Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.…
Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)
Turgut Cansever was a Turkish architect and city planner. He is the only architect to win the Aga Khan Award for Architecture three times. He is known as "the wise architect." He p…
Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)
Constance Baker Motley was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of th…
Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2005)
Albert Jean de Grandpré was a Canadian lawyer and businessman who served as the president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc.
A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic (died 2022)
Paul Howard Poberezny was an American aviator, entrepreneur, and aircraft designer. He founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) in 1953, and spent the greater part of hi…
Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (died 2013)
Darío Víttori was an Italian-born Argentine comic actor. His real name was Melito Dario Spartaco Margozzi. He was born on 14 September 1921 in Montecelio, Lazio, Italy, and died on…
Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (died 2001)
Richard Gordon, was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular histor…
Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (died 2017)
Gene Roland was an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger who contributed richly to American jazz, especially through his work with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Born in Dalla…
Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (died 1982)
Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an American R&B vocal group. One of the most successful R&B groups of the early 1950s, the Dominoes helped launch the singing careers of two notabl…
Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2002)
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton b…
Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General Presid…
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Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is …
Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)
John Carl Hendricks, known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instru…
Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (died 2017)
Korla Pandit, was an American exotica musician, composer, pianist, and organist. Redd was an African-American man from Missouri who moved to California in the 1940s. After getting …
Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (died 1998)
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work has affected global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in w…
Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (died 1997)
Emmanuel Giovanni Salvatore Pietro Dimech, also known as Manwel Dimech was a Maltese socialist, philosopher, journalist, writer, poet and social revolutionary. Born in Valletta and…
Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (born 1860)
Maurice Moore was an Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence. In April 1921 Moore was executed in the military prison of Victoria Barracks after being captured…
Maurice Moore (Irish republican), executed member of the Irish Republican Army (born 1894)
Théodore Eugène Pilette was a Belgian racing driver and businessman. He started racing in 1903.
Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (born 1883)
Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a …
Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
Jean François Victor Aicard was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)
Karl Mantzius was a Danish actor, stage and film director, theatre scholar, and operatic baritone.
Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (born 1860)
August Nilsson was a Swedish track and field athlete and tug of war competitor who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (born 1872)
Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American painter, naturalist, and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals, and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his li…
Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (born 1849)
Coenraad Christiaan Hiebendaal was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the silver medal in the coxed …
Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (born 1879)