Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and …
Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)
John David Vanderhoof was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Vanderhoof served as the 37th governor of Colorado from 1973 to 1975, assuming the office from J…
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Louis Duva was an American boxing trainer, manager and boxing promoter who handled nineteen world champions. The Duva family promoted boxing events in over twenty countries on six …
Lou Duva, American boxer, trainer, and manager (died 2017)
Roger D. Fisher was a Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Roger Fisher, American author and academic (died 2012)
Kaiho Tuomas Albin Gerdt was a Finnish soldier and Knight of the Mannerheim Cross, numbered #95. He was born in Heinävesi. Gerdt, serving as a junior runner officer in the infantry…
Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier (died 2020)
Edith Roger was a Norwegian dancer, choreographer, and stage director.
Edith Roger, Norwegian dancer and choreographer (died 2023)
Joseph Herbert Weatherly was an American stock car racing driver. Weatherly was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009 after winning NASCAR's Grand National …
Joe Weatherly, American race car driver (died 1964)
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (died 2001)
Harry Clement Stubbs, better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomic…
Hal Clement, American author and educator (died 2003)
Denholm Mitchell Elliott was an English actor. He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Place…
Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (died 1992)
Beatrice Joan Caulfield was an American actress and model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually led to signing as an actre…
Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (died 1991)
Baron Povel Karl Henric Ramel was a Swedish entertainer. Ramel was a singer, pianist, vaudeville artist, author and a novelty song composer. His style was characterized by imaginat…
Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2007)
Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1…
Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 2002)
Carmen Blanche Silvera was a British actress. Born in Canada of Spanish descent, she moved to Coventry, England, with her family when she was a child. She appeared on television re…
Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (died 2002)
Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, mem…
Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Charles Luther Sifford was an American professional golfer. Early in his career, he won a number of All-Negro events, winning the United Golf Association's National Negro Open six …
Charlie Sifford, American professional golfer (died 2015)
Viktor Eduard Kingissepp was an Estonian communist politician who was a founder and leading member of the Estonian Communist Party.
Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (born 1888)
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of i…
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' …
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Richard Welstead Croker, known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall. His control over the city was cemented with …
Richard Croker, Irish American political boss (born 1843)
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's worl…
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the coun…
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c