Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Ronald Arthur Biggs was a British criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, livin…
Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (died 2013)
Luis Arturo García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations…
Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (died 2018)
Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and human rights activist. He was murdered when he was editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which…
Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (died 1979)
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer in Bengali films. Coming to limelight in the early 1950s Manabendra was an innovative and stylish singer who had a s…
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer (died 1992)
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. …
Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. was an American Emmy Award–winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One D…
Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (died 2016)
Giacomo Capuzzi was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi.
Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi from 1989 to 2005 (died…
Richard Ihetu GCOI, professionally known as Dick Tiger was a Nigerian professional boxer who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships.
Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (died 1971)
William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His extensive use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative ch…
Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (died 1980)
Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Rahn…
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (died 2003)
Jack Barton Adkisson Sr., better known by his ring name Fritz Von Erich, was an American professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, and the patriarch of the Von Erich family. He wa…
Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler and trainer (died 1997)
Hugues Jean Marie Auffray, better known as Hugues Aufray, is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for French-language covers of Bob Dylan's songs. Aufray knew Dyla…
Hugues Aufray, French singer-songwriter
William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He i…
Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, whe…
Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (died 1977)
Ion N. Petrovici was a German neurologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne.
Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic (died 2021)
Kevin Heffernan was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Dublin county team.
Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
Herman Badillo was an American lawyer and politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the f…
Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (died 2014)
Joseph Charles Kennedy, known by the pen name X. J. Kennedy, was an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English lit…
X. J. Kennedy, American poet, translator, anthologist, editor (died 2026)
Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada OMSG, sometimes known by the nickname "Kathy", was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist.
Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician and political prisoner (died 2017)
Valery Pavlovich Alekseyev, sometimes Alexeev was a Soviet anthropologist, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow (1987–1991) and member of the Soviet Academy of Scienc…
Valery Alekseyev, Russian anthropologist and author (died 1991)
Roy Lee Clay Sr. was an African American computer scientist and inventor. He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created t…
Roy Clay, American computer scientist (died 2024)
Ulrich Klaus Wegener was a German police officer of the Federal Border Guard. He was also the commander and founding member of the federal counter-terrorism force GSG 9.
Ulrich Wegener, German police officer and general (died 2017)
Vladimir Beekman was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.
Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (died 2009)
Peter William Thomson was an Australian professional golfer, often cited as the greatest and most successful golfer in Australian golf history. In the late 1940s, Thomson turned pr…
Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (died 2018)