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Notable Birthdays for July 20

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Those born on this date include:

- Macedonian leader Alexander the Great in 356 B.C.
- Austrian monk and pioneering botanist Gregor Johann Mendel in 1822
- New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary, who in 1953 reached the summit of Mount Everest, in 1919
- Elliot Richardson, attorney general under U.S. President Richard Nixon, in 1920
- actors Sally Ann Howes in 1930 (age 84) and Diana Rigg (age 76) and Natalie Wood, both in 1938
- author Cormac McCarthy in 1933 (age 81)
- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the longest serving woman in U.S. Congress history, in 1936 (age 78)
- singer Kim Carnes in 1945 (age 69)
- guitarist Carlos Santana in 1947 (age 67), and actors Donna Dixon in 1957 (age 57), Sandra Oh in 1971 (age 43) and Omar Epps in 1973 (age 41).

 


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