Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World W…
Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (died 1947)
Hao Wang was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and commentator on Kurt Gödel.
Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1995)
Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, i…
Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (died 2010)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
George Simms Hammond was an American scientist and theoretical chemist who developed "Hammond's postulate", and fathered organic photochemistry,–the general theory of the geometric…
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Harold Newhouser, nicknamed "Prince Hal" and "Hurricane Hal," was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher from 1939 to 1955, most …
Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (died 1998)
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.
Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008)
Harold Lane David was an American lyricist. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.
Hal David, American songwriter and composer (died 2012)
Katie "Kitty" Kallen was an American singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-World War II pop scene, and th…
Kitty Kallen, American singer (died 2016)
Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipi…
Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Inge Borkh was a German operatic dramatic soprano. She was first based in Switzerland, where she received international attention when she appeared in the first performance in Germ…
Inge Borkh, German soprano (died 2018)
Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE, known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series …
Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (died 2013)
Pandit Dattatreya Vishnu Paluskar, was a Hindustani classical vocalist. He was considered a child prodigy.
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Heinz G. Konsalik was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.
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Norman Frederick Hetherington was an Australian artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, and puppet designer.
Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (died 2010)
Edna Lillian Doré was a British actress. She was known for her bit-part roles in sitcoms and for playing the character of Mo Butcher in EastEnders from 1988 to 1990.
Edna Doré, English actress (died 2014)
Andrew Grima was an Anglo-Italian jewellery designer.
Andrew Grima, Anglo-Italian jewellery designer (died 2007)
Howard Reig was an American radio and television announcer. His last name was pronounced "reeg."
Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (died 2008)
Thomas Uren was an Australian politician and Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1975 to 1977. Uren served as the Member for Reid in the Australian House of Representa…
Tom Uren, Australian soldier, boxer, and politician (died 2015)
Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg, better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 10…
Alida Valli, Austrian-Italian actress and singer (died 2006)
Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists a…
Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (died 1985)
Betty Freeman was an American philanthropist and photographer. She had originally trained to be a concert pianist, practicing six to eight hours per day for twenty years, but event…
Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (died 2009)
Ernest Andrew Royal was a jazz trumpeter. His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording T…
Ernie Royal, American trumpet player (died 1983)
Sir Sigmund Sternberg was a Hungarian-British philanthropist, interfaith campaigner, businessman and Labour Party donor.
Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (died 2016)