List of Famous people born on January 20th

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist.

Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was the eldest daughter and second child of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and his wife Princess Sophie of the Netherlands.

Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, born Lucy Davies, was a seventeenth-century English poet.

Kamal Keilany (1897–1959) was an Egyptian writer. He was born in Al Qala'a district in Cairo, Egypt.

Chūichi Date is a Japanese retired politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who previous served as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Ashibetsu, Hokkaido and high school graduate, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001 after serving in the prefectural assembly of Hokkaidō. He was a former President of the House of Councillors.

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC, known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge. He served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General from 1848 to 1850 and as Attorney-General from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1873. Knighted in 1848, he was ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866.

Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE, later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately fifty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents.