Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Ernest Carroll was an Australian puppeteer, entertainer, radio and television personality, comic writer, television producer and comic strip writer, most recognised for his role as…
Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer (died 2022)
Hans Charles Freeman AM, FAA was a German-born Australian bioinorganic chemist, protein crystallographer, and professor of inorganic chemistry who spent most of his academic career…
Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (died 2008)
Catherine Sauvage was a French singer and actress.
Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (died 1998)
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician
Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught a…
Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic (died 2023)
Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a Puerto Rican pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in…
Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Georges Robert Edmond Gilson was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Georges Gilson, French archbishop (died 2024)
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician (died 2025)
Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget…
Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (died 2014)
Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema…
Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981)
James Hadley Billington was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He…
James H
Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) and The Dot and the Line…
Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic (died 2021)
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, F…
Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (died 2007)
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
Charles Hirsch Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host, author, and songwriter. A key crew member of several hugely successful television game shows, he was th…
Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (died 2017)
Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)
James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was …
James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer
Balraj Raghunath Dutt, publicly known as Sunil Dutt, was an Indian actor, film producer, director, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He acted in more than 80 films…
Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005)
John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 19…
John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
Nada Inada was the pen-name of a Japanese psychiatrist, writer and literary critic active in late Shōwa period and early Heisei period Japan. His pen name is from the Spanish lan…
Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
Ian McCahon Sinclair is an Australian former politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He served as eith…
Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence
John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. He had a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s. He emerged as a prominent…
Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (died 1954)
James Alton McDivitt Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined th…
James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2022)