Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated…
Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz, better known by his ring name Édouard Carpentier, was a French and Canadian professional wrestler, gymnast, and member of the French Resistance durin…
Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (died 2010)
Willis Allison Carto was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic c…
Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (died 2015)
Jean Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canad…
Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (died 1987)
Nita Gale Bieber was an American actress and dancer.
Nita Bieber, American actress (died 2019)
Bernard Pons was a French politician and medical doctor who was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic from 1971 to 1976 and a member of the Rally for the Republic par…
Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (died 2022)
Maunu Kurkvaara was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. Kurkvaara has been widely regarded as the initiator of the "new wave" of Finnish cinema in the spirit of French New Wa…
Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter (died 2023)
Elizabeth Joan Jennings was a British poet. She won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1955 for her second poetry collection, A Way of Looking.
Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
Helen Gallagher was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Donaldson Award, and a Drama Desk Award.
Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)
Paul Raymond Burke was an American actor, best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and 12 O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award…
Paul Burke, American actor (died 2009)
Norman Frederick Jewison was a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated su…
Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer (died 2024)
Rahimuddin Khan was a Pakistani four-star general who served as the fourth Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan Army from 1984 to 1987. He also served as the se…
Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan (died 2022)
William Desmond Anthony Pertwee was an English actor. He played Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army and P.C. Wilson in You Rang, M'Lord?.
Bill Pertwee, English actor (died 2013)
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known fi…
Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (died 2002)
Bryan Forbes was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British fi…
Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Wolfgang Iser was a German literary scholar.
Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (died 2007)
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words…
Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (died 2015)
Grace Glueck was an American arts journalist. She worked for The New York Times from 1951 until the early 2010s.
Grace Glueck, American arts journalist (died 2022)
Carroll Walter "Whitey" Lockman was an American left-handed hitting first baseman and outfielder, coach, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2009)
Bernard Thompson was a British television producer and director most famous for his work on Last of the Summer Wine and Are You Being Served?. Thompson served as producer and dire…
Bernard Thompson, British television producer and director (died 1998)
Beatriz Segall was a Brazilian actress. One of her most notable works is the role of Odete Roitman on the telenovela Vale Tudo (1988), considered the greatest villain in the histor…
Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (died 2018)
Charles Reed Biddle, was an American-Canadian jazz bassist. He lived most of his life in Montreal, organizing and performing in jazz music events.
Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist (died 2003)
Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig was a Scottish physician, educator, academic and former President of the General Medical Council.
Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, Scottish physician, academic, and politician (died 2015)
Betye Irene Saar is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Art…
Betye Saar, American artist