Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin was an American professional basketball player and coach. Gallatin played nine seasons for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Associat…
Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. As an advocate fo…
Coretta Scott King, African-American activist and author (died 2006)
John Joseph Moakley was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001. Moak…
Joe Moakley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2001)
Dorothy Gladys Manley was a British sprinter. She competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, held in London, in the 100 metres where she won the silver medal with a time of 12.2 seconds…
Dorothy Manley, English sprinter (died 2021)
William John Slater,, also commonly known as W. J. Slater, was an English professional footballer. Slater made the majority of his appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers, with who…
Bill Slater, English footballer (died 2018)
Greta Marie Andersen was a Danish swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal in 100 m freestyle events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In the mid-1950s she moved to the United States, …
Greta Andersen, Danish swimmer (died 2023)
Bernard Vukas was a Croatian footballer who played for Yugoslavia.
Bernard Vukas, Yugoslav-Croatian footballer (died 1983)
Albert Zafy was a Malagasy politician and educator who served as the fourth president of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996. In 1988, he founded the National Union for Democracy and Deve…
Albert Zafy, Malagasy politician, 3rd President of Madagascar (died 2017)
Raymond Charles Barrett was an Australian actor. During the 1960s, he was a leading actor on British television, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters …
Ray Barrett, Australian actor and singer (died 2009)
John Michael Broadbent, MW, was a British wine critic, writer and auctioneer in a capacity as a Master of Wine. He was an authority on wine tasting and old wines.
Michael Broadbent, British wine critic and writer (died 2020)
Patricia Ann Carroll was an American actress and comedian. She is best known for providing the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid. She made guest appearances in many popular tel…
Pat Carroll, American actress (died 2022)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James I…
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (died 2013)
Manfred Eigen was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.
Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Bernard Lawson, better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor. He is remembered for his roles as Dr. Bombay in the comedy fantasy series Bewitched (1964–1972) of which he was the …
Bernard Fox, British actor (died 2016)
Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy was an American explorer, author, religious leader, and theologian. He served as Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Se…
Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (died 2007)
Herbert W. Franke was an Austrian scientist and writer. Die Zeit calls him "the most prominent German writing Science Fiction author". He is also one of the important early compute…
Herbert W
Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body was an English politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959, for Holland with Boston from 1966 to 19…
Richard Body, English politician (died 2018)
Raymond Robert Nagel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1958 to 1965 and the…
Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (died 2015)
Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics …
Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (died 2005)
Albert David Hedison Jr. was an American film, television, and stage actor. He was known for his roles as the title character in The Fly (1958), Captain Lee Crane in the television…
David Hedison, American actor (died 2019)
Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Ma…
Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (died 2016)
Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy was an English actress and singer. She began her film career in the musical film London Town (1946), a financial failure. Kendall worked regularly unti…
Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (died 1959)
Péter János Zwack was a Hungarian businessman, investor, philanthropist, diplomat and the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from 1990 until 1991. He was the CEO and owner o…
Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat (died 2012)
Michael Constantine was a Greek-American actor. He is most widely recognized for his portrayal of Kostas "Gus" Portokalos, the stubborn Greek father of Toula Portokalos, in the fil…
Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021)