Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 20

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[edit] Births

• 810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
• 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
• 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary (pictured), New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2007)
• 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress
• 1943 - Wendy Richard, British actress
• 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
• 1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
• 1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician
• 1973 - Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
• 1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant

[edit] Deaths

• 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
• 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
• 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
• 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)

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