October 20 All Events |
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| October 20th, 2007 (October 20 2007) | Death | Max McGee, American football player (born in 1932) | |
| October 20th, 2007 (October 20 2007) | Death | Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (born in 1961) | |
| October 20th, 2006 (October 20 2006) | Death | Jane Wyatt, American actress (born in 1910) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Shirley Horn, American singer (born in 1934) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (born in 1941) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (born in 1940) | |
| October 20th, 2004 (October 20 2004) | Death | Anthony Hecht, American poet (born in 1923) | |
| October 20th, 2004 (October 20 2004) | Death | Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (born in 1934) | |
| October 20th, 2003 (October 20 2003) | Death | Jack Elam, American actor (born in 1918) | |
| October 20th, 2003 (October 20 2003) | Death | Miodrag Petrovic, Serbian actor (born in 1924) | |
| October 20th, 2002 (October 20 2002) | Death | Barbara Berjer, American actress (born in 1920) | |
| October 20th, 2002 (October 20 2002) | Death | Bernard Fresson, French actor (born in 1931) | |
| October 20th, 2001 (October 20 2001) | Death | Ted Ammon, American financier (born in 1949) | |
| October 20th, 1999 (October 20 1999) | Death | Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (born in 1911) | |
| October 20th, 1995 (October 20 1995) | Death | Christopher Stone, American actor (born in 1942) | |
| October 20th, 1994 (October 20 1994) | Birth | Morgan Featherstone, Australian model | |
| October 20th, 1994 (October 20 1994) | Death | Burt Lancaster, American actor (born in 1913) | |
| October 20th, 1993 (October 20 1993) | Death | Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (born in 1909) | |
| October 20th, 1992 (October 20 1992) | Death | Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (born in 1926) | |
| October 20th, 1991 (October 20 1991) | Event | The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage. | |
| October 20th, 1990 (October 20 1990) | Death | Joel McCrea, American actor (born in 1905) | |
| October 20th, 1989 (October 20 1989) | Death | Anthony Quayle, English actor (born in 1913) | Anthony Quayle Quotes |
| October 20th, 1988 (October 20 1988) | Birth | Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) | |
| October 20th, 1988 (October 20 1988) | Death | Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (born in 1922) | |
| October 20th, 1987 (October 20 1987) | Death | Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (born in 1903) | |
| October 20th, 1986 (October 20 1986) | Birth | Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress | |
| October 20th, 1985 (October 20 1985) | Birth | Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress | |
| October 20th, 1985 (October 20 1985) | Birth | Dominic McGuire, American basketball player | Al McGuire Quotes |
| October 20th, 1985 (October 20 1985) | Birth | James Sutton, British racing driver | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Event | The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California. | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Birth | Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Birth | Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Death | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1896) | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Death | Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1902) | Paul Dirac Quotes |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Birth | Alex Nackman, musician | |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Birth | Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Birth | Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor | |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Death | Peter Dudley, British actor | |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Death | Yves Theriault, French Canadian author (born in 1915) | |
| October 20th, 1982 (October 20 1982) | Event | During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. | |
| October 20th, 1982 (October 20 1982) | Birth | Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer | |
| October 20th, 1982 (October 20 1982) | Birth | Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer | |
| October 20th, 1981 (October 20 1981) | Birth | Willis McGahee, American football player | |
| October 20th, 1981 (October 20 1981) | Birth | Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer | |
| October 20th, 1981 (October 20 1981) | Birth | Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Mexican footballer | |
| October 20th, 1980 (October 20 1980) | Birth | Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 20th, 1979 (October 20 1979) | Event | The John F Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| October 20th, 1979 (October 20 1979) | Birth | Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer | |
| October 20th, 1979 (October 20 1979) | Birth | John Krasinski, American actor | |
| October 20th, 1979 (October 20 1979) | Birth | Paul O Connell, Irish rugby player | |
| October 20th, 1978 (October 20 1978) | Birth | Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer | |
| October 20th, 1978 (October 20 1978) | Birth | Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol) | |
| October 20th, 1978 (October 20 1978) | Birth | Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist | Michael Johns Quotes |
| October 20th, 1977 (October 20 1977) | Event | A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot. | |
| October 20th, 1977 (October 20 1977) | Birth | Matt Jansen, English footballer | |
| October 20th, 1977 (October 20 1977) | Birth | Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist | |
| October 20th, 1976 (October 20 1976) | Event | The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, LA. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived. | |
| October 20th, 1976 (October 20 1976) | Birth | Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx) | |
| October 20th, 1973 (October 20 1973) | Event | The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. | |
| October 20th, 1973 (October 20 1973) | Event | The Sydney Opera House opens. | |
| October 20th, 1972 (October 20 1972) | Birth | Will Greenwood, England rugby union player | |
| October 20th, 1972 (October 20 1972) | Death | Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (born in 1885) | |
| October 20th, 1971 (October 20 1971) | Event | The Nepal stock exchange collapses. | |
| October 20th, 1971 (October 20 1971) | Birth | Dannii Minogue, Australian singer | |
| October 20th, 1971 (October 20 1971) | Birth | Snoop Dogg, American rapper | Snoop Dogg Quotes |
| October 20th, 1970 (October 20 1970) | Event | Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state. | |
| October 20th, 1970 (October 20 1970) | Birth | Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler | |
| October 20th, 1970 (October 20 1970) | Birth | Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author | |
| October 20th, 1969 (October 20 1969) | Birth | Juan Gonzalez, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| October 20th, 1969 (October 20 1969) | Birth | Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| October 20th, 1969 (October 20 1969) | Birth | Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper | |
| October 20th, 1968 (October 20 1968) | Event | Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes |
| October 20th, 1968 (October 20 1968) | Death | Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (born in 1896) | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Event | A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Birth | Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Birth | Luck Mervil, Quebecois actor and singer | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Birth | Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Death | Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (born in 1878) | |
| October 20th, 1966 (October 20 1966) | Birth | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (died in 2006) | |
| October 20th, 1966 (October 20 1966) | Birth | Allan Donald, South African cricketer | |
| October 20th, 1966 (October 20 1966) | Birth | Stefan Raab, German entertainer | |
| October 20th, 1966 (October 20 1966) | Birth | Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution | |
| October 20th, 1965 (October 20 1965) | Birth | Norman Blake, Scottish musician | |
| October 20th, 1965 (October 20 1965) | Birth | Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter | |
| October 20th, 1965 (October 20 1965) | Birth | Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player | |
| October 20th, 1965 (October 20 1965) | Birth | William Zabka, American actor | |
| October 20th, 1964 (October 20 1964) | Death | Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (born in 1874) | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| October 20th, 1963 (October 20 1963) | Birth | Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut | |
| October 20th, 1963 (October 20 1963) | Birth | Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer | |
| October 20th, 1962 (October 20 1962) | Birth | David M. Evans, American screenwriter and film director | Evans Quotes |
| October 20th, 1962 (October 20 1962) | Birth | Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter | |
| October 20th, 1961 (October 20 1961) | Birth | Ian Rush, Welsh footballer | |
| October 20th, 1961 (October 20 1961) | Birth | Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress | |
| October 20th, 1960 (October 20 1960) | Birth | Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (died in 2004) | |
| October 20th, 1960 (October 20 1960) | Birth | Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Valerie Faris, American film director | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Scott Hall, American professional wrestler | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Mark King, English musician and singer (Level 42) | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Dave Krieg, American football player | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Viggo Mortensen, American actor | |
| October 20th, 1958 (October 20 1958) | Birth | Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist | |
| October 20th, 1957 (October 20 1957) | Birth | Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer | |
| October 20th, 1956 (October 20 1956) | Birth | Danny Boyle, English film director | |
| October 20th, 1955 (October 20 1955) | Event | Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings. | |
| October 20th, 1955 (October 20 1955) | Birth | Thomas Newman, American composer | |
| October 20th, 1955 (October 20 1955) | Birth | David Profumo, English novelist | |
| October 20th, 1955 (October 20 1955) | Birth | Aaron Pryor, American boxer | |
| October 20th, 1954 (October 20 1954) | Birth | Steve Orich, orchestrator | |
| October 20th, 1953 (October 20 1953) | Birth | Keith Hernandez, American baseball player | |
| October 20th, 1953 (October 20 1953) | Birth | Bill Nunn, American actor | |
| October 20th, 1953 (October 20 1953) | Death | Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (born in 1916) | |
| October 20th, 1952 (October 20 1952) | Event | Governor Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency in Kenya and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya. | |
| October 20th, 1951 (October 20 1951) | Event | The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma | John Bright Quotes |
| October 20th, 1951 (October 20 1951) | Birth | Patrick Hall, British politician | |
| October 20th, 1951 (October 20 1951) | Birth | Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician | |
| October 20th, 1951 (October 20 1951) | Birth | Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager | |
| October 20th, 1950 (October 20 1950) | Birth | Tom Petty, American musician | Tom Petty Quotes |
| October 20th, 1949 (October 20 1949) | Birth | Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete | |
| October 20th, 1947 (October 20 1947) | Event | The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. | |
| October 20th, 1946 (October 20 1946) | Birth | Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (died in 1994) | |
| October 20th, 1946 (October 20 1946) | Birth | Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| October 20th, 1946 (October 20 1946) | Birth | Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist | |
| October 20th, 1944 (October 20 1944) | Event | The Soviet army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia | |
| October 20th, 1944 (October 20 1944) | Event | Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130. | |
| October 20th, 1944 (October 20 1944) | Event | General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| October 20th, 1944 (October 20 1944) | Birth | David Mancuso, American disc jockey | |
| October 20th, 1943 (October 20 1943) | Birth | Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano | |
| October 20th, 1942 (October 20 1942) | Birth | Earl Hindman, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| October 20th, 1942 (October 20 1942) | Birth | Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| October 20th, 1941 (October 20 1941) | Event | World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre. | |
| October 20th, 1940 (October 20 1940) | Birth | Kathy Kirby, British singer | |
| October 20th, 1940 (October 20 1940) | Birth | Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States | |
| October 20th, 1940 (October 20 1940) | Death | Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (born in 1885) | |
| October 20th, 1938 (October 20 1938) | Birth | Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (died in 2006) | |
| October 20th, 1937 (October 20 1937) | Birth | Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 20th, 1937 (October 20 1937) | Birth | Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer | |
| October 20th, 1936 (October 20 1936) | Death | Anne Sullivan, American teacher (born in 1866) | |
| October 20th, 1935 (October 20 1935) | Event | The Long March ends | |
| October 20th, 1935 (October 20 1935) | Birth | Jerry Orbach, American actor (died in 2004) | |
| October 20th, 1935 (October 20 1935) | Death | Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1863) | |
| October 20th, 1934 (October 20 1934) | Birth | Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (died in 1996) | |
| October 20th, 1934 (October 20 1934) | Birth | Michiko, empress of Japan | |
| October 20th, 1932 (October 20 1932) | Birth | Rosey Brown, American football player (died in 2004) | |
| October 20th, 1932 (October 20 1932) | Birth | William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H) | |
| October 20th, 1931 (October 20 1931) | Birth | Richard Caliguiri, American politician (died in 1988) | |
| October 20th, 1931 (October 20 1931) | Birth | Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (died in 1995) | |
| October 20th, 1926 (October 20 1926) | Death | Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (born in 1855) | |
| October 20th, 1925 (October 20 1925) | Birth | Art Buchwald, American humorist (died in 2007) | |
| October 20th, 1925 (October 20 1925) | Birth | Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (died in 2002) | |
| October 20th, 1925 (October 20 1925) | Birth | Roger Hanin, French actor | |
| October 20th, 1923 (October 20 1923) | Birth | Robert Craft, American conductor | |
| October 20th, 1922 (October 20 1922) | Birth | John Anderson, American actor (died in 1992) | |
| October 20th, 1919 (October 20 1919) | Birth | Tracy Hall, American inventor | |
| October 20th, 1918 (October 20 1918) | Birth | Robert Lochner, German journalist (died in 2003) | |
| October 20th, 1917 (October 20 1917) | Birth | Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (died in 1973) | |
| October 20th, 1914 (October 20 1914) | Birth | Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (died in 2006) | |
| October 20th, 1913 (October 20 1913) | Birth | Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (died in 1998) | |
| October 20th, 1910 (October 20 1910) | Event | The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. | |
| October 20th, 1910 (October 20 1910) | Death | David B. Hill, Governor of New York (born in 1843) | |
| October 20th, 1909 (October 20 1909) | Birth | Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (died in 1993) | |
| October 20th, 1907 (October 20 1907) | Birth | Arlene Francis, American television personality (died in 2001) | |
| October 20th, 1907 (October 20 1907) | Death | Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834) | |
| October 20th, 1905 (October 20 1905) | Birth | Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (died in 1982) | |
| October 20th, 1904 (October 20 1904) | Birth | Anna Neagle, English actress (died in 1986) | |
| October 20th, 1904 (October 20 1904) | Birth | Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (died in 1986) | Tommy Douglas Quotes |
| October 20th, 1900 (October 20 1900) | Birth | Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (died in 1974) | |
| October 20th, 1900 (October 20 1900) | Death | Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet (born in 1846) | |
| October 20th, 1897 (October 20 1897) | Birth | Crown Prince Eun of Korea (died in 1970) | |
| October 20th, 1895 (October 20 1895) | Birth | Rex Ingram, American actor (died in 1969) | |
| October 20th, 1894 (October 20 1894) | Birth | Olive Thomas, American actress (died in 1920) | |
| October 20th, 1893 (October 20 1893) | Birth | Charley Chase, American comedian (died in 1940) | |
| October 20th, 1891 (October 20 1891) | Birth | James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1974) | |
| October 20th, 1891 (October 20 1891) | Birth | Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (died in 1978) | |
| October 20th, 1890 (October 20 1890) | Birth | Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (died in 1941) | |
| October 20th, 1890 (October 20 1890) | Death | Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (born in 1821) | |
| October 20th, 1889 (October 20 1889) | Birth | Margaret Dumont, American actress (died in 1965) | |
| October 20th, 1883 (October 20 1883) | Event | Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancon, by which the Tarapaca province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru s involvement in the War of the Pacific. | |
| October 20th, 1882 (October 20 1882) | Birth | Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (died in 1956) | Bela Lugosi Quotes |
| October 20th, 1874 (October 20 1874) | Birth | Charles Ives, American composer (died in 1954) | |
| October 20th, 1865 (October 20 1865) | Death | Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (born in 1821) | |
| October 20th, 1864 (October 20 1864) | Birth | James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (died in 1951) | |
| October 20th, 1859 (October 20 1859) | Birth | John Dewey, American philosopher (died in 1952) | Philo Quotes |
| October 20th, 1858 (October 20 1858) | Birth | John Burns, English politician (died in 1943) | |
| October 20th, 1854 (October 20 1854) | Birth | Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died in 1891) | Arthur Rimbaud Quotes |
| October 20th, 1842 (October 20 1842) | Death | Grace Darling, English heroine (born in 1815) | |
| October 20th, 1832 (October 20 1832) | Birth | Constantin Lipsius, German architect (died in 1894) | |
| October 20th, 1827 (October 20 1827) | Event | Battle of Navarinoa combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece. | Roy Turk Quotes |
| October 20th, 1822 (October 20 1822) | Birth | Thomas Hughes, English novelist (died in 1896) | |
| October 20th, 1819 (October 20 1819) | Birth | The Bab, Persian founder of the Babi Faith (died in 1850) | |
| October 20th, 1819 (October 20 1819) | Birth | Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (died in 1897) | |
| October 20th, 1818 (October 20 1818) | Event | The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. | |
| October 20th, 1808 (October 20 1808) | Birth | Karl Andree, German geographer (died in 1875) | |
| October 20th, 1803 (October 20 1803) | Event | The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. | |
| October 20th, 1785 (October 20 1785) | Birth | George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (died in 1873) | |
| October 20th, 1784 (October 20 1784) | Birth | Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1865) | |
| October 20th, 1781 (October 20 1781) | Event | Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy. | Ovid Quotes |
| October 20th, 1780 (October 20 1780) | Birth | Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (died in 1825) | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 20th, 1759 (October 20 1759) | Birth | Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (died in 1815) | |
| October 20th, 1740 (October 20 1740) | Event | Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. | |
| October 20th, 1740 (October 20 1740) | Death | Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1685) | Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Quotes |
| October 20th, 1719 (October 20 1719) | Birth | Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died in 1772) | |
| October 20th, 1713 (October 20 1713) | Death | Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (born in 1652) | |
| October 20th, 1711 (October 20 1711) | Birth | Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (died in 1795) | |
| October 20th, 1700 (October 20 1700) | Birth | Charlotte Aglae of Orleans, Duchess of Modena (died in 1761) | |
| October 20th, 1677 (October 20 1677) | Birth | Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland (died in 1766) | |
| October 20th, 1660 (October 20 1660) | Birth | Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died in 1723) | |
| October 20th, 1656 (October 20 1656) | Birth | Nicolas de Largilliere, French painter (died in 1746) | |
| October 20th, 1652 (October 20 1652) | Death | Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (born in 1611) | |
| October 20th, 1640 (October 20 1640) | Death | John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (born in 1585) | |
| October 20th, 1632 (October 20 1632) | Birth | Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (died in 1723) | |
| October 20th, 1631 (October 20 1631) | Death | Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (born in 1550) | |
| October 20th, 1620 (October 20 1620) | Birth | Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (died in 1691) | |
| October 20th, 1616 (October 20 1616) | Birth | Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (died in 1680) | |
| October 20th, 1570 (October 20 1570) | Death | Joao de Barros, Portuguese historian (born in 1496) | |
| October 20th, 1496 (October 20 1496) | Birth | Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (died in 1550) | |
| October 20th, 1463 (October 20 1463) | Birth | Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died in 1512)-- | Philo Quotes |
| October 20th, 1139 (October 20 1139) | Death | Henry X, Duke of Bavaria | |
| October 20th, 0460 (October 20 0460) | Death | Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress | |
