Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
James Henry Harvey III is a retired African American United States Army Air Corps/United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former fighter pilot. He served with the 99th Fighter S…
Colonel James H. Harvey, US Army Air Force (later US Air Force) fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman.
René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.
René Favaloro, Argentine surgeon and cardiologist (died 2000)
Dayle Lymoine Robertson was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells …
Dale Robertson, American actor (died 2013)
Robert Zildjian was the founder of Sabian Cymbals, the second-largest manufacturer of cymbals in the world.
Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (died 2013)
Chris Argyris was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Benn…
Chris Argyris, American psychologist, theorist, and academic (died 2013)
Bola Sete was a Brazilian guitarist known for playing jazz with Vince Guaraldi and Dizzy Gillespie.
Bola Sete, Brazilian guitarist (died 1987)
Jeanne Lavonne Humphrey Block was an American psychologist and expert on child development. She conducted research on sex-role socialization and theories of personality. Block was …
Jeanne Block, American psychologist (died 1981)
John Newton Cooper was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his r…
John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (died 2000)
Jerome "Jerry" Hal Lemelson was an American engineer, inventor, and patent holder. Several of his inventions relate to warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machi…
Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and businessman (died 1997)
Michael Hugh Medwin was an English actor and film producer.
Michael Medwin, English actor (died 2020)
Theodore Cardwell Barker, usually known as Theo Barker, was a British social and economic historian.
Theo Barker, English historian (died 2001)
Alexander Murray Hannum was an American professional basketball player and coach. Known as Sarge because of his military background, Hannum played center for six different teams, m…
Alex Hannum, American basketball player and coach (died 2002)
Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter.
Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (died 2004)
Lonnie Alexander "Lon" Simmons was an American sports announcer, best known for his play-by-play broadcasts of San Francisco Giants baseball and San Francisco 49ers football.
Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2015)
Stanisław Józef Albinowski was a Polish economist, columnist and journalist on economics.
Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (died 2005)
Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones was an American jazz drummer. He was noted for being able to adjust his style of playing to allow for any group or individual's needs.
Philly Joe Jones, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis Quintet) (died 1985)
Rudolph Arthur Marcus was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in che…
Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
William Allen Rusher was an American lawyer, author, activist, and conservative columnist. He was one of the founders of the modern conservative movement and was one of its most pr…
William A. Rusher, American lawyer and journalist (died 2011)
Queenie Watts was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer. She was noted for her broad cockney accent.
Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (died 1980)
Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician, attorney, and U.S. Army officer who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican leader of…
Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2021)
César Fernández Ardavín was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1952 and 1979. His 1959 film El Lazarillo de Tormes won the Golden Bear…
César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Mary Lillian Ellison was an American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah.
The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (died 2007)
Morris Halle was a Latvian-born American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The fat…
Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic (died 2018)
Estelle Gettleman, known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985–19…
Estelle Getty, American actress (died 2008)