October 20
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Art and culture
- 1971 - The Second Wet Dream Film Festival opens in Amsterdam
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Births
- 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1854 - Alphonse Allais, French writer (d. 1905)
- 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
- 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
- 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer
- 1950 - Elodie Lauten, American composer
- 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
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Deaths
- 1976 - Slavko Vorkapich, Serbian-American film director (b. 1894)
- 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
- 2005 - Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian artist (b. 1934)
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