Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Repub…
George Shanard, American politician and businessman (died 2012)
Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college profe…
James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov or Tschuprov was a Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography.
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black p…
Bessie Coleman, American pilot (born 1892)
Libert H. Boeynaems, formally Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems was a Belgian Catholic priest who served as the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian I…
Libert H
Joseph James Fletcher was an Australian biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal.
Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (born 1850)
Mehmed VI Vahideddin, also known as Şahbaba among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 unti…
Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist lar…
Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People'…
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political po…
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (born 1904)
Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1864)
Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets,…
Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (born 1853)
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with mos…
Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas…
Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosu…
Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857)
Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable org…
Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (born 1901)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle E…
Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (born 1868)
Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembe…
Charles Wood Irish composer (born 1866)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet…
Felix Dzerzhinsky, Soviet educator and politician of Belarusian origin (born 1877)
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian painter and draughtsman who specialised in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a co-founder of Russian folklorist and…
Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (born 1848)
Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and businessman. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and the only one of their four child…
Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln (born…
The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 11 through 14 May 1926. It was also the fi…
The crew of the airship Norge (pictured), led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the
Pentecostalism, also known as classical Pentecostalism, is a movement within the evangelical wing of Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God throu…
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappeari