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1920
The Ehrhardt Brigade occupied Berlin during the Kapp Putsch .
The Haiyuan earthquake kills 200,000.	Gdansk is declared a Free City .
1920 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1368/69 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1912/13 (September 10-11)
Baha'i calendar	76/77 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar	1325/26 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2463/64 (southern Buddhism); 2462/63 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	76th (77th) cycle Year of the Metal Monkey庚申 ( until February 19, Earth Sheep 己未)
Chuch'e ideology (North Korea)	Chuch'e 9
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1282/83 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4253/54 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1298/99 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1338/39 (September 13-14)
Japanese calendar	Taishō 9 ( 大 正 元年); Kōki 2580
Jewish calendar	5680/81 (September 12/13)
Coptic calendar	1636/37 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1095/96
Minguo calendar (China)	Year 9 of the Republic
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1335/36 (March 1)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2230/31 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2231/32 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2462/63 (April 1)
Tibetan calendar	1666
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1976/77 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

• January 10 : The Versailles Peace Treaty enters into force.

German Empire

• January 13 : Bloodbath in front of the Reichstag . During protests against the adoption of the Works Council Act , 42 demonstrators were shot and 105 wounded by the security forces in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin .
• February 4 : Following a regulation of the Versailles Treaty , the German authorities leave the Hultschiner Ländchen . It falls to Czechoslovakia , although an overwhelming majority of the population would like to stay with the German Reich, according to a survey.
• February 4th : The Works Council Act is passed. This means that companies with more than twenty employees are obliged to have works councils elected.
• February 10th : In the first part of the referendum in Schleswig , the majority of the population of North Schleswig votes for unification with Denmark.
• February 20 : The NSDAP is founded by renaming the German Workers' Party (DAP). The renaming will be announced on February 24th in Munich's Hofbräuhaus . Thereby presenting Adolf Hitler also aimed in part to the creation of a totalitarian Greater German Reich, the expulsion of Jews from society and press censorship 25-point program .
• February 29 : Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske dissolves the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade and the Loewenfeld Freikorps . The Kapp Putsch against the Weimar Republic developed from this measure .
• March 12 : In the late evening and at night mutinous Reichswehr officers march with their men to Berlin. The deposed General Walther von Lüttwitz controls the operation that marks the start of the Kapp Putsch .
• March 13 : Artur Mahraun founds the Young German Order and is elected chairman (high master).

Poster of the Reich government against the Kapp Putsch

• March 13 - 17 : Putsch by General Landscape Director Wolfgang Kapp , who with his " Brigade Ehrhardt ", a former Freikorps , and some units of the Reichswehr occupies Berlin and forces the government to flee.
• March 14 : In the second referendum in Schleswig, 80.2% vote for Germany, which results in the division of the former Duchy of Schleswig into the Danish Northslesvig and the south as part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein .
• March 15 : The largest general strike to date takes place in the German Reich as a reaction to the Kapp Putsch . 12 million people respond to a call from various organizations and parties. The Ruhr uprising breaks out in the west .
• March 16 : In Bavaria, the national conservative Gustav von Kahr is elected to succeed the resigned Social Democratic Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann .
• March 22 : The German Reichswehr Minister in the Bauer Cabinet , Gustav Noske , has to resign as a result of the Kapp Putsch because he is accused of supporting the counterrevolution.
• March 25 : fraternity students from Marburg murder 15 workers near the Thuringian city of Mechterstädt who they had previously arrested for “resisting the Kapp Putsch ”. The perpetrators, among them Bogislav von Selchow and Otmar von Verschuer , were acquitted that same year for the Mechterstädt murders .
• April 1 : The State Treaty establishing the Reichseisenbahnen (later Deutsche Reichsbahn ) under the sovereignty of the German Reich comes into force.
• April 2 : Units of the Reichswehr march into the Ruhr area to crush the communist Ruhr uprising that broke out in response to the Kapp Putsch .
• May 1st : Creation of the state of Thuringia
• May 9th : Forestry Councilor Georg Escherich founds the “Organization Escherich” (“Orgesch”) in Munich .
• First NSDAP advertising posters in Munich. Call for a public party meeting on May 11, 1920. Speaker: Adolf Hitler
• June 4th : Signature of the Trianon Peace Treaty .

Constantin Fehrenbach

• June 6 : In the first regular Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic , the Weimar coalition of the SPD , the Center Party and the German Democratic Party , which supports the republic, loses its majority. There are strong gains for the USPD and right-wing parties ( DNVP , DVP ). After the election, the Reichstag will meet for the first time on June 24th . The unclear political situation leads to lengthy negotiations about the formation of a government. Finally, a bourgeois minority cabinet consisting of the DDP, DVP and the center comes into being after the DVP has promised to act on the basis of the Weimar constitution . The SPD rejects government participation, but tolerates the government. Reich President Friedrich Ebert appoints Constantin Fehrenbach from the center as Reich Chancellor .
• June 15 : Northern Schleswig becomes Danish after the result of the referendums in Schleswig in the northern voting zone on February 10th of that year.
• 23 June : With the Prussian law on the abolition of the privileges of the nobility and the dissolution of property , the privileges of the nobility are abolished. Titles of first birth are revoked, titles of nobility are only part of the name . The law is adopted in a similar form by the other countries of the German Reich.
• July 1 : The unification of the Free State of Coburg , part of the former double duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha , with the Free State of Bavaria is completed.
• July 11 : In the referendums scheduled in East and West Prussia as a result of the Versailles Treaty , a large majority votes in favor of belonging to East Prussia and thus remaining in the German Reich .
• July 15 : Germany and Latvia contractually decide to establish diplomatic relations .
• July 20 : The German government issues an arms embargo in view of the Polish-Soviet war, underscoring its declaration of neutrality for this conflict.
• August 5 : The German Reichstag passes a majority of the Disarmament Act, complying with an obligation from Article 177 of the Versailles Treaty .
• October 1 : The Greater Berlin Act comes into force and makes Berlin a city of four million.
• October 12 : A special party conference of the USPD begins in Halle , which leads to the split in the party.

The successor states of Austria-Hungary

• June 7 : In Graz there is a hunger revolt . A price reduction demanded by the protesting women will be guaranteed on June 12th by a commission to regulate prices by means of fixed market prices.
• 16 July : The Treaty of Saint-Germain , which the resolution kuk Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the conditions for the new Republic of Austria controls, comes into force.
• July 28 : In response to massive pressure from the victorious powers of World War I , Poland and Czechoslovakia contractually settle their border conflict over the Olsa area , which began last year as a two-week Polish-Czechoslovak border war .
• October 1 : The Constituent National Assembly passes the Federal Constitutional Act ; it comes into force on November 10 .
• October 10 : In the referendum in Carinthia, South Carinthia votes for Austria .
• October 10 : Italy annexed South Tyrol on the basis of the Treaty of Saint-Germain .
• October 17 : First National Council election in the history of Austria : The Christian Social Party with Michael Mayr becomes the party with the most votes and seats.
• December 16 : Austria is admitted to the League of Nations .

Poland / Soviet Union

Polish-Soviet War

→ Main article : Polish-Soviet War

Largest advance of Polish troops

• January 21 : Polish units under Edward Rydz-Śmigły conquer the city of Daugavpils after two weeks of fighting in the Polish-Soviet War . After the conquest, the city is handed over to the allied Latvia .
• March: Poland simultaneously makes two successful forays into Belarus and Ukraine.

Polish troops in Kiev

• April 24 : The main Polish offensive aimed at Kiev begins. Poland receives support from Ukrainian nationalists under Symon Petljura . The city was conquered on May 7th . However, the Red Army can withdraw largely unharmed and prepare a counter-offensive. Polish attempts to recruit the war-weary Ukrainian population are largely unsuccessful.
• May 15 : The Soviet counter-offensive under Alexander Ilyich Yegorov begins.
• May 30 : General Alexei Alexejewitsch Brusilov publishes an appeal in Pravda to all former Russian officers to forget past insults and to join the Red Army .
• Beginning of July: Lithuania allies itself with the Soviet Union against Poland.
• July 11 : The Red Army under Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky conquers Minsk . On July 14 falls Vilnius , a few days later Grodno .

Front line in August 1920

• August 1st : The Red Army conquers Brest-Litovsk and is only 100 kilometers from Warsaw . She crossed the Vistula on August 10th .
• August 13 : The Battle of Warsaw begins. It ends on August 25 with the “Miracle on the Vistula”, the victory of the Polish army under Józef Piłsudski and Tadeusz Rozwadowski . Poland goes on the offensive again.
• August 20 : The Constituent Assembly of Gdańsk approves the neutrality of the Free City of Gdańsk .
• August 20 : The second Polish uprising in Upper Silesia is initiated by Wojciech Korfanty .
• September 20 : Poland wins the Battle of the Memel .
• October 7th : Poland and Lithuania sign the Treaty of Suwałki , according to which the Curzon Line should represent the demarcation line between the two states.
• October 9 : The Polish general Lucjan Żeligowski breaks the treaty and conquers Vilnius in a stroke of a hand, as well as large parts of Lithuania. On October 12th he proclaimed the Republic of Central Lithuania .
• October 12th : An armistice is signed under British and French pressure.

Other events

• January 11th : The Allies recognize Azerbaijan as an independent country.
• February 2 : In the Peace of Dorpat , the Russian Soviet Republic recognizes its independence from Estonia .
• February 10 : In the port city of Putzig in the Gdańsk Bay, due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, part of the Polish corridor with which the rebuilt Polish state is to gain access to the sea, the Polish General Józef Haller throws a gold ring with him in a solemn ceremony the Polish national coat of arms in the Baltic Sea.
• April 28 : Russian Red Army marches into Azerbaijan and ends the independence of the young country by establishing an occupation regime in Baku .
• October 14 : The Finnish eastern war campaigns end with the Peace of Dorpat : Soviet Russia recognizes the border of independent Finland .
• November 15 : Danzig in West Prussia declares itself to be a free city against the will of the population in a proclamation . The constitution of the Free City of Danzig , passed in August, does not come into force until 1922.
• November 26 : Lenin's speech "Overtaking and overtaking capitalism"

The Bolshevik seizure of power in Yerevan

• November 29 : Armenian Bolsheviks come to power in a bloodless coup in the Democratic Republic of Armenia .
• December 2 : The current head of government Simon Wratzjan formally hands Armenia over to the Bolsheviks and goes underground.
• December 6th : In support of the communist government that came to power after a coup, the Russian Red Army invades Armenia and proclaims the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic . Armenia remains a formally independent country for the time being.

Portugal

Francisco Costa as a political shooting star in a cartoon

• January 15 : After around six months in office, Alfredo de Sá Cardoso of the Partido Democrático resigns as Prime Minister of Portugal . His party colleague Francisco José Fernandes Costa is elected as his successor . However, his cabinet resigned on the same day and went down in Portuguese history as the “Cabinet of Five Minutes” (Governo dos Cinco Minutos) . Alfredo de Sá Cardoso takes over the post of Prime Minister on a temporary basis.
• January 21 : Domingos Leite Pereira becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
• March 8 : António Maria Baptista becomes Prime Minister of Portugal. With him there seems to be some stability in the government.
• June 6 : After Prime Minister António Maria Baptista succumbs to a stroke during a cabinet meeting, José Ramos Preto becomes Portugal's new head of government as a transitional candidate.
• June 26 : António Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister for the first time in Portugal .
• July 19 : António Joaquim Granjo of the Partido Liberal Republicano becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
• November 20 : With Álvaro de Castro , a candidate for the Partido Republicano da Reconstituição Nacional becomes Prime Minister of Portugal for the first time .
• November 30th : Liberato Ribeiro Pinto once again becomes a Democratic candidate for Prime Minister of Portugal.

Ottoman Empire and its successor states

• January 12 : The Ottoman Parliament meets for the last time.
• March 2nd : Ali Rıza Pasha is dismissed from the office of Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Mehmed IV . He will be succeeded on March 8 by Hulusi Salih Pasha .
• March 7th : The Syrian National Congress proclaims Faisal I king of Syria . Hashim al-Atassi becomes interim prime minister. However, the colonial powers France and Great Britain thwart the Arab striving for independence through the League of Nations . France receives the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon .
• March 16 : The Allies formally occupy Istanbul .
• April 2 : Hulusi Salih Pascha resigns as Grand Vizier after just under a month. He is followed again by Damad Ferid Pascha .
• April 4th to 7th : During the Nabi Musa riots in the old city of Jerusalem , a pogrom against the Jewish population takes place on the occasion of the Muslim celebrations in honor of the Prophet Moses.
• April 11 : Sultan Mehmed IV dissolves the Ottoman parliament, which has accused him of high treason.
• 19th bis 26. April : At the San Remo Conference , the peace treaty between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire is prepared. The Supreme Council of the Allied Powers ( Great Britain , France , Italy ) approves various mandates ( Syria and Lebanon , Mesopotamia , Palestine ) as part of the redivision of the defeated Ottoman Empire .

Opening of the Grand National Assembly on April 23, 1920

• April 23 : The Grand National Assembly of Turkey opens in Ankara . The next day, Mustafa Kemal Pasha is elected President of Parliament.
• April 25 : Mandate areas of the League of Nations are established for parts of the collapsed Ottoman Empire in the Middle East at the Sanremo Conference . There is a British mandate for Mesopotamia alongside their League of Nations mandate for Palestine . The French receive the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon .
• May 9th to 13th : In the course of the Turkish Liberation War the Congress of Thrace is held.
• July 23 : King Faisal of Syria loses the Battle of Maysalun against French troops; he is driven into exile from the country.

Signing of the Treaty of Sèvres

• August 10 : With the Treaty of Sèvres between the states of the Entente and the Ottoman Empire , the last of the Paris suburban treaties is signed. The Grand National Assembly rejects the treaty and declares the government representatives high traitors.
• September 1 : As part of the League of Nations mandate, the French general Henri Gouraud proclaims the state of Greater Lebanon for Syria and Lebanon , from which the present Republic of Lebanon emerged in 1926 .
• September 24th : The Turkish-Armenian War between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and Turkish revolutionaries begins.
• October 21 : Ahmed Tevfik Pascha replaces Damad Ferid Pascha in office. He becomes the last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• December 2 : The Treaty of Alexandropol ends the Turkish-Armenian War .

Other events in Europe

• January 1st : Giuseppe Motta becomes President of Switzerland for the second time.
• January 22 : The government of the Netherlands refuses the extradition of the former German Emperor Wilhelm II requested by the victorious allies .
• February 9 : In the Paris suburb of Sèvres, the Svalbard Treaty is signed , which grants Norway sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago, including Bear Island .
• March 1 : The Hungarian National Assembly elects Miklós Horthy as imperial administrator .
• March 21 : In Switzerland , a popular initiative to ban casinos is adopted.
• May to June: The last of the three Ossetian uprisings in the context of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict takes place , but it is finally put down in June. Thousands of Ossetians die or are driven out.
• July 13 : In Trieste, Italian fascists set an arson attack on the Narodni Dom cultural center of the Slovene population. After the forced Italianization that had begun, tensions prevail in the city .
• November 21 : The Irish War of Independence will be on " Bloody Sunday (English" Bloody Sunday , Irish Domhnach na Fola ) murdered first 15 British agents and soldiers, and later in an attack in retaliation for a Gaelic football event by British forces 14 Irish civilians.
• December 23 : The United Kingdom Parliament passes the Government of Ireland Act , which establishes the separation of the states of Southern and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland .

Canada

• February 1 : By merging the Royal North-West Mounted Police with the Dominion Police , the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is created as the federal police responsible for all Canadian provinces and territories . The headquarters moves to Ottawa .

United States of America

• January 15 : The 18th Amendment to the Constitution , ratified a year earlier, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transport of intoxicating substances enters into force; this is where prohibition begins .
• March 19 : The United States Congress fails to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the United States to join the League of Nations .

The three lynched surrounded by the angry mob

• June 15 : In the port city of Duluth, Minnesota , a mob committed lynching in the evening . Three African American circus workers are hanged after a mock trial for allegedly raping a young white woman. The rumor later turns out to be untrue.

After the bombing in front of the JP Morgan Inc.

• September 16 : A bomb deposited in a horse-drawn cart explodes in front of the JP Morgan Inc. bank building on New York's Wall Street . There are 38 dead and around 400 injured. The author of the bombing of Wall Street are anarchist circles suspected.
• August 26th : The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote .
• November 2 : The Republican candidate , Warren G. Harding , wins the US presidential election by a clear majority against the Democrat James M. Cox . Harding took office in March 1921.

Africa

• July 23 : The Protectorate of British East Africa is converted into the British Crown Colony of Kenya .

economy

• January 1st : Huge price increases for coal come into effect.
• February 25 : Investors from Antwerp found the Belgian oil company Petrofina .
• March 9th : Erik Liebreich receives a German patent for a process for the electrolytic deposition of metallic chromium , the basis for chromium plating with chromium electrolytes .

Gdansk postage stamp 1920

• June 14th : The Reichspostdirektion Gdansk issues the first independent Gdansk postage stamps.
• July 12 : US President Woodrow Wilson officially opens shipping traffic on the Panama Canal, which has long been in operation . The planned opening ceremony in 1914 had to be postponed due to the outbreak of World War I and will be rescheduled that day.
• November 16 : Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Service ( QANTAS ) is established in Winton.
• December 13th : The candy maker Hans Riegel goes into business for himself and has his company Haribo entered in the Bonn commercial register.

science and technology

Rudolph W. Schroeder (1920)

• February 27th : Major Rudolph William "Shorty" Schroeder is the first to reach an altitude of over 10,000 meters in an airplane .
• April 26 : The Shapley-Curtis debate in Washington sparked a new understanding of the nature of galaxies and the size of the universe among astronomers .
• September 7th : In Brazil, President Epitácio Pessoa founded the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro by merging the Escola Politécnica with the previously independent universities Faculdade Livre de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais do Rio de Janeiro and Faculdade de Medicina .

Culture

Visual arts

→ Main article : Art year 1920

Johannes Theodor Baargeld : Typical vertical distortion as a representation of the Dada Baargeld . This alienated representation of Venus von Milo is shown in the exhibition.

• June 30th to August 25th : In the Dr. Otto Burchard in Berlin the First International Dada Fair takes place. With its exhibits, the fair is a rejection of bourgeois culture, but forms a documentation of artistic creativity that the Dada revolt unleashed and whose impulses inspire the further development of modern art.

Piet Mondrian: Le Néo-Plasticisme , 1920

• Piet Mondrian publishes his main work on art theory, Le Néo-Plasticisme, on the style of neo-plasticism with L'Effort Moderne by Léonce Rosenberg.
• Adolf Hoffmeister , Jaroslav Seifert , Karel Teige and Vladislav Vančura found the avant-garde artist group Devětsil in Prague . The members are dedicated to proletarian art and so-called magical realism . The group takes part in the organization of artistic life in Bohemia and Moravia.

Movie

→ Main article : Film year 1920

• January 3 : In the Berlin Schaunburg the silent film drama slaves foreign will of Richard Eichberg with Lee Parry and Bela Lugosi premiered in the lead roles.
• January 11 : The short slapstick film Die Werkstatt with Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton premieres in the United States . It is their last film together. A little later, Keaton produced his first independent film, The High Sign , but held it back because he didn't think it was good enough.

Title The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

• February 27 : The German feature film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari has its world premiere . The silent film , directed by Robert Wiene , is considered the first famous production of expressionist film and a milestone in film history .
• March 9 : Ernst Lubitsch's silent film comedy Kohlhiesels Töchter, based on the farmer's swing of the same name with Henny Porten in a double role, has its premiere.
• May 3 : The silent film The Girl from Ackerstrasse by Reinhold Schünzel with Lilly Flohr in the title role is premiered in Berlin. The script was written by Arzén von Cserépy and Bobby E. Lüthge based on the novel by Ernst Friedrich.
• September 1 : Buster Keaton's comedy short The Week receives excellent reviews at its world premiere.
• October 7th : As the first Karl May film adaptation, the silent film Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses by Josef Stein is premiered in the Kammer-Lichtspiele in Dresden.
• November 27 : The epee film hero Zorro appears for the first time in the feature film The Mark of Zorro on the big screen. It is the first United Artists film and popularizes the leading actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

• In the USA, the Photoplay Award is the world's first film prize.

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1920

• February 21 : On a train ride to Berlin, Bertolt Brecht writes the poem Memory of Marie A.
• March 26th : The first novel published by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is published by Scribner’s . The success of This Side of Paradise ( This Side of Paradise ) makes the 23-year-olds in a short time famous.
• October: The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), the first detective novel by British author Agatha Christie , published in the United States at John Lane . The Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot and his friend Lieutenant Arthur Hastings make their first appearance in this novel.

• The historical novel Wallenstein by Alfred Döblin is published by S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.
• The children's book The Story of Doctor Dolittle ( Doctor Dolittle and his animals ) by the English writer Hugh Lofting appears.

Music and theater

→ Main articles : Year of literature 1920  and Year of music 1920

• January 15th : The record producer Homocord offers the first record with jazz in Germany . The recorded title Tiger Rag , performed by the Original Excentric Band , is interpreted in a rather untypical way for Jazz .
• January 20 : The world premiere of the operetta Das Hollandweibchen by Emmerich Kálmán takes place with success at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna. The libretto is by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach .
• January 21 : The world premiere of the opera Der Schatzgräber by Franz Schreker takes place in Frankfurt am Main. It becomes one of the most frequently performed contemporary operas of the Weimar Republic.
• February 12 : The world premiere of the operetta The Last Waltz by Oscar Straus with Fritzi Massary in the leading role takes place at the Berlin Theater in Berlin. The libretto is by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald .
• May 28 : The world premiere of the operetta The Blue Mazur by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The libretto is by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach .
• July 1st : The world premiere of the opera The First People by Rudi Stephan, based on the poem of the same name by Otto Borngräber, takes place five years after the composer's death in Frankfurt am Main.
• August 10 : Recording of the first blues sung in the history of sound recordings: Crazy Blues with Mamie Smith

Everyone 1920

• August 22nd : The history of the Salzburg Festival begins with a performance of Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on the Salzburg Cathedral Square with Alexander Moissi and Johanna Terwin in the leading roles . In addition to Max Reinhardt and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the establishment of the Salzburg Festival is mainly thanks to the composer Richard Strauss , the conductor and Viennese court opera director Franz Schalk and the set designer Alfred Roller .
• September 21 : The song of the labor movement, Brothers, About the Sun, about Freedom is sung in public for the first time in Germany.

Die tote Stadt , original sheet music for the opera with a dedication by Korngold

• December 4th : The world premiere of the opera Die tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold with texts by Paul Schott takes place at the same time at the Stadttheater Hamburg and the Stadttheater Cologne and is a great success at both locations. The libretto is based on the symbolist novel Das tote Brugge ( Bruges-la-morte ) by Georges Rodenbach .
• December 21 : The musical Sally premiered on Broadway in New York with extraordinary success. Florenz Ziegfeld produced the musical comedy for the star of his revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 , Marilyn Miller . The music is from Jerome Kern , Guy Bolton is the author of the book . An unrealized Princess Theater Show by Bolton and PG Wodehouse serves as a template . The lyrics are mainly from Clifford Gray . The piece reached 585 performances, the longest running time of a Broadway show to date .
• December 23rd : Arthur Schnitzler's stage play Reigen is performed in full for the first time at the Kleiner Schauspielhaus in Berlin and triggers one of the greatest theater scandals of the 20th century.

society

• February 17 : After a suicide attempt, a woman is rescued from the Berlin Landwehr Canal. She will later claim to be the Tsar's daughter Anastasia , who survived the murder of the Tsar's family during the Russian Revolution .

Wedding of Oswald Mosley and Cynthia Curzon

• May 11th : Lady Cynthia Blanche Curzon and Oswald Mosley marry in London in the presence of guests from European royal families .
• May 11 : On behalf of his deputy, Johnny Torrio , Frankie Yale murders mafia boss Jim Colosimo in Chicago after he refused to enter the alcohol business. Torrio's protégé Al Capone played a key role in the planning of the murder with which Torrio took over the extensive criminal empire of Colosimo.

religion

• March 25 : Karl Joseph Schulte becomes Archbishop of Cologne .
• May 13th : Pope Benedict XV. says Margaret Mary holy.
• May 23rd : Pope Benedict XV. provides in its encyclical Pacem, Dei munus pulcherrimum the peace in the center of its viewing and recommends after World War I, the reconciliation of the opponents. He has a positive attitude towards a League of Nations idea.
• May 16 : Pope Benedict XV. says Joan of Arc , the Maid of Orleans, holy.
• September 15 : In the encyclical Spiritus Paraclitus , Pope Benedict XV turns . against failed attempts in biblical research to clarify unsolved questions about the Holy Scriptures .
• October 5 : In the encyclical Principi apostolorum Petro , Ephraem the Syrian , who was active in the 4th century, is mentioned by Pope Benedict XV. accepted beyond the Orthodox Churches as Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church .
• Sixth Lambeth Conference of the Church of England

Disasters

A lifeboat with survivors from the Afrique

• January 12th : The French passenger steamer Afrique is on the French coast when the generators fail in a storm and the steamer is unable to maneuver onto a reef, where it leaks and sinks. Of the 609 passengers and crew, only 34 survive. The accident is considered to be one of the greatest disasters in the history of French steam shipping .
• December 16 : The Haiyuan earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale shakes Gansu Province in China , killing more than 200,000.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1920

Poster of the VII Olympic Games

• April 20 : The VII Olympic Games are opened by King Albert in the Belgian city of Antwerp . Water polo player and epee fencer Victor Boin is the first athlete to swear the Olympic oath written by Pierre de Coubertin .
• July 14th : The first issue of the sports magazine Der Kicker , launched by Walther Bensemann, appears in Constance .
• August 20 : In the USA, what will later become the National Football League (NFL) is formed at a meeting in Canton (Ohio) . The association organizes American football .
• October 3 : The Prix ​​de l'Arc de Triomphe is awarded for the first time at the Longchamp racecourse in Paris . From now on it will be awarded to the annual winner of the gallop race over 2,400 meters for at least three year old racehorses .
• October 4th : The Tunisian sports club Club Africain Tunis is founded, known primarily as a top team in Tunisian football, but also for its handball, basketball and volleyball departments.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Charles Édouard Guillaume
• Chemistry : Walther Hermann Nernst
• Medicine : August Krogh
• Literature : Knut Hamsun
• Nobel Peace Prize : Léon Bourgeois

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Osvaldo Cavandoli , Italian cartoonist and honorary citizen of Milan († 2007 )
• 0January 1 : Suzanne Juyol , French opera singer († 1994 )
• 0January 1 : Alfred A. Tomatis , ENT doctor and developer of audio-psycho-phonology (APP) († 2001 )
• 0January 1 : Heinz Zemanek , Austrian computer pioneer († 2014 )
• 0January 2 : Isaac Asimov , American biochemist and science fiction writer († 1992 )
  

  Isaac Asimov , 1965
• 0January 2 : Čestmír Císař , Czech politician († 2013 )
• 0January 2 : Albert Tönjes , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1980 )
• 0January 3 : Siegfried Buback , lawyer and attorney general at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe († 1977 )
• 0January 3 : Milan Srdoč , Yugoslav actor († 1988 )
• 0January 5 : Heinz Fülfe , German draftsman, puppeteer and ventriloquist († 1994 )
• 0January 5 : Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist († 1995 )
• 0January 5 : André Simon , French Formula 1 racing driver († 2012 )
• 0January 6 : Henry Corden , Canadian actor and speaker in animated films († 2005 )
• 0January 6th : Josep Lluís Facerías , Spanish anarchist and resistance fighter († 1957 )
• 0January 6th : Jean Ipoustéguy , French sculptor († 2006 )
• 0January 6 : Earl Kim , American composer and music teacher († 1998 )
• 0January 6 : John Maynard Smith , British geneticist, evolutionary biologist († 2004 )
• 0January 8 : Friedrich-Wilhelm Grunewald , German general († 2001 )
• 0January 8 : Douglas Wilmer , English actor († 2016 )
• 0January 9 : Clive Dunn , British actor († 2012 )
• 0January 9 : Curth Flatow , German playwright († 2011 )
• January 10 : Rut Brandt , wife of Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt († 2006 )
• January 10 : Paul Kuhn , Swiss gardener, founder of the St. Michaelsvereinigung († 2002 )
• January 11 : Ruth Bietenhard , Swiss journalist, author and teacher († 2015 )
• January 11th : Slavko Janevski , Macedonian writer († 2000 )
• January 12 : Mac Speedie , American football player and coach († 1993 )
• January 13 : Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl , Swedish football player († 1984 )
• January 14 : Luc-Peter Crombé , Belgian painter († 2005 )
• January 14 : Jörg Kandutsch , Austrian politician († 1990 )
• January 15 : Bob Davies , American basketball player († 1990 )
• January 15 : Melvin Lasky , American publicist († 2004 )
• January 15 : John Joseph O'Connor , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal († 2000 )
• January 15 : Gertrude Pritzi , Austrian table tennis player († 1968 )
• January 16 : Claude Abadie , French bank manager, clarinetist and orchestra leader of Dixieland Jazz († 2020 )
• January 16 : Stephanos II. Ghattas , Patriarch of Alexandria and Cardinal († 2009 )
• January 17th : Bohumil Váňa , Czech table tennis player († 1989 )
• January 18 : René Audet , Canadian Bishop († 2011 )
• January 19 : Roberto Marcelo Levingston , Argentine military († 2015 )
• January 19 : Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , Peruvian politician, Secretary General of the United Nations (1982–1991) († 2020 )
  

  Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , 1982
• January 19 : Bruce Sundlun , American politician († 2011 )
• January 20 : Maureen Dragone , American journalist and author († 2013 )
• January 20 : Federico Fellini , Italian filmmaker and director († 1993 )
  

  Federico Fellini , 1965
• January 20 : DeForest Kelley , American actor († 1999 )
• January 20 : Fabian Ver , Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army († 1998 )
• January 21 : Jack Groob , Canadian violinist and conductor († 1984 )
• January 21 : Bert Grund , German film composer († 1992 )
• January 22nd : Richard John Copland Atkinson , British prehistoric († 1994 )
• January 22nd : Chiara Lubich , founder of the Focolare Movement († 2008 )
• January 22 : William Warfield , American singer (bass-baritone) († 2002 )
• January 23 : Ray Abrams , American jazz tenor saxophonist († 1992 )
• January 23 : Gottfried Böhm , German architect and sculptor
• January 23 : Karl Delorme , former Member of the Bundestag, honorary citizen of the city of Mainz, social department head of the city of Mainz († 2011 )
• January 23 : Henry Eriksson , Swedish athlete and Olympic champion († 2000 )
• January 23 : Philippa Pearce , British children's author († 2006 )
• January 24th : Lech Bądkowski , Polish writer, journalist and politician († 1984 )
• January 24th : Hilario González , Cuban composer, pianist, musicologist and music teacher († 1999 )
• January 24th : Jerry Maren , American actor († 2018 )
• January 25 : Pedro Licinio Valerio , Dominican guitarist and singer († 2005 )
• January 26 : Heinz Keßler , German politician, Minister for National Defense († 2017 )
• January 26 : Elfriede von Nitzsch , German athlete († 2011 )
• January 27 : Vicente Bianchi , Chilean pianist, composer and conductor († 2018 )
• January 27 : Helmut Zacharias , German violinist († 2002 )
• January 28 : Maria Becker , German-Swiss actress († 2012 )
• January 28 : Willy Schultes , German folk actor († 2005 )
• January 30th : Michael Joseph Anderson , British film director († 2018 )
• January 30th : Delbert Mann , American director († 2007 )
• January 30th : Hasegawa Machiko , Japanese manga artist († 1992 )
• January 31 : Ana María González , Mexican singer († 1983 )
• January 31 : Benoîte Groult , French writer and journalist († 2016 )
• January 31 : Stewart Udall , American politician († 2010 )

February

• 0February 1 : Gerhard Prager , German editor and writer, program director of ZDF († 1975 )
• 0February 1 : Rudolf Rhomberg , Austrian actor († 1968 )
• 0February 1 : Mike Scarry , American football player and coach († 2012 )
• 0February 2 : George Hardwick , English football player and coach († 2004 )
• 0February 2 : Heinz Strobl , German municipal official († 1993 )
• 0February 2 : George Sweigert , American inventor († 1999 )
• 0February 3 : Henry Heimlich , American doctor († 2016 )
• 0February 3 : Ruth Kraft , German writer († 2015 )
• 0February 3 : Stan Ockers , Belgian cyclist († 1956 )
• 0February 4 : Johannes Jobst , German Roman Catholic Bishop († 2014 )
• 0February 5 : Hans Lipinsky-Gottersdorf , German writer († 1991 )
• 0February 5 : Gerhard Hoehme , German painter and graphic artist († 1989 )
• 0February 6 : Ruth Deutsch Lechuga , Austrian doctor, anthropologist and photographer († 2004 )
• 0February 6 : Max Mannheimer , Jewish survivor of the Holocaust († 2016 )
• 0February 7th : Jacqueline Diffring , German-British sculptor († 2020 )
• 0February 7 : To Wang , American computer developer and inventor († 1990 )
• 0February 8 : Bob Bemer , American computer pioneer († 2004 )
• 0February 8 : Karin Himboldt , German actress († 2005 )
• 0February 8 : Mike Magill , American racing driver († 2006 )
• 0February 8 : Mary Siragusa , Dominican pianist and music teacher († 2002 )
• 0February 9 : Fred Allen , New Zealand rugby union international († 2012 )
• 0February 9 : Ēriks Koņeckis , Latvian ice hockey player († 2006 )
• 0February 9 : Franco Munari , Italian classical philologist († 1995 )

King Faruq

• February 11 : Faruq , King of Egypt († 1965 )
• February 11 : Daniel F. Galouye , American journalist and science fiction writer († 1976 )
• February 12 : Yoshiko Ōtaka , Japanese actress and politician († 2014 )
• February 12 : Bob Shad , American music producer († 1985 )
• February 12 : Jack Turner , American racing car driver († 2004 )
• February 14 : Hermann Argelander , German internist and psychoanalyst († 2004 )
• February 14 : Siegfried Bärsch , German politician († 2008 )
• February 14th : Alois Brügger , Swiss doctor († 2001 )
• February 14 : Judith Holzmeister , Austrian actress († 2008 )
• February 14 : Jack Lesberg , American musician († 2005 )
• February 15 : Velleda Cesari , Italian foil fencer († 2003 )
• February 15 : Harold Michelson , American production designer, art director and storyboard artist († 2007 )
• February 15 : Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian writer († 2008 )
• February 16 : Tony Crook , British racing car driver, entrepreneur († 2014 )
• February 16 : Walt Faulkner , American racing driver († 1956 )
• February 17 : Arie Kindler , Israeli numismatist and university lecturer († 2014 )
• February 17th : Kay Lorentz , German cabaret artist and theater founder († 1993 )
• February 18 : Rolande Falcinelli , French composer and organist († 2006 )
• February 18 : Eddie Slovik , American soldier in World War II, executed for desertion († 1945 )
• February 19 : Josef Baron , German painter and sculptor († 2020 )
• February 19 : Jürgen von Beckerath , German Egyptologist († 2016 )
• February 19 : Franz Joachim Behnisch , German writer († 1983 )
• February 19 : Helga Cazas , French author († 2008 )
• February 19 : Margret Dietrich , German theater scholar († 2004 )
• February 19 : Jaan Kross , Estonian writer († 2007 )
• February 20 : Karl Albrecht , German entrepreneur ( Aldi ) († 2014 )
• February 20 : Zlata Bartl , Yugoslav chemist († 2008 )
• February 20 : Senta Kapoun , Austrian translator († 2019 )
• February 20 : Kathleen Kennedy-Cavendish , sister of John F. Kennedy († 1948 )
• February 21 : Ferdinand Dux , German actor († 2009 )
• February 21 : Liselotte Rauner , German writer († 2005 )
• February 21 : Ishigaki Rin , Japanese poet († 2004 )
• February 21 : Rolf Sammet , German chemist and company manager († 1997 )
• February 21 : Leo Scheffczyk , German cardinal and theologian († 2005 )
• February 22 : Stephanie Glaser , Swiss actress († 2011 )
• February 22nd : Maria Hellwig , German singer, presenter and entertainer († 2010 )
• February 22nd : Karl-Heinz Schwab , German lawyer († 2008 )
• February 22 : Burt L. Talcott , American politician († 2016 )
• February 23 : Anton Wladimirowitsch Antonow-Ovsejenko , Russian historian and dissident († 2013 )
• February 23 : Walter E. Lautenbacher , German photographer († 2000 )
• February 23 : Hall Overton , American jazz musician († 1972 )
• February 23 : Louise Reiss , US doctor († 2011 )
• February 25 : Engelbert Friedhoff , German surgeon and pioneer of emergency and rescue services († 2008 )
• February 25 : Sun Myung Moon , Japanese-South Korean church founder († 2012 )
• February 25 : Werner Usbeck , German surgeon and rector of the Medical Academy Erfurt (1973–1985) († 2007 )
• February 26 : Max Hermann Archimowitz , German politician († 2000 )
• February 26 : Tony Randall , American actor († 2004 )
• February 27 : Julian Jaynes , American psychologist († 1997 )
• February 27 : Elleston Trevor , British writer († 1995 )
• February 27 : Günter Ratke , German press illustrator, painter and co-founder of Stern († 2018 )
• February 28 : Karl Hauschildt , Protestant clergyman († 2009 )
• February 28 : Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi , Afghan writer and poet († 1992 )
• February 28 : Matthias Seefelder , German industrial manager, Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF AG († 2001 )
• February 29 : Fyodor Alexandrovich Abramov , Soviet writer († 1983 )
• February 29 : Marcel Frémiot , French composer († 2018 )
• February 29 : Michèle Morgan , French film actress († 2016 )
• February 29 : Howard Nemerov , American literary professor and poet († 1991 )
• February 29 : Johann Waldbach , employee of the Stasi of the GDR († 1953 )

March

• 0March 1 : Simon Ignatius Pimenta , Archbishop of Bombay and Cardinal († 2013 )
• 0March 1 : Albin Siekierski , Polish writer († 1989 )
• 0March 3 : James Doohan , Canadian actor († 2005 )
• 0March 3 : Julius Boros , Hungarian-American professional golfer († 1994 )
• 0March 3 : Tony Gaze , Australian aviator and racing car driver († 2013 )
• 0March 4 : Jean Lecanuet , French politician († 1993 )
• 0March 4 : Pierre Mamie , Bishop of Lausanne († 2008 )
• 0March 5 : Walter Ried , German chemist († 2008 )
• 0March 6th : Lewis Gilbert , British film director, producer and screenwriter († 2018 )
• 0March 6 : Heinz-Herbert Karry , German politician († 1981 )
• 0March 8 : George Keith Batchelor , Australian mathematician and physicist († 2000 )
• 0March 8 : Eva Dahlbeck , Swedish actress and author († 2008 )
• 0March 8 : Gertrude Wondrack , Austrian trade unionist and politician († 1971 )
• 0March 9 : Gerald "Jerry" Byrd , American country singer and musician († 2005 )
• March 10 : Julio Bolbochán , Argentine chess grandmaster († 1996 )
• March 10 : Marcial Maciel , founder of the Mexican order († 2008 )
• March 10 : Boris Vian , French writer, chansonnier, actor and translator († 1959 )
• March 11 : Nicolaas Bloembergen , American physicist († 2017 )
• March 11 : Benjamin Ferencz , American lawyer
• March 12 : Teofila Reich-Ranicki , Polish-German artist († 2011 )
• March 16 : John Mervyn Addison , British composer († 1998 )
• March 16 : Dorothea Binz , superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp († 1947 )
• March 16 : Traudl Junge , German private secretary to Adolf Hitler, contemporary witness († 2002 )
• March 16 : Buster Ramsey , American football player and coach († 2007 )
• March 17 : Olga Orozco , Argentine poet († 1999 )
• March 17th : Mujibur Rahman , politician, founder of Bangladesh († 1975 )
• March 17 : José Sánchez , Archbishop of Nueva Segovia and Cardinal († 2012 )
• March 18th : Linda Dégh , Hungarian folklorist († 2014 )
• March 18 : Yayo el Indio , Puerto Rican singer († 2000 )
• March 19 : Karl Biehlig , German horn pedagogue and professor († 1998 )
• March 19 : Albert Stief , German politician, Minister in the GDR († 1998 )
• March 20 : Bienvenido Fabián , Dominican composer, pianist and singer († 2000 )
• March 21 : Rolando Arjona Amábilis , Mexican painter, sculptor, photographer and heraldic artist († 2014 )
• March 21 : Mario Cecchi Gori , Italian film producer († 1993 )
• March 21 : Éric Rohmer , French film and theater director, essayist, film critic and theorist († 2010 )
• March 22nd : Rudolf Bohren , Swiss theologian († 2010 )
• March 22nd : Werner Klemperer , German-American actor and musician († 2000 )
• March 22nd : Ludvík Kundera , Czech writer († 2010 )
• March 22nd : Josip Manolić , Croatian politician
• March 22nd : Helmut Winschermann , German oboist, university professor and conductor
• March 23 : Frederick Reginald Attwell , English football player († 1986 )
• March 23 : Arthur Grundmann , German politician († 1987 )
• March 24th : René Acht , Swiss painter and graphic artist († 1998 )
• March 24th : Gene Nelson , American film director, screenwriter and film producer († 1996 )
• March 24 : Mieczysław Pemper , former prisoner in the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp († 2011 )
• March 25 : Arthur Wint , Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion († 1992 )
• March 27 : Max Absmeier , German Roman Catholic prelate († 2012 )
• March 28 : Gérard Laureau , French racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2002 )
• March 28 : Karen Tuttle , American violist and music teacher († 2010 )
• March 30 : Walt Szot , American football player († 1981 )
• March 31 : Rolf Boysen , German actor († 2014 )
• March 31 : Hubert Bradel , Polish horn player († 2002 )
• March 31 : Yvette Z'Graggen , Swiss writer and translator († 2012 )

April

• 0April 1 : Georg André , German politician († 1982 )
• 0April 1 : John LaPorta , American jazz clarinetist († 2004 )
• 0April 1 : Toshirō Mifune , Japanese actor († 1997 )
• 0April 1 : Anton Schall , German orientalist († 2007 )
• 0April 1 : HE Erwin Walther , German composer and music teacher († 1995 )
• 0April 3 : John Demjanjuk , Ukrainian concentration camp guard († 2012 )
• 0April 5 : İlhan Arsel , Turkish constitutional lawyer, university professor and critic of religion († 2010 )
• 0April 5 : Arthur Hailey , British-Canadian author, novelist († 2004 )
• 0April 5 : Chatichai Choonhavan , Prime Minister of Thailand 1988–1991 († 1998 )
• 0April 6 : Edmond Henri Fischer , American biochemist
• 0April 6 : Joseíto Mateo , Dominican singer († 2018 )
• 0April 7 : Walter Möller , German local politician († 1971 )
• 0April 7th : Ravi Shankar , Indian sitar player and composer († 2012 )
• 0April 8 : Alberto Abdala , Uruguayan politician († 1986 )
• 0April 9 : Alex Moulton , British engineer and inventor († 2012 )
• 0April 9 : Art Van Damme , American jazz accordionist († 2010 )
• April 11 : René Carol , German pop singer († 1978 )
• April 11 : Emilio Colombo , Italian politician († 2013 )
• April 11 : Marlen Haushofer , Austrian writer († 1970 )
• April 11 : Peter O'Donnell , British writer († 2010 )
• April 12 : Raymond Mhlaba , South African politician and civil rights activist († 2005 )
• April 12 : Armin Mohler , Swiss philosopher, publicist, writer and journalist († 2003 )
• April 13 : George Armstrong , British jazz trombonist († 2005 )
• April 13 : Roberto Calvi , Italian banker († 1982 )
• April 13 : Liam Cosgrave , Irish politician († 2017 )
• April 13 : Karel Otčenášek , Czech Archbishop († 2011 )
• April 13 : Theodore L. Thomas , American science fiction author, chemist and patent attorney († 2005 )
• April 14 : Eduardo Maturana , Chilean composer († 2003 )
• April 15 : Robert Aulotte , French Romance studies and literary scholar († 2001 )
• April 15 : Thomas Szasz , American psychiatrist († 2012 )
• April 15 : Richard von Weizsäcker , German politician, Federal President of the FRG 1984–1994 († 2015 )
  

  Richard von Weizsäcker (1984)
• April 17 : Bengt Anderberg , Swedish translator and writer († 2008 )
• April 18 : Hans-Christian Albrecht , German lawyer and politician († 2007 )
• April 19 : Marvin Mandel , American politician († 2015 )
• April 20 : Frances Ames , South African neurologist († 2002 )
• April 20 : Medhat Sheikh el-Ard , Saudi Arabian diplomat († 2001 )
• April 20 : Ricardo García Perdomo , Cuban guitarist and singer († 1996 )
• April 20 : John Paul Stevens , American lawyer († 2019 )
• April 21 : Edmund Adamkiewicz , German football player († 1991 )
• April 22 : Valery Petrov , Bulgarian writer and translator († 2014 )
• April 22nd : Hal March , American comedian, actor, television presenter and screenwriter († 1970 )
• April 23 : Friedrich Schadeberg , German entrepreneur († 2018 )
• April 23 : Heinz Seiler , German handball trainer and player († 2002 )
• April 24 : Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin , Nigerian lawyer († 1989 )
• April 24 : Luigi Valenzano , Italian racing car driver († 2011 )
• April 25 : Jean Carmet , French actor († 1994 )
• April 27 : Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor († 1956 )
• April 29 : Harold Shapero , American composer († 2013 )
• April 30 : Duncan Hamilton , Irish Formula 1 racing driver († 1994 )
• April 30 : Gerda Lerner , American historian († 2013 )

May

• 0May 2 : Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss conductor and violinist († 2004 )
• 0May 2nd : Gerda Daumerlang , German diver († 2006 )
• 0May 2 : Jacob Gilboa , Israeli composer († 2007 )
• 0May 2 : Joe Henderson , British piano player († 1980 )
• 0May 2 : Guinn Smith , American athlete († 2004 )
• 0May 3 : John Lewis , American jazz musician († 2001 )
• 0May 4 : Hermann Schreiber , Austrian writer and historian († 2014 )
• 0May 4th : Elizabeth Shaw , Irish artist († 1992 )
• 0May 4 : Yakov Soroker , Israeli violinist and musicologist († 1995 )
• 0May 7 : William Charles Anderson , American science fiction writer († 2003 )
• 0May 7 : Jean Bassoul , Lebanese Archbishop († 1977 )
• 0May 8 : Michele Sindona , Italian lawyer and banker († 1986 )
• 0May 9 : Richard Adams , British writer († 2016 )
• 0May 9 : Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra , Salvadoran poet, narrator and essayist († 1988 )
• 0May 9 : Celia Sánchez , Cuban revolutionary and politician († 1980 )
• May 10 : Theo Aaldering , German weightlifter († 1979 )
• May 12 : Renata Bogdańska , Polish stage actress and singer († 2010 )
• May 12 : Felix Anschütz , German internist, cardiologist and university lecturer († 2014 )
• May 12 : Vilém Flusser , Czech communication and media philosopher († 1991 )
• May 12 : Josef Schrudde , German maxillofacial and plastic surgeon († 2004 )
• May 12 : Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , German glass painter († 2010 )
• May 13 : Alfons Bauer , German composer of folk music and zither player († 1997 )
• May 13 : Gareth Morris , English flautist († 2007 )
• May 15 : Michel Audiard , French screenwriter and director († 1985 )
• May 15 : Carlo Còccioli , Italian writer († 2003 )
• May 15 : Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Patriarch of the Maronites of Lebanon and Cardinal († 2019 )
• May 16 : Valda Aveling , Australian harpsichordist and pianist († 2007 )
• May 16 : Martine Carol , French actress († 1967 )
• May 17 : Aquiles Nazoa , Venezuelan writer, poet and journalist († 1976 )
• May 18 : Bedřich Janáček , Czech organist, composer and music teacher († 2007 )

John Paul II (2004)

• May 18 : John Paul II , Pope, Bishop of Rome, Head of State of the Vatican († 2005 )
• May 20 : Hal Anger , American electrical engineer and biophysicist († 2005 )
• May 20 : Philippe Boutros Chebaya , Lebanese bishop († 2002 )
• May 20 : Domenico Leccisi , Italian politician († 2008 )
• May 21 : Kurt Adel , Austrian literary and linguist († 2009 )
• May 21 : John William "Bill" Barber , American tuba player († 2007 )
• May 22 : Thomas Gold , American astrophysicist († 2004 )
• May 23 : Annette von Aretin , first TV announcer for Bavarian radio († 2006 )
• May 24 : John Bertram Adams , British physicist († 1984 )
• May 24 : Friedrich Karl Klausing , resistance fighter July 20, 1944 († 1944 )
• May 25 : Werner Holtfort , German politician († 1992 )
• May 25 : Herman van Laer , Dutch sports official († 2005 )
• May 25 : Rudolf Lenz , Austrian actor († 1987 )
• May 26 : Frank Bethwaite , New Zealand designer of dinghies and skiffs († 2012 )
• May 26 : Peggy Lee , American singer († 2002 )
• May 27 : Georges Auclair , French journalist and writer († 2004 )
• May 27 : Gabrielle Wittkop , French writer, artist, essayist and journalist († 2002 )
• May 28 : Erich Helmensdorfer , German TV presenter († 2017 )
• May 28 : Eugen Loderer , German trade union official († 1995 )
• May 29 : John Harsanyi , Hungarian-American economist († 2000 )
• May 29 : Clifton James , American actor († 2017 )
• May 30 : Godfrey Binaisa , President of Uganda († 2010 )
• May 30 : George London , American opera singer († 1985 )
• May 30 : Franklin J. Schaffner , American film director († 1989 )

June

• 0June 1 : Syd van der Vyver , South African motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1989 )
• 0June 2 : Gino Cappello , Italian football player († 1990 )
• 0June 2 : Frank G. Clement , American politician, Governor of Tennessee († 1969 )

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 2009

• 0June 2 : Marcel Reich-Ranicki , German literary critic († 2013 )
• 0June 2 : Tex Schramm , American football official († 2003 )
• 0June 3 : D'Arco Silvio Avalle , Italian Romanist († 2002 )
• 0June 4th : Fedora Barbieri , Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano) († 2003 )
• 0June 5 : Kurt Edelhagen , German big band leader († 1982 )
• 0June 5 : Marion Motley , American football player († 1999 )
• 0June 6 : Don Branson , American racing car driver († 1966 )
• 0June 6 : Serge Lang , French sports journalist († 1999 )
• 0June 6 : Robert Turner , Canadian composer and music teacher († 2012 )
• 0June 7 : Carlos Gorostiza , Argentine playwright, theater director and writer († 2016 )
• 0June 7th : Georges Marchais , French politician and trade unionist († 1997 )
• 0June 8 : Gwen Harwood , Australian poet and librettist († 1995 )
• 0June 8 : Ivan Nikitowitsch Koschedub , Soviet pilot, Marshal of the Aviators and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union († 1991 )
• 0June 9 : Sandro Angiolini , Italian comic artist and cartoonist († 1985 )
• 0June 9 : Paul Mebus , German football player († 1993 )
• June 10 : Zbyněk Vostřák , Czech composer († 1985 )
• June 11 : Fernando Bernabé Agüero Rocha , Nicaraguan politician († 2011 )
• June 11 : Walter Scherf , German researcher in children's and youth literature and fairy tales († 2010 )
• June 13 : Arkadi Grigoryevich Adamov , Soviet writer († 1991 )
• June 13 : Fritz Barzilauskas , American football player († 1990 )
• June 13 : Désiré Keteleer , Belgian cyclist († 1970 )
• June 13 : Eiji Okada , Japanese actor († 1995 )
• June 14th : Thomas Zhao Fengwu , Roman Catholic Bishop of Yanzhou († 2005 )
• June 14 : Will Rasner , German politician († 1971 )
• June 15 : Marion S. Kellogg , American manager and business consultant († 2004 )
• June 15 : Alberto Sordi , Italian film actor († 2003 )
• June 15 : Hans Ziegler , German soccer player and athlete († 2017 )
• June 16 : Gustav Adolf Baumm , German graphic artist, motorcycle designer and racing driver († 1955 )
• June 16 : Georges Follman , Belgian composer and conductor († 1994 )
• June 17th : Setsuko Hara , Japanese actress († 2015 )
• June 17 : François Jacob , French physician, physiologist and geneticist († 2013 )
• June 18 : Utta Danella , German writer († 2015 )
• June 19 : Keith Andrews , American racing driver († 1957 )
• June 19 : Thulukhanam Shunmugham , Indian soccer player († 2012 )
• June 20 : Man Mohan Adhikari , Nepalese politician and Prime Minister († 1999 )
• June 21 : Yves Robert , French actor, screenwriter, producer and director († 2002 )
• June 22nd : Luciano Negrini , Italian helmsman († 2012 )
• June 23 : Gerry Wolff , German actor († 2005 )
• June 25 : Lassie Lou Ahern , American actress († 2018 )
• June 25 : Joe Viola , American jazz musician († 2001 )
• June 26 : Stanislav Ledinek , actor and voice actor († 1969 )
• June 27 : Werner Angress , Professor of German History in the USA († 2010 )
• June 27 : IAL Diamond , American screenwriter († 1988 )
• June 29 : Ray Harryhausen , American trick technician and animator († 2013 )
• June 30 : Zeno Colò , Italian ski racer († 1993 )

July

• 0July 1 : Harold Sakata , American actor († 1982 )
• 0July 1 : Lucidio Sentimenti , Italian football player († 2014 )
• 0July 1 : Aziz Sidqi , Egyptian Prime Minister († 2008 )
• 0July 2 : Andreas Lindt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor († 1985 )
• 0July 3 : Walter Roderer , Swiss folk actor († 2012 )
• 0July 4th : Johannes Cornelis Anceaux , Dutch orientalist and philologist († 1988 )
• 0July 5 : Ruth Neudeck , German guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp († 1948 )
• 0July 7 : William Thaddeus Coleman , American politician († 2017 )
• 0July 9 : Bill Edwards , American football player († 2009 )
• 0July 9 : Dick Thompson , American racing driver († 2014 )
• July 10 : Denise Bindschedler-Robert , Swiss international lawyer († 2008 )
• July 10 : Owen Chamberlain , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 2006 )
• July 11 : Yul Brynner , American actor and singer († 1985 )
• July 11 : Sverri Djurhuus , Faroese author and volunteer in the Waffen SS in World War II († 2003 )
• July 12 : John Charles Andes , American actor († 2005 )
• July 13 : Hans Blumenberg , German philosopher († 1996 )
• July 13 : Anna Halprin , American dancer and choreographer
• July 13 : Wilhelm Kümpel , cathedral organist and church music director († 2000 )
• July 14 : Werner Kukelski , German secret service agent († 1995 )
• July 14 : Wolfgang Stammberger , German politician († 1982 )
• July 15 : Joseph Basmadjan , Syrian Archbishop († 1988 )
• July 16 : Kurt Hepperlin , German actor and documentary film director († 1992 )
• July 17 : Gordon Gould , American physicist, is considered one of the inventors of the laser († 2005 )
• July 17 : Juan Antonio Samaranch , Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) († 2010 )

Juan Antonio Samaranch , 2007

• July 18 : Eric Brandon , British racing driver († 1982 )
• July 19 : Otto Arndt , SED functionary and Minister for Transport in the GDR († 1992 )
• July 19 : Heini Kaufeld , German actor († 1996 )
• July 19 : Robert Mann , American violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher († 2018 )
• July 20 : Elliot L. Richardson , American politician († 1999 )
• July 21 : Anthony Amato , American opera director, founder and head of Amato Opera († 2011 )
• July 21 : Hans Bradtke , German lyricist and caricaturist († 1997 )
• July 21 : Mohammed Dib , Algerian journalist and writer († 2003 )
• July 21 : Constant Nieuwenhuys , Dutch artist († 2005 )
• July 21 : Isaac Stern , violinist († 2001 )
• July 22nd : Paul Dissemond , German Catholic priest and General Secretary of the Berlin Bishops' Conference († 2006 )
• July 22 : Joachim Wolff , German actor and speaker († 2000 )
• July 24 : Bella Abzug , American politician and suffragette († 1998 )
• July 24 : Howard Brown , Canadian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher († 2001 )
• July 25 : David P. Buckson , American politician († 2017 )
• July 25 : Rosalind Franklin , British biochemist († 1958 )
• July 25 : Chushiro Hayashi , Japanese astronomer and physicist († 2010 )
• July 26 : Walter Laird , British dancer († 2002 )
• July 26 : Bob Waterfield , American football player († 1983 )
• July 28th : Andrew V. McLaglen , British director († 2014 )
• July 28 : Arshi Pipa , Albanian man of letters († 1997 )
• July 28 : Franz Soronics , Austrian politician († 2009 )
• July 29 : Herbert Kegel , German conductor († 1990 )
• July 30th : Richard Stoop , British racing driver and aviator in World War II († 1968 )
• July 31 : Walter Arlen , Austrian-American music critic and composer
• July 31 : Rolf Elias , German politician
• July 31 : Franca Valeri , Italian actress and screenwriter († 2020 )

August

• 0August 1 : Henrietta Lacks , donor of a tissue sample from which the HeLa cells were developed († 1951 )
• 0August 1st : Samuel Lee , American Olympic champion in high diving († 2016 )
• 0August 2 : Johann Max Böttcher , German entrepreneur and philanthropist († 2014 )
• 0August 2nd : Victor Hasler , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor († 2003 )
• 0August 2 : Werner Müller , German author, composer, conductor, arranger and orchestra leader († 1998 )
• 0August 3 : Norman Dewis , British test and car racing driver († 2019 )
• 0August 3 : PD James , British writer († 2014 )
• 0August 4 : Hermann Kükelhaus , German poet († 1944 )
• 0August 4th : Rudolf Rolfs , German satirist and theater director († 2004 )
• 0August 4 : Helen Thomas , American journalist († 2013 )
• 0August 5 : Arthur Henry Attwell , British theologian († 1991 )
• 0August 6 : Bill Campbell , American football player († 1974 )
• 0August 6 : Furuyama Komao , Japanese writer († 2002 )
• 0August 6 : Otto B. Roegele , German journalist and communication scientist († 2005 )
• 0August 7th : Harry Arnold , Swedish tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader († 1971 )
• 0August 7th : Mario Astorri , Italian football player and coach († 1989 )
• 0August 7 : Tsukamoto Kunio , Japanese poet († 2005 )
• 0August 8 : Alfred Heimat , German violinist, conductor and Kapellmeister († 2005 )
• 0August 9 : Hans Brox , German civil law scholar and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2009 )
• 0August 9 : Willi Heinrich , German writer († 2005 )
• August 10 : Red Holzman , American basketball coach († 1998 )
• August 10 : Heinz Lucas , German soccer coach († 2016 )
• August 11 : Albert E. Kaiser , Swiss conductor and music teacher († 2004 )
• August 12 : Wilhelm Altvater , German politician († 2001 )
• August 12th : Herbert Dorn , German football player
• August 12 : Percy Mayfield , American blues musician († 1984 )
• August 13 : Jean Honoré , Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2013 )
• August 15 : Konstantin Prince of Bavaria , German politician, Member of the Bundestag († 1969 )
• August 16 : Günther Abendroth , German politician († 1993 )
• August 16 : Charles Bukowski , American poet and writer († 1994 )
• August 16 : Elias Nijmé , Syrian Archbishop († 1998 )
• August 16 : José Tamayo , Spanish theater director and director († 2003 )
• August 17th : Maureen O'Hara , Irish-American film actress († 2015 )
  

  Maureen O'Hara (2014)
• August 18 : Don Lamond , American jazz drummer († 2003 )
• August 18 : Shelley Winters , American actress († 2006 )
• August 20 : Lisa Dräger , German patroness († 2015 )
• August 20 : Hermann Heidegger , German historian († 2020 )
• August 20 : Vincentas Sladkevičius , Archbishop of Kaunas and Cardinal († 2000 )
• August 22 : Sten Olov Åhlund , Swedish football player and coach († 1996 )
• August 22 : Ray Bradbury , American writer († 2012 )
• August 22 : Denton Cooley , American heart surgeon († 2016 )
• August 22 : Kurt Paupié , Austrian journalist († 1981 )
• August 22 : Wolfdietrich Schnurre , German writer († 1989 )
• August 23 : Leo Marini , Argentine singer († 2000 )
• August 23 : Ayukawa Nobuo , Japanese writer and literary critic († 1986 )
• August 24 : Heinz Arnold , German politician († 2000 )
• August 24 : Herbert Kaufmann , German journalist and writer († 1976 )
• August 26 : Prem Tinsulanonda , Thai Prime Minister († 2019 )
• August 26 : Richard Wurbs , German politician († 2018 )
• August 29 : Charlie Parker , American jazz saxophonist (alto sax) († 1955 )
• August 29 : Giorgos Sisilianos , Greek composer († 2005 )
• August 30 : Harald Deilmann , German architect and author († 2008 )
• August 30 : Friedrich Schaller , German zoologist († 2018 )

September

• 0September 1 : Richard Farnsworth , American actor († 2000 )
• 0September 3 : Paul Hamburger , Austrian pianist, founder of the Mozart Quartet († 2004 )
• 0September 3 : Marguerite Higgins , American journalist and war correspondent († 1966 )
• 0September 4 : Anneliese Brost , German publisher († 2010 )
• 0September 4 : Clemar Bucci , Argentine racing car driver († 2011 )
• 0September 4 : Jackie Holmes , American racing car driver († 1995 )
• 0September 4 : George Little , Canadian music teacher, choir conductor and organist († 1995 )
• 0September 5 : Heinz Bello , Catholic martyr († 1944 )
• 07 September : Román Peña , Dominican composer, violinist and guitarist († 2003 )
• 0September 7 : Edward Lunn Young , American politician († 2017 )
• 0September 8 : Ernst-Alfred Jauch , German journalist († 1991 )
• 0September 9 : Eleanor Koldofsky , Canadian music and film producer and writer
• September 10 : Robert F. Inger , American herpetologist († 2019 )
• September 10 : CR Rao , Indian statistician
• September 10 : Fabio Taglioni , Italian motorcycle designer († 2001 )

Lore Lorentz filming in 1948

• September 12 : Lore Lorentz , German cabaret artist († 1994 )
• September 14 : Mario Benedetti , Uruguayan writer († 2009 )
• September 14 : Johannes Irmscher , German classical scholar († 2000 )
• September 14 : Lawrence Klein , American economist († 2013 )
• September 15 : Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt , German fighter pilot in World War II († 1942 ?)
• September 16 : Hannie Schaft , fighter of the communist resistance against National Socialism in the Netherlands († 1945 )
• September 17th : Marjorie Holt , American politician († 2018 )
• September 18 : Jack Warden , American actor († 2006 )
• September 19 : Karen Surenowitsch Chatschaturjan , Russian composer († 2011 )
• September 19 : Václav Dobiáš , Czech resistance fighter († 1945 )
• September 19 : Rudi von der Dovenmühle , German pop composer († 2000 )
• September 19 : Jan Pixa , Czech television presenter and dramaturge († 2004 )
• September 19 : Hans-Arno Simon , German composer, singer, pianist and producer († 1989 )
• September 20 : Hanns Cibulka , German writer († 2004 )
• September 20 : Michael Holzinger , writer in Banat dialect († 1996 )
• September 20 : Thilo Koch , German TV journalist († 2006 )
• September 21 : Hans Günter Michelsen , German playwright († 1994 )
• September 21 : Vico Torriani , Swiss pop singer, actor, showmaster and cookbook author († 1998 )
• September 22 : Fritz Rühs , German mathematician († 1997 )
• September 23 : Alexander Arutjunjan , Armenian composer († 2012 )
• September 23 : Keith MacMillan , Canadian music producer, publisher and manager († 1991 )
• September 23 : Mickey Rooney , American actor († 2014 )
• September 24th : Georges Addor , Swiss architect († 1982 )
• September 27 : William Conrad , American actor and speaker († 1994 )
• September 27 : Hal Harris , American guitarist († 1992 )
• September 27 : Wolfgang Spier , German director, actor, voice actor and presenter († 2011 )
• September 28 : Alan Davie , Scottish painter and musician († 2014 )
• September 28 : Alan A. Freeman , Australian music producer († 1985 )
• September 29 : Peter D. Mitchell , British chemist, Nobel Laureate († 1992 )
• September 29 : Václav Neumann , Czech conductor, violin and viola player († 1995 )
• September 29 : Nelson Wesley Trout , American Lutheran bishop († 1996 )
• September 30th : Torbjörn Lundquist , Swedish composer († 2000 )

October

• 0October 1 : Walter Matthau , American actor († 2000 )
• 0October 1 : John Vallier , English pianist, composer, music teacher and musicologist († 1991 )
• 0October 2 : Giuseppe Colombo , Italian engineer and mathematician († 1984 )
• 0October 4 : Renate Riemeck , German historian and peace activist († 2003 )
• 0October 5 : Meliton Kantaria , Soviet soldier who hoisted the victory flag on the Reichstag († 1993 )
• 0October 5 : Ronald Leigh-Hunt , British actor († 2005 )
• 0October 5 : Gert Westphal , German actor († 2002 )
• 0October 6 : Pietro Consagra , Italian sculptor († 2005 )

Georg Leber , 1973

• 0October 7 : Georg Leber , German politician († 2012 )
• 0October 7 : Josef Wolfsegger , Austrian politician († 2015 )
• 0October 8 : Maria Beig , German writer († 2018 )
• 0October 8 : Henry Glade , German-American linguist († 1999 )
• 0October 8 : Maxi Herber , German figure skater († 2006 )

Frank Herbert , 1978

• 0October 8 : Frank Herbert , American science fiction and fantasy author († 1986 )
• 0October 8 : Alfredo Rossi y Rossi , Argentine composer
• 0October 9 : Yusef Abdul Lateef , American jazz musician († 2013 )
• October 10 : Gail Halvorsen , American pilot
• October 11 : Kurt H. Aufrichtig , British art historian († 1989 )
• October 11 : James Aloysius Hickey , Archbishop of Washington and Cardinal († 2004 )
• October 15 : Mario Puzo , American author († 1999 )
• October 16 : Elisabeth Müller-Luckmann , German psychologist († 2012 )
• October 17 : Montgomery Clift , American film and stage actor († 1966 )
• October 17 : Miguel Delibes , Spanish writer († 2010 )
• October 18 : Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer and minister of culture († 1994 )
• October 19 : Clemente Faccani , Italian clergyman and Vatican diplomat († 2011 )
• October 19 : Franz Muxeneder , German-Austrian actor († 1988 )
• October 20 : Henry Austin , Indian politician and ambassador († 2008 )
• October 21 : Plinio Antolini , Italian amateur astronomer and asteroid explorer († 2012 )
• October 22 : Timothy Leary , American psychologist and author († 1996 )
• October 23 : Charlie Adams , American country musician († 2004 )
• October 23 : Otto Kandler , German botanist and microbiologist († 2017 )
• October 23 : Gianni Rodari , Italian writer († 1980 )
• October 24 : Robert Coffy , Archbishop of Marseille and Cardinal († 1995 )
• October 24 : Robert Greacen , Irish poet († 2008 )
• October 24 : Anna Maria Praschl , Austrian politician († 2014 )
• October 25 : Amet-Chan Sultan , Soviet test pilot († 1971 )
• October 25 : Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz , French resistance fighter and human rights activist († 2002 )
• October 25 : Anatoli Grigoryevich Jegorow , Russian philosopher († 1997 )
• October 26 : Howhannes Barseghjan , Armenian linguist († 2014 )
• October 27 : Lothar Domröse , German officer († 2014 )
• October 27 : KR Narayanan , Indian politician and President († 2005 )
• October 29 : Baruj Benacerraf , Venezuelan-American physician, Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine († 2011 )
• October 29 : Ernst Majonica , German politician († 1997 )
• October 29 : Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich , German journalist and politician († 1992 )
• October 31 : Eduard Adorno , German politician († 2000 )
• October 31 : Dick Francis , British crime novelist († 2010 )
• October 31 : Joseph Gelineau , French composer and Jesuit († 2008 )
• October 31 : Helmut Newton , German photographer († 2004 )

Fritz Walter

• October 31 : Fritz Walter , German soccer player († 2002 )

November

• 0November 1 : Amadeus Webersinke , German pianist, organist and university lecturer († 2005 )
• 0November 2 : Fabio González-Zuleta , Colombian composer and music teacher († 2011 )
• 0November 3 : Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Aboriginal activist and politician († 1993 )
• 0November 4th : Ilse Thiele , German politician († 2010 )
• 0November 5 : Douglass North , American economist and economic historian, Nobel laureate in economics 1993 († 2015 )
• 0November 8 : Eugênio de Araújo Sales , Brazilian bishop, cardinal and theologian († 2012 )
• 0November 9 : Thomas Sebeok , American Professor of Semiotics († 2001 )
• November 10 : Néophytos Edelby , Syrian Archbishop († 1995 )
• November 10 : Rafael del Pino , Spanish builder and billionaire († 2008 )
• November 11 : Roy Jenkins , British politician and author († 2003 )
• November 12 : Richard Quine , American actor, producer and film director († 1989 )
• November 13 : Lieselotte Berger , German politician († 1989 )
• November 13 : Jack Elam , American actor († 2003 )
• November 13 : Margret van Munster , German actress († 2010 )
• 14 November : Cato Bontjes van Beek , German resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1943 )
• November 14 : Hans Hansen , Faroese painter († 1970 )
• November 14 : Edith Volkmann , German actress († 1997 )
• November 15 : Willi Fischer , German politician († 1991 )
• November 15 : Jerome Richardson , American jazz saxophonist and flutist († 2000 )
• November 15 : Wayne Thiebaud , American painter
• November 16 : Nerses The Nersessian , Armenian Archbishop († 2006 )
• November 16 : Colin Thiele , Australian children's author († 2006 )
• November 17 : Camillo Felgen , singer, lyricist and radio and television presenter († 2005 )
• November 17 : Ellis Kaut , German children's book author († 2015 )
• November 17 : Hans Putz , Austrian actor († 1990 )
• November 17 : Jean Starobinski , Swiss doctor and literary scholar († 2019 )
• November 18 : Mustafa Chalil , Egyptian politician († 2008 )
• November 18 : Louis Mennini , American composer and music teacher († 2000 )
• November 19 : Helmut Bazille , German politician († 1973 )
• November 19 : Bernhard Kempa , German handball player († 2017 )
• November 20 : Douglas Dick , American actor and screenwriter († 2015 )
• November 21 : Walter Fritzsch , German soccer player and coach († 1997 )
• November 21 : Vera Nikolajewna Kublanowskaja , Russian mathematician († 2012 )
• November 23 : Paul Celan , German poet († 1970 )
• November 23 : Uwe Ronneburger , German politician († 2007 )
• November 25 : Ricardo Montalbán , Mexican film actor († 2009 )
• November 25 : Noel Neill , American actress († 2016 )
• November 25 : Hilde Sicks , German folk actress († 2007 )
• November 26 : Daniel Petrie , Canadian director († 2004 )
• November 28 : Cecilia Colledge , British figure skater († 2008 )
• November 29 : Vittoria Calma , Polish opera singer († 2007 )
• November 29 : Hans Derendinger , Swiss journalist and politician († 1996 )
• November 30th : Virginia Mayo , American actress († 2005 )

December

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 1999

• 0December 1 : Lê Đức Anh , Vietnamese general and politician († 2019 )
• 0December 1 : Pierre Poujade , French politician († 2003 )
• 0December 2 : Maximos Salloum , Lebanese Archbishop († 2004 )
• 0December 3 : Eduardo Francisco Pironio , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1998 )
• 0December 3 : Traute Sense , German actress († 1997 )
• 0December 3 : Werner Vick , German handball player and coach († 2000 )
• 0December 4 : Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter († 2013 )
• 0December 4th : Michael Bates , British actor († 1978 )
• 0December 4 : Therese Neudorfer , Austrian politician († 1990 )
• 0December 4 : Michel Yatim , Syrian Archbishop († 2006 )
• 0December 5 : Paul Matzkowski , German soccer player († 2004 )
• 0December 6th : Dave Brubeck , American jazz pianist († 2012 )
• 0December 7th : Tatamkhulu Africa , South African writer and poet († 2002 )
• 0December 7th : Frances Gifford , American actress († 1994 )
• 0December 7 : Walter Nowotny , fighter pilot who served in the German Air Force during World War II († 1944 )
• 0December 9th : Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , Italian politician, Italian President 1999-2006 († 2016 )
• 0December 9 : Bruno Ruffo , Italian motorcycle racer († 2007 )

Alfred Dregger , 1973

• December 10 : Alfred Dregger , German politician († 2002 )
• December 10 : Bryan Beaumont Hays , American composer and music teacher († 2017 )
• December 10 : Clarice Lispector , Ukrainian-Brazilian writer († 1977 )
• December 10 : Reginald Rose , American writer († 2002 )
• December 12 : Dick James , British music publisher († 1986 )
• December 13 : Max Scheifele , German forest officer and scientist († 2013 )
• December 13 : George P. Shultz , US diplomat and US Secretary of State
• December 14th : Clark Terry , American jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer († 2015 )
• December 15 : Vlastimil Brodský , Czech film and television star († 2002 )
• December 15 : Howard Cable , Canadian conductor, arranger and composer († 2016 )
• December 15 : Albert Memmi , Tunisian-French writer and sociologist († 2020 )
• December 16 : Fritz Balogh , German football player († 1951 )
• December 16 : Les Leston , British racing car driver († 2012 )
• December 17 : Kenneth E. Iverson , Canadian mathematician († 2004 )
• December 17 : Ewa Paradies , concentration camp guard († 1946 )
• December 18 : Enrique Grau , Colombian painter and sculptor († 2004 )
• December 18 : Ingálvur av Reyni , Faroese painter († 2005 )
• December 18 : Helmuth Schneider , German actor († 1972 )
• December 18 : Edmond de Stoutz , Swiss conductor († 1997 )
• December 18 : Rita Streich , German soprano († 1987 )
• December 19 : Rudolf Amthauer , German psychologist († 1989 )
• December 19 : Little Jimmy Dickens , American country singer († 2015 )
• December 20 : Gerhart Baumann , German Germanist († 2006 )
• December 20 : Bruni Löbel , German actress († 2006 )
• December 20 : Antonio Morel , Dominican merengue musician († 2006 )
• December 21 : Alicia Alonso , Cuban prima ballerina and choreographer († 2019 )
• December 21 : Gaston-Armand Amaudruz , Swiss publicist († 2018 )
• December 21 : Georges Balandier , French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist († 2016 )
• December 23 : Georges de Beauregard , French film producer († 1984 )
• December 23 : Norman Symonds , Canadian composer, clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader († 1998 )
• December 24th : Agawa Hiroyuki , Japanese writer († 2015 )
• December 25th : Ignatius Ghattas , Bishop of Newton (USA) († 1992 )
• December 26 : Maurice Gendron , French cellist († 1990 )
• December 27 : Robert Whittaker , American botanist, climatologist and university professor († 1980 )
• December 28 : Steve Van Buren , American football player († 2012 )
• December 28 : Al Wistert , American football player († 2016 )
• December 29th : Irving Ashby , American jazz guitarist († 1987 )
• December 29 : Ratu Josefa Iloilo , President of Fiji († 2011 )
• December 30th : Jack Lord , American film actor and director († 1998 )
• December 31 : Richard Nimmerrichter , Austrian journalist ("Staberl")

Exact date of birth unknown

• Suleiman bin Abdulasis al-Radschhi , Saudi Arabian entrepreneur and banker († 2017 )
• Edmondo Amati , Italian film producer († 2002 )
• Helmut Anemüller , German doctor, nutritionist, author and lecturer († 2000 )
• Musa Anter , Kurdish writer and intellectual († 1992 )
• Robert Asher , British film director († 1979 )
• James Chambers , American horn player († 1989 )
• Donald Mackey , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher († 1993 )

Died

January February

• 0January 2 : Paul Adam , French writer (* 1862 )
• 0January 6th : Hieronymous Georg Zeuthen , Danish professor of mathematics (* 1839 )
• 0January 7th : Smith Newell Penfield , American composer (* 1837 )
• 0January 8 : Maud Powell , American violinist (* 1867 )
• January 12 : John A. Mead , American politician (* 1841 )
• January 13 : Wilhelm Fleischmann , German agricultural scientist (* 1837 )
• January 16 : Reginald De Koven , American composer (* 1859 )
• January 20 : Wilhelm Anton Riedemann , German businessman and entrepreneur (* 1832 )

Amedeo Modigliani , self-portrait, 1907

• January 24th : Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (* 1884 )
• January 24th : Hagbard Berner , Norwegian publicist and politician (* 1839 )
• January 26 : Jeanne Hébuterne , French painter and model (* 1898 )
• January 29th : Johann Desch , co-founder of the industrial production of clothing in Germany (* 1848 )
• January 30th : Henriette Goldschmidt , founder of the University for Women in Leipzig (* 1825 )

• 0February 3 : Otto Bütschli , German zoologist (* 1848 )
• 0February 3 : Frank Brown , American politician (* 1846 )
• 0February 5 : Ernst Burchard , German physician and sexologist (* 1876 )
• 0February 7th : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Kolchak , Russian admiral (* 1874 )
• 0February 8 : Richard Dehmel , German poet and writer (* 1863 )
• 0February 8 : Georges Gillet , French oboist, music teacher and composer (* 1854 )
• February 10 : Erwin Gross , German-Baltic clergyman and Evangelical confessor (* 1870 )
• February 12 : Adolf Frey , Swiss writer and literary historian (* 1855 )
• February 12 : Émile Sauret , French violin virtuoso and composer (* 1852 )
• February 16 : Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg , Regent of Braunschweig (* 1857 )
• February 20 : Robert Edwin Peary , American engineer and polar explorer (* 1856 )
• February 22nd : Mardiros Minakyan , Armenian actor, theater director and founder of modern Turkish theater (* 1837 )
• February 24 : Franklin Murphy , American politician (* 1846 )
• February 26 : Carl Alexander von Martius , German chemist (* 1838 )
• February 27 : Ludwig Rubiner , German poet, literary critic and essayist (* 1881 )

March April

• 0March 3 : Theodor Philipsen , Danish painter (* 1840 )
• 0March 4 : Fyodor Krjukow , Russian writer (* 1870 )
• 0March 6th : Max Fürbringer , German anatomist, ornithologist, medic (* 1846 )
• 0March 6 : Heinrich von Salisch , German forester and politician (* 1846 )
• 0March 6 : Willem Rooseboom , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (* 1843 )
• 0March 7 : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Adrianow , Russian scholar (* 1854 )
• March 13 : Mary Devens , American photographer (* 1857 )
• March 15 : Edmund Reitter , German entomologist, writer and businessman (* 1845 )
• March 20 : Eva Mylott , Australian opera singer (* 1875 )
• March 22 : Mihael Lendovšek , Slovenian writer and theologian (* 1844 )
• March 22nd : Nathan Zuntz , German medic (* 1847 )
• March 31 : Lothar von Trotha , German infantry general (* 1848 )
• March 31 : Paul Bachmann , German mathematician (* 1837 )
• March 31 : Edwin Warfield , American politician (* 1848 )

• 0April 6 : George Madison Adams , American politician (* 1837 )
• 0April 7th : Karl Binding , German criminal lawyer (* 1841 )
• April 10 : Tryggve Andersen , Norwegian writer (* 1866 )
• April 13 : Takaki Kanehiro , Japanese naval doctor (* 1849 )
• April 18 : Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche , Swiss entrepreneur (* 1868 )
• April 20 : Tony Jackson , American pianist, singer and composer (* 1876 )
• April 24 : Nathan Goff , American politician (* 1843 )
• April 25 : Silas A. Holcomb , American politician (* 1858 )
• April 26 : Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer , Swiss numismatist (* 1838 )

S. Ramanujan

• April 26 : S. Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (* 1887 )

May June

• 0May 1 : Hanuš Wihan , Czech cellist and music teacher (* 1855 )
• 0May 9 : Iwano Hōmei , Japanese writer, literary critic and translator (* 1873 )
• May 11th : Jim Colosimo , predecessor of Al Capone as leader of the Chicago underworld (* 1878 )
• May 16 : Levi P. Morton , American politician (* 1824 )
• May 17 : Hugo Marquardsen , German officer and geographer (* 1869 )
• May 18 : August Fournier , Austrian historian (* 1850 )
• May 19 : Honorio Alarcón , Colombian pianist and music teacher (* 1859 )
• May 21 : Venustiano Carranza , President of Mexico (* 1859 )
• May 21 : Eleanor Hodgman Porter , American writer (* 1868 )
• May 23 : Svetozar Boroević von Bojna , Austrian field marshal in World War I (* 1856 )
• May 25 : Georg Jarno , Hungarian composer (* 1868 )
• May 29 : Gustav Oswald Ahnert , German lawyer and politician (* 1843 )
• May 31 : Nasrullah Khan , Emir of Afghanistan (* 1857 )

• 0June 6th : António Maria Baptista , Prime Minister of Portugal (* 1866 )
• 0June 6 : James Dunsmuir , Canadian politician and industrialist (* 1851 )
• 0June 7th : Louis Debierre , French organ builder (* 1842 )
• June 12 : Eduard Clausnitzer , German theologian, educator and writer (* 1870 )

Max Weber , 1894

• June 14 : Anna Maria Mozzoni , Italian writer and journalist (* 1837 )
• June 14 : Max Weber , German sociologist (* 1864 )
• June 15 : Gaston Carraud , French composer and music critic (* 1864 )
• June 18 : Jewett William Adams , American politician (* 1835 )
• June 20 : John Grigg , New Zealand amateur astronomer and comet hunter (* 1838 )
• June 20 : Robert Friedberg , German economist and politician (* 1851 )
• June 30th : Lena Christ , German writer (* 1881 )

July August

• 0July 4th : Max Klinger , German painter, etcher and sculptor (* 1857 )
• July 14 : Heinrich Friedjung , Austrian historian, publicist and journalist (* 1851 )
• July 17th : Christopher Bruun , Norwegian clergyman and founder of the Norwegian Adult Education Center (* 1839 )
• July 24th : Ludwig Ganghofer , German writer (* 1855 )
• July 24th : Hermann Möckel , German senior seminar teacher, head of city council, club and association functionary (* 1849 )
• July 29th : Wolfgang zu Ysenburg and Büdingen , 4th Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen (* 1877 )

• 0August 1 : Frank Hanly , American politician (* 1863 )
• 0August 4th : Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov , Russian composer (* 1866 )
• 0August 6th : Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal (* 1847 )
• August 10 : Adam Politzer , Austrian medic (* 1835 )
• August 12 : Louisa Lawson , Australian writer and editor (* 1848 )
• August 12 : Hermann von Struve , German astronomer (* 1854 )
• August 14 : Homer Albert Norris , American organist, composer and musicologist (* 1860 )
• August 16 : Joseph Norman Lockyer , British astrophysicist (* 1836 )
• August 19 : Pablo Arosemena Alba , Panamanian President (* 1836 )
• August 26 : James Wilson , American politician (* 1835 )
• August 29 : Léon-Adolphe Amette , Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal (* 1850 )

Portrait photograph by Wilhelm Wundt , 1902

• August 31 : Wilhelm Wundt , philosopher and psychologist (* 1832 )

September October

• 0September 1 : John Sebastian Helmcken doctor of German descent, politician in British Columbia and dealer for the Hudson's Bay Company , (* 1824 )
• 0September 2 : Georg Busolt , German ancient historian (* 1850 )
• 0September 3 : Kauppis-Heikki , Finnish writer (* 1862 )
• 0September 5 : Robert Harron , American actor (* 1893 )
• 0September 5 : Justus Hermann Lipsius , German classical philologist (* 1834 )
• 0September 8 : Rudolf Mosse , German publisher's founder and publicist (* 1843 )
• 0September 9 : Roberto Hazon , Italian conductor and music teacher (* 1854 )
• September 10 : Olive Thomas , American silent film actress (* 1894 )
• September 12 : Albert Trautmann , German pharmacist, local researcher and writer (* 1867 )
• September 13 : Hans Louis Karl Leberecht von Kotze , Prussian chamberlain and master of ceremonies at court (* 1850 )
• September 15 : Roberto Ardigò , Italian philosopher (* 1828 )
• September 16 : Dan Andersson , Swedish working-class poet and lyric poet (* 1888 )
• September 18 : Robert Beaven , Canadian politician (* 1836 )
• September 23 : Heinrich Lothar Honor Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German politician (* 1848 )
• September 24th : Inès Armand , French-Russian revolutionary, lover of Lenin (* 1874 )

Carl Peter Fabergé

• September 24 : Carl Peter Fabergé , Russian goldsmith (* 1846 )

• 0October 2 : Max Bruch , German composer and conductor (* 1838 )
• October 16 : Caesar Flaischlen , German lyric poet and dialect poet (* 1864 )
• October 16 : Alberto Nepomuceno , Brazilian composer (* 1864 )
• October 18 : Luis Jorge Fontana , Argentine military, politician, naturalist and writer (* 1846 )
• October 18 : Otto Lemm (factory owner ) , German entrepreneur (* 1867 )
• October 25 : Alexandros I , Greek king (* 1893 )
• October 26 : Johan Storm , Norwegian linguist (* 1836 )
• October 29 : Ernst Perabo , American pianist and composer (* 1845 )
• October 31 : James Albert Gary , American politician (* 1833 )

November December

• 0November 4 : Ludwig von Struve , Russian astronomer and member of the Struve family of astronomers in Russia (* 1858 )
• 0November 8 : Salomon An-ski , Russian writer, journalist and ethnographer (* 1863 )
• 0November 8th : Friedrich J. Pajeken , German businessman and writer (* 1855 )
• November 17 : John Franklin Fort , American politician (* 1852 )

• 0December 3 : Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney , English chemist (* 1843 )
• 0December 7th : José Sebastião Neto , Patriarch of Lisbon (* 1841 )
• December 11 : Olive Schreiner , South African writer (* 1855 )
• December 12 : Edward Gawler Prior , Canadian politician (* 1853 )
• December 14th : Otto Wilhelm Scharenberg , German architect and town planner (* 1851 )
• December 16 : Paris Gibson , American entrepreneur and politician (* 1830 )
• December 23 : Cayetano L. Arellano , Filipino lawyer (* 1847 )
• December 26th : Carl Legien , German union leader (* 1861 )
• December 30th : Henry Lloyd , American politician (* 1852 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Andrés Madariaga , Chilean painter (* 1878 )
• Imdad Khan , Indian sitar and surbahar player, singer and composer (* 1848 )
• Flaviano Khoury , Syrian Archbishop (* 1859 )
• Max Moisel , German cartographer (* 1869 )

Web links

Commons : 1920  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/1920/ ( Living virtual museum online )
• Digital copies of newspapers from 1920 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library