September 20
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Art and culture
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
- 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
- 1959 - Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in the Beat Hotel in Paris.
Births
- 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist
- 1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
- 1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
- 1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
- 1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
- 1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
- 1967 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)
- 1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
- 1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- 1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress
- 1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
- 1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
- 1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
- 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
- 1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
- 1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
- 1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
- 1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
- 1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
- 1978 - T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
- 1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
- 1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
- 1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
- 1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
- 1980 - Luke Munns, Australian singer / songwriter
- 1981 - Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
- 1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
- 1983 - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
- 1990 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
- 1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
- 1995 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress
Deaths
- 1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
- 1384 - King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
- 1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
- 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
- 1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
- 1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
- 1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
- 1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
- 1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)
- 1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
- 1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
- 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot (b. 1780)
- 1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
- 1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
- 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
- 1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
- 1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- 1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
- 1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
- 1933 - Annie Besant, women's rights activist (b. 1847)
- 1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
- 1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909)
- 1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
- 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- 1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
- 1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
- 1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
- 1993 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)
- 1994 - Jule Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)
- 1994 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (b. 1924)
- 1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
- 1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- 2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
- 2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
- 2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
- 2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
- 2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
Notes
- Johannes Meursius
- Raymond Borde
- Sophia Loren
- Sylvester James
- Andrzej Munk
- Desire Unbound
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Joseph Breitbach
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