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Birthdays

January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian author (d. 1992)
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
January 4 - William Colby, American CIA director (d. 1996)
January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
January 6 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
January 6 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
January 6 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
January 9 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
January 9 - Clive Dunn, British actor
January 9 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
January 10 - Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
January 10 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
January 12 - James L. Farmer, Jr.
January 12 - Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist
January 15 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
January 15 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
January 16 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
January 20 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
January 22 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
January 24 - Jerry Maren, American actor
January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
January 27 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
January 29 - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
January 30 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
January 30 - Delbert Mann, American film director
February 3 - Henry Heimlich, American physician
February 3 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
February 5 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
February 10 - Alex Comfort, British physician and writer (d. 2000)
February 11 - King Farouk I of Egypt, (d. 1965)
February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
February 11 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (d. 1978)
February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
February 12 - Pran, Indian actor
February 13 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
February 13 - Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002)
February 15 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
February 16 - Anna Mae Hays, American army general
February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director
February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
February 18 - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
February 19 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)
February 19 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
February 19 - George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)
February 20 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
February 23 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
February 25 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
February 26 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
February 26 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
February 26 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist
February 29 - Arthur Franz, American actor (d. 2006)
February 29 - James Mitchell, American actor
February 29 - Michèle Morgan, French actress
February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
February 29 - Ivan Petrov, Russian operatic bass (d. 2003)
March 1 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
March 1 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
March 3 - Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
March 3 - Ronald Searle, British illustrator
March 4 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
March 4 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
March 5 - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
March 5 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
March 8 - Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985)
March 10 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
March 10 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist
March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician
March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
March 16 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
March 16 - John Addison, British composer (d. 1998)
March 16 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
March 16 - Sid Fleischman, American author
March 18 - Jack Warden, American actor (d.2006)
March 19 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
March 20 - Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997)
March 21 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
March 21 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
March 22 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000)
March 22 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
March 23 - Neal Smith, former United States Congressman
March 23 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
March 24 - Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)
March 25 - Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
March 27 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
March 29 - John Belk, American head of Belk
March 31 - Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
April 1 - Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor
April 3 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker
April 3 - Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001)
April 4 - Éric Rohmer, French film director
April 5 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
April 5 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist
April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
April 8 - Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
April 13 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
April 13 - Claude Cheysson, French politician
April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
April 13 - John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
April 15 - Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
April 20 - John Paul Stevens, American jurist
April 20 - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
April 21 - Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007)
April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
April 27 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
April 27 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer
April 30 - Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (d. 1994)
May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
May 2 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
May 3 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)
May 6 - Ross Hunter, American film producer (d. 1996)
May 6 - Kamisese Mara, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
May 8 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
May 8 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
May 8 - Sloan Wilson, American author (d. 2003)
May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
May 9 - William Tenn, American author
May 13 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
May 16 - Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)
May 18 - Pope John Paul II, (d. 2005)
May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
May 20 - John Cruickshank, Scottish airman
May 20 - Betty Driver, English singer and actress
May 21 - Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
May 22 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
May 29 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist
May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
June 2 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
June 2 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
June 5 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
June 7 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
June 8 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
June 11 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)
June 11 - Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (d. 1993)
June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
June 12 - Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000)
June 12 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
June 15 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
June 15 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
June 16 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
June 16 - Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
June 17 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
June 17 - François Jacob, French biologist
June 18 - Ian Carmichael, English actor
June 20 - Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
June 22 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
June 28 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor
June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
July 1 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
July 3 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (d. 1978)
July 4 - Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
July 4 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)
July 5 - Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist
July 8 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
July 10 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist
July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
July 12 - Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
July 12 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
July 13 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
July 16 - Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2002)
July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
July 17 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
July 17 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
July 18 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
July 20 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
July 21 - Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
July 23 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
July 24 - Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New York (d. 1998)
July 25 - Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
July 26 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
July 29 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
July 29 - Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
July 31 - James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
August 2 - Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
August 3 - P. D. James, English novelist
August 3 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
August 3 - Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect
August 4 - Helen Thomas, American journalist
August 6 - Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
August 8 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
August 8 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
August 9 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
August 10 - Red Holzman, American head coach (d. 1998)
August 11 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
August 13 - Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)
August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)
August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
August 18 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
August 18 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
August 18 - Godfrey Evans, England cricketer (d. 1999)
August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
August 22 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
August 24 - Alex Colville, Canadian painter
August 26 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
August 28 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
August 29 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
September 1 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
September 4 - Teddy Johnson, British singer
September 4 - Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver
September 7 - Al Caiola, American guitarist
September 9 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
September 9 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
September 9 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
September 14 - Lawrence Klein, American economist
September 14 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
September 18 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
September 19 - Roger Angell, American sports writer
September 20 - Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
September 20 - Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
September 22 - Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
September 22 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
September 22 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
September 23 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
September 24 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
September 25 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
September 27 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
September 27 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist
September 30 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
October 6 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
October 8 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
October 12 - Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
October 13 - Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
October 15 - Mario Puzo, American novelist (d. 1999)
October 15 - Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002)
October 17 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
October 17 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
October 18 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
October 19 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
October 22 - Timothy Leary, American writer (d. 1996)
October 23 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
October 24 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
October 27 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
October 27 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist
October 29 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
October 31 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist
October 31 - Joseph Gelineau French composer, (d. 2008)
October 31 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957)
October 31 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
October 31 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
November 1 - James Kilpatrick, American journalist
November 1 - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
November 2 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
November 3 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
November 5 - Douglass North, American economist
November 8 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
November 8 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
November 9 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin
November 10 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
November 10 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur (d. 2008)
November 11 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
November 12 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
November 17 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
November 18 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
November 19 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
November 21 - Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988)
November 21 - Stan Musial, American baseball player
November 22 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
November 23 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
November 23 - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
November 25 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
November 25 - Noel Neill, American actress
November 26 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
November 27 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
November 27 - Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
November 29 - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
November 30 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer
December 6 - George Porter, British chemist
December 7 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist
December 7 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian fighter pilot (d. 1944)
December 7 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
December 10 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
December 10 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
December 12 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
December 13 - George Shultz, United States Secretary of State 1982-1989
December 14 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
December 15 - Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
December 17 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
December 19 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
December 19 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
December 21 - Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina
December 21 - Bob Bindig, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
December 21 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
December 27 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005)
December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
December 31 - Rex Allen, American actor

Deaths

January 2 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
January 7 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
January 14 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
January 16 - Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (b. 1859)
January 20 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
February 7 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
February 20 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
February 21 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
March 1 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
March 3 - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
March 26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
April 7 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
April 10 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
April 29 - William Henry Seward, Jr.
May 11 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
May 16 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
May 21 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
May 23 - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
June 14 - Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
July 2 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
July 5 - Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857)
July 10 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
July 11 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France, (b. 1826)
July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
July 23 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
August 6 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator
August 10 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
August 17 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
September 5 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician
October 25 - King Alexander I of Greece, (b. 1893)
October 31 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
November 9 - Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
November 22 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
November 24 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
November 30 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
December 10 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
December 11 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
December 14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)

Events

January 1 - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
January 2 - The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.
January 10 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
January 16 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. is founded on the campus of Howard University.
January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
January 20 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
January 26 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
February 2 - The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
February 2 - France occupies Memel.
February 9 - By the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
February 13 - The Negro National League is formed.
February 14 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
February 24 - The Nazi Party is founded.
March 13 - The Kapp Putsch briefly oust the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
March 19 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919).
March 28 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
April 15 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
April 23 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
April 23 - The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded in Ankara.
April 28 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
April 30 - Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
May 5 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested, accused of robbery and murder.
May 7 - Kiev Offensive (1920): Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
May 7 - Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
May 9 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
May 15 - Council of Lithuania adjourns as the newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania meets for the first time in Kaunas.
May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
May 20 - Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
June 1 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
June 4 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
June 15 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
July 12 - The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognized independent Lithuania.
July 25 - Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
July 29 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
August 10 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
August 11 - The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.
August 13 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
August 15 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw
August 16 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
August 16 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
August 18 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
August 20 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
August 25 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
August 26 - The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
August 27 - Takes place the first radio broadcasting in Argentina.
August 31 - Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
August 31 - First radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
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
September 17 - The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
September 20 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
October 1 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
October 10 - The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
October 14 - Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
October 30 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
November 1 - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
November 2 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
November 12 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
November 15 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday during the Anglo-Irish War.
November 28 - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
December 2 - Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated peace treaty is concluded -Treaty of Alexandropol
December 5 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
December 16 - The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
December 19 - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
December 22 - The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.

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