Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Robert Francis Wanzer was an American professional basketball player and coach. A five time NBA All-Star and three time All-NBA Second Team selection, Wanzer played his entire prof…
Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)
Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commerciall…
Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (died 1986)
Olga Nida Carmena Nardone was an American actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which she played a member of the Lullaby League. S…
Olga Nardone, American actress (died 2010)
LeRoy Neiman was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events.
LeRoy Neiman, American painter (died 2012)
Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s,…
Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (died 1993)
Suharto was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second and longest-serving president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998.
Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.
Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (died 2006)
Jean Lacouture was a journalist, historian and author. He was particularly famous for his biographies.
Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (died 2015)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, …
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (died 2021)
Jean Robic was a French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature and appearance was encapsula…
Jean Robic, French cyclist (died 1980)
Talmage Holt Farlow was an American jazz guitarist. He was nicknamed "Octopus" because of how his large, quick hands spread over the fretboard.
Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (died 1998)
Luis García-Berlanga Martí was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critique…
Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 2010)
James Archibald Houston was a Canadian artist, designer, children's author and filmmaker who played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to …
James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (died 2005)
Lennart Strand was a Swedish middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 m. In this event, he won the national title in 1945–47, 1949 and 1950 and the European title in 1946…
Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (died 2004)
Martha Miriam Greenhouse was an American stage, film, and television actress, who also served as an actors' union leader.
Martha Greenhouse, American actress (died 2013)
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jaz…
Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (died 1977)
Louis Jourdan was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter fro…
Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (died 2015)
Byron Edgar Farwell was an American military historian, biographer, and politician. He was the mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia, for three terms. He also worked for Chrysler, and was t…
Byron Farwell, American historian and author (died 1999)
Francisco Olegario Segura Cano, better known as Pancho "Segoo" Segura, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He was born in …
Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player (died 2017)
Paul Tiulana was an Iñupiaq artist and dancer from Alaska. Originally from King Island, Tiulana was drafted in World War II and injured; his leg was broken and eventually amputated…
Paul Tiulana, Iñupiat artist and dancer (died 1994)
Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter.
Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (died 1965)
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, model, and singer. She was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s and starred in more than 20 films…
Jane Russell, American actress and singer (died 2011)
William Edwin Self was an American television and film producer who began his career as an actor.
William Edwin Self, American actor, producer, and production manager (died 2010)
Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which sh…
Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)