Year '1920' ('
MCMXX') was a
leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the
Gregorian calendar.
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Events on 1920
January
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January 3 -
Babe Ruth is traded by the
Boston Red Sox to the
New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
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January 7 - Forces of
Russian White admiral
Kolchak surrender in
Krasnoyarsk. The
Great Siberian Ice March ensues.
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January 9
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Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
★
★ Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly"
George Polley, climbs the
New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
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January 16
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Prohibition begins in the
United States with the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
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★ Allies demand that the
Netherlands extradite the German
Kaiser, who has fled there.
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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C.
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January 19 - The
United States Senate votes against joining the
League of Nations.
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January 22 - The
Australian
Country Party is officially formed.
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January 23 - The
Netherlands refuses to extradite the German
Kaiser.
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January 28
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★ The
Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in
Morocco.
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Turkey gives up the
Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.
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January 30
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★ Oldest surviving pro wrestling match on filmed happened on this day with
Joe Stecher defeating
Earl Caddock
February
★
February 1 - The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
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February 2
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Estonian Freedom War:
Tartu Peace Treaty is signed, ending the war and recognizing
Estonian independence.
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★
France occupies
Memel.
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★ Sayyid Muhammad, Khan of
Khiva abdicates.
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February 7 -
Admiral Kolchak and
Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by
firing squad near
Irkutsk.
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February 9 - League of Nations gives
Spitzbergen to
Norway.
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February 10 -
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs the
symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
★
February 14 - The
League of Women Voters is founded in
Chicago.
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February 17 -A woman named
Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is
Anastasia.
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February 22 - In
Emeryville, California, the first
dog racing track to employ an imitation
rabbit opens.
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February 24 -
Adolf Hitler presents his
National Socialist program in
Munich.
March
★
March - World's first peaceful establishment of a
social democratic government takes place in
Sweden.
Hjalmar Branting takes over when
Nils Edén resigns.
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March 1
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Hungarian Admiral and
statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the
Regent of
Hungary
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★ The
United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
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March 13-
March 17 -
Wolfgang Kapp fails in his
coup attempt in
Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
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March 15 -
Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
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March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify
Versailles Treaty.
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March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that
Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
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March 26
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★ German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious
Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
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★ The
Black and Tans special constables arrive in
Ireland
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March 28 - The
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and
Deep South states.
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March 29 -
Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in
1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
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March 31 -
Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April
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April 2 - German army marches to
Ruhr to fight
Red Ruhr Army.
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April 4 -
Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege
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April 6 - The short-lived
Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern
Siberia
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April 11 -
Mexican Revolution -
Álvaro Obregón flees from
Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to
Guerrero where he joins
Fortunato Maycotte
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April 19 - Germany and
Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
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April 20 -
Álvaro Obregón announces in
Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of
Venustiano Carranza
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April 23 - National council in
Turkey denounces the government of
sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
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April 24 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Polish and Anti-Soviet
Ukrainian troops attack the
Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
★
April 26 - the
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by
Bolshevist Russia as the successor to the
Khanate of Khiva.
May
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May 2 - The first game of the
Negro National League baseball is played in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
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May 7
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Polish-Soviet War:
Polish troops occupy
Kyiv. The government of
Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
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★
Venustiano Carranza leaves
Mexico City in a large train.
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★
Treaty of Moscow (1920):
Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the
Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
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May 9 -
Álvaro Obregón's troops enter
Mexico City
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May 15 -
Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
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May 16 -
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★
Joan of Arc is
canonised. Over 30,000 people attended the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family.
Pope Benedict XV presided over the rite, for which the interior of
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was richly decorated.
★
★
Referendum in
Switzerland is favorable to joining
League of Nations.
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May 17
★
★ French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
★
★ First flight of
KLM, Dutch air company, from
Amsterdam to
London.
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May 20 -
Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of
Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
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May 24 -
Venustiano Carranza is buried in
Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested.
Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
★
May 27 -
Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of
Czechoslovakia.
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May 29
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★ Great
Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.
★
★ The Snorkel was invented in Greenland.
June
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June 4 -
Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
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June 12 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Red Army retakes
Kyiv.
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June 13 - The
United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
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June 15 - New border treaty between
Germany and
Denmark gives northern
Schleswig to Denmark.
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June 22 -
Greece attacks
Turkish troops.
July
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July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
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July 2 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Red Army continues offensive into
Poland.
★
July 10 -
Arthur Meighen becomes
Canada's ninth
prime minister.
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July 12 -
Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent
Lithuania.
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July 13 -
London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
★
July 14 - France declares that
Faisal I of Syria is deposed and occupies
Damascus and
Aleppo
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July 17 - Republic of
Mirdite proclaimed near
Albanian-
Serbian border with
Yugoslav support
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July 22 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Poland sues for peace with
Bolshevist Russia.
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July 23 - The
French defeat the
Syrian army in the
Battle of Maysalun.
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July 25 - First transatlantic two-way
radio broadcast?
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July 26 -
Pancho Villa takes over
Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in
July 28
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July 29 - The
United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the
Link River Dam as part of the
Klamath Reclamation Project.
August
★
August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in
Ireland, suspending jury trials.
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August 3 - Catholics riot in
Belfast.
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August 10 -
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the
Treaty of Sèvres.
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August 11 -
Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent
Estonia and
Latvia.
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August 13 -
August 25 -
Polish-Soviet War: The
Red Army is defeated in the
Battle of Warsaw.
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August 15 - Town Hall of
Templemore,
Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
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August 18 - Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote under constitutional protection.
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August 19-
August 25 -
Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in
Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
★
August 20 - The first commercial
radio station in the United States, 8MK (
WWJ), begins operations in
Detroit, Michigan.
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August 26 -
19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's
suffrage.
September
★
September 4 - ''La Tercio de Extranjenos'', the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day
Spanish Legion) inaugurated in
Spain
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September 5 - Presidential elections begin in
Mexico
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September 8 -
Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the
Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of
Fiume.
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September 16 - The
Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a
horse wagon explodes in front of the
J.P.Morgan building in
New York City - 38 dead, 400 injured
★
September 20 - The first soldier joins the
Spanish Legion.
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September 22 -
Flying Squad formed in
London Metropolitan Police.
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September 29
★
★ First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA –
Westinghouse radio costs $10.
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★
Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in
Austria.
October
★
October 9 - Polish troops take
Vilnius
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October 10 - In the
Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of
Carinthia Province votes to become part of
Austria rather than of the
Yugoslavia.
★
October 12 -
Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures
Tarnopol,
Dubno,
Minsk, and
Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
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October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
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October 26 -
Álvaro Obregón is announced elected
president of Mexico
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October 27 -
League of Nations moves its headquarters to
Geneva,
Switzerland
November
★
November 2
★
★
Warren G. Harding defeats
James M. Cox and
Eugene V. Debs in the
U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
★
★ In the
United States,
KDKA AM of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by
Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial
radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the
U.S. presidential election, 1920.
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November 11 -
Unknown Soldier buried in
Westminster Abbey.
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November 15 - In
Geneva, the first assembly of the
League of Nations is held.
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November 16 - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (
Qantas) is founded by
Hudson Fysh and
Paul McGinniss.
★
November 17 - The council of the
League of Nations accepts the
constitution for the
Free City of Danzig.
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November 21 -
Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a
Football match in
Dublin's
Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the
IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.
★
November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under
Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at
Kilmichael, County Cork.
Kilmichael Ambush
December
★
December 1 -
Álvaro Obregón became
president of Mexico.
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December 5 -
Referendum in
Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
★
December 11 -
Martial law in
Ireland.
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December 16
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★
Finland joins the
League of Nations.
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★ 8.6 Richter scale
Earthquake causes
landslide in
Gansu Province,
China - 180.000 dead.
★
December 22 - The 8th
Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR adopts
GOELRO plan, the major plan of the economical development of the country.
★
December 23 -
United Kingdom and
France ratify the border between French-held
Syria and British-held
Palestine.
★
December 25 - Foundation of
The Rosicrucian Fellowship's Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at
Mount Ecclesia,
Oceanside, California (
United States).
Undated
★ Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the
Prohibition
★
France prohibits selling of
contraceptives.
★
Kurd rebellion in
Turkey begins.
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Johnny Torrio invites
Al Capone to
Chicago from
New York City.
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Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.
Ongoing
★
Ethnic cleansing in
Turkey:
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Assyrian Genocide (
1914–
1922)
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Pontic Greek Genocide (
1916–
1923).
Fictional
The following are references to year 1920 in fiction: (unknown).
Births
January-February
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January 1 -
Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (
Quartetto Cetra)
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January 2 -
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d.
1992),
Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norweigan resistance leader
★
January 3 -
Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d.
2001)
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January 5 -
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d.
1995)
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January 6
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Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
★
★
John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d.
2004)
★
★
Early Wynn, baseball player (d.
1999)
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January 9 -
Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d.
1998)
★
January 12 -
Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d.
1998)
★
January 19 -
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian
United Nations Secretary General
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January 20
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★
Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d.
1993)
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★
DeForest Kelley, American actor (d.
1999)
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★
John O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d.
2000)
★
January 23 -
Gottfried Böhm, German architect
★
January 27 -
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d.
2002)
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January 30 -
Delbert Mann, American television and film director
★
February 7 -
An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d.
1990)
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February 11
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★
Farouk I,
King of Egypt (d.
1965)
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★
Billy Halop, American actor (d.
1976)
★
February 12 -
William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d.
2000)
★
February 13 -
Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d.
1977)
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February 17 -
Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d.
2001)
★
February 18 -
Bill Cullen, American game show host (d.
1990)
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February 18 -
Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d.
1945)
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February 26
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★
Tony Randall, American actor (d.
2004)
★
★
Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d.
2006)
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February 29 -
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d.
1991)
March-April
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March 3
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James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d.
2005)
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Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
★
March 4
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★
Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d.
1993)
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★
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d.
2002)
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March 10
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★
Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d.
2007)
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★
Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d.
1959)
★
March 11 -
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
March 14 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.
2001)
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March 15
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★
Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d.
1998)
★
★
E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
March 16 -
Leo McKern, Australian actor (d.
2002)
★
March 19 -
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d.
2002)
★
March 20 -
Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. ambassador to France (d.
1997)
★
March 22 -
Werner Klemperer, German actor (d.
2000)
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March 24 -
Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d.
2007)
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March 25
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★
Patrick Troughton, British actor (d.
1987)
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★
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d.
1992)
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March 27 -
Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d.
1995)
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April 1 -
Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d.
1997)
★
April 2 -
Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d.
1982)
★
April 5 -
Arthur Hailey, American writer (d.
2004)
★
April 6 -
Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
April 7 -
Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
★
April 8 -
Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d.
1994)
★
April 11 -
Peter O'Donnell, British author and writer of comic strips
★
April 13 -
Liam Cosgrave, fifth
Taoiseach of
Ireland
★
April 15 -
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
★
April 21 -
Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d.
1991)
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April 27 -
Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d.
1956)
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April 29 -
Harold Shapero, American composer
May-June
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May 2
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★
Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d.
2004)
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★
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d.
2000)
★
May 6 -
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first
Prime Minister of Fiji and
President of Fiji (d.
2004)
★
May 8 -
Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d.
1996)
★
May 9 -
Richard Adams, English author
★
May 11 -
Denver Pyle, American actor (d.
1997)
★
May 13 -
Gareth Morris, British flautist (d.
2007)
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May 18
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★
Pope John Paul II (d.
2005)
★
★
Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (
Quartetto Cetra)
★
May 23 -
Helen O'Connell, American singer (d.
1993)
★
May 26 -
Peggy Lee, American singer (d.
2002)
★
May 28 -
Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (d.
1999)
★
May 29 -
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2000)
★
May 30 -
Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d.
1989)
★
June 2 -
Tex Schramm, American football executive (d.
2003)
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June 12
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★
Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d.
2002)
★
★
Jim Siedow, American actor (d.
2003)
★
June 16 -
José López Portillo,
President of Mexico (d.
2004)
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June 17
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★
Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d.
1981)
★
★
François Jacob, French biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
June 25 -
Ozan Marsh, American pianist
★
June 29 -
Ray Harryhausen, American animator
July-August
★
July 4 -
Leona Helmsley, Hotel operator, Realestate investor (d.
2007)
★
July 10 -
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
July 11 -
Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d.
1985)
★
July 13
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★
Bill Towers, English footballer (d.
2000)
★
★
Don Ralke, American music arranger (d.
2000)
★
July 17 -
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
★
July 21 -
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d.
2001)
★
July 24 -
Bella Abzug, American politician (d.
1998)
★
July 25 -
Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d.
1958)
★
August 2 -
Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (d.
2007)
★
August 3 -
Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
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August 8
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★
Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (d.
2006)
★
★
Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d.
1997)
★
August 9 -
Milton G. Henschel, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d.
2003)
★
August 16 -
Charles Bukowski, American writer (d.
1994)
★
August 17 -
Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
★
August 18
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★
Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (d.
2005)
★
★
Shelley Winters, American actress (d.
2006)
★
August 21 -
Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d.
1996)
★
August 22 -
Ray Bradbury, American writer
★
August 26 -
Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d.
2006)
★
August 29 -
Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d.
1955)
September-October
★
September 9 -
Aldo Parisot, Brazilian/American cellist
★
September 10 -
Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d.
2001)
★
September 14 -
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
★
September 14 -
Lawrence Klein, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
September 18 -
Jack Warden, American actor (d.
2006)
★
September 22 -
William H. Riker, American political scientist (d.
1993)
★
September 23 -
Mickey Rooney, American film actor
★
September 24 -
Dick Bong, American fighter ace
★
September 27 -
Jayne Meadows, American actress
★
September 29 -
Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1992)
★
October 1
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★
Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d.
2001)
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★
Walter Matthau, American actor (d.
2000)
★
October 6 -
Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d.
2005)
★
★
Helen Andelin, American author
★
October 8 -
Frank Herbert, American author (d.
1986)
★
October 9 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d.
1976)
★
October 15 -
Mario Puzo, American author (d.
1999)
★
October 22 -
Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d.
1996)
★
October 29 -
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
October 30 -
Norman Bird, UK character actor (d.
2005)
★
October 31 -
Fritz Walter, German footballer (d.
2002)
November-December
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November 2 -
Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress
★
November 25 -
Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
★
November 30 -
Virginia Mayo, American actress (d.
2005)
★
December 6
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★
Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
★
★
George Porter, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
★
December 9 -
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
President of the Italian Republic
★
December 21 -
J. Roderick MacArthur American businessman and philanthropist (d.
1984)
★
December 24 -
Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (d.
1944)
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December 30 -
Jack Lord, American actor (d.
1998)
★ ''date unknown''
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★
Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d.
2002)
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★
Tommy J. Smith, Australian trainer (d.
1998)
★
★
Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier (d.
1991)
Deaths
January - March
★
January 2 -
Paul Adam, French writer (b.
1862)
★
January 3 -
Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b.
1888)
★
January 4 -
Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b.
1843)
★
January 6 -
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b.
1839)
★
January 7 -
Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1849)
★
January 18 -
Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b.
1825)
★
January 24
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★
William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b.
1854)
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★
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b.
1884)
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★
William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b.
1864)
★
January 26 -
Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of
Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b.
1898)
★
February 2 -
Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b.
1896)
★
February 3 -
Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b.
1846)
★
February 6 -
Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b.
1839)
★
February 7 -
Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b.
1874)
★
February 15 -
Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b.
1837)
★
February 20
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★
Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b.
1872)
★
★
Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b.
1856)
★
February 27 -
William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b.
1863)
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March 1
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★
John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b.
1842)
★
★
William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b.
1846)
★
★
Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b.
1880)
★
March 4 -
Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b.
1843)
★
March 11 -
Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b.
1865)
★
March 13 -
Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b.
1842)
★
March 26
★
★
William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b.
1834)
★
★
Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b.
1851)
★
March 31
★
★
Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b.
1837)
★
★
Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b.
1848)
April - June
★
April 8
★
★
John Brashear, American astronomer (b.
1840)
★
★
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b.
1884)
★
April 9 -
Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b.
1829)
★
April 21 -
Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b.
1836)
★
April 26 -
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b.
1887)
★
May 1 -
Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b.
1882)
★
May 11
★
★
James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b.
1877)
★
★
William Dean Howells, American writer (b.
1837)
★
May 16 -
Levi P. Morton,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1824)
★
May 21
★
★
Venustiano Carranza,
President of Mexico (b.
1859)
★
★
Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b.
1868)
★
May 23 -
Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b.
1856)
★
May 30 -
George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b.
1862)
★
June 5
★
★
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b.
1840)
★
★
Julia A. Moore, American poet (b.
1847)
★
June 6 -
James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b.
1851)
★
June 13 -
Essad Pasha,
Prime Minister of Albania (b.
1863)
★
June 14
★
★
Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b.
1856)
★
★
Max Weber, German political economist (b.
1864)
★
June 18
★
★
Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b.
1835)
★
★
John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b.
1831)
★
June 20
★
★
Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b.
1839)
★
★
John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b.
1838)
★
June 27 -
Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b.
1839)
July - September
★
July 1 -
Delfim Moreira,
President of Brazil (b.
1868)
★
July 2 -
William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b.
1846)
★
July 10 -
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b.
1841)
★
July 11 -
Empress Eugénie of France (b.
1826)
★
July 14 -
Albert Keller, German painter (b.
1844)
★
July 22 -
William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b.
1849)
★
August 1
★
★
Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b.
1863)
★
★
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b.
1856)
★
August 2 -
Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b.
1891)
★
August 9 -
Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b.
1845)
★
August 10 -
Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b.
1835)
★
August 12 -
Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b.
1854)
★
August 16
★
★
Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b.
1866)
★
★
Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b.
1836)
★
August 17 -
Ray Chapman, baseball player (b.
1891)
★
August 22 -
Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b.
1860)
★
August 26 -
James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b.
1835)
★
August 31 -
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b.
1832)
★
September 7 -
Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b.
1855)
★
September 10 -
Olive Thomas, American actress (b.
1894)
★
September 18 -
Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b.
1836)
★
September 24 -
Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b.
1846)
★
September 25 -
Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b.
1847)
★
September 30 -
William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b.
1843)
October - December
★
October 2 -
Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b.
1853)
★
October 10 -
Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b.
1865)
★
October 19 -
John Reed, American journalist (b.
1887)
★
October 20 -
Max Bruch, German composer (b.
1838)
★
November 21-
Michael Hogan (sportsman) Was shot during a
Gaelic football match by the British army who also killed 14 Irish supporters .
★
October 24 -
Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b.
1853)
★
November 1 -
Kevin Barry, Irish republican (hanged) (b.
1902)
★
November 4 -
Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b.
1858)
★
November 13 -
Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b.
1846)
★
November 23 -
George Callaghan, British admiral (b.
1852)
★
November 25 -
Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and manufacturer (b.
1892)
★
November 30 -
Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b.
1852)
★
December 3 -
William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b.
1843)
★
December 11 -
Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b.
1855)
★
December 12 -
Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b.
1854)
★
December 14 -
George Gipp, American football player (b.
1895)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Reginald John Farrer, English botanist (b.
1880)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Charles Edouard Guillaume
★
Chemistry -
Walther Nernst
★
Medicine -
Schack August Steenberg Krogh
★
Literature -
Knut Hamsun
★
Peace -
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Notes
External references
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