Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
George Keith Froome (1920–1978) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a halfback for the Australian national team. He played in eight Tests between 1948 and 1949 as captain…
Keith Froome, Australian rugby league player (died 1978)
John William Wilson was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1956.
Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (died 1985)
Reuven Feuerstein was a Romanian-born Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitive psychologist, known for his theory of intelligence. Feuerstein is recognized for his work in de…
Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (died 2014)
Dinos Dimopoulos was a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 40 films between 1953 and 1993.
Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (died 2003)
Henry Anthony Pawson was an English sportsman who played cricket and association football and was a leading fly fisherman. He worked as a cricket writer and journalist. He was the …
Tony Pawson, English cricketer, footballer, and journalist (died 2012)
Kenneth Joseph Arrow was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Scien…
Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
Cecil "Sam" Cook was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and in one Test match for the England cricket team.
Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire (died 1996)
Eric Arthur Simms, DFC was an English ornithologist, naturalist, writer, sound recordist, broadcaster and conservationist, as well as a decorated wartime Bomber Command pilot/ bomb…
Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (died 2009)
Bryce Stuart Mackasey was a Canadian politician and diplomat. He served as twice a Member of Parliament, as a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, and as ambassador to Portug…
Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1999)
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public …
Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (died 2014)
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1963 until his death.
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1996)
Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.
Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1998)
Monty Hall was a Canadian-American radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and…
Monty Hall, Canadian television personality and game show host (died 2017)
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels…
Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (died 1999)
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring the…
Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (died 1994)
John Herbert Chapman was a Canadian space researcher. He started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere.
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these…
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)
Nancy Jane Kulp was an American character actor, writer and comedian widely known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.
Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
Lydia Gueiler Tejada was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia from 1979 to 1980. She was one of the first female republican heads of state and the firs…
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
Emmanuel Giovanni Salvatore Pietro Dimech, also known as Manwel Dimech was a Maltese socialist, philosopher, journalist, writer, poet and social revolutionary. Born in Valletta and…
Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (born 1860)
Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General Presid…
Emmeline B
Maurice Moore was an Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence. In April 1921 Moore was executed in the military prison of Victoria Barracks after being captured…
Maurice Moore (Irish republican), executed member of the Irish Republican Army (born 1894)
Théodore Eugène Pilette was a Belgian racing driver and businessman. He started racing in 1903.
Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (born 1883)
Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a …
Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)