Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director, and producer. He won a total of two Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awa…
Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
Barbara Mary Ansell was a British medical doctor and the founder of the field of paediatric rheumatology. Ansell was notable for outstanding contributions to the advancement of pae…
Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (died 2001)
Charmian Clift was an Australian writer. She was the second wife and literary collaborator of George Johnston.
Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (died 1969)
Elias Victor Seixas Jr. was an American tennis player.
Vic Seixas, American tennis player (died 2024)
Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1947 to 1955. He held the world heavyweight championship from 1952 t…
Rocky Marciano, American boxer (died 1969)
Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, known in Canada as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian/British businessman and art collector. At the time of his death, he was listed by Fo…
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (died 2006)
René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (died 2002)
Ramón Esteban Gómez-Valdés y Castillo was a Mexican actor and comedian. He is best remembered for his portrayal of Don Ramón in the Mexican sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. He is also rec…
Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor and comedian (died 1988)
Glen William Bell Jr. was an American restaurateur who was the founder and namesake of Taco Bell.
Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (died 2010)
Alice Gibson was a chief librarian from Belize active in development of the country's library system. Beginning her career as a social worker, she became interested in fostering li…
Alice Gibson, Belizean chief librarian and educator (died 2021)
Fred Hawkins was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.
Fred Hawkins, American golfer (died 2014)
Addison Morton Walker was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to som…
Mort Walker, American cartoonist (died 2018)
Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence.
Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (died 2003)
David John Hamer was an Australian politician and Royal Australian Navy officer.
David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (died 2002)
Kenneth Douglas Meuleman was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1946. His cricket career started in Victoria, but after moving to Perth, Western Australia, he …
Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (died 2004)
Peter II Karađorđević was the last King of Yugoslavia, reigning from October 1934 until he was deposed in November 1945. He was the last reigning member of the Karađorđević dynasty…
Peter II of Yugoslavia (died 1970)
Nancy Keesing was an Australian poet, writer, editor and promoter of Australian literature.
Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet (died 1993)
Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford was an English-American actor.
Peter Lawford, English-American actor (died 1984)
Mae Louise Suggs was an American professional golfer, as well as one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.
Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (died 2015)
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.
Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (died 2003)
Wilbur Bernard Ware was an American jazz double bassist. He was a regular bassist for the Riverside record label in the 1950s, and he recorded regularly in that decade with Johnny …
Wilbur Ware, American double-bassist (died 1979)
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted child sexual offender, who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine i…
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
Clifford Parker Robertson III was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 10…
Cliff Robertson, American actor (died 2011)
Glen Parmelee Robinson Jr., called the "father of high-tech industry in Georgia", was an American businessman and founder of Scientific Atlanta, formerly a subsidiary of Cisco Syst…
Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (died 2013)