Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy…
Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Asso…
Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)
Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was …
Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (died 2020)
Farley Earle Granger Jr. was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in Th…
Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
Arthur Ignatius McNally was an American professional football executive who was director of officiating for the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1991. Before becoming di…
Art McNally, American football referee (died 2023)
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. A United States Army veteran who served in World War II, he was e…
Medgar Evers, American soldier and civil rights movement activist (died 1963)
Marvin Karlton Rainwater was an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter who had several hits during the late 1950s, including the self-penned "Gonna Find Me a Bluebir…
Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Daniel Richard (Danny) Nardico was an American professional boxer who was once ranked the fifth-best light heavyweight boxer by The Ring magazine. He was the only fighter to knock …
Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (died 2010)
Philip Jamison was an American artist working primarily with watercolor as a medium. Typical scenes are landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements.
Philip Jamison, American artist (died 2021)
Ciril Zlobec was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best remembered for his poems, publishing several volumes of poetry in his lifetime. In…
Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (died 2018)
Alice Dorothy Head Knode, also known as Dottie Head Knode, was an American tennis player who reached the women's singles final of the French International Championships in 1955, lo…
Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (died 2015)
Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until Septe…
Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (died 1961)
Terrence Brian "Terry" Moriarty was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Having won the c…
Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (died 2011)
Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one…
Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor (died 2017)
Jean Paul Raspail was a French explorer, novelist and travel writer. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature …
Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (died 2020)
Jelesko Grancharoff, better known by his nickname Jack the Anarchist, was a Bulgarian and Australian resistance fighter and anarchist. He is best known for the central role he play…
Jelesko Grancharoff, Bulgarian-Australian resistance fighter and anarchist (died 2016)
Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM was an Australian character and comic actress, comedian and author. Her career encompassed all genres, including radio, theatre, television, and film. Sh…
Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was an American television show host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer, later appearing in film and on Broadway. From 19…
Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (died 2007)
William John Clifton Haley was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & …
Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)
Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev-Chuvelyov was a Soviet and Russian painter.
Geliy Korzhev, Russian painter (died 2012)
Walter Phillips was an American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years from January 1965 until July 1986, and was number one in…
Wally Phillips, American radio host (died 2008)
Marco Cé was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1978 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (died 2014)
William Mackrides was an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He helped the Eagles win the 1948 and 1949 NF…
Bill Mackrides, American football quarterback (died 2019)
Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosur…
Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish neurosurgeon and academic (died 2025)