Explore 2114 historical events from 1920–1929.
Hans Charles Freeman AM, FAA was a German-born Australian bioinorganic chemist, protein crystallographer, and professor of inorganic chemistry who spent most of his academic career…
Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (died 2008)
Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a Puerto Rican pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in…
Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Georges Robert Edmond Gilson was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Georges Gilson, French archbishop (died 2024)
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician (died 2025)
Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget…
Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (died 2014)
Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema…
Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981)
James Hadley Billington was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He…
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Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) and The Dot and the Line…
Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic (died 2021)
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, F…
Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (died 2007)
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
Charles Hirsch Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host, author, and songwriter. A key crew member of several hugely successful television game shows, he was th…
Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (died 2017)
Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)
James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was …
James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer
Balraj Raghunath Dutt, publicly known as Sunil Dutt, was an Indian actor, film producer, director, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He acted in more than 80 films…
Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005)
John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 19…
John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
Nada Inada was the pen-name of a Japanese psychiatrist, writer and literary critic active in late Shōwa period and early Heisei period Japan. His pen name is from the Spanish lan…
Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. He had a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s. He emerged as a prominent…
Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (died 1954)
James Alton McDivitt Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined th…
James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2022)
Ian McCahon Sinclair is an Australian former politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He served as eith…
Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, was a businessman and Labour politician. He was a member of Blackburn Council for 22 years, serving as its leader from 1972 to 1976. In 19…
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician (died 2016)
Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist who developed the field of sociobiology.
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Brigid Antonia Brophy was an English author, literary critic and polemicist. She was an influential campaigner who agitated for many types of social reform, including homosexual pa…
Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (died 1995)
Roy Bull was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s and spent his whole career – as player, coach & administrator – with the Manly-Warringah club i…
Roy Bull, Australian rugby league player (died 2004)
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during t…
Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (died 1945)