Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
George Jost Hauptfuhrer Jr. was an American basketball player who, despite being taken third overall in the 1948 BAA Draft after a collegiate career at Louisville and Harvard, deci…
George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (died 2013)
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to …
Hilary Putnam, American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher (died 2016)
Hannah Bayles Tallentire Hauxwell was an English farmer who was the subject of several television documentaries. She first came to public attention after being covered in an ITV do…
Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality (died 2018)
Rona Anderson was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films Scrooge and T…
Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (died 2013)
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetim…
Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (died 2023)
Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was Anatomy of Britain, which was published in 1962 and was followed by fiv…
Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (died 2004)
Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon S…
Gordon Scott, American actor (died 2007)
Rushdy Saeed Baghdadi Abaza was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry and is one of the most famous…
Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian actor (died 1980)
George Irving Bell was an American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. He died in 2000 from complications of leukemia after surgery.
George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (died 2000)
Elizabeth MacDonald Jolas is a French and American composer.
Betsy Jolas, French composer
Jeri Southern was an American jazz singer and pianist.
Jeri Southern, American jazz singer and pianist (died 1991)
Elisabeth Beresford MBE, also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books. She is best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a literary family, she worke…
Elisabeth Beresford, English journalist and author (died 2010)
Clement Walter Labine was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) best known for his years with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.
Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)
János Rózsás was a Hungarian writer.
János Rózsás, Hungarian author (died 2012)
Perry Lee Moss was an American professional football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As …
Perry Moss, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Francis Finlay was an English actor. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965). His first leading television role came in 1971 in Casanova…
Frank Finlay, English actor (died 2016)
Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay for Joe (1970) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Serpico (1973).
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999)
Stan Freberg was an American actor and entertainer.
Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015)
Richard Norman Anderson was an American film and television actor. One of his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in bot…
Richard Anderson, American actor and producer (died 2017)
Denis St Eval Atkinson was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches in the 1950s as an all-rounder, hitting 922 runs and taking 47 wickets. He also played first-class cri…
Denis Atkinson, Barbadian cricketer (died 2001)
Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded clas…
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (died 2013)
Carol Karp, born Carol Ruth Vander Velde, was an American mathematician of Dutch ancestry best known for her work on infinitary logic. She also played viola in an all-women orchest…
Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (died 1972)
Betye Irene Saar was an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She was a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Ar…
Betye Saar, American artist (died 2026)
Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his stru…
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)