July 20: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is July 20th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on July 20th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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July 20th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 20th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Leon DeSmet, Flemish painter (De Brief, De Rode Tafel, and Femme a sa Fenetre), was born on July 20, 1881.

Max Liebermann, German Impressionist painter (Die Ballgesellschaft, Die Bluementerrasse im Wannseegarten Nach Nordosten, Reiter am Strand Nach Links, Strandszene and Street in Scheveningen), was born on July 20, 1847.

George Jan Hendrik Poggenbeek, Dutch watercolor painter (Birds of a Feather, A Farmer at Work and The Gated Stream), was born on July 20, 1853.

July 20th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Larry Black, American runner and Olympic gold medalist (1972), was born on July 20, 1951.

July 20th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Thomas Berger, American novelist (Best Friends, Crazy in Berlin, Little Big Man, Neighbors, Orrie's Story, Sneaky People, Suspects and Vital Parts), was born on July 20, 1924.

Erik Karlfeldt, Swedish poet and Nobel Prize winner (1918, refused, and 1931, presented posthumously) was born on July 20, 1864.

American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (2006) Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, Cities of the Plain, The Crossing, No Country for Old Men, The Orchard Keeper and The Road) was born on July 20, 1933.

Italian poet Francesco Petrarch (Africa, Canzoniere, Eclogues, Letters, Metrical Epistles, On Contempt for the Worldly Life, On Solitude and Trionfi), was born on July 20, 1304.

July 20th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders