Explore 338 historical events from 2020–2029.
Dervla Murphy was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years.
Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (born 1931)
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, mainly known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer, arranger, performer and producer of music. He released material of wide musical ge…
Vangelis, Greek musician, composer (born 1943)
Morton Lloyd Janklow was an American literary agent, the primary partner in Janklow & Nesbit Associates, a New York–based literary agency. His clients included Barbara Taylor Bradf…
Morton L
Andrew John Fletcher, also known as Fletch, was an English musician and founding member of the electronic band Depeche Mode. In 2020, he and the band were inducted into the Rock an…
Andy Fletcher, English musician (born 1961)
Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor. He first gained attention for his role in the film Something Wild (1986), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. He was best …
Ray Liotta, American actor (born 1954)
Alan White was an English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes. He joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Brufo…
Alan White, English drummer (born 1949)
Patricia Ann Kennedy, better known by her stage name Patricia Brake, was an English actress. Her credits include Lorna Doone (1963), The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968-1969), My Lover,…
Patricia Brake, English actress (born 1942)
Ronald Cornett Hawkins was an American rock and roll singer, long based in Canada, whose career spanned 66 years. His career began in Arkansas, United States, where he was born and…
Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known professionally as Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian singer and rapper. He worked predominantly in Punjabi-language music and cinema. Moose Wala is consid…
Sidhu Moosewala, Indian singer, rapper, actor and politician
Krishnakumar Kunnath , popularly known as KK, was an Indian playback singer. KK is regarded as one of the most prolific playback singers in India. Noted for his versatility in a va…
Krishnakumar Kunnath, Indian singer (born 1968)
James Michael Parks was an English cricketer. He played in forty-six Tests for England, between 1954 and 1968. In those Tests, Parks scored 1,962 runs with a personal best of 108 n…
Jim Parks, English cricketer (born 1931)
George William Lamming OCC was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for In the Castle of My Skin, his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic pos…
George Lamming, Barbadian novelist (born 1927)
Colin James Cantwell was an American concept artist and director known for his work on films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and WarGames, as well as…
Colin Cantwell, American concept artist and director (born 1932)
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela was a Colombian drug lord and one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel. Orejuela formed the cartel with his brother, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, José Santac…
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian drug lord (born 1939)
On April 22, 2022, climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce set himself on fire in the plaza of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. The fatal self-immolation, whic…
American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent
The Myanmar civil war began following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The seizure of power triggered mass anti-coup demonstrations and a violent crackdown by the Tatmadaw, wh…
Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin
Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue…
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid o
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferome…
The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*
The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russ…
Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claimed full control of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege
On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old former student of the school, fatally shot 19 st…
An 18-year old gunman shot and killed nineteen students and two teachers in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in
On 9 April 2021, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the longest-serving royal consort …
The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Zhurong is a Chinese rover on Mars, the country's first to land on another planet after it previously landed two rovers on the Moon. The rover is part of the Tianwen-1 mission to M…
China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first Mars rover
On 22 May 2021, twenty-one professional runners died from hypothermia while competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race held in the Yellow River Stone Fo…
Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China
Princess Lilibet of Sussex is an American-born member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She is a gran…
Princess Lilibet of Sussex