Explore 1158 historical events from 1920–1929.
Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s. In succeeding decades he appeared in more conventional television, and …
Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (died 2005)
Frank Goad Clement was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1967. Inaugurated for the first time at age…
Frank G
Yolande Donlan was an American-born British-based actress who worked extensively in the United Kingdom.
Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (died 2014)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary…
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (died 2013)
Texas Earnest Schramm Jr. was an American professional football executive who was the original president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys franchise of the National Footbal…
Tex Schramm, American businessman (died 2003)
Johnny Speight was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.
Johnny Speight, English screenwriter and producer (died 1998)
Marion Motley was an American professional football fullback and linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Footb…
Marion Motley, American football player and coach (died 1999)
Cornelius Ryan was an Irish journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history. He was especially known for his histories of World War II events: The Longest D…
Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (died 1974)
Virginia Oliver was an American lobster fisherwoman.
Virginia Oliver (died 2026), American lobster fisherwoman
Georges René Louis Marchais was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1972 to 1994, and a candidate in the 1981 French presidential election.
Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (died 1997)
Gwen Harwood was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won…
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (died 1995)
Hazel Dorothy Scott was an American jazz and classical pianist and singer. An outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation, she used her influence to improve the repre…
Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American singer, actress, and pianist (died 1981)
Sir Keith Douglas Seaman was Governor of South Australia from 1 September 1977 until 28 March 1982. He was the second successive governor to have been a minister of religion, Seama…
Keith Seaman, Australian lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (died 2013)
Dave Berg was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous.
Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (died 2002)
Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.
Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (died 2000)
Rolf Huisgen was a German chemist. His importance in synthetic organic chemistry extends to the enormous influence he had in post-war chemistry departments in Germany and Austria, …
Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (died 2020)
Iosif Izrailevich-Girshevich Vorovich was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, scientific engineer, author and was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1970. He was a…
Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 2001)
Keith Phillip Andrews was an American racecar driver. He was killed after crashing his car during practice for the 1957 Indianapolis 500.
Keith Andrews, American race car driver (died 1957)
Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in Moscow. Her most notable film a…
Alla Kazanskaya, Russian actress (died 2008)
Sam Sniderman, was a Canadian businessman best known as the founder of the Canadian record shop chain Sam the Record Man. Sniderman was also a major promoter of Canadian music incl…
Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (died 2012)
Alberto Sordi was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter.
Alberto Sordi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Isabelle Christian Holland was an American author of fiction for children and adults. She wrote gothic novels, adult mysteries, romantic thrillers and many books for children and y…
Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (died 2002)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucro…
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (died 2002)
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th preside…
José López Portillo, Mexican lawyer and politician, 31st President of Mexico (died 2004)