Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels…
Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (died 1999)
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring the…
Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (died 1994)
John Herbert Chapman was a Canadian space researcher. He started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere.
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these…
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)
Nancy Jane Kulp was an American character actor, writer and comedian widely known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.
Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
Lydia Gueiler Tejada was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia from 1979 to 1980. She was one of the first female republican heads of state and the firs…
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
Iris Apfel was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with …
Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (died 2024)
Otis Grey Pike was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, from 1961 to 1979.
Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (died 2014)
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the medi…
Raymond Williams, Welsh author and academic (died 1988)
Willem Frederik Hermans was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are The Ho…
Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet and playwright (died 1995)
John Aston was an English footballer.
John Aston Sr., English footballer (died 2003)
Robert Thurston Dart was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. Along with Nigel Fortune, Oliver Neighbour and Stanley Sadie, he was one of Britain's leading music…
Thurston Dart, English pianist, conductor, and musicologist (died 1971)
Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of …
Marguerite Higgins, American journalist and author (died 1966)
John Murray "Moe" Henderson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 405 games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins between 1945 and 1952.
Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013)
Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the …
Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (died 2007)
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literat…
Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004)
Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by …
Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012)
Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.
Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (died 2014)
Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing…
Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (died 2001)
Dinko Šakić was a Croatian Ustaše official, and convicted war criminal, who commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) from April to Novem…
Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (died 2008)
Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of …
Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2000)
John Woodland Morris was an American lieutenant general who became Chief of Engineers.
John W. Morris, American general (died 2013)
Leaford Bearskin was a Native American tribal leader and US Air Force officer. He was Chief of the Wyandotte Nation from 1983 to 2011.
Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and colonel (died 2012)
Frank McGee was an American television journalist, best known for his work with NBC from the late 1950s into the early 1970s.
Frank McGee, American journalist (died 1974)