Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
John Arthur "Jaki" Byard was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among several other instrum…
Jaki Byard, American pianist and composer (died 1999)
Ilmar Kullam was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the silver medal. He pla…
Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2011)
John Preston Amis was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for The Guardian and to BBC radio and television…
John Amis, English journalist and critic (died 2013)
Claude Helffer was a French pianist.
Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (died 2004)
Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between…
Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
Marilyn Priscilla Johnson was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Togo. She was appointed to that position on September 23, 1978, and left her post on Ju…
Marilyn P
Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers.
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (died 2006)
William Ralph Blass was an American fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Ac…
Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002)
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chica…
Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (died 1995)
Morris Richard Jeppson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first …
Morris R
Jack Carter was an American comedian, actor and television presenter. Born in Brooklyn, Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow rapid-paced contemporaries Milton Ber…
Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (died 2015)
John Raymond Postgate FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex. Postgate's research in microbiology inv…
John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (died 2014)
Richard Henry Timberlake Jr. was an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He became a leading advocate of free bank…
Richard Timberlake, American economist (died 2020)
Johnny Henry Smith II was an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist. He wrote "Walk, Don't Run" in 1954. In 1984, Smith was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Johnny Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2013)
Harold Richardson Laycoe was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, and Boston Bru…
Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1998)
Walter Farley was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), the success of which led to many sequel…
Walter Farley, American author (died 1989)
Eleanor Jean Parker was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (195…
Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
Vincenzo "Enzo" Apicella, FCSD was an Italian London-based artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur.
Enzo Apicella, English artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (died 2018)
George Theophilus Walker was an American composer, pianist, and organist, and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his work Lilacs …
George Walker, American composer (died 2018)
Ralph Joseph P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist (died 2001)
Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of ethnic-Romanian heritage. He is regarded as one of 20th-century Yugoslavia's and Serbia's most important poets, and his work …
Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (died 1991)
John William Vessey Jr. was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of general, and was most notable for his service as the tenth chairman of the Joint Chi…
John William Vessey, Jr
Toshi Seeger was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, her credits include the 1966 film Afro-Americ…
Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (died 2013)
Mordechai Bibi was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda and its successors between 1959 and 1974.
Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (died 2023)