What happened on August 20 ?

1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)

1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)

1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)

1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)

1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)

1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)

1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)

1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)

1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)

1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)

1847 - Boles?aw Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)

1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)

1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)

1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)

1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)

1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)

1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)

1908 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)

1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)

1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)

1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)

1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)

1931 - Don King, American boxing promoter

1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)

1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist

1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen

1935 - Ron Paul, American politician

1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director

1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate

1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician

1941 - Slobodan Milo?evi?, President of Serbia (d. 2006)

1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist

1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor

1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor

1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)

1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist

1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman

1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)

1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)

1951 - Greg Bear, American author

1952 - John Hiatt, American musician

1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster

1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer

1956 - Joan Allen, American actress

1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author

1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress

1962 - James Marsters, American actor

1965 - KRS-One, American rapper

1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)

1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer

1970 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer

1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)

1973 - Todd Helton, baseball player

1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist

1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player

1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress

1979 - Cory Sullivan, baseball player

1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor

1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor

1987 - C?t?lina Ponor, Romanian gymnast