20 June: today's birthdays

• ​Gérard Collomb - French politician
• Stephen Frears - English film director. He directed My Beautiful Laundrette, High Fidelity, The Queen and Philomena 
• Xanana Gusmão - East Timorese politician
• Lillian Hellman - American writer, dramatist and screenwriter, born Lillian Florence Hellman
• Nicole Kidman - American actress raised in Australia. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2003
• Kalidou Koulibaly - French professional footballer of Senegalese descent
• Martin Landau - American actor. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1995 for his role as ​Bela Lugosi in the film Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton
• Jean-Marie Le Pen - French politician. He is the father of Marine Le Pen
• Ulrich Mühe - German actor. He starred in the German film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
• Jacques Offenbach - German-born French composer and violoncellist
• Javier Matías Pastore - Argentine soccer player
• Lionel Richie - American singer. He is one of the best selling singers in the world
• Vikram Seth - Indian novelist and poet
• Claire Tomalin - English writer, born Claire Delavenay. She is best known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft