Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Mrinal Sen was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian fil…
Mrinal Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, the…
Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer (died 2004)
John Arthur Lanchbery OBE was an English-Australian composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements. He served as the Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 …
John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (died 2003)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael James Beetham, was a Second World War bomber pilot and a high-ranking commander in the Royal Air Force from the 1960s to the 1980s. As Ch…
Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (died 2015)
Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 2013)
Hugh Lawson Shearer was a Jamaican trade unionist and politician, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. He was also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister…
Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (died 2004)
Victoria Alexandra Fromkin was an American linguist who taught at UCLA. She studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the st…
Victoria Fromkin, American linguist and academic (died 2000)
Merton Howard Miller was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the No…
Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
Peter Underwood was an English author, broadcaster and parapsychologist. Underwood was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Described as "an indefatigable ghost hunter", he wrote man…
Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (died 2014)
Edith Marilyn Fellows was an American actress who became a child star in the 1930s. Best known for playing orphans and street urchins, Fellows was an expressive actress with a good…
Edith Fellows, American actress (died 2011)
Samuel Dickson Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in 1950. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or "…
Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (died 1994)
Vernon Joseph Biever was an American photographer, most notably with the Green Bay Packers.
Vernon Biever, American photographer (died 2010)
Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 19…
Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (died 2003)
Ara Raoul Parseghian was an American football coach and player who coached the University of Notre Dame to national championships in 1966 and 1973. He is noted for bringing Notre D…
Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (died 2017)
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde.…
Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (died 2002)
Evelyn Mae Ward was an American actress and dancer known for her stage musical performances and television appearances. Her son was the actor-singer David Cassidy.
Evelyn Ward, American actress (died 2012)
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century. Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish…
Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan-Spanish pianist (died 2009)
Irving Millman was a noted virologist and microbiologist. He was a member of the U.S. Army's Eighth Armored Division during the Second World War, earning a Bronze Star. In 1948, Mi…
Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist (died 2012)
James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dill…
James Arness, American actor (died 2011)
Roy Dotrice was a British stage and screen actor. He played the antiquarian John Aubrey in the solo play Brief Lives. He won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2000 Broadway r…
Roy Dotrice, English actor (died 2017)
Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to …
Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize
Sumner Murray Redstone was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom, chairman of CBS Corporation, …
Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2020)
György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the t…
György Ligeti, Hungarian-Austrian composer and educator (died 2006)
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, often referred to by his initials NTR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, philanthropist, and politician who s…
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