20 August: today's birthdays

• Amy Adams - American actress and singer born in Italy
• Joan Allen - American actress
• ​Jacques Cheminade - Argentinian-born French politician
• Thomas Corneille - French dramatist, the brother of Pierre Corneille
• Laurent Fabius - French politician
• Andrew Garfield - American actor
• Isaac Hayes - American musician, actor and singer
• Joaquín Oscar Larrivey - Argentine soccer player
• H. P. Lovecraft - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, American writer, considered as one of the most influential horror fiction authors
• Slobodan Milošević - Serbian politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia
• Ron Paul - American politician
• Salvatore Quasimodo - Italian poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959
• David Owen Russell - American film director and screenwriter
• Eero Saarinen - Finnish-born American architect
• Eliel Saarinen - Finnish architect
• Sergio Tofano - Italian actor, film director and cartoonist