Explore 1099 historical events from 2020–2029.
Adibah Noor Mohamed Omar was a Malaysian singer, actress and master of ceremonies. She made her start in the entertainment industry in 1995 and had gone on to star in films such as…
Adibah Noor, Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (born 1970)
Ollen Bruton Smith was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automot…
Bruton Smith, American racetrack promoter (born 1927)
Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple publis…
Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (born 1934)
Caleb Sylvester Swanigan was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers. He w…
Caleb Swanigan, American basketball player (born 1997)
Margaret D. H. Keane was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achiev…
Margaret Keane, American artist (born 1927)
Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams was a United States Marine Corps Reserve warrant officer and United States Department of Veterans Affairs veterans service representative who recei…
Hershel W
Cláudio Hummes was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 2006 to 2010, having served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 19…
Cláudio Hummes, Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1934)
Kazuo Takahashi , known professionally as Kazuki Takahashi , was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to …
Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (born 1961)
James Edmund Caan was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for …
James Caan, American actor (born 1940)
Arnaldo Pambianco was an Italian professional road racing cyclist who was active between 1956 and 1966. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1961 Giro d'Italia. H…
Arnaldo Pambianco, Italian former professional road racing cyclist (born 1935)
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 t…
Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician (born 1954)
Lawrence Samuel Storch was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo …
Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (born 1923)
Luis Echeverría Álvarez was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1…
Luis Echeverría, Mexican lawyer and politician (born 1922)
Genaro Anthony Sirico Jr. was an American actor. Often cast as a mobster, he is known for portraying Paulie Gualtieri in The Sopranos.
Tony Sirico, American actor (born 1942)
Norah Mary Vincent was an American writer. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay news magazine…
Norah Vincent, American writer (born 1968)
Richard John Gwynne was an English teacher, sports commentator and reporter. He was best known for his darts commentary, and worked at Sky Sports for twenty years.
John Gwynne, English reporter and commentator (born 1945)
Maurice Boucher was a Canadian gangster, convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker. He was once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motor…
Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (born 1953)
Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump i…
Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model (born 1949)
Maria Petri was an English Arsenal supporter. She had been attending Arsenal and Arsenal Women matches constantly since 1950 until her death on 22 July 2022 and had been recognised…
Maria Petri, English association football supporter (born 1939)
Phyo Zeya Thaw (Burmese: ဖြိုးဇေယျာသော်; pronounced [pʰjò zèjà θɔ̀], also referred to as Zeya Thaw was a Burmese politician and hip hop recording artist who was detained and execut…
Zayar Thaw, Burmese politician and rapper (born 1981)
Kyaw Min Yu was a Burmese writer, political prisoner, and a member of the 88 Generation Students Group. He was executed in July 2022 after being sentenced to death for activism aga…
Kyaw Min Yu, Burmese political activist (born 1969)
David Hattersley Warner was an English actor who portrayed a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, in a career spanning six decades across stage and …
David Warner, English actor (born 1941)
Paul Anthony Sorvino was an American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law.
Paul Sorvino, American actor (born 1939)
Anthony Lee Dow was an American actor. He portrayed Wally Cleaver in the iconic television sitcom Leave It to Beaver from 1957 to 1963. From 1983 to 1989, Dow reprised his role as …
Tony Dow, American actor, film producer, director, and sculptor (born 1945)