Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Nina Grigoryevna Otkalenko, née Pletnyova, was a Soviet middle-distance runner. She won a European title in the 800 m at the inaugural 1954 European Athletics Championships and set…
Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (died 2015)
Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.
Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator
Sally Forrest was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She studied dance from a young age and shortly out of high school was signed to a contract by Metro…
Sally Forrest, American actress and dancer (died 2015)
Freddie Redd was an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is best known for writing music to accompany The Connection (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous…
Freddie Redd, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2021)
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest c…
William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (died 2016)
Murad Jacob Kevorkian, also known by the nickname "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by phy…
Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and assisted suicide activist (died 2011)
Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE, was an Australian artist, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, who was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his wor…
Pro Hart, Australian painter (died 2006)
Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.
Agnès Varda, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Radoslav Rotković was a Montenegrin historian, philologist and academician. He is known for his works in Montenegrin history and literature.
Radoslav Rotković, Montenegrin historian (died 2013)
Pankaj Roy was an Indian cricketer who played in 43 Test matches, including once as captain. He was a right-handed opening batsman, perhaps best known for establishing the world re…
Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (died 2001)
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1…
Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (died 1971)
Steve Dodd was an Aboriginal Australian actor, notable for playing Aboriginal characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and…
Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (died 2014)
Robert Alan Monkhouse was an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including The Golden Shot, Celebrity Squares, Family…
Bob Monkhouse, English actor and screenwriter (died 2003)
Kyung Won Lee was an American journalist who worked for mainstream daily publications in the continental United States. Lee was also the founding president of the Korean American J…
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Erzsébet "Erzsi" Kovács DRH was a Hungarian pop singer and performer. After an attempt to escape to the west in 1951, she was arrested and imprisoned for three years. Afterwards, s…
Erzsi Kovács, Hungarian singer (died 2014)
Ronald Sidney Maurice Reynolds was an English goalkeeper whose career spanned nearly 20 years; he played 290 League games for three professional clubs, and for most of the 1950s pl…
Ron Reynolds, English footballer (died 1999)
John Richard Reid was a New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in 34 Test matches. He was New Zealand's eighth Test captain and the first to achieve victory, both at home,…
John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)
Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultima…
Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter (died 1994)
Karola Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host.
Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, talk show host, professor, author, and Holocaust survivor (died 2024)
Henry Birks was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons, a chain of high-end Canadian jewellery stores.
Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (born 1840)
Roman Steinberg, was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estoni…
Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (born 1900)
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel was a Russian military officer of Baltic German descent. He served as a general in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War, …
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (born 1878)
Mary Emma Jordan McConnel was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland.
May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (born 1860)
Umegatani Tōtarō I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from the town of Haki, Chikuzen Province, now Shiwa, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the sport's 15th yokozuna. He was gene…
Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (born 1845)