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July 20/Events1
This page is to list events of [[July 20]] before [[1950]].

==To 1300==
*[[514]] - [[Roman Catholic Church]]: [[Pope Hormisdas]] assumes the papacy.
==1300-1899==
*[[1304]] - [[Great Britain]]: [[Edward I of England]] takes the last rebel stronghold in the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]], [[Fall of Stirling Castle|Stirling Castle]]. 
*[[1712]] - [[United Kingdom]]:  The [[Riot Act]] takes effect.
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*[[1949]] - [[United States]]:  [[Carmine DeSapio]] becomes leader of [[Tammany Hall]], the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] organization in [[New York City]].
*[[1949]] - [[Journalism]]:  Colonel [[Robert R. McCormick]] announces the purchase of the ''[[Washington Times-Herald]]'' by his paper, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.
*[[1949]] - [[United States]]:  President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs a bill to enable [[urban renewal]] and [[slum clearance]].
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==Births==
===1300-1899===
*[[1304]] - Francesco [[Petrarch]], Italian poet (d. [[1374]])
*[[1519]] - [[Pope Innocent IX]]
*[[1754]] - [[Destutt de Tracy]], philosopher
*[[1797]] - [[Paul Edmund Strzelecki|Sir Pawe&#322; Edmund Strzelecki]], [[Poland|Polish]] explorer and geologist (d. [[1873]])
*[[1838]] - [[George Otto Trevelyan]], British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
*1838- [[Augustin Daly]], American playwright (d. [[1899]])
*[[1847]] - [[Max Liebermann]], painter and graphic artist (d. [[1935]])
*[[1849]] - [[Robert Anderson Van Wyck]], Mayor of [[New York City]] (d. [[1918]])
*[[1865]] - [[Carlos Avril]], French actor (d. [[1940]])
*[[1868]] - [[Miron Cristea]], First patriarch of the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]] (d. 1939)
*[[1870]] - [[Charles McHugh]], American actor (d. [[1931]])
*1870 - [[Gerard Wolst Trenité]], Dutch writer
*[[1873]] - [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
*[[1877]] - [[William Colman]], American actor (d. [[1930]])
*[[1881]] - [[Clyde Benson]], American actor (d. [[1947]])
*[[1881]] - [[Hugh Sothern]], American actor (d. [[1947]])
*[[1884]] - [[Hellwig F. Rimmen]], Danish actor
*[[1889]] - [[Erich Pommer]], German actor (d. [[1966]])
*1889 - [[Ruth Weijden]] (d. 1956)
*1889 - [[John Reith]], [[BBC]] director-general
*[[1890]] - [[Theda Bara]] (Theodosia Burr Goodman), American actress (d. [[1955]])
*1890 - [[Gonzalo Roig]], Cuban composer (d. 1970)
*1890 - [[Richard Billinger]], Austrian writer (d. 1965)
* 1890 - [[Freeman H. Owens]], American cinematographer
* 1890 - King [[George II of Greece]] (d. 1947)
*[[1891]] - [[Ralph Faukner]], American actor and fight choreographer for films (d. [[1987]])
*[[1894]] - [[Errett Cord]], automobile entrepreneur
*[[1895]] - [[László Moholy-Nagy]], painter, photographer, sculptor (d. [[1946]])
*[[1897]] - [[Clifford Braughton]], American actor (d. [[1979]])
*[[1898]] - [[Stepan Kayukov]], Russian actor (d. [[1960]])
*[[1899]] - [[Melville De Lay]], American actor (d. [[1947]])

===1900-1909===
*[[1900]] - [[Maurice Gilliams]], Belgian writer (d. 1979)
*[[1901]] - [[Heinie Manush]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1971]])
*1901 - [[Sergei Blinnikov]], Russian actor (d. [[1969]])
*[[1902]] - [[Jimmy Kennedy]], Irish composer (d. [[1984]])
*[[1903]] - [[Maria Paudle]], German actress (d. 1990)
*[[1905]] - [[Pascual Pelliciota]], Argentine actor (d. [[1985]])
*[[1907]] - [[Leon Pietraskiewicz]], Polish actor (d. 1987)
*[[1909]] - [[Clint Sharp]], American stuntman in films (d. 1989)
===1910-1919===
*[[1910]] - [[Louise Rousseau]], American screenwriter (d. 1981)
*1910 - [[Henri Calef]], Belgian filmmaker (d. 1994)
*1910 - [[Muriel Evans]], American actress (d. 2000)
*[[1911]] - [[Mirelle Balin]], French actress (d. 1968)
*[[1912]] - [[Tom McDermott]], American actor (d. 1996)
*[[1913]] - [[Elmer Lahti]], Finnish actor
*1913 - [[Irma Cordoba]], Argentine actress
*[[1914]] - [[Masa Niemi]], Finnish actor (d. 1960)
*[[1916]] - [[Claude Vernier]], French actor (d. 1996)
*[[1917]] - [[Paul Hubschmid]], German actor (d. 2001)
*[[1918]] - [[Cindy Walker]], American country music singer
*[[1919]] - Sir [[Edmund Hillary]], New Zealand mountain climber
*1919 - [[Ernie Wilkins]], American jazz musician (d. 1999)
*1919 - [[Benson Ford]], son of industrialist [[Henry Ford]] (d. 1978)
*1919 - [[Paolo Levi]], Italian writer (d. 1989)
*1919 - [[K. T. Stevens]], American actress (d. 1994)
===1920-1929===
*[[1920]] - [[Tommy Prothro]], American football coach
*1920 - [[Elliot Richardson]], American politician (d. [[1999]])
*1920 - [[Dick Lucas]], American animator (d. 1997)
*[[1921]] - [[Hall Daniels]], American composer (d. 1984)
*1921  - [[Takanobu Hozumi]], Japanese actor
*[[1923]] - [[Stanislaw Albinowski|Stanis&#322;aw Albinowski]], Polish economist and journalist (d.2005)
*[[1924]] - [[Tor Isedal]], Swedish actor (d. 1990)
*1924  - [[Mort Garson]], Canadian composer
*1924 - [[Tatyana Lioznova]], Soviet director
*1924 - [[Thomas Berger (US novelist)|Thomas Berger]], American novelist
*1924 - [[Bob Nichols]], American actor
*[[1925]] - [[Jacques Delors]], former [[President of the European Commission]]
*[[1926]] - [[Lola Albright]], American actress (''Peter Gunn'')
*1926 - [[Ilija Ivezic]], Yugoslav actor
*1926 - [[Patricia Cutts]], British actress (''Coronation Street'')(d. 1974)
*[[1927]] - [[Leon Sinden]], British actor
*1927 - [[Heather Chasen]], British actress
*1927 - [[Paul Marin]], American actor
*[[1928]] - [[Terence Feely]], British screenwriter
*1928 - [[Pavel Kohout]], Czech writer
*[[1929]] - [[Mike Illitch]], American businessman (Little Caesar's Pizza), sports executive, and philanthropist
*1929 - [[Rajendra Kumar]], Indian actor (d. 1999)
*1929 - [[Zlatko Sudovic]], Yugoslav director

===1930-1939===
*[[1930]] - [[Oleg Anofriyev]], Russian actor
*1930 - [[James Kenney]], British actor (d. 1982)
*[[1932]] - [[Otto Schily]], German politician
*1932 - [[Ove Verner Hansen]], Danish actor
*[[1933]] - [[Chuck Daly]], American basketball coach
*1933 - [[Nelson Doubleday]], American book publisher and baseball executive
*1933 - [[Cormac McCarthy]], American author
*1933 - [[Rex Williams]], [[England|English]] [[snooker]] player
*[[1934]] - [[Sally Ann Howes]], British actress
*1934 - [[Uwe Johnson]], German writer
*1934 - [[Adriano Reys]], Brazilian actor
*1934 - [[Aliki Vougiouklaki]], Greek actress
*[[1935]] - [[Henson Cargil]], American country music singer
*1935 - [[Sleepy LaBeef]], American country music singer
*1935 - [[Raleigh Bond]], American actor (d. 1989)
*[[1936]] - [[Barbara Mikulski]], U.S. Senator from Maryland
*1936 - [[Ken Johnson (sound editor)|Ken Johnson]], American sound editor in motion pictures
*1936 - [[Christian Rode]], German actor
*1936 - [[Andrzej Kondratiuk]], Polish filmmaker
*[[1937]] - [[Ken Ogata]], Japanese actor
*[[1938]] - [[Natalie Wood]], American actress: (''[[Rebel Without a Cause]], [[West Side Story]]'' (d. [[1981]])
*1938 - Dame [[Diana Rigg]], British actress
*1938 - [[Timothy Scott]], American actor (d. 1995)
*[[1939]] - [[Judy Chicago]], American feminist artist

===1940-1949===
*[[1940]] - [[Tony Oliva]], Cuban-born American baseball player
*1940 - [[David Tukhmanov]], Russian composer
*[[1941]] - [[Kurt Raab]], German actor (d. 1988)
*1941 - [[Lyudmila Chursina]], Russian actress
*1941 - [[Koji Ishizaka]], Japanese actor
*[[1942]] - [[Pete Hamilton]], American race car driver
*1942 - [[Yves Mourousi]], French television news anchor (d. 1998)
*[[1943]] - [[Wendy Richard]], British television actress (''[[Are You Being Served?]]'', ''[[EastEnders]]'')
*1943 - [[John Lodge]], American singer (The [[Moody Blues]])
*1943 - [[Ernie Gehr]], American film director
*1943 - [[Chris Murney]], American actor
*1943 - [[Chris Aman]], New Zealand race car driver
*[[1944]] - [[T. G. Sheppard]], American country music singer
*[[1945]] - [[Kim Carnes]], American singer and songwriter ("Bette Davis Eyes")
*1945 - [[Harrison Ellenshaw]], American special effects artist in motion pictures
*  1945   - [[Larry Craig]], U.S. Senator from Idaho
*[[1946]] - [[Randall Kleiser]], American film director (''Grease'')
*1946 - [[Peter Simons]], Belgian director
*[[1947]] - [[Carlos Santana]], Mexican guitarist
*1947 - [[Judi Connelli]], Australian opera singer
*[[1948]] - [[Niki Harris]], American dancer
*1948 - [[Muse Watson]], American actor

==Deaths==
===To 1899===
*[[985]] - [[Pope Boniface VII]]
*[[1031]] - King [[Robert II of France]] (b. [[972]])
*[[1398]] - [[Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March]]
*[[1524]] - [[Queen Claude of France]]
*[[1870]] - [[Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt]], French writer and founder of the ''[[Prix Goncourt]]''
*[[1897]] - [[Jean Ingelow]], [[England|English]] poet (b. [[1820]])

===1900-1949===
*[[1901]] - [[William Cosmo Monkhouse]], [[poet]], [[critic]] (b. [[1840]])
*[[1903]] - [[Pope Leo XIII]]
*[[1908]] - [[Demetrius Vikelas]], Greek [[International Olympic Committee]] president
*[[1922]] - [[Andrey Markov]], [[mathematician]]
*[[1923]] - [[Pancho Villa]], revolutionary (assassinated)
*[[1926]] - [[Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy]], head of the Soviet secret police
*[[1927]] - King [[Ferdinand of Romania]]
*[[1937]] - [[Guglielmo Marconi]], Italian [[radio]] inventor
*[[1941]] - [[Lew Fields]], American vaudeville performer
*[[1945]] - [[Paul Valéry]], [[France|French]] author and poet (b. [[1871]])

==References==
*''Facts on File Yearbook'', various years
*Facts on File's ''Day by Day'' series
*''Encyclopaedia Brittanica Yearbook'', various years
*[http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=20&month=July Internet Movie Database July 20 in Movie History page]
*''The [[New York Times]],'' July 21st issues of various years
*[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html ''The New York Times'' On This Day site]