The 1920s

1926 100 years ago

Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (died 1997)

John Coles was an American jazz trumpeter.

Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (died 1997)

1926 100 years ago

Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director (died 2022)

Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades.

Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director (died 2022)

1926 100 years ago

Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018)

Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC was an Australian judge. He served as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New…

Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018)

1926 100 years ago

Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman (died 2008)

Lake Carl Underwood was an American entrepreneur who competed as a champion in the racing of prototype automobiles and motorcycles. He was a master mechanic who, although high perf…

Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman (died 2008)

1926 100 years ago

Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)

Diana Marie Lynn was an American actress. She built her career by starring in Paramount Pictures films and various television series during the 1940s and 1950s. Two stars on the Ho…

Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)

1926 100 years ago

Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (died 2007)

Sulev Vahtre was an eminent Estonian historian.

Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (died 2007)

1926 100 years ago

Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022)

Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include w…

Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022)

1926 100 years ago

Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (died 2020)

Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and journalist. Born in Old Delhi's Gali Kashmirian.

Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (died 2020)

1926 100 years ago

Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014)

Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé was an Argentine and naturalised Spanish professional footballer and manager who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest playe…

Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014)

1926 100 years ago

Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (died 2019)

Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as act…

Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (died 2019)

1926 100 years ago

David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (died 2014)

David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factu…

David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (died 2014)

1926 100 years ago

John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (died 2019)

John David Dingell Jr. was an American politician from the state of Michigan who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of …

John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (died 2019)

1926 100 years ago

Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (died 2003)

Martin Riesen was a Swiss ice hockey goaltender who represented the Swiss national team at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (died 2003)

1926 100 years ago

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss and American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author, and developer of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross mode…

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)

1926 100 years ago

Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (died 2015)

Murphy C. Anderson Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in th…

Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (died 2015)

1926 100 years ago

Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

Ben Roy Mottelson was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.

Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

1926 100 years ago

Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)

Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha was an Argentine football player and coach. A defender, he was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickn…

Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)

1926 100 years ago

Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (died 2018)

Mathilde Krim was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (died 2018)

1926 100 years ago

Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (died 2022)

Carleton Upham Carpenter Jr. was an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.

Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (died 2022)

1926 100 years ago

Fred Gwynne, American actor (died 1993)

Frederick Hubbard Gwynne was an American actor, artist, and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as we…

Fred Gwynne, American actor (died 1993)

1926 100 years ago

Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author (died 2022)

Carl Frederick Buechner was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his career spanned more than six decades…

Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author (died 2022)

1926 100 years ago

Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)

Robert Harris Justman was an American television producer, director, and production manager. He worked on many American TV series including Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of…

Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)

1926 100 years ago

T. Loren Christianson, American politician (died 2019)

Theodore Loren Christianson was an American politician in the state of South Dakota. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1977 to 1994. Christianson, a…

T. Loren Christianson, American politician (died 2019)

1926 100 years ago

Thomas Clark, American politician (died 2020)

Thomas Joseph Clark Jr. was an American politician. He served as mayor of Long Beach, California from 1975 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1984, as elected by the Long Beach City Council.

Thomas Clark, American politician (died 2020)