Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Louis Lachenal, a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.
Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (died 1955)
Mary Osborne was an American jazz guitarist. She began performing at a young age and was featured on a radio program in North Dakota, where she grew up. In New York City during the…
Mary Osborne, American guitarist (died 1992)
František Zvarík was an accomplished theater actor and movie character actor. He has appeared in about two dozen Czechoslovak and Slovak films since the 1940s. Among his accomplish…
František Zvarík, Slovak actor (died 2008)
Peter Austin was a British brewer. He founded Ringwood Brewery and was a co-founder and first chairman of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). He built some 140 new breweries…
Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (died 2014)
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling …
John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (died 2016)
Toni Stone, born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was an American female professional baseball player who played in predominantly male leagues. In 1953, she became the first woman to play a…
Toni Stone, American baseball player (died 1996)
Aaron Temkin Beck was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is regarded as the father of cognitive ther…
Aaron Beck, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2021)
Richard Leacock was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of direct cinema and cinéma vérité.
Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (died 2011)
Heinz Bennent was a German actor.
Heinz Bennent, German actor (died 2011)
Harold Egbert Camping was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group …
Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (died 2013)
André Moynet was a much decorated French wartime fighter pilot who moved on to become a test pilot and an entrepreneur-businessman. He was also a politician.
André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (died 1993)
Elizabeth Spencer was an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She wrote a total of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a…
Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2019)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She wa…
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
James Cooke Brown was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the constructed language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board gam…
James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (died 2000)
John Lovell Horsley was an English actor.
John Horsley, English actor (died 2014)
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was a Zulu sangoma from South Africa. He was known as an author of books that draw upon African mythology, traditional Zulu folklore, extraterrestrial encoun…
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma (died 2020)
William Victor Roth Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party. He served from 1967 …
William Roth, American lawyer and politician (died 2003)
Henri Alleg, born as Harry John Salem, was a French-Algerian journalist, director of the Alger républicain newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. After Editions de …
Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (died 2013)
Calvert Grant DeForest, also known by his character name Larry "Bud" Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman a…
Calvert DeForest, American actor (died 2007)
Giuseppe Di Stefano was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Called "Pippo" by both fans and friends, he was known as the "Go…
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor and actor (died 2008)
Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville…
Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (died 2010)
Adolph Sylvester "Bud" Herseth was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001, and served as principal trumpet emeritus from 2001 until his retirement…
Adolph Herseth, American soldier and trumpet player (died 2013)
Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including on the 1955 French Makalu expedition in the Himalaya and Cerro Fitz Roy in the Patagonian Andes.
Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (died 1965)
Thomas Judson Saffell was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Athletics.
Tom Saffell, American baseball player and manager (died 2012)