Explore 1158 historical events from 1920–1929.
Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and actor. He was best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit "You're Breaking My Heart", and…
Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018)
Petros G. Molyviatis was a Greek politician and diplomat who served three times as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2006, May to June 2012, and August to September 2015.
Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician and diplomat, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2025)
Richard Morton Sherman was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and ind…
Richard M
Giacomo Biffi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, having served as archbishop there from 1984 to 2003. He was elevated to t…
Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (died 2015)
Renée Morisset, was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband, Victor Bouchard, were one of the foremost piano duos in Canadian classical music.
Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (died 2009)
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geome…
John Forbes Nash, Jr
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena, was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his ouster in 1976. For the last three yea…
Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (died 2011)
Michael Howell Blakemore AO OBE was an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who also made some films. A former Associate Director of the National Theatre, in 2000 he becam…
Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)
David Thoreson Lykken was a behavioral geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He is best known for his work on twin studies …
David T
Gaetano "Tommy" DeVito was an American musician. He was best known as a founding member, vocalist, and lead guitarist of rock band the Four Seasons.
Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (died 2020)
Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater. She was most famous for portraying Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant – for which she won four Emmy Awards –…
Nancy Marchand, American actress (died 2000)
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several…
Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (died 1964)
Martin James Landau was an American actor. His career began in the late 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (195…
Martin Landau, American actor and producer (died 2017)
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen was a French politician who founded the far-right National Front party. He also served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary presid…
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (died 2025)
Asrat Woldeyes was an Ethiopian surgeon, a professor of medicine at Addis Ababa University, and the founder and leader of the All-Amhara People's Organization (AAPO). He was jailed…
Asrat Woldeyes, Ethiopian surgeon and educator (died 1999)
Henry Birks was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons, a chain of high-end Canadian jewellery stores.
Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (born 1840)
Roman Steinberg, was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estoni…
Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (born 1900)
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel was a Russian military officer of Baltic German descent. He served as a general in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War, …
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (born 1878)
Mary Emma Jordan McConnel was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland.
May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (born 1860)
Umegatani Tōtarō I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from the town of Haki, Chikuzen Province, now Shiwa, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the sport's 15th yokozuna. He was gene…
Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (born 1845)
Li Yuanhong (Chinese: 黎元洪; pinyin: Lí Yuánhóng; Wade–Giles: Li2 Yüan2-hung2; courtesy name 宋卿; Sòngqīng; Sung4-ch'ing1; October 19, 1864 – June 3, 1928) was a prominent Chinese mil…
Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1864)
Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 until his assassination in 1928. He led the Fengtian clique, one of the most powerful factions during the Warlord E…
Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918. I…
Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (born 1857)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)