Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Jean-Marie Seroney was a Kenyan human rights advocate, legislator, and an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. He was detained as a prisoner of conscience for 1,155 days.
Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (died 1982)
Gulabrai Sipahimalani "Ram" Ramchand was an Indian cricketer, cricket coach and administrator who played for the national team in 33 Test matches between 1952 and 1960. In his only…
Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer (died 2003)
Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, T…
Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (died 2015)
Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director and screenwriter.
Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (died 2007)
Will Jordan was an American character actor and stand-up comedian best known for his resemblance to, and impressions of, television host and newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan.
Will Jordan, American comedian and actor (died 2018)
Chelliah Rajadurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician, government minister, and Member of Parliament. He served as the 1st Mayor of Batticaloa from 1967 to 1968.
C. Rajadurai, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Batticaloa
John Lawrence Seigenthaler was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.
John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (died 2014)
John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet and art critic.
John Ashbery, American poet (died 2017)
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 langua…
Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (died 2010)
Richard Keith Johnson was an English stage and screen actor, writer and producer. Described by Michael Coveney as "a very 'still' actor – authoritative, calm and compelling," he wa…
Richard Johnson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Peter Kittilsby Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, along with Andrew Kau…
Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (died 2004)
Victor Gee Keung Wong was an American actor, artist, and journalist of Chinese descent.
Victor Wong, American actor (died 2001)
Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (born 1866)
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to …
Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also …
Harold Geiger, American pilot and lieutenant (born 1884)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much …
Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1876)
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1878)
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (born 1860)
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the…
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Hüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is known for landscapes with architectural features.
Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (born 1886)
Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)
Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897.
Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. …
Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)