Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Justinas Lagunavičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas.
Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (died 1997)
Paul Franklin Dietzel was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United…
Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (died 2013)
Frank Armitage was an Australian-born American painter and muralist, known for painting the backgrounds of several classic animated Disney films, designing areas of and painting m…
Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (died 2016)
John David Melcher was an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana for four terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to …
John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (died 2018)
Daniel Ken Inouye was an American attorney, soldier, and statesman who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic …
Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2012)
Leonard Rosenman was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,…
Leonard Rosenman, American composer and conductor (died 2008)
Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabine…
Marie-Claire Kirkland, American-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2016)
Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of th…
Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (died 2015)
Marie Grace Metalious was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing history.
Grace Metalious, American author (died 1964)
Mimi Parent was a Canadian surrealist artist. For many years she lived and worked in Paris, France. Her art is known for its symbolism, and the metaphorical use of existing objects…
Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (died 2005)
Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her …
Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001)
Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Love…
Sylvia Miles, American actress (died 2019)
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his deat…
Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader (died 2025)
Hendrik Van Steenbergen was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists.
Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (died 2003)
Theodore Bernard Kluszewski, nicknamed "Big Klu", was an American professional baseball player, best known as a power-hitting first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds teams of the 195…
Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)
Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fr…
Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 2015)
Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician (died 2018)
Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral. He was widely remembered as one of…
Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)
Harold Blair was a Wulli Wulli man, an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era".
Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (died 1976)
Scott Brady was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Western films and as a ubiquitous television presence. He played the title role in the television …
Scott Brady, American actor (died 1985)
Thomas Wade Landry was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II bomber pilot. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, he was the first he…
Tom Landry, American football player and coach (died 2000)
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April…
Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (died 2006)
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the score…
Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (died 2009)
Patricia Barringer was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer. Listed at 5' 7", 145 lb., she batted and threw right handed.
Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant (died 2007)