Explore 1359 historical events from 2020–2029.
Ali Haydar, known as the "Father of the Syrian Special Forces", was a Syrian military officer who was the commander of the Syrian Special Forces for 26 years. He was a close confid…
Ali Haydar, Syrian army officer (born 1932)
Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, notably the Pleats, Please line, exhibitions and fragrances such as L'eau d'…
Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (born 1938)
Dillon Quirke was an Irish hurler who played for Tipperary Senior Championship club Clonoulty–Rossmore and at inter-county level with the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Dillon Quirke, Irish hurler (born 1998)
David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian and author. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presi…
David McCullough, American historian and author (born 1933)
Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all…
Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1948)
Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and…
Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor, musician and comedian (born 1945)
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress, known for her roles across a variety of genres in film, television, and theater. She was the recipient of Daytime Emmy, National Board o…
Anne Heche, American actress (born 1969)
Hanae Mori was a Japanese fashion designer. She was one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woma…
Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer (born 1926)
Tekla Juniewicz was a Polish supercentenarian who, living to the age of 116 years and 70 days, was the oldest living Polish person from 20 July 2017 until her death on 19 August 20…
Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian (born 1906)
Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, also known under the pen name Daria Platonova, was a Russian journalist, political scientist, and activist. She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a f…
Darya Dugina, Russian journalist (born 1992)
Mable John was an American blues vocalist and the first female artist signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.
Mable John, American blues vocalist (born 1930)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as Genera…
Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931)
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a wi…
Barbara Ehrenreich, American writer and journalist (born 1941)
Yang Yongsong was a Chinese military officer, who was a founding major general in the People's Liberation Army. Born in Baihou in Dabu County, Guangdong, he joined the Communist Yo…
Yang Yongsong, Chinese major general (born 1919)
Frank Donald Drake was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.
Frank Drake, American radio astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1930)
T. V. Sankaranarayanan, was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, known for his music that stems from the style of his guru and maternal-uncle, Madurai Mani Iyer. TVS was awarded the Madras…
T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Indian Carnatic vocalist (born 1945)
Gwyneth Leith, known professionally as Gwyneth Powell, was an English actress. She was best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McClusky in the BBC television series Gr…
Gwyneth Powell, English actress (born 1946)
John William O'Malley was an American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest. He was a university professor at Georgetown University, housed in the Department of Theology …
John W. O'Malley, American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest (born 1927)
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry was an Irish businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, a…
Cyrus Mistry, Indian-Irish businessman (born 1968)
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Tali…
Peter Straub, American novelist (born 1943)
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lif…
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (born 1926)
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your F…
Javier Marías, Spanish novelist, journalist and translator (born 1951)
Joyce Maire Reynolds was a British classicist and academic, specialising in Roman historical epigraphy. She was an honorary fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She dedicated her …
Joyce Reynolds, British classicist and academic (born 1918)
Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March…
Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (born 1929)