Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 20

Births

 * 1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
 * 1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
 * 1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (pictured) (d. 1910)
 * 1914 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
 * 1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist (d. 2013)
 * 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
 * 1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
 * 1966 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)
 * 1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
 * 1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
 * 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
 * 1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
 * 1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
 * 1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist

Deaths

 * 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
 * 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
 * 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
 * 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
 * 1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
 * 1999 - Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
 * 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)