Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
Marie Grace Metalious was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing history.
Grace Metalious, American author (died 1964)
Mimi Parent was a Canadian surrealist artist. For many years she lived and worked in Paris, France. Her art is known for its symbolism, and the metaphorical use of existing objects…
Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (died 2005)
Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her …
Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001)
Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Love…
Sylvia Miles, American actress (died 2019)
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his deat…
Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader (died 2025)
Hendrik Van Steenbergen was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists.
Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (died 2003)
Theodore Bernard Kluszewski, nicknamed "Big Klu", was an American professional baseball player, best known as a power-hitting first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds teams of the 195…
Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)
Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fr…
Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 2015)
Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician (died 2018)
Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral. He was widely remembered as one of…
Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)
Harold Blair was a Wulli Wulli man, an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era".
Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (died 1976)
Scott Brady was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Western films and as a ubiquitous television presence. He played the title role in the television …
Scott Brady, American actor (died 1985)
Thomas Wade Landry was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II bomber pilot. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, he was the first he…
Tom Landry, American football player and coach (died 2000)
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April…
Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (died 2006)
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the score…
Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (died 2009)
Patricia Barringer was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer. Listed at 5' 7", 145 lb., she batted and threw right handed.
Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant (died 2007)
Gerald Francis Coleman was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman for the New York Yankees and manager of the San Diego Padres for one year. Coleman was named the r…
Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol, was a Sierra Leone Creole physician, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of the first direct…
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (died 1994)
Willem "Wim" Polak was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.
Wim Polak, Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam (died 1999)
Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, known professionally as Lucebert, was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement.
Lucebert, Dutch poet and painter (died 1994)
György Lázár was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1975 to 1987. He retired from politics in 1988.
György Lázár, Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 2014)
Robert Waltrip Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist who interpreted songs by popular composers from the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Po…
Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (died 2005)
Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Inst…
Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)
Raoul Coutard was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the French New Wave period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard, which i…
Raoul Coutard, French cinematographer and director (died 2016)