Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Ernest Alfred Stautner was a German-American professional football player and coach. He played as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steele…
Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (died 2006)
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Part…
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high s…
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human…
Elena Angela Verdugo was an American actress, who began in films at the age of five in Cavalier of the West (1931). Her career in radio, television, and film spanned six decades.
Elena Verdugo, American actress (died 2017)
Sir Anthony Frank Mason was an Australian judge who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1987 to 1995. He was first appointed to the High Court in 1972, h…
Anthony Mason, Australian soldier and judge, 9th Chief Justice of Australia (died 2026)
Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame, was a British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London Distri…
John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (died 2018)
Franco Leccese was an Italian sprinter.
Franco Leccese, Italian sprinter (died 1992)
Anthony Martin Grosvenor Christopher, Baron Christopher of Leckhampton, is a British businessman, trade unionist, tax official, and Labour life peer. As of 2025, he is the oldest s…
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English trade union leader and businessman
Sammy Drechsel, born Karl-Heinz Kamke, was a German political comedian, journalist and sports reporter. In 1956, together with Dieter Hildebrandt, he founded the Münchner Lach- und…
Sammy Drechsel, German comedian and journalist (died 1986)
Louis O'Neill was a Canadian university professor, writer, priest and politician. O'Neill was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976–1981 and held two cabinet posts.
Louis O'Neil, Canadian academic and politician (died 2018)
Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky, also transliterated as Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, or Boltjansky, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, educator and author of popular mathematical …
Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (died 2019)
Gerard Leon Cafesjian was a businessman and philanthropist who founded the Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF), the Cafesjian Museum Foundation (CMF) and the Cafesjian Center for the…
Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
Michele Ferrero was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company, which he developed from the …
Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (died 2015)
Frank Horace Hahn FBA was a British economist whose work focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and critique of monetarism. A famous problem of…
Frank Hahn, British economist (died 2013)
Charles Derek Chinnery was the controller of BBC Radio 1 from 1978 to 1985.
Derek Chinnery, English broadcaster (died 2015)
Thaddeus John "T. John" Lesinski,, was an American politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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John Leonard Thorn was an English schoolmaster, writer and educational consultant. He was headmaster of Repton School from 1961 to 1968 and then of Winchester College until 1985. H…
John Leonard Thorn, English lieutenant, author, and academic (died 2023)
Sir John George Melvin Compton, was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first prime minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from…
John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (died 2007)
Iwao Takamoto was an American animator, character designer, television producer, and film director. After his family had been sent to the California internment camps in the early …
Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (died 2007)
Corinne Calvet, born Corinne Dibos, was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films. According to one obituary, she was promoted "as a combination of Marlene Dietrich an…
Corinne Calvet, French actress (died 2001)
John LaGale Horton was an American country, honky tonk, and rockabilly musician during the 1950s. He is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs tha…
Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1960)
Charles Philip Bednarik, nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American professional football linebacker and center who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played colle…
Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (died 2015)
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected f…
Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (died 2013)
John Reginald Neville CM OBE was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years. He was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres …
John Neville, English-Canadian actor (died 2011)