Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Paul Couvret was a Dutch–Australian military veteran, New South Wales schoolteacher and local Councillor. He was a Councillor on Warringah Council from 1973 to 1995 and was Shire P…
Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian soldier, pilot, and politician (died 2013)
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of Richard Attenborough.
Sheila Sim, English actress (died 2016)
George Axelrod was an American screenwriter and producer. His play The Seven Year Itch (1952), was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod was nominat…
George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
Christiaan Hendrik "Hein" Eersel was a Surinamese linguist and cultural researcher.
Hein Eersel, Surinamese linguist and Minister of Education (died 2022)
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental m…
John Gillespie Magee Jr
Fernand Seguin, was a Canadian biochemist, professor and host of science programs on radio and television.
Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (died 1988)
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a varie…
Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969)
William Henry Kerr was a British and Australian actor, comedian and vaudevillian.
Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor (died 2014)
Mitchell Wallace was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played for Balmain Tigers and Parramatta as a winger.
Mitchell Wallace, Australian rugby league player (died 2016)
Jean Sutherland Boggs D. Litt. LL. D. was a Canadian academic, art historian and civil servant. She was the first female Director of both the National Gallery of Canada and the Phi…
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant (died 2014)
Michalis Kakogiannis, usually credited as Michael Cacoyannis or Michael Yannis, was a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, theatre director, and playwright. He is best known for writing, direc…
Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)
Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.
Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (died 2013)
Etienne Leroux was an Afrikaans writer and a member of the South African Sestigers literary movement.
Etienne Leroux, South African author (died 1989)
John Arthur "Jaki" Byard was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among several other instrum…
Jaki Byard, American pianist and composer (died 1999)
Ilmar Kullam was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the silver medal. He pla…
Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2011)
John Preston Amis was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for The Guardian and to BBC radio and television…
John Amis, English journalist and critic (died 2013)
Claude Helffer was a French pianist.
Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (died 2004)
Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between…
Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
Marilyn Priscilla Johnson was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Togo. She was appointed to that position on September 23, 1978, and left her post on Ju…
Marilyn P
Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers.
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (died 2006)
William Ralph Blass was an American fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Ac…
Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002)
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chica…
Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (died 1995)
Morris Richard Jeppson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first …
Morris R
Jack Carter was an American comedian, actor and television presenter. Born in Brooklyn, Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow rapid-paced contemporaries Milton Ber…
Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (died 2015)