Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects and makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Academy Awards: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in…
Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (died 2012)
Dorothy Loudon was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also …
Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (died 2003)
John Emil List was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children in their Westfield, New Jersey home, then d…
John List, American murderer (died 2008)
Dorothy Enid Wedderburn was Principal of Bedford College, part of the University of London, and after the merger with Royal Holloway College, another college of the university, was…
Dorothy Wedderburn, English economist and academic (died 2012)
William Reece Smith Jr. was an American lawyer. Smith served as the interim president of the University of South Florida, and the president of the American Bar Association. He was …
W. Reece Smith Jr., American lawyer and academic (died 2013)
James Michael Bernard was a British film composer, particularly associated with horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions. Beginning with The Quatermass Xperiment, he scored…
James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)
Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he went to Switz…
Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946)
Nelly Moretto was an Argentine composer and pianist who is considered to be an innovator of electronic music in South America. She also served as the vice-president of the Agrupaci…
Nelly Moretto, Argentine composer (died 1978)
Stefan Mikhailov Nerezov was a Bulgarian General and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff.
Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (born 1867)
André Léon Caplet was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of…
André Caplet, French composer and conductor (born 1878)
Ralph Delahaye Paine was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Later, he held both elected and appointed government offices.
Ralph Delahaye Paine, American journalist and author (born 1871)
Antun Branko Šimić was a Bosnian and Croatian expressionist poet, considered to be one of the most important poets of Croatian literature of the 20th century.
Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (born 1898)
Sir Richard Butler was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1890 to 1924, representing Yatala (1890–1902) and Barossa (1902–1924…
Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria…
Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (born 1848)
Clément Ader was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in avia…
Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (born 1841)
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at churc…
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (born 1851)
John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC, styled The Hon. John Beresford until 1910, was an Anglo-Irish army officer, civil servant, and polo player in th…
John Beresford, Irish polo player (born 1847)
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (born 1874)
Joseph Howard OBE was the first Prime Minister of Malta, holding this office from 1921 to 1923.
Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (born 1862)
Hidesaburō Ueno was a Japanese agricultural scientist, well-known as the guardian of Hachikō, a devoted Akita dog.
Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (born 1871)
William Hillman Shockley was an American engineer, photographer, and botanist. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shockley worked as a mining engineer…
William H
Arthur Wilhelm Ernst Victor Moeller van den Bruck was a German cultural historian, philosopher, and key intellectual figure of the Conservative Revolution.
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (born 1876)
Thomas Riley Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well…
Thomas R
Margaret Murray Washington was an American educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University. She also led women's …
Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (born 1865)