| 94711 | August 20 | Death | 651 – Oswine of Deira |
| 94712 | August 20 | Death | 768 – Eadberht of Northumbria |
| 94713 | August 20 | Death | 984 – Pope John XIV |
| 94714 | August 20 | Death | 1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian and saint (b. 1090) |
| 94715 | August 20 | Death | 1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch preacher, founded the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340) |
| 94716 | August 20 | Death | 1572 – Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish navigator and politician, 1st Governor-General of the Philippines (b. 1502) |
| 94717 | August 20 | Death | 1580 – Jerónimo Osório, Portuguese historian and author (b. 1506) |
| 94718 | August 20 | Death | 1611 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1548) |
| 94719 | August 20 | Death | 1639 – Martin Opitz, German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1597) |
| 94720 | August 20 | Death | 1648 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1583) |
| 94721 | August 20 | Death | 1672 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1623) |
| 94722 | August 20 | Death | 1672 – Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician (b. 1625) |
| 94723 | August 20 | Death | 1680 – William Bedloe, English spy (b. 1650) |
| 94724 | August 20 | Death | 1701 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright and politician, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1639) |
| 94725 | August 20 | Death | 1707 – Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627) |
| 94726 | August 20 | Death | 1773 – Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian and author (b. 1701) |
| 94727 | August 20 | Death | 1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714) |
| 94728 | August 20 | Death | 1823 – Pope Pius VII (b. 1740) |
| 94729 | August 20 | Death | 1825 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753) |
| 94730 | August 20 | Death | 1835 – Agnes Bulmer, English merchant and poet (b. 1775) |
| 94731 | August 20 | Death | 1854 – Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801) |
| 94732 | August 20 | Death | 1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860) |
| 94733 | August 20 | Death | 1893 – Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827) |
| 94734 | August 20 | Death | 1912 – William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829) |
| 94735 | August 20 | Death | 1914 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835) |
| 94736 | August 20 | Death | 1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) |
| 94737 | August 20 | Death | 1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) |
| 94738 | August 20 | Death | 1919 – Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869) |
| 94739 | August 20 | Death | 1930 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851) |
| 94740 | August 20 | Death | 1939 – Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845) |