July 20th Birthdays
If you were born on July 20th you share a birthday with these famous people:
Sally Ann Howes is 90
British-American singer & actress of stage (Brigadoon), TV (Secrets; To Tell the Truth; Sally Ann Howes Variety Show), and movies (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Thursday’s Child; Anna Karenina, Fools Rush In; Paradise Lagoon; Death Ship), born July 20, 1930. (Sally Ann Howes 1965 Photo: Gerard W. Purcell)
Cormac McCarthy is 87 (nee Charles McCarthy)
American playwright, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Road; Blood Meridian; All the Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men; Child of God; Suttree; Outer Dark; The Orchard Keeper; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain), born July 20, 1933.
Kim Carnes is 75 (aka Kim Carnes Ellingson)
Grammy Award-winning American musician, songwriter (The Heart Won’t Lie), and raspy-voiced singer (Bette Davis Eyes; More Love; Crazy in the Night; More Love; Don’t Fall in Love With a Dreamer; What About Me?; Say You Don’t Know Me) born July 20, 1945. (Kim Carnes 1993 Photo: Kim Carnes)
Carlos Santana is 73
Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American guitar player, and songwriter (Evil Ways; Black Magic Woman; She’s Not There; Smooth; Maria Maria; Why Don’t You & I; Winning; Hold On; The Game of Love; Into the Night), born July 20, 1947. (Carlos Santana 1989 Photo: Michael Grecco / HBO Cinemax)
Donna Dixon is is 63
Retired American beauty queen (1976 Miss Virginia USA; 1977 Miss Washington D.C. World), actress of TV (Sonny Lumet on Bosom Buddies; Berrenger’s; Charmed Lives) & movies (Spies Like Us; Doctor Detroit; The Couch Trip; Wayne’s World), born July 20, 1957. (Donna Dixon 1980s Photo: nloik)
Frank Whaley is 57
American screenwriter, director & actor of TV (The Dead Zone; Ray Donovan; Luke Cage) and movies (Career Opportunities; The Doors; Back in the U.S.S.R.; Swing Kids; Field of Dreams; Like Sunday, Like Rain; Broken Arrow; The Jimmy Show), born July 20, 1963. (Frank Whaley 2017 Screenshot: Dante Luna)
Reed Diamond is 53
American actor of TV (Det. Mike Kellerman on Homicide: Life on the Street; Damien Karp on Franklin & Bash; Loving; Judging Amy; Designated Survivor; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and movies (Spider-Man 2; Much Ado About Nothing; Moneyball), born July 20, 1967. (Reed Diamond 2015 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
American producer, model & actor of TV (James ‘Sawyer’ Ford on Lost; Will on Colony; Angel; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Intelligence) and movies (Cold Heart; Moving August; Stay Cool; Paranoia; Sabotage; Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), born July 20, 1969. (Josh Holloway 2016 Photo: Dominick D)
(Pink Tree Peony Flowers Photo: © 2020 Anita Hamilton)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on July 20th!
And remembering
Diana Rigg (nee Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg)
Tony & Emmy Award-winning English actress of stage (Medea), television (Emma Peel on The Avengers; Masterpiece Mystery; Game of Thrones; Diana; Victoria), and movies (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; The Hospital; Evil Under the Sun) (born July 20, 1938 – died Sept. 10, 2020; age 82). Diana Rigg died of cancer. (Diana Rigg 1973 Diana Photo: NBC TV)
Chris Cornell (nee Christopher John Boyle)
American lead rock singer for Soundgarden & Audioslave (Black Hole Sun; Pretty Noose; Burden in My Hand; Like a Stone; Be Yourself; Doesn’t Remind Me; Can’t Change Me; Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart) (born July 20, 1964 – died May 18, 2017; age 52). Chris Cornell had depression and died by suicide. (Chris Cornell 2011 Photo: Josh Jensen)
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand explorer (1958 South Pole expedition; 1985 North Pole flight landing), first mountain climber (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953), founder of the Himalayan Trust (born July 20, 1919 – died Jan. 11, 2008; age 88). Sir Edmund Hillary died of heart failure. (Sir Edmund Hillary 1955 Photo: The Evening Post)
Cindy Walker
American Country Music Hall of Fame singer & songwriter (When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again; You Don’t Know Me; Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream]; Distant Drums; Cherokee Maiden) (born July 20, 1918 – died Mar. 23, 2006; age 87). Cause of death for Cindy Walker is unknown. (Cindy Walker 1950 Photo: Courtesy Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Alistair MacLeod
Canadian novelist (No Great Mischief), creative writing professor (U. of Windsor), and short story writer (The Lost Salt Gift of Blood; As Birds Bring Forth the Sun; The Closing Down of Summer; Remembrance; Second Spring) (born July 20, 1936 – died Apr. 20, 2014; age 77). Alistair MacLeod had a stroke 4 months before his death. (Alistair MacLeod 2012 Photo: Graham Iddon)
Lola Albright
American actress of TV (Edie Hart on Peter Gunn; The Bob Cummings Show; Peyton Place) and movies (Champion; A Cold Wind in August; Kid Galahad; The Good Humor Man; The Tender Trap; Lord Love a Duck; Tulsa; The Impossible Years) (born July 20, 1924 – died Mar. 23, 2017; age 92). Lola Albright died of natural causes. (Lola Albright 1962 Kraft Music Hall Photo: J Walter Thompson)
Buddy Knox
American Rockabilly Hall of Fame singer and songwriter (Party Doll; Hula Love; Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep; Somebody Touched Me; Lovey Dovey; She’s Gone; Ling, Ting, Tong; Long Lonely Nights) (born July 20, 1933 – died Feb. 14, 1999; age 65). Cause of death for Buddy Knox was lung cancer. (Buddy Knox 1957 Photo: Topps Gum Cards / Roulette Records)
American actor of vaudeville stages, radio (Willy Fitz Sr. on Ma Perkins 1933-1960; The General Tire Show; The Guiding Light; Papa Schultz on Today’s Children; Talkie Picture Time; The Hoofinghams; The Story of Mary Marlin), and thriller novelist, author of Hollow Triumph (1946) (born July 20, 1905 – died Jan. 28, 1987; age 81). Murray Forbes died of cancer. (Murray Forbes 1946 Radio Mirror)
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