Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became …
Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (died 2003)
Desmond Robert Renford MBE was an Australian long-distance swimmer who swam the English Channel 19 times from 19 attempts. This was a record for successful crossings by an Australi…
Des Renford, Australian swimmer (died 1999)
Jimmy Yves Newman, better known as Jimmy C. Newman, was an American country music and Cajun singer-songwriter and long-time star of the Grand Ole Opry.
Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
William Edward Daily was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.
Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (died 2018)
Pieter William Kee was a Dutch organist and composer.
Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (died 2018)
Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, s…
Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (died 2015)
Leland Milo Hamilton was an American sportscaster, best known for calling play-by-play for seven different Major League Baseball teams from 1953 to 2012. He received the Ford C. Fr…
Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (died 2015)
Francis Matthews was an English actor, best known for playing Paul Temple in the BBC television series of the same name and for voicing Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the M…
Francis Matthews, English actor (died 2014)
Alice Geisler Raftary was an American educator, based in Detroit, who specialized in education and rehabilitation for newly blind adults.
Alice Raftary, American educator of blind adults (died 2014)
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of…
John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (died 2011)
Ferenc Sánta was a Hungarian novelist and film screenwriter. He was awarded the József Attila Prize in 1956 and 1964, and the prestigious Kossuth Prize in 1973. He was born in Braṣ…
Ferenc Sánta, Hungarian author and screenwriter (died 2008)
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credit…
Paul Volcker, American economist and academic (died 2019)
Eric Hill was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. He was best known for his puppy character named Spot. His works have been widely praised for their cont…
Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (died 2014)
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is a retired Canadian judge who served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the secon…
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian lawyer and jurist
Harlan Perry Howard was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of w…
Harlan Howard, American songwriter (died 2002)
Robert Lee Rock was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the Mayor of Anderson, Indiana, from 1972 to 1980. He was the D…
Robert L. Rock, American politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (died 2013)
Marguerite Straus Frank was a French-American mathematician who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.
Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician (died 2024)
Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appear…
Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (died 2004)
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the econo…
Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (died 2013)
John Keating was a Scottish musician, songwriter, arranger and trombonist.
Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (died 2015)
Keith Victor Holman, MBE was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs between 1949 and …
Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2011)
Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine, was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who became a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 195…
G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (died 1996)
Mathé Altéry is a French soprano prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. Mathé Altéry is the daughter of French tenor Mario Altéry. In 1956, both Altéry and Dany Dauberson individually r…
Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
Laurinda de Jesus Balleroni, known professionally as Laura Cardoso, was a Brazilian actress. Regarded as a grande dame of Brazilian drama, she was a pioneer of television, working …
Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress