Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 20
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Births
- 810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
- 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
- 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary (pictured), New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
- 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress (d. 2020)
- 1943 - Wendy Richard, British actress (d. 2009)
- 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
- 1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
- 1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (d. 2017)
Deaths
- 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
- 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
- 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)