Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music a…
Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012)
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (died 2007)
John Coles was an American jazz trumpeter.
Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (died 1997)
Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades.
Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director (died 2022)
Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC was an Australian judge. He served as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New…
Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018)
Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé was an Argentine and naturalised Spanish professional footballer and manager who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest playe…
Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014)
Lake Carl Underwood was an American entrepreneur who competed as a champion in the racing of prototype automobiles and motorcycles. He was a master mechanic who, although high perf…
Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman (died 2008)
Diana Marie Lynn was an American actress. She built her career by starring in Paramount Pictures films and various television series during the 1940s and 1950s. Two stars on the Ho…
Diana Lynn, American actress (died 1971)
Sulev Vahtre was an eminent Estonian historian.
Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (died 2007)
Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include w…
Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022)
Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as act…
Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (died 2019)
Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and journalist. Born in Old Delhi's Gali Kashmirian.
Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (died 2020)
David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factu…
David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (died 2014)
John David Dingell Jr. was an American politician from the state of Michigan who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of …
John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (died 2019)
Martin Riesen was a Swiss ice hockey goaltender who represented the Swiss national team at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (died 2003)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss and American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author, and developer of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross mode…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in th…
Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (died 2015)
Ben Roy Mottelson was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.
Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha was an Argentine football player and coach. A defender, he was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickn…
Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)
Mathilde Krim was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (died 2018)
Carleton Upham Carpenter Jr. was an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.
Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (died 2022)
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne was an American actor, artist, and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as we…
Fred Gwynne, American actor (died 1993)
Carl Frederick Buechner was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his career spanned more than six decades…
Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author (died 2022)
Robert Harris Justman was an American television producer, director, and production manager. He worked on many American TV series including Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of…
Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)