Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Jesse Donald Knotts was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, for which he earne…
Don Knotts, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Margaret Eleanor Whiting was an American singer of popular music who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.
Margaret Whiting, American singer (died 2011)
Gavin Lambert was an English screenwriter, film critic, novelist and biographer. Described as "an incisive observer of life in Hollywood," his writing was mainly fiction and nonfic…
Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author (died 2005)
Gazanfer Bilge was a Turkish sports wrestler of Circassian descent who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1948 Olympics.
Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish wrestler (died 2008)
Wilfred Josephs was an English composer.
Wilfred Josephs, English composer (died 1997)
Aris Poulianos was a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist.
Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist (died 2021)
Frank Forrester Church III was an American politician and lawyer. From 1957 to 1981, he served as a U.S. senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so. He was the…
Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (died 1984)
Alistair Innes "Scotch" Taylor was a South African sportsman who played first-class cricket and hockey for Transvaal, and captained the Transvaal cricket team for four seasons. Tay…
Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer and hockey player (died 2004)
Vincent Canby was an American film and theatre critic who was the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 …
Vincent Canby, American historian and critic (died 2000)
Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili was a prominent Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and musicologist of the Soviet period. Although in the West Taktakishvili is perhaps best known…
Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (died 1989)
Luigi Musso was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1953 to 1958. Musso won the 1956 Argentine Grand Prix with Ferrari.
Luigi Musso, Italian racing driver (died 1958)
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective …
Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (died 2005)
Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. was an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Flint McCullough in Wagon Train (1957–1962).
Robert Horton, American actor (died 2016)
Cordy Tindell Vivian was an American minister, author, and close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. He resided in Atlanta, Georgia, a…
C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist (died 2020)
James Andrew "Jimmy" Evert was an American tennis coach and player. He was the father of Chris Evert, who was one of the world's top women tennis players in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (died 2015)
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia f…
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (died 2015)
Marcia Mae Jones was an American film and television actress whose prolific career spanned 57 years.
Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (died 2007)
Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell, sometimes referred to by his nickname of "Tae", was a Barbadian West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator. A stylish right-handed batsman and …
Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (died 1967)
Joseph Harnell was an American composer, musician, and music arranger.
Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (died 2005)
Frank Benjamin Havens was an American sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. He was born in Arlington, Virginia. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he…
Frank Havens, American canoeist (died 2018)
James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has b…
James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (died 1987)
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television s…
Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
Elizabeth Eaton Converse was an American singer-songwriter, best known under her professional name Connie Converse. She was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is am…
Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)
Leon Marcus Uris was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus and Trinity.
Leon Uris, American soldier and author (died 2003)