Explore 4053 historical events from 1920–1929.
Charlie Lee Byrd was an American jazz guitarist who played fingerstyle on a classical guitar. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. I…
Charlie Byrd, American singer and guitarist (died 1999)
Charles James Haughey was an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach three times between 1979 and 1992, when he was leader of Fianna Fáil. Over a forty-year career, Haughey was th…
Charles Haughey, Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2006)
Riley B. King, known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on…
B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2015)
Dorothy Loudon was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also …
Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (died 2003)
John Emil List was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children in their Westfield, New Jersey home, then d…
John List, American murderer (died 2008)
Dorothy Enid Wedderburn was Principal of Bedford College, part of the University of London, and after the merger with Royal Holloway College, another college of the university, was…
Dorothy Wedderburn, English economist and academic (died 2012)
William Reece Smith Jr. was an American lawyer. Smith served as the interim president of the University of South Florida, and the president of the American Bar Association. He was …
W. Reece Smith Jr., American lawyer and academic (died 2013)
James Michael Bernard was a British film composer, particularly associated with horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions. Beginning with The Quatermass Xperiment, he scored…
James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)
Nelly Moretto was an Argentine composer and pianist who is considered to be an innovator of electronic music in South America. She also served as the vice-president of the Agrupaci…
Nelly Moretto, Argentine composer (died 1978)
Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he went to Switz…
Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946)
Virginia Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorra…
Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (died 2004)
Leila Hadley was an American travel writer and socialite. Her books include Give Me the World (1958) and A Journey with Elsa Cloud (1997).
Leila Hadley, American author (died 2009)
Denis Crispin Twitchett was a British Sinologist and historian, and is well known as one of the co-editors of The Cambridge History of China.
Denis C. Twitchett, English historian and scholar (died 2006)
Autar Singh Paintal was an Indian medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. He is the first Indian Physiologist to be…
Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and academic (died 2004)
Silvana Pampanini was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caus…
Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (died 2016)
Joseph Normand Marcel "Ti-Nomme" Dussault was an American-born Canadian ice hockey player who played 206 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1947 t…
Norm Dussault, American-Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)
Martin David Robinson, known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter, as well as a professional stock car racing driver and team …
Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver (died 1982)
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologi…
Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
George Gladir was an American comics writer. Primarily known as a scripter for Archie Comics, he co-created that publisher's character Sabrina Spellman, with artist Dan DeCarlo.
George Gladir, American author (died 2013)
Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this …
Cromwell Everson, South African composer (died 1991)
Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general…
Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (died 2006)
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in t…
Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (died 1996)
Steve Forrest was an American actor who was well known for his role as Lt. Hondo Harrelson in the hit television series S.W.A.T., which was broadcast on ABC from 1975 to 1976. He w…
Steve Forrest, American actor (died 2013)
Paul Beattie MacCready Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize…
Paul MacCready, American engineer, founded AeroVironment (died 2007)