Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Rolf Huisgen was a German chemist. His importance in synthetic organic chemistry extends to the enormous influence he had in post-war chemistry departments in Germany and Austria, …
Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (died 2020)
Iosif Izrailevich-Girshevich Vorovich was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, scientific engineer, author and was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1970. He was a…
Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 2001)
Keith Phillip Andrews was an American racecar driver. He was killed after crashing his car during practice for the 1957 Indianapolis 500.
Keith Andrews, American race car driver (died 1957)
Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in Moscow. Her most notable film a…
Alla Kazanskaya, Russian actress (died 2008)
Sam Sniderman, was a Canadian businessman best known as the founder of the Canadian record shop chain Sam the Record Man. Sniderman was also a major promoter of Canadian music incl…
Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (died 2012)
Alberto Sordi was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter.
Alberto Sordi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Isabelle Christian Holland was an American author of fiction for children and adults. She wrote gothic novels, adult mysteries, romantic thrillers and many books for children and y…
Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (died 2002)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucro…
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (died 2002)
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th preside…
José López Portillo, Mexican lawyer and politician, 31st President of Mexico (died 2004)
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar, was an Indian music director and a playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, along …
Hemanta Mukherjee, Indian singer and music director (died 1989)
Jacob H. Gilbert was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a United States representative from New York between 1960 and 1971.
Jacob H
Setsuko Hara was a Japanese actress. She is best known for her performances in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953) and Tokyo Twilight (1957), amongst many …
Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (died 2015)
François Jacob was a French biologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control…
François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter de Lacy Le Cheminant, was a senior commander of the Royal Air Force (RAF), who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from 1974 to 1976 and Deputy Co…
Peter Le Cheminant, English air marshal and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (died 2018)
Ian Gillett Carmichael was an English actor who worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career that spanned seventy years. Born in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Ridin…
Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (died 2010)
Lodewijk Paulina Van Den Bergh, known as Lode Van Den Bergh, also using the pseudonyms Aster Berkhof and Piet Visser, was a Belgian writer.
Aster Berkhof, Belgian author and academic (died 2020)
Yves Robert was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Donato Joseph "Danny" Cedrone was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.
Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (died 1954)
Thomas Jefferson was an American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong.
Thomas Jefferson, American trumpet player (died 1986)
Hans Gerschwiler was a Swiss figure skater. He was the 1948 Olympic silver medalist
Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater (died 2017)
Jovito Reyes Salonga, KGCR also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declar…
Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2016)
Saleh Mohammed Saleh Abdulaziz Al Ajeery was a Kuwaiti astronomer.
Saleh Ajeery, Kuwaiti astronomer (died 2022)
Lassie Lou Ahern was an American actress. Originally discovered by Will Rogers, she was best known for her role as Little Harry in the 1927 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin and also f…
Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (died 2018)