Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stütt…
Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and illustrator (died 1986)
Richard Lewis Deacon was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Be…
Richard Deacon, American actor (died 1984)
Federico Krutwig Sagredo was a Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, politician, and author of several books, with Vasconia standing out in the political domain for its influence in …
Federico Krutwig, Basque writer, member of ETA and translator (died 1998)
Dennis Brain was a British horn player. From a musical family – his father and grandfather were horn players – he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the Second W…
Dennis Brain, English horn player (died 1957)
Henry Robert Merrill Levan was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Merrill was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1950s on the US an…
Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (died 1998)
Farley McGill Mowat was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publi…
Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (died 2014)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundi…
Joan Eardley, British artist (died 1963)
Sir Michael Anthony Epstein was a British pathologist and academic. He was one of the discoverers of the Epstein–Barr virus, along with Yvonne Barr and Bert Achong.
Michael A
Henry George Carey Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns, as well as numerous television series.
Harry Carey Jr
Leslie Charles James Broderick was a British World War II Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber pilot and teacher who was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III and one of the last t…
Leslie Broderick, English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013)
Harry Winston Brown was an Army Air Corps second lieutenant assigned to the 47th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1…
Harry W
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.
Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights activist born in San Pedro, California. She was interned at the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas during World War II, an experi…
Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (died 2014)
Karel van het Reve was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.
Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author (died 1999)
Hao Wang was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and commentator on Kurt Gödel.
Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1995)
Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, i…
Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (died 2010)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
George Simms Hammond was an American scientist and theoretical chemist who developed "Hammond's postulate", and fathered organic photochemistry,–the general theory of the geometric…
George S
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World W…
Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (died 1947)
Harold Newhouser, nicknamed "Prince Hal" and "Hurricane Hal," was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher from 1939 to 1955, most …
Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (died 1998)
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.
Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008)
Harold Lane David was an American lyricist. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.
Hal David, American songwriter and composer (died 2012)
Katie "Kitty" Kallen was an American singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-World War II pop scene, and th…
Kitty Kallen, American singer (died 2016)
Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipi…
Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)