Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
Carl August Braun Jr. was an American professional basketball and baseball player and professional basketball coach.
Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)
Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among t…
Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (died 2013)
Patrick Wisdom O'Neal was an American actor and restaurateur.
Patrick O'Neal, American actor (died 1994)
Enzo Bearzot was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder in his playing career, he also coached the Italy national team to victory in the 198…
Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (died 2010)
Chrysostomos I, born Christoforos Aristodimou, was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 1977 to 2006.
Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (died 2007)
James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the Universi…
Robert Cade, American physician and educator, co-invented Gatorade (died 2007)
Robert Roland Chudnick, known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.
Red Rodney, American trumpet player (died 1994)
Romano Scarpa was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
Romano Scarpa, Italian author and illustrator (died 2005)
Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress. Though best known to television audiences as Kate Lawrence in Family (1976–1980), for which she won the E…
Sada Thompson, American actress (died 2011)
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. was an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California, as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983.
Pete McCloskey, American politician (died 2024)
Barbara Louise Mertz, known professionally as Elizabeth Peters and as Barbara Michaels, was an American author. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chi…
Barbara Mertz, American historian and author (died 2013)
Cid Moreira was a Brazilian journalist and television anchor who was active from 1947 onwards. He was born in Taubaté, São Paulo, and was mostly recognized for his work as the main…
Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist and television anchor (died 2024)
William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's…
W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (died 2019)
Sherman Glenn Finesilver was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
Sherman Glenn Finesilver, American lawyer and judge (died 2006)
Wolf Kahn was a German-born American painter.
Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic (died 2020)
Wilbur King was an American sports announcer. In 2016, the National Baseball Hall of Fame named King recipient of the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseb…
Bill King, American sportscaster (died 2005)
Jasper Cini, known professionally as Al Martino, was an American Jazz and traditional pop and standards singer. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and …
Al Martino, American singer and actor (died 2009)
Ronald David Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of th…
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (died 1989)
Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is most notable for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984)…
Tom Bosley, American actor (died 2010)
Henderson Alexander Gall was a Scottish journalist, author and Independent Television News (ITN) news presenter whose career as a journalist spanned more than 50 years. He began hi…
Sandy Gall, Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author (died 2025)
Demetrio González was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor and singer of ranchera music. Born in Asturias, Spain, he is sometimes called El Charro Español. He has starred in ranchera-…
Demetrio González, Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (died 2015)
Philip James Elliot was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.
Jim Elliot, American missionary and translator (died 1956)
César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Ge…
César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
Sir John William Denys Margetson was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands.
John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (died 2020)