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| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (born in 1932) | |
| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (born in 1911) | |
| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (born in 1977) | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Event | In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Birth | Robert Clark, Canadian actor | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Death | Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (born in 1923) | |
| August 20th, 1976 (August 20 1976) | Birth | Chris Drury, American hockey player | |
| August 20th, 1966 (August 20 1966) | Birth | Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (died in 2004) | |
| August 20th, 1956 (August 20 1956) | Birth | Joan Allen, American actress | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | Connie Chung, American journalist | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | Ralf Hutter, German musician (Kraftwerk) | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman | |
| August 20th, 1936 (August 20 1936) | Birth | Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| August 20th, 1926 (August 20 1926) | Event | Japan s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is established. | |
| August 20th, 1926 (August 20 1926) | Birth | Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach | |
| August 20th, 1916 (August 20 1916) | Birth | Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (died in 1984) | Paul Schmidt Quotes |
| August 20th, 1886 (August 20 1886) | Birth | Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (died in 1965) | |
| August 20th, 1866 (August 20 1866) | Event | President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| August 20th, 1856 (August 20 1856) | Birth | Jakub Bart-Cisinski, Sorbian writer (died in 1909) | |
| August 20th, 1776 (August 20 1776) | Birth | Bernardo O Higgins, South American revolutionary (died in 1842) | |
| August 20th, 0636 (August 20 0636) | Event | Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. | |
