Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : August 20

Check all the award winners born on August 20.
BirthDate
Winner
20-August-1992

Demi Lovato (United States of America)

Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American actress and singer who made her debut as a child...
20-August-1986

Tania Sachdev (India)

Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman...
20-August-1983

Amrita Puri (India)

Amrita Puri is an Indian film actress who is known for her roles in the critical and...
20-August-1983

Andrew Garfield (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Andrew Russell Garfield is an actor, of dual citizenship in the United States and the United...
20-August-1981

Brett Finch (Australia)

Brett John Finch is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s and...
20-August-1980

Himanshu Sharma (India)

Himanshu Sharma is a screenwriter.
20-August-1976

Chris Drury (United States of America)

Christopher Ellis Drury is a retired American professional ice hockey player. Drury is a Hobey...
20-August-1975

Matthew Dickman (United States of America)

Matthew Dickman is an American poet. He received a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001...
20-August-1974

Amy Adams (United States of America)

Amy Lou Adams is an American actress. She is a five-time Academy Award nominee. Adams began her...
20-August-1974

Misha Collins (United States of America)

Misha Collins is an American actor and director, best known for his role as the angel Castiel on...
20-August-1974

Maxim Vengerov (Soviet Union)

Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet...
20-August-1971

David Walliams (United Kingdom)

David Edward Williams, known as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, author and...
20-August-1970

John D. Carmack (United States of America)

John D. Carmack is an American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was...
20-August-1969

Justin B. Henderson (United States of America)

Justin B. Henderson works in film and television in the make-up department.
20-August-1968

Miranda de Pencier (Canada)

Miranda de Pencier is a film and television producer, screenwriter and an actor.
20-August-1968

Guy Hendrix Dyas (United Kingdom)

Guy Hendrix Dyas is a British production designer for films. He most recently collaborated with...
20-August-1965

KRS-One (United States of America)

Lawrence Krisna Parker, better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American...
20-August-1964

Dino Dvornik (Croatia)

Miljenko "Dino" Dvornik was a Croatian singer, songwriter, music producer, actor and reality...
20-August-1962

Marlene Clark Poulter (United States of America)

Marlene McPherson is a screenwriter.
20-August-1961

Greg Egan (Australia)

Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction writer.
20-August-1960

Deirdre Madden

Deirdre Madden is an Irish writer from Toomebridge, County Antrim. She was educated at St Mary's...
20-August-1958

Tomatito (Spain)

José Fernández Torres, known as Tomatito, is a Spanish Romani flamenco guitarist. Having started...
20-August-1958

Patricia Rozema (Canada)

Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
20-August-1958

David O. Russell (United States of America)

David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing...
20-August-1957

Lee Mi-Rye (South Korea)

Lee Mi-Rye is a PaekSang Arts Award-winning film director.
20-August-1957

Lee Myung-se (South Korea)

Lee Myung-se is a South Korean filmmaker. Lee began his career as an assistant producer under...
20-August-1957

Simon Donaldson (United Kingdom)

Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS, is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of...
20-August-1957

Lee Jung-gook (South Korea)

Lee Jung-gook is a film director and screenwriter.
20-August-1956

Joan Allen (United States of America)

Joan Allen is an American actress, who has worked in theatre, film and television. She is a Tony...
20-August-1955

Bruce Hajek (United States of America)

Bruce Hajek is a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
20-August-1954

Al Roker (United States of America)

Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. is an American television weather forecaster as well as an actor...
20-August-1954

Jyoti Sarup (India)

Jyoti Swaroop was a screenwriter and film director.
20-August-1954

Theresa Saldana (United States of America)

Theresa Saldana is an American actress, known for her work in motion pictures and television...
20-August-1953

Peter Horton (United States of America)

Peter Horton is an American actor and director. He played the role of Prof. Gary Shepherd on the...
20-August-1953

Jean-Pierre Duret (France)

Jean-Pierre Duret is a film director and a screenwriter.
20-August-1953

Adrian Shubert (United Kingdom, Canada)

Adrian Shubert is a 1997 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1952

Benjamin Taylor (United States of America)

Benjamin Taylor is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications...
20-August-1952

John Clayton (United States of America)

John Lee Clayton Jr. is an American jazz and classical double bassist.
20-August-1951

Han Hye Sook (South Korea)

한혜숙은 대한민국의 배우이다. 최근 출연작으로는《보석비빔밥》이 있다. 1970년 MBC 2기 공채 탤런트로 데뷔하였다.
20-August-1951

Greg Bear (United States of America)

Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has...
20-August-1950

Chase Twichell (United States of America)

Chase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable...
20-August-1950

Alberto Pérez (Mexico)

Alberto Pérez Lapastora is a Spanish singer, composer, guitarist and music producer. He has also...
20-August-1949

Steven Feld (United States of America)

Steven Feld is an American ethnomusicologist anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many...
20-August-1949

Philip Benedict (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Philip Benedict is an American historian of Reformation Europe at the University of Geneva’s...
20-August-1948

John Noble (Australia)

John Noble is an Australian film and television actor, and theater director of more than 80...
20-August-1948

Robert Plant (England)

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Best known as the lead...
20-August-1948

Jane Ashford (United States of America)

Jane LeCompte is an American writer of romance novels as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte. She...
20-August-1948

Heather McHugh (United States of America)

Heather McHugh is an American poet.
20-August-1947

Alan Lee (England)

Alan Lee is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He was born in Middlesex,...
20-August-1947

Ray Wise (United States of America)

Raymond Herbert "Ray" Wise is an American actor. Some of his best-known roles include Leland...
20-August-1946

Michael Darrin (United States of America)

Michael Darrin was a choreographer.
20-August-1944

Rajiv Gandhi (India)

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989. He took...
20-August-1943

Jorge Arriagada (Chile, France)

Jorge Arriagada is a Chilean film composer. He is perhaps best known for his long-term...
20-August-1942

Gilbert Moses (United States of America)

Gilbert Moses III was an American stage, screen, and television director.
20-August-1942

Joe Mayhew (United States of America)

Joe Mayhew is a fan artist.
20-August-1941

Carter Ratcliff (United States of America)

Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer and poet. His books on art include "John...
20-August-1941

Jonathan King (United States of America)

Jonathan King is a 1986 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
20-August-1941

Milford Graves (United States of America)

Milford Graves is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, most noteworthy for his early...
20-August-1940

Gus Macdonald (United Kingdom)

Gus MacDonald is a television producer, director and screenwriter.
20-August-1939

Kermit Champa (United States of America)

Kermit Champa was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1939

Fernando Poe, Jr. (Philippines)

Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da...
20-August-1939

James Hartle (United States of America)

James Burkett Hartle is an American physicist. He has been a professor of physics at the...
20-August-1939

Valery Shevchuk (Ukraine)

Valerij Oleksandrovyč Ševčuk je současný ukrajinský prozaik. Narodil se v Žytomyru na Volyni,...
20-August-1939

Charles Kennel (United States of America)

Charles F. Kennel is an American scientist and member of the United States National Academy of...
20-August-1938

Roberto Schwarz (Brazil)

Robert Schwarz is a 1977 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1937

Bob Randall (United States of America)

Bob Randall was a screenwriter and television producer.
20-August-1937

Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia, France, Soviet Union, United States of America)

Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Russian-American film director, film producer and...
20-August-1936

Hideki Shirakawa (Japan)

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his...
20-August-1936

Miriam Colon (Puerto Rico)

Míriam Colón is a Puerto Rican actress and the founder and director of the Puerto Rican...
20-August-1935

Jan D. Achenbach (United States of America)

Jan Drewes Achenbach is a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Achenbach was born in...
20-August-1933

George J. Mitchell (United States of America)

George John Mitchell, Jr. GBE is an American lawyer, businessman and politician. A Democrat,...
20-August-1931

B. Padmanabham (India)

Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, popularly known as Padmanabham, was a Tollywood actor known...
20-August-1930

Nikki Keddie (United States of America)

Nikki R. Keddie is a professor of Eastern, Iranian, and women's history. She retired from the...
20-August-1930

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France)

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin is a developmental biologist, famed for her studies of chimeras, which...
20-August-1930

Mario Bernardi (Canada)

Mario Bernardi, CC was a Canadian conductor and pianist. He conducted 75 different operas and...
20-August-1929

Derek Williams (United Kingdom)

Derek Williams is a film director and a screenwriter.
20-August-1928

Theodor Kotulla (Poland)

Theodor Kotulla was a film director, screenwriter and television director.
20-August-1928

Russell Perry Sebold (United States of America)

Russell Perry Sebold is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1928

Siegfried Wenzel (United States of America)

Siegfried Wenzel is a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1926

Mary Lea Johnson Richards (United States of America)

Mary Lea Johnson Richards was an American heiress, entrepreneur, and Broadway producer. She was...
20-August-1925

John B. Vickery (United States of America)

John B. Vickery is a 1974 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
20-August-1925

Max Beberman (United States of America)

Max Beberman is a 1970 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
20-August-1923

Sheldon Keller (United States of America)

Sheldon Bernard "Shelly" Keller was an American screenwriter and composer.
20-August-1923

Roger Shattuck (United States of America)

Roger Whitney Shattuck was an American writer best known for his books on French literature,...
20-August-1923

Jim Reeves (United States of America)

James Travis "Jim" Reeves was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With...
20-August-1922

Karl Baumgartner (Germany)

Karl Baumgartner was a pyrotechnician and special effects supervisor.
20-August-1920

Freda Koblick (United States of America)

Freda Koblick was a 1970 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
20-August-1919

Walter Bernstein (United States of America)

Walter Bernstein is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the...
20-August-1916

Petro Vlahos (United States of America)

Petro Vlahos, was an engineer and inventor, considered to be one of the pioneering scientific...
20-August-1913

Roger Wolcott Sperry (United States of America)

Roger Wolcott Sperry was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together...
20-August-1905

Mikio Naruse (Japan)

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films...
20-August-1904

Ralph Berger (United States of America)

Ralph Berger was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category...
20-August-1901

Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for...
20-August-1899

Richhpal Ram (India)

Richhpal Ram VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
20-August-1898

Leopold Infeld (Austria-Hungary, Poland, Canada, United States of America)

Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada. He was a...
20-August-1897

Oszkár Ascher (Austria-Hungary, People's Republic of Hungary)

Oszkár Ascher was an actor.
20-August-1897

Tarjei Vesaas (Norway)

Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Born in Vinje, Telemark, Vesaas is widely...
20-August-1889

George Findlay (United Kingdom)

Colonel George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay VC MC & Bar was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria...
20-August-1875

Shaul Tchernichovsky (Israel, Mandatory Palestine, Russian Empire)

Saul Tchernichowsky is a poet.
20-August-1873

Eliel Saarinen (United States of America)

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings...
20-August-1867

John Ripley (United Kingdom)

John Ripley VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
20-August-1863

Angus Douglas-Hamilton (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria...
20-August-1839

William Francis Frederick Waller (United Kingdom, British Raj)

Colonel William Francis Frederick Waller VC was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...
20-August-1833

James Hills-Johnes (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC, GCB was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross,...
20-August-1827

William Napier (United Kingdom)

William Napier VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...