Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
J. D. Tippit was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star Medal recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department from 1952 to 1963. On Friday…
J. D. Tippit, American police officer (died 1963)
Mafalda Theotto, known professionally as Eloísa Mafalda, was a Brazilian actress.
Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (died 2018)
Vernon Adair Benson was an American infielder, outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball. During his playing career, he stood 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) tall, …
Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Donald Hugh Harron, was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast …
Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, known professionally as Gogi Grant, was an American pop singer. She had a No. 1 hit in 1956 with "The Wayward Wind".
Gogi Grant, American singer (died 2016)
Siti Suhartini, better known as Hartini and also known as Hartini Sukarno, was the fourth wife of President Sukarno of Indonesia. Born to a forestry worker in Ponorogo, Hartini was…
Hartini, wife of President Sukarno of Indonesia (died 2002)
Albert Marre was an American stage director and producer. He directed the stage musical Man of La Mancha in 1965, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
Albert Marre, American director, and producer (died 2012)
Carlo Jackie Paris was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of "Skylark" and "'Round Midnight" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (died 2004)
Sidney Clarke Phillips, Jr. was a United States Marine, family practice physician, and author from Mobile, Alabama. He provided source material and interviews for the making of Ken…
Sidney Phillips, USMC WW2 combat veteran, physician, and author (died 2015)
Hermann Buhl was an Austrian mountaineer. His accomplishments include the first ascents of Nanga Parbat in 1953 and Broad Peak in 1957. He was one of the pioneers of the alpine sty…
Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (died 1957)
Bernard Gauthier was a French road racing cyclist, who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won the Bordeaux–Paris road race on four occasions.
Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (died 2018)
Charles William James Keeping was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children,…
Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (died 1988)
Rosamunde Evelina Montague Laurence Pilcher was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early …
Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (died 2019)
Charles H. Waterhouse was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans su…
Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)
John William Middendorf II was an American diplomat who was the 62nd Secretary of the Navy from 1974 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the European Communities from 1985 …
J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025)
Ray Wetzel was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters".
Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of La Prensa, the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza …
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and publisher (died 1978)
Nina Antonovna Bocharova was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast, who won four medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was born in Suprunivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Nina Bocharova, Ukrainian gymnast (died 2020)
Paraskevi "Voula" Zouboulaki was an Egyptian-born Greek actress. She was the wife of actor Dimitris Myrat. She attended the Dramatic School of the National Theatre, the School of t…
Voula Zouboulaki, Egyptian-Greek actress (died 2015)
Norman Ayrton was an actor, director, and theatre instructor.
Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (died 2017)
Samuel Henry "Red" Webb was an American professional baseball player. A 6 ft (1.8 m), 175 lb (79 kg) right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 25 Major League games, 22 in relief, for t…
Red Webb, American baseball player (died 1996)
Jean Amédée Hoerni was a Swiss-born American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important te…
Jean Hoerni, Swiss physicist, inventor and businessman (died 1997)
Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death.
Ernest Becker, American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (died 1974)
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's application of …
Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (died 1966)