Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : January 20

Check all the award winners born on January 20.
BirthDate
Winner
20-January-1989

Nick Foles (United States of America)

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Foles is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of...
20-January-1987

Madhur Mittal (India)

Madhur Mittal is an Indian actor, best known for his performance as Salim Malik in the film...
20-January-1985

Brantley Gilbert (United States of America)

Brantley Gilbert is an American country music singer-songwriter from Jefferson, Georgia. His...
20-January-1982

Shilpa Sakhlani (India)

Shilpa Saklani is an actress.
20-January-1981

Jason Richardson (United States of America)

Jason Richardson is a professional basketball player and an actor.
20-January-1979

Aoi (Japan)

Aoi is a member of the musical group, The Gazette.
20-January-1979

Will Young (United Kingdom)

William Robert "Will" Young is an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence...
20-January-1978

Adrian J. McDowall (Scotland)

Adrian John McDowall is a BAFTA Award-Winning Filmmaker
20-January-1978

Omar Sy (France)

Omar Sy is a French film actor, best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for...
20-January-1978

Maxim Drozdov (Soviet Union, Kazakhstan)

Maxim Drozdov is a cinematographer.
20-January-1975

Kali Vanbaale (United States of America)

Kali Jo Van Baale is an American novelist. Her first novel, The Space Between, was awarded an...
20-January-1975

Kati Agócs (Canada)

Kati Ilona Agócs is a composer of contemporary classical music and faculty member at the New...
20-January-1974

Duniya Vijay (India)

Vijay aka Duniya Vijay is an Indian actor who appears in Kannada films. He started of as a...
20-January-1973

Josh Weston (United States of America)

Chad Jason Hull, better known as Josh Weston, was an American pornographic actor who appeared in...
20-January-1972

Olle Sarri (Sweden)

Nils Olof "Olle" Fabian Sarri is a Swedish actor.
20-January-1971

Gary Barlow (United Kingdom)

Gary Barlow OBE is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. He is frontman and...
20-January-1966

Rainn Wilson (United States of America)

Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor who is well known for his Emmy-nominated role as the...
20-January-1965

John Michael Montgomery (United States of America)

John Michael Montgomery is an American country music artist. Montgomery began singing with his...
20-January-1964

Ron Harper (United States of America)

Ronald "Ron" Harper is a retired American professional basketball player whose career spanned...
20-January-1964

Francesca Buller (England)

Francesca Buller is an English actress best known for her portrayal of various characters in the...
20-January-1964

Fareed Zakaria (India, United States of America)

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a...
20-January-1963

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (Lithuania)

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is a Lithuanian actress, who plays mostly in Russian films.
20-January-1963

James Denton (United States of America)

James "Jamie" Thomas Denton, Jr. is an American film and television actor, best known for...
20-January-1962

Sophie Thompson (United Kingdom)

Sophie Thompson is an English actress, who trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre school.
20-January-1960

Kij Johnson (United States of America)

Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing...
20-January-1958

Huo Jianqi (China)

Huo Jianqi is a Chinese film director. Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei, Huo...
20-January-1958

Clay Bennett (United States of America)

Clay Bennett is an American editorial cartoonist. Currently drawing for the Chattanooga Times...
20-January-1956

Bill Maher (United States of America)

William "Bill" Maher, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political...
20-January-1954

Ken Page (United States of America)

Ken Page is an American cabaret singer, actor and voice actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Page is...
20-January-1954

Terry Fahey (Australia)

Terry Fahey is an Australian former professional rugby league player for the South Sydney...
20-January-1952

Roo Borson (Canada)

Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson is a Canadian poet who lives in...
20-January-1952

Ravindra N. Bhatt (India)

Ravindra N. Bhatt is a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
20-January-1952

Vladimir Khotinenko (Russia)

Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko is a Russian actor, film director and designer.
20-January-1951

Ian Hill (England)

Ian Hill is a founder member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Grammy award winning heavy...
20-January-1950

Edward Hirsch (United States of America)

Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading...
20-January-1949

Siqin Gaowa (China, Switzerland)

Цэцэнгуа, better known by her Mandarin name Siqin Gaowa, is a Chinese actress of Mongol...
20-January-1949

Tedd Arnold (United States of America)

Tedd Arnold is a children's book writer and illustrator. He has written over 50 books, and he...
20-January-1948

Nigel Williams (England)

Nigel Williams is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.
20-January-1948

Nancy Kress (United States of America)

Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved...
20-January-1948

Natan Sharansky (Israel)

Natan Sharansky is a prominent Israeli politician, human rights activist and author, who spent...
20-January-1946

Samm-Art Williams (United States of America)

Samm-Art Williams is an American playwright and screenwriter, and a stage and film/TV actor...
20-January-1946

David Lynch (United States of America)

David Keith Lynch is an American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and...
20-January-1945

Gianni Amelio (Italy)

Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.
20-January-1945

John Williams (United Kingdom)

John Williams is a TV director and a TV producer.
20-January-1945

Robert Olen Butler (United States of America)

Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a...
20-January-1944

Susan Mitchell (United States of America)

Susan Mitchell is an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections...
20-January-1944

Raymond J. O'Connor (Republic of Ireland)

Raymond J. O'Connor is a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
20-January-1944

Nancy Chodorow (United States of America)

Nancy Julia Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst. She has written a number of...
20-January-1944

José Luis Garci (Spain)

José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author...
20-January-1943

Pat Mitchell (United States of America)

Pat Mitchell is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media...
20-January-1942

Diana Walker (United States of America)

Diana Walker is a 1986, 1990 and a 1996 World Press Photo Award for People in the News, and a...
20-January-1940

Krishnam Raju (India)

Uppalapati Venkata Krishnam Raju is a former popular Telugu film actor. He was popularly known...
20-January-1940

Richmond Crinkley (United States of America)

Richmond Crinkley was a theatrical producer and entrepreneur.
20-January-1940

Jana Brejchová (Czech Republic)

Jana Brejchová is a Czech film actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films since 1953. She...
20-January-1938

Jonathan Stedall (United Kingdom)

Jonathan Stedall is a television producer and director.
20-January-1937

B. Woody Vasulka (United States of America, Iceland)

B. Woody Vasulka is a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
20-January-1936

Edward Feigenbaum (United States of America)

Edward Albert Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial...
20-January-1934

Vladimir Dashkevich (Russia, Soviet Union)

Vladimir Sergeevich Dashkevich is a Russian composer, known mainly for his film music...
20-January-1933

Hyuk Yu

Hyuk Yu is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
20-January-1932

Heberto Padilla (Cuba)

Heberto Padilla was a Cuban poet, and the center of the so-called "Padilla affair.". He was born...
20-January-1932

Finn Alnæs (Norway)

Finn Alnæs was a Norwegian novelist. He made his literary debut with the novel Koloss. Alnæs was...
20-January-1931

David Lee (United States of America)

David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert...
20-January-1930

Buzz Aldrin (United States of America)

Buzz Aldrin is a former American astronaut, and the second person to walk on the Moon. He was...
20-January-1929

Coslough Johnson (United States of America)

Coslough Johnson is a screenwriter and a TV producer.
20-January-1929

Arte Johnson (United States of America)

Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson is an American comic actor who was a regular on Rowan &...
20-January-1928

Omar Rayo (Colombia)

Omar Rayo was a Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970...
20-January-1928

Qurratulain Hyder (India)

Qurratulain Hyder was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic,...
20-January-1927

Dawn Lake (Australia)

Dawn Lake was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career...
20-January-1926

Sylvia Clayton (United Kingdom)

Sylvia Clayton was a novelist.
20-January-1926

Patricia Neal (United States of America)

Patricia Neal was an actress.
20-January-1924

Ramón Xirau (Spain, Mexico)

Ramon Xirau Subias is a Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic. In 1939, shortly after...
20-January-1924

Ferdinand Khittl (Czechoslovakia)

Ferdinand Khittl is a film director, screenwriter and film editor.
20-January-1923

Rentarō Mikuni (Japan)

Rentaro Mikuni is an actor.
20-January-1922

John Hick (United Kingdom)

John Harwood Hick was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the...
20-January-1922

Don Mankiewicz (United States of America, Germany)

Don Mankiewicz is a screenwriter. Born in Berlin, Germany, he is the son of Sara and Herman J...
20-January-1921

Telmo Zarra (Spain)

Telmo Zarraonandia Montoya, professionally known as Zarra, was a Spanish Basque football...
20-January-1921

Walter Eric Spear

Walter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to...
20-January-1921

Saul J. Turell

Saul J. Turell was a producer and maker of documentaries, and a distributor for classic film. He...
20-January-1920

Federico Fellini (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for his distinct style...
20-January-1920

Theodore H. Geballe (United States of America)

Theodore H. Geballe is the Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics and...
20-January-1920

Michael Higgins (United States of America)

Michael Patrick Higgins Jr. was an American actor who appeared in film and on stage, and was...
20-January-1920

Otto Gerdes (Germany)

Otto Gerdes was a German conductor and record producer. He studied music at the Hochschule für...
20-January-1919

Lester Cooper (United States of America)

Lester Cooper was a television producer and director, and a screenwriter.
20-January-1914

Otis Riggs (United States of America)

Otis Riggs was a set decorator and production designer.
20-January-1914

Douglas Watt

Douglas Benjamin Watt was an American theater critic who spent nearly six decades covering...
20-January-1907

Paula Wessely (Austria, Austria-Hungary)

Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely, as she was...
20-January-1907

Waldon O. Watson (United States of America)

Waldon O. Watson is a Sound Recordist.
20-January-1904

René Albrecht-Carrié (Turkey, United States of America)

René Albrecht-Carrié is a 1966 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
20-January-1902

Leon Ames (United States of America)

Leon Ames was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing father...
20-January-1899

Joseph Buloff (Lithuania)

Joseph Buloff was an actor.
20-January-1896

Elmer Diktonius

Elmer Rafael Diktonius was a Finnish poet and composer, who wrote in both Swedish and in Finnish.
20-January-1896

George Burns (United States of America)

George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor and writer. He was one of...
20-January-1894

Harold Gray (United States of America)

Harold Lincoln Gray was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic...
20-January-1894

Walter Piston (United States of America)

Walter Hamor Piston Jr, was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and...
20-January-1893

David Finlay (United Kingdom)

David Finlay VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
20-January-1893

John Elisha Grimshaw (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant-Colonel John Elisha Grimshaw VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
20-January-1893

Alexander Burton (Australia, United Kingdom)

Alexander Stewart Burton VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
20-January-1888

Léon Azéma

Léon Azéma was a French architect. He is responsible for many public works in France, especially...
20-January-1888

Huddie William Ledbetter (United States of America)

Huddie William Ledbetter was an American folk and blues musician, and multi-instrumentalist,...
20-January-1886

Gabriele Santini (Italy)

Gabriele Santini was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with the Italian opera...
20-January-1884

A. Merritt (United States of America)

Abraham Grace Merritt — known by his byline, A. Merritt — was an American Sunday magazine editor...
20-January-1883

Forrest Wilson (United States of America)

Robert Forrest Wilson was an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for...
20-January-1873

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark)

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of...
20-January-1868

Wilhelm Schäfer (Germany)

Wilhelm Schäfer was a German writer.
20-January-1831

Luke O'Connor (United Kingdom)

Major General Sir Luke O'Connor VC, KCB was a British soldier. He was the first soldier to...
20-January-1829

Andrew Cathcart Bogle (United Kingdom)

Andrew Cathcart Bogle VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...