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| July 20th, 2007 (July 20 2007) | Death | Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (born in 1942) | |
| July 20th, 1997 (July 20 1997) | Birth | Billi Bruno, American actress | |
| July 20th, 1987 (July 20 1987) | Event | UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the Iran-Iraq War and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted. | |
| July 20th, 1987 (July 20 1987) | Death | Richard Egan, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Event | Johnstown is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. | |
| July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Event | The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. | |
| July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Birth | Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer | |
| July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Birth | Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer | |
| July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Death | Gary Kellgren, American music producer (born in 1939) | |
| July 20th, 1967 (July 20 1967) | Birth | Reed Diamond, American actor | |
| July 20th, 1957 (July 20 1957) | Birth | Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (died in 1990) | |
| July 20th, 1957 (July 20 1957) | Birth | Donna Dixon, American actress | |
| July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Event | Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet. | |
| July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Event | The Viceroy of India says the people of the Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India. | |
| July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Birth | Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Birth | Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist | |
| July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Event | Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched. | |
| July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Birth | Ken Ogata, Japanese actor | |
| July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Death | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (born in 1874) | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
| July 20th, 1927 (July 20 1927) | Death | King Ferdinand of Romania (born in 1865) | |
| July 20th, 1917 (July 20 1917) | Event | World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. | |
| July 20th, 1907 (July 20 1907) | Event | A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more. | |
| July 20th, 1897 (July 20 1897) | Birth | Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (died in 1996) | |
| July 20th, 1897 (July 20 1897) | Death | Jean Ingelow, English poet (born in 1820) | Jean Ingelow Quotes |
| July 20th, 1877 (July 20 1877) | Event | Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths. | |
| July 20th, 1847 (July 20 1847) | Birth | Max Liebermann, German artist (died in 1935) | |
| July 20th, 1797 (July 20 1797) | Birth | Sir Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (died in 1873) | |
| July 20th, 1757 (July 20 1757) | Birth | Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (died in 1811) | |
| July 20th, 1537 (July 20 1537) | Birth | Arnaud d Ossat, French diplomat and writer (died in 1604) | |
| July 20th, 1387 (July 20 1387) | Death | Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (born in 1356) | |
