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Year
1920 (
Roman numerals) was a
leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.
Table of Contents
Events on 1920
January
- 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.
- January 7 - Forces of White movement admiral Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. The Great Siberian Ice March ensues.
- January 9
- United Kingdom 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
:
Prohibition in
U.S.
February
:
Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed.
March
- March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democracy government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
- March 1
- Hungary Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
- The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
- March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
- March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
- March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
- March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
- March 26
- German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
- The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland
- March 28 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- March 29 - William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
- March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April
- April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
- April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege
- April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia
- 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
- April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
- April 20 - Álvaro Obregón announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
- April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
- April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland and Anti-Soviet Ukraine 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
- May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League (the first) is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- May 7
- Polish-Soviet War: Poland troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
- Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
- Treaty of Moscow (1920): Russian SFSR recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
- May 9 - Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City
- May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
- May 16 -
- Joan of Arc is canonization. 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.
- 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.
- May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
- 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.
- May 29
- Great Horncastle, Lincolnshire flood. 20 people killed.
- The Snorkel was invented in Greenland.
June
- June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
- June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.
- June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
- June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- June 22 - Greece attacks Turkey troops.
July
August
September
October
- October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
- October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia (province) votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
- October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
- October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
- October 26 - Álvaro Obregón is announced elected president of Mexico
- October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland
November
- November 2
- November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.
- November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
- 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.
- November 21 - Bloody Sunday (1920) - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a gaelic football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the Irish Republican Army 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, in the Kilmichael Ambush
- Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's first concert
December
- December 1 - Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico.
- December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
- December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
- December 16
- December 22 - The 8th Congress of Soviets 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.
- Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York City.
- Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.
Ongoing
- Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
Fictional
The following are references to year 1920 in fiction: (unknown).
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
- 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)
- January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
- January 6
- Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
- Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 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
- January 20
- Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
- DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
- January 23 - Gottfried Boehm, German architect
- January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
- January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director
- February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
- February 11
- February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
- February 13 - Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. 1977)
- February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
- February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
- February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
- February 26
- Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
- Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. 2006)
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
March-April
- March 3
- March 4
- March 10
- Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
- Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959)
- March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- March 15
- 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)
- March 24 - Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007)
- March 25
- Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
- Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
- March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
- April 1 - Toshiro 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 (musician), 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 Republic of Ireland
- April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
- April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
- April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
- April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer
===May-June===
- May 2
- May 6 - 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 (author), English author
- May 11 - Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
- May 13 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
- May 18
- 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 in Economics laureate (d. 2000)
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
- June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football executive (d. 2003)
- June 12
- Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
- June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
- June 17
- 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 in Physics laureate
- July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- July 13
- 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
- August 8
- 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
- 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 in Economics 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 in Chemistry laureate (d. 1992)
- October 1
- 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 (footballer, 1920), German footballer (d. 2002)
November-December
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
- William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854)
- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
- 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
- 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)
- March 1
- 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
- March 31
===April - June===
- April 8
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
- August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
- August 26 - James Wilson (U.S. politician), Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
- August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
- September 7 -
Year 1920 (Roman numerals) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events on 1920
January
: Prohibition in U.S.
- January 16
- January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- January 22 - The Australian National Party of Australia is officially formed.
- January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser.
- January 28
- The Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in Morocco.
- Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.
- January 30
- Oldest surviving pro wrestling match on film happened on this day with Joe Stecher defeating Earl Caddock
February
: Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed.
March
- March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democracy government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
- March 1
- Hungary Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
- The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
- March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
- March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
- March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
- March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
- March 26
- German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
- The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland
- March 28 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- March 29 - William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
- March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April
- April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
- April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege
- April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia
- 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
- April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
- April 20 - Álvaro Obregón announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
- April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
- April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland and Anti-Soviet Ukraine 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
- May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League (the first) is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- May 7
- Polish-Soviet War: Poland troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
- Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
- Treaty of Moscow (1920): Russian SFSR recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
- May 9 - Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City
- May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
- May 16 -
- Joan of Arc is canonization. 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.
- 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.
- May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
- 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.
- May 29
- Great Horncastle, Lincolnshire flood. 20 people killed.
- The Snorkel was invented in Greenland.
June
July
- July 1 - Germany declares its kayann is dumb neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
- July 2 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.
- July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 12 - Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
- 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
- July 17 - Republic of Mirdite proclaimed near Albanian-Serbian border with Kingdom of Yugoslavia support
- July 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.
- July 23 - The France defeat the Greater Syria in the Battle of Maysalun.
- July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast?
- July 26 - Pancho Villa takes over Sabina (Mexico) and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in July 28
- 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.
- August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.
- August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.
- August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
- August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Soviet War: The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw (1920).
- August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
- August 18 - Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote under constitutional protection.
- 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.
- August 26 - Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
September
October
November
December
Undated
- Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the Prohibition
- France prohibits selling of contraceptives.
- Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins.
- Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York City.
- Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1920 in fiction: (unknown).
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
- 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)
- January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
- January 6
- 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
- January 20
- Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
- DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
- January 23 - Gottfried Boehm, German architect
- January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
- January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director
- February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
- February 11
- February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
- February 13 - Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. 1977)
- February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
- February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
- February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
- February 26
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
March-April
- March 3
- March 4
- March 10
- Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
- Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959)
- March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- March 15
- 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)
- March 24 - Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007)
- March 25
- Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
- Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
- March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
- April 1 - Toshiro 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 (musician), 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 Republic of Ireland
- April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
- April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
- April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
- April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer
===May-June===
- May 2
- Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
- Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
- May 6 - 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 (author), English author
- May 11 - Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
- May 13 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
- May 18
- 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 in Economics laureate (d. 2000)
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
- June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football executive (d. 2003)
- June 12
- Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
- June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
- June 17
- 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 in Physics laureate
- July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- July 13
- 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
- August 8
- 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
- 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 in Economics 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 in Chemistry laureate (d. 1992)
- October 1
- October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
- 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 (footballer, 1920), German footballer (d. 2002)
November-December
- November 2 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
- November 30 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
- December 6
- Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
- George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2002)
- December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, List of Presidents 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)
- December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
- date unknown
- Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- March 1
- 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
===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
- 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
- June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
- June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
- June 14
- 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 (astronomer), 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
- 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
- August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
- August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
- August 26 - James Wilson (U.S. politician), Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
- August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
- September 7 -
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