41 people born on September 20, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 6 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 March 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 September 20. Read the full methodology.
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