Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
William Horace Marshall was an American actor, director and opera singer. He played the title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its 1973 sequel Scream Blacula Scr…
William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (died 2003)
George Zuverink was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Redlegs, …
George Zuverink, American baseball player (died 2014)
John Francis Buck was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. His play-by-play work earned him recognit…
Jack Buck, American sportscaster (died 2002)
Jack Weston was an American actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1976 and a Tony Award in 1981.
Jack Weston, American actor (died 1996)
James Kirkwood Jr. was an American playwright, author and actor. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize …
James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (died 1989)
Harishankar Parsai was an Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He was a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. He wrote v…
Harishankar Parsai, Indian writer, satirist and humorist (died 1995)
Ephraim Kishon was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in Israel …
Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (died 2005)
Marie-Madeleine Riffaud was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II, she…
Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (died 2024)
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial P…
Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Alyn Ainsworth was a British musician, singer and conductor of light entertainment music.
Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (died 1990)
Louis Milton Teicher was an American piano player, half of the piano duo Ferrante & Teicher.
Louis Teicher, American pianist (died 2008)
Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a Hungarian tennis player. She reached a career high of World No. 2 in women's tennis, and won the 1958 French Open at the age of 33.
Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (died 2006)
Alexander Raymond Kellner was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1948–1958), Cincinnati Reds (1958) and …
Alex Kellner, American baseball player (died 1996)
David Harold Rowbotham was an Australian poet and journalist.
David Rowbotham, Australian journalist and poet (died 2010)
Anthony Roy MacGibbon was a cricketer who played 26 Tests for New Zealand in the 1950s.
Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (died 2010)
Margaret O'Rene Ryan was an American dancer and actress, best known for starring in a series of movie musicals at Universal Pictures with Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean.
Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)
Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist, lawyer, public defender, clinical law professor, and judge. She was the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court, which she d…
Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (died 2013)
Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, commonly referred to as Reb Zalman, was an American rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an i…
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (died 2014)
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of…
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (born 1858)
Granville Stanley Hall was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard University in the n…
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Ernest Fox Nichols was an American educator and physicist. He served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College.
Ernest Fox Nichols, American educator and physicist (born 1869)
Edith Nesbit was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a poli…
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Arunachalam Sabapathy was a Ceylon Tamil newspaper editor, politician and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
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Alluri Sitarama Raju was an Indian revolutionary who waged an armed rebellion against the British colonial rule in India. He engaged in guerilla campaigns against the British force…
Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897/1898)