Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
William Jennings Sheffield Jr. was an American Democratic politician who was the fifth governor of Alaska from 1982 to 1986. Sheffield's term in the governor's mansion was marked b…
Bill Sheffield, American politician; 5th Governor of Alaska (died 2022)
Samuel Belzberg, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 2018)
Rudolph George Perpich Sr. was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic-Farm…
Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (died 1995)
Sir Harold Matthew Evans was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister titl…
Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist (died 2020)
Peter Samuel Heine was a South African cricketer who played in fourteen Test matches between 1955 and 1962. On his Test debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against Eng…
Peter Heine, South African cricketer (died 2005)
Sir Cyril Richard Smith was a British Liberal Party and Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992.
Cyril Smith, English politician (died 2010)
Ian Edmund Bannen was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), th…
Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (died 1999)
Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the Inter…
Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Patrick Miller Hemingway was an American wildlife manager and writer who was novelist Ernest Hemingway's second son and the first born to Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. …
Patrick Hemingway, American writer
Jean-Louis Poisson, better known as Jean Louis Pesch, was a French author of comics series, including Sylvain et Sylvette.
Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator (died 2023)
Radius Prawiro was an Indonesian economist and politician.
Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (died 2005)
Hasan Hasanzade Amoli was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcame the traditional opposition to te…
Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, Islamic philosopher, theologian, mathematician and mystic (died 2021)
Nathaniel Tarn was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born Edward Michael Mendelson in Paris, France, to a French-Romanian mother and a Britis…
Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator (died 2024)
Evelyn Bridget Patricia Ward-Thomas, better known by the pen name Evelyn Anthony, was a British writer. Anthony was born in the Lambeth district of London. She had a very prolific …
Evelyn Anthony, English author (died 2018)
Giampiero Boniperti was an Italian footballer who played his entire 15-season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He …
Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician (died 2021)
Teofisto "Tito" Tayko Guingona Jr. is a Filipino statesman and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004, during the first term of Preside…
Teofisto Guingona Jr., Filipino politician; 11th Vice President of the Philippines
Jassem Alwan was a Syrian military officer and prominent military figure in Syria in the early 1960s. He rose to prominence during the period of the United Arab Republic (UAR) when…
Jassem Alwan, Syrian Army Officer (died 2018)
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam, also known as Shan Ratnam, was a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (died 2001)
Charles William Tanner was an American professional baseball player and manager. A left fielder and pinch hitter who appeared in 396 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 19…
Chuck Tanner, American baseball player and manager (died 2011)
Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001…
Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2013)
Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Western and crime films, most notably in collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman.…
Warren Oates, American actor (died 1982)
Bernard Malgrange was a French mathematician who worked on differential equations and singularity theory. He proved the Ehrenpreis–Malgrange theorem and the Malgrange preparation t…
Bernard Malgrange, French mathematician (died 2024)
Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell was a British-American actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had sma…
Patricia Hitchcock, English actress (died 2021)
Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) was the first Zambian registered nurse, in the 1950s when her country was still the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. She trained and qualified …
Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006)