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| May 20th, 2007 (May 20 2007) | Death | Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (born in 1914) | |
| May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Matt Czuchry, American actor | |
| May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer | |
| May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Miriam Parrish, American television actress | |
| May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Angela Goethals, American actress | |
| May 20th, 1977 (May 20 1977) | Birth | Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director | |
| May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist | |
| May 20th, 1967 (May 20 1967) | Birth | Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece | |
| May 20th, 1947 (May 20 1947) | Birth | Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive | |
| May 20th, 1947 (May 20 1947) | Death | Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1862) | |
| May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Event | By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | |
| May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Event | At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. | |
| May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | Bud Grant, American football coach | |
| May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal | |
| May 20th, 1927 (May 20 1927) | Birth | David Hedison, American actor | |
| May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Birth | Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (died in 1967) | |
| May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Birth | Bergur Sigurbjornsson, Icelandic politician (died in 2005) | |
| May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Death | Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (born in 1850) | |
| May 20th, 1917 (May 20 1917) | Death | Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (born in 1887) | |
| May 20th, 1897 (May 20 1897) | Birth | Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish anarchist (died in 1983) | |
| May 20th, 1737 (May 20 1737) | Birth | William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (died in 1805) | |
| May 20th, 1717 (May 20 1717) | Death | John Trevor, British statesman (born in 1637) | |
| May 20th, 1677 (May 20 1677) | Death | George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (born in 1612) | |
| May 20th, 1497 (May 20 1497) | Event | John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). | |
| May 20th, 1277 (May 20 1277) | Death | Pope John XXI (born in 1215) | |
| May 20th, 1217 (May 20 1217) | Event | The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. | |
