Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Hank Bagby was originally a singer around Denver in the mid-1940s. He started playing sax in San Francisco in the late 1940s and worked with such musicians as Leo Wright, Kenny Dre…
Hank Bagby, American saxophonist (died 1993)
Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He wrote "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow…
Damon Knight, American author and critic (died 2002)
Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, was an American professional boxer who held the World Featherweight Championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950. Known for …
Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (died 2006)
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He came first in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs before he …
Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (died 2000)
Richard Welstead Croker, known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall. His control over the city was cemented with …
Richard Croker, Irish American political boss (born 1843)
Viktor Eduard Kingissepp was an Estonian communist politician who was a founder and leading member of the Estonian Communist Party.
Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (born 1888)
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of i…
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' …
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Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and st…
Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860)
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's worl…
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but h…
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
Hitachiyama Taniemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was the sport's 19th yokozuna from 1903 till 1914. His great rivalry with Umegatan…
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)
Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922.
Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1867)
Satyendranath Dutta was a Bengali poet and is considered the "wizard of rhymes". Satyendranath Dutta was an expert in many disciplines of intellectual enquiry including medieval In…
Satyendranath Dutta, Indian poet and author (born 1882)
Albert I was Prince of Monaco from 10 September 1889 until his death in 1922. He devoted much of his life to oceanography, exploration and science. Alongside his expeditions, Alber…
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (born 1848)
Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov, was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work a…
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)
Lothar Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 40 victories. He was a younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen and…
Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1894)
Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, ; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Cath…
Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (born 1863)
Martin Dies was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. His son Martin Dies Jr. was also a member of the United States House of Re…
Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (born 1870)
Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers …
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1856)
Cathal Brugha was an Irish republican politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the first president of Dáil …
Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann…
Jokichi Takamine was a Japanese chemist. He is known for being the first to isolate adrenaline in 1901.
Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (born 1854)
Donát Bánki was a Hungarian mechanical engineer and inventor of Jewish heritage. In 1893 he invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, together with János Csonka. The inve…
Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (born 1856)