Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator.
Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (died 2012)
Roger Lee Easton Sr. was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and…
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Braj Basi Lal was an Indian writer and archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the In…
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Walker Smith Jr., better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame …
Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (died 1989)
Daniel Joseph Berrigan was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author.
Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (died 2016)
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Sophie Scholl, German activist (died 1943)
Richard Lewis Deacon was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Be…
Richard Deacon, American actor (died 1984)
Vladimir Colin was a Romanian short story writer and novelist. One of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Romanian literature, whose main works are known on s…
Vladimir Colin, Romanian journalist and author (died 1991)
Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greates…
Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1992)
Edo Murtić was a Croatian painter, best known for his lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism style. He worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, gouache, graphi…
Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2005)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science. His central insight was the use of two mirrors …
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stütt…
Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and illustrator (died 1986)
Federico Krutwig Sagredo was a Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, politician, and author of several books, with Vasconia standing out in the political domain for its influence in …
Federico Krutwig, Basque writer, member of ETA and translator (died 1998)
Dennis Brain was a British horn player. From a musical family – his father and grandfather were horn players – he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the Second W…
Dennis Brain, English horn player (died 1957)
Henry Robert Merrill Levan was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Merrill was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1950s on the US an…
Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (died 1998)
Sir Michael Anthony Epstein was a British pathologist and academic. He was one of the discoverers of the Epstein–Barr virus, along with Yvonne Barr and Bert Achong.
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Farley McGill Mowat was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publi…
Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (died 2014)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundi…
Joan Eardley, British artist (died 1963)
Henry George Carey Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns, as well as numerous television series.
Harry Carey Jr
Leslie Charles James Broderick was a British World War II Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber pilot and teacher who was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III and one of the last t…
Leslie Broderick, English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013)
Harry Winston Brown was an Army Air Corps second lieutenant assigned to the 47th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1…
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Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.
Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights activist born in San Pedro, California. She was interned at the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas during World War II, an experi…
Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (died 2014)
Karel van het Reve was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.
Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author (died 1999)