List of Famous people born on October 20th

Noreen M. Corcoran was an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her co-starring role in the television sitcom Bachelor Father, as the teenager Kelly Gregg, the niece of wealthy attorney Bentley Gregg, played by John Forsythe.

Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE was an English businessman, who was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons, the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He was the son of William Morrison, who founded the company.

David John Profumo, FRSL, is an English novelist.

Ango Sakaguchi was a Japanese novelist and essayist. His real name was Heigo Sakaguchi.

Samra Rahimli is an Azerbaijani singer. In 2015, she competed in O Ses Türkiye where she made it to the quarterfinals and in March 2016, she became a finalist on the first season of Səs Azərbaycan. On 10 March 2016, she was announced as the Azerbaijani act for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Miracle". Rahimli performed during Semi Final 1 and successfully progressed to the Grand Final where she placed 17th with 117 points.

Ivo Pogorelić is a Yugoslav-born Croatian pianist. A musician of wide repertoire, among his renowned recordings are Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6.

Mohammad Sidique Khan was the oldest of the four Al Qaeda suicide bombers and believed to be the leader responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which bombs were detonated on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London suicide attacks, killing 56 people including the attackers and injuring over 700. Khan bombed the Edgware Road train killing himself and six other people.

Mare Dibaba Hurrsa is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing. Dibaba is not related to track Olympic champion and world record holder Tirunesh Dibaba.

Fausto Fanti Jasmin was a Brazilian actor, humorist and musician, best known for being one of the founding members of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato and the original guitarist of parodic heavy metal band Massacration under the alias Blondie Hammett.

Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and protection for the post-World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.