Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Elizabeth Eaton Converse was an American singer-songwriter, best known under her professional name Connie Converse. She was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is am…
Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)
Leon Marcus Uris was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus and Trinity.
Leon Uris, American soldier and author (died 2003)
Mathews Mar Barnabas was a Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Mathews Mar Barnabas, Indian metropolitan (died 2012)
Francisco Alonzo "Frank" Martínez was an American artist. He painted murals of his Mexican American heritage.
Frank Martínez, American soldier and painter (died 2013)
James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has b…
James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (died 1987)
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television s…
Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
Samuel Holloway Bowers Jr. was an American white supremacist who co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and became its first Imperial Wizard. Previously, he was a Grand d…
Samuel Bowers, American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)
Ella Louise Jenkins was an American singer-songwriter and centenarian. Called the "First lady of children's music", she was a leading performer of folk and children's music. Her 19…
Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (died 2024)
Nancy Joyce Buckingham Sawyer was a British writer who co-authored over 45 gothic and romance novels in collaboration with her husband, John Sawyer. She became the eighth elected C…
Nancy Buckingham, English author (died 2022)
Martha Hyer was an American actress who played Gwen French in Some Came Running (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her autobiogr…
Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
Hersz Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.
Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (died 2010)
Derek Shackleton was a Hampshire and England bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket, but only played in seven Tests for England. He has t…
Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2007)
Sverre Fehn was a Norwegian architect.
Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (died 2009)
Georges Prêtre was a French orchestral and opera conductor.
Georges Prêtre, French conductor (died 2017)
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human b…
Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (died 1998)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general who ruled Pakistan from his coup in 1977 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He served as the chief martial law administrator …
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (died 1988)
Robert Oxton Bolt was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two …
Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1995)
Hedy Epstein was a German-born Jewish-American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movemen…
Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (died 2016)
Yoshirō Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. Muraki joined Toho Film studio in 1944. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award f…
Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese production designer, art director, and fashion designer (died 2009)
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney and activist who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against …
Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (died 2016)
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in Walt Disney Productions' television miniseries Davy Crocke…
Fess Parker, American actor (died 2010)
Inez Ferne Voyce, nicknamed Lefty, was a first basewoman who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 6", 148 lb.…
Inez Voyce, American baseball player (died 2022)
Evan Shelby Connell Jr. was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. He published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr.
Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (died 2013)
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device…
Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)