Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
Robert Louis Fosse was an American choreographer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, and stage director. He is known for his work on stage and screen, and was arguably the most influential …
Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (died 1987)
Antal Róka was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk. He competed for a Hungary in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 50 kilometre…
Antal Róka, Hungarian runner (died 1970)
Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale was a British astronomer who served as the fourteenth Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. He was Professor of Physics at Durham University from 1965…
Arnold Wolfendale, English astronomer and academic (died 2020)
Robert Paul Kroetsch was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, boundary 2, he was an influe…
Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (died 2011)
Robert James Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He created and played the title role in the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 …
Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (died 2004)
Correlli Douglas Barnett was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war deindustrialization.
Correlli Barnett, English historian and author (died 2022)
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and c…
Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Pierre Perrault was a Canadian documentary film director with the National Film Board of Canada. Over his 40-year career, he directed 32 films and was one of Canada's most importan…
Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 1999)
Marie Thérèse Rollande Killens is a former Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada. She is an administrator by career.
Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician
Shirley June Fry Irvin was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam eve…
Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (died 2021)
James Goldman was an American playwright and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay The Lion in Winter (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter W…
James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
Mario Lanfranchi was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.
Mario Lanfranchi, Italian director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor (died 2022)
Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University. …
Frank McCabe, American basketball player (died 2021)
Alan Jack Charig was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.
Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican govern…
Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)
Joseph Martin Sartoris was an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1994 to 2002.
Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025)
Chandra Shekhar Singh, known popularly as Babu Sahab, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority gov…
Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)
Lee Francis Allen was an American tenor saxophone player. Phil Alvin, Allen's bandmate in The Blasters, called him one of the most important instrumentalists in rock'n'roll. Allen'…
Lee Allen, American saxophone player (died 1994)
James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern is a British lawyer. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Lord Advocate, and Lord Chancellor (1987–1997). He was form…
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbir…
Brock Peters, American actor (died 2005)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was a British film director known for his pioneering work in television and film, and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly…
Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (died 2011)
Timothy Joseph O'Connor was an American character actor known for his work in television. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers.
Tim O'Connor, American actor (died 2018)
Alan John Dixon was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois Treasurer from 1971 to …
Alan J. Dixon, American lawyer and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (died 2014)