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Year '''1920''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXX]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will display 1920) of the [[Gregorian]] calendar.
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==Events of 1920==
===January ===
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*[[January 1]] - [[Babe Ruth]] is traded by the [[Boston Red Sox]] to the [[New York Yankees]] for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
* [[January 7]] - Forces of [[White movement|Russian White]] admiral [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak|Kolchak]] surrender in [[Krasnoyarsk]]. The [[Great Siberian Ice March]] ensues.
* [[January 9]]
**Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" [[George Polley]], climbs the [[New York]] [[Woolworth Building]]. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
* [[January 16]]
**[[Prohibition]] begins in the [[United States of America|United States]] with the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution]] coming into effect.
**The [[World War I]] Allies demand that the [[Netherlands]] extradite the German [[Kaiser]] [[Wilhelm II]], who has fled there.
**[[Zeta Phi Beta]] Sorority, Incorporated, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C.
* [[January 19]] - The [[United States Senate]] votes against joining the [[League of Nations]].
* [[January 22]] - The [[Australia]]n [[National Party of Australia|Country Party]] is officially formed.Matthew soares
* [[January 23]] - The [[Netherlands]] refuses to extradite the German [[Kaiser]].
* [[January 28]] - The [[Spanish legion]] is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in [[Morocco]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Turkey]] gives up the [[Ottoman Empire]] and all non-Turkish areas.
* [[January 30]] - Oldest surviving pro wrestling match on film happened on this day with [[Joe Stecher]] defeating [[Earl Caddock]]
===February===
[[Image:RCMP officer Expo 67.jpg|thumb|145px|right| [[February 1]]: [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCM Police]] formed.]]
* [[February 1]] - The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] begin operations.
* [[February 2]]
**[[Estonian War of Independence|Estonian Freedom War]]: [[Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian)|Tartu Peace Treaty]] is signed, ending the war and recognizing [[Estonia]]n independence.
**[[France]] occupies [[Memel]].
**Sayyid Muhammad, Khan of [[Khanate of Khiva|Khiva]] abdicates.
* [[February 7]] - [[Admiral Kolchak]] and [[Viktor Pepelyayev]] are executed by [[firing squad]] near [[Irkutsk]].
* [[February 9]] - League of Nations gives [[Spitsbergen]] to [[Norway]].
* [[February 10]] - [[Jozef Haller de Hallenburg]] performs the [[Poland's Wedding to the Sea|symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea]], celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
* [[February 14]] - The [[League of Women Voters]] is founded in [[Chicago]].
* [[February 17]] -A woman named [[Anna Anderson]] tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is [[Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia|Anastasia]].
* [[February 22]] - In [[Emeryville, California]], the first [[dog racing]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
* [[February 24]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] presents his [[National Socialist German Workers Party|National Socialist]] program in [[Munich]].
===March===
* [[March]] - World's first peaceful establishment of a [[social democracy|social democratic]] government takes place in [[Sweden]]. [[Hjalmar Branting]] takes over when [[Nils Edén]] resigns.
* [[March 1]]
**[[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Admiral]] and [[statesman]] [[Miklós Horthy]] becomes the [[Regent]] of [[Hungary]]
**The [[United States Railroad Administration]] returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
* [[March 10]] - The [[Baylor]] Business Men's Club changes its name to the [[Baylor University Chamber of Commerce]]. It has operated under this name since the change.
* [[March 13]]-[[March 17]] - [[Wolfgang Kapp]] fails in his [[coup]] attempt in [[Germany]] due to public resistance and a general strike.
* [[March 15]] - [[Red Army of Ruhr]], communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
* [[March 19]] - US Congress refuses to ratify [[Versailles Treaty]].
* [[March 23]] - Admiral Horthy declares that [[Hungary]] is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
* [[March 26]]
**German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious [[Ruhr Red Army]] in the French-occupied area.
**[[Irish War of Independence]]: The [[Black and Tans]] special constables arrive in [[Ireland]].
* [[March 28]] - The [[Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920]] hits the Great Lakes region and [[Deep South]] states.
* [[March 29]] - [[William Robertson|Sir William Robertson]], who enlisted in [[1877]], becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
* [[March 31]] - [[Government of Ireland Act 1920]] is presented in British parliament.
===April===
* [[April 2]] - German army marches to [[Ruhr]] to fight [[Red Ruhr Army]].
* [[April 4]] - [[Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920]] . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege
* [[April 6]] - The short-lived [[Far Eastern Republic]] declared in eastern [[Siberia]]
* [[April 11]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Álvaro Obregón]] flees from [[Mexico City]] during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to [[Guerrero]] where he joins [[Fortunato Maycotte]]
* [[April 19]] - Germany and [[Bolshevist Russia]] agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
* [[April 20]] - [[Álvaro Obregón]] announces in [[Chilpancingo]] that he intends to fight against the rule of [[Venustiano Carranza]]
* [[April 23]] - National council in [[Turkey]] denounces the government of [[sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]] and announces a temporary constitution.
* [[April 24]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland|Polish]] and Anti-Soviet [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] troops attack the [[Red Army]] in Soviet Ukraine.
* [[April 26]] - the [[Khorezm People's Soviet Republic]] is officially created by [[Bolshevist Russia]] as the successor to the [[Khanate of Khiva]].
===May===
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* [[May 2]] - The first game of the [[Negro National League (the first)|Negro National League baseball]] is played in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].
* [[May 7]]
**[[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland|Polish]] troops occupy [[Kyiv]]. The government of [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] returns to the city.
**[[Venustiano Carranza]] leaves [[Mexico City]] in a large train.
**[[Treaty of Moscow (1920)]]: [[Russian SFSR|Soviet Russia]] recognizes independence of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] only to invade the country six months later.
* [[May 19]] - [[Álvaro Obregón]]'s troops enter [[Mexico City]]
* [[May 15]] - [[Maria Bochkareva]] executed in Soviet Russia
* [[May 16]] -
**[[Joan of Arc]] is [[canonization|canonised]]. Over 30,000 people attended the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. [[Pope Benedict XV]] presided over the rite, for which the interior of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome was richly decorated.
**[[Referendum]] in [[Switzerland]] is favorable to joining [[League of Nations]].
* [[May 17]]
**French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
**First flight of [[KLM]], Dutch air company, from [[Amsterdam]] to [[London]].
* [[May 20]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of [[Rodolfo Herrera]] attack him at night and shoot him
* [[May 24]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] is buried in [[Mexico City]] - all of his mourning allies are arrested. [[Adolfo de la Huerta]] is elected provisional president
* [[May 27]] - [[Tomáš Masaryk]] becomes president of [[Czechoslovakia]].
* [[May 29]] - Great [[Horncastle, Lincolnshire|Horncastle]] flood. 20 people killed.
===June===
* [[June 4]] - [[Treaty of Trianon]], Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
* [[June 12]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Red Army]] retakes [[Kyiv]].
* [[June 13]] - The [[United States Postal Service|United States Post Office Department]] rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
* [[June 15]] - New border treaty between [[Germany]] and [[Denmark]] gives northern [[Schleswig]] to Denmark.
* [[June 22]] - [[Greece]] attacks [[Turkey|Turkish]] troops.
===July===
* [[July 1]] - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
* [[July 2]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Red Army]] continues offensive into [[Poland]].
* [[July 10]] - [[Arthur Meighen]] becomes [[Canada]]'s ninth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[July 12]] - [[Bolshevist Russia]] recognizes independent [[Lithuania]].
* [[July 13]] - [[London County Council]] bars foreigners from council jobs.
* [[July 14]] - France declares that [[Faisal I of Syria]] is deposed and occupies [[Damascus]] and [[Aleppo]].
* [[July 19]] – [[August 7]] – The Second Congress of the [[Communist International]] took place in [[St. Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]]. The notorious [[Twenty-one Conditions]] were adopted.
* [[July 20]] – The [[United Kingdom]] cedes its brief control of the key [[Black Sea]] port of [[Batum]] to the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]].
* [[July 22]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland]] sues for peace with [[Bolshevist Russia]].
* [[July 23]] - The [[France|French]] defeat the [[Greater Syria|Syrian army]] in the [[Battle of Maysalun]].
* [[July 25]] - First transatlantic two-way [[radio]] broadcast?
* [[July 26]] - [[Pancho Villa]] takes over [[Sabina (Mexico)|Sabina]] and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in [[July 28]]
* [[July 29]] - The [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] begins construction of the [[Link River Dam]] as part of the [[Klamath Reclamation Project]].
*[[July 31]] - [[France]] prohibits the sale or prescription of [[contraceptives]].
===August===
* [[August 2]] - [[Irish War of Independence]]: British parliament passes bill to restore order in [[Ireland]], suspending jury trials.
* [[August 3]] - Irish War of Independence: Catholics riot in [[Belfast]].
* [[August 10]] - [[Ottoman sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]]'s representatives sign the [[Treaty of Sèvres]].
* [[August 11]] - [[Bolshevik Russia]] recognizes independent [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]].
* [[August 13]] - [[August 25]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: The [[Red Army]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)|Battle of Warsaw]].
* [[August 15]] - Irish War of Independence: Town Hall of [[Templemore]], [[Ireland]], is burned down during the riots.
* [[August 18]] - Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote under constitutional protection.
* [[August 19]]-[[August 25]] - [[Second Silesian Uprising]], the Poles in [[Upper Silesia]] rise against the Germans
* [[August 20]] - The first commercial [[radio]] station in the United States, 8MK ([[WWJ]]), begins operations in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
* [[August 26]] - [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment to US constitution]] is passed, guaranteeing women's [[suffrage]].
===September===
* [[September 4]] - ''El Tercio de Extranjeros'', the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day [[Spanish Legion]]) inaugurated in [[Spain]]
* [[September 5]] - Presidential elections begin in [[Mexico]]
* [[September 8]] - [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] proclaims the [[Italian Regency of Carnaro]] in the city of [[Rijeka|Fiume]].
* [[September 16]] - The [[Wall Street bombing]]: a hi cordell bomb in a [[horse wagon]] explodes in front of the [[J.P.Morgan]] building in [[New York City]] - 38 dead, 400 injured
* [[September 20]] - The first soldier joins the [[Spanish Legion]].
* [[September 22]] - [[Flying Squad]] formed in [[London Metropolitan Police]].
* [[September 29]]
**First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]] radio costs $10.
**[[Adolf Hitler]] makes first public political speech, in [[Austria]].
===October===
* [[October 9]] - Polish troops take [[Vilnius]]
* [[October 10]] - In the [[Carinthian Plebiscite]] a large part of [[Carinthia (province)|Carinthia Province]] votes to become part of [[Austria]] rather than of the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes|Yugoslavia]].
* [[October 12]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]] After Polish army captures [[Tarnopol]], [[Dubno]], [[Minsk]], and [[Dryssa]], the ceasefire is enforced.
* [[October 18]] - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
* [[October 26]] - [[Álvaro Obregón]] is announced elected [[president of Mexico]]
* [[October 27]] - [[League of Nations]] moves its headquarters to [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]]
===November===
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* [[November 2]]
**[[Warren G. Harding]] defeats [[James M. Cox]] and [[Eugene V. Debs]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920|U.S. presidential election]], the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
**In the [[United States]], [[KDKA AM]] of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] (owned by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]]) starts broadcasting as a commercial [[radio station]]. The first broadcast was the results of the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920]].
* [[November 11]] - [[Unknown Soldier]] buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].
* [[November 15]] - In [[Geneva]], the first assembly of the [[League of Nations]] is held.
* [[November 16]] - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services ([[Qantas]]) is founded by [[Hudson Fysh]] and [[Paul McGinniss]].
* [[November 17]] - The council of the [[League of Nations]] accepts the [[constitution]] for the [[Free City of Danzig]].
* [[November 21]] - [[Bloody Sunday (1920)|Bloody Sunday]] - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a [[gaelic football|football]] match in [[Dublin]]'s [[Croke Park]], killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] in an earlier attack elsewhere.
* [[November 28]] - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under [[Tom Barry]] successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at [[Kilmichael, County Cork]], in the [[Kilmichael Ambush]]
* [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]]'s first concert in the world along with martha Washington.
===December===
* [[December 5]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Greece]] is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
* [[December 11]] - [[Martial law]] in [[Ireland]].
* [[December 16]]
**[[Finland]] joins the [[League of Nations]].
**8.6 Richter scale [[1920 Haiyuan earthquake|Haiyuan earthquake]] causes [[landslide]] in [[Gansu|Gansu Province]], [[China]] - 180.000 dead.
* [[December 22]] - The 8th [[Congress of Soviets|Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR]] adopts [[GOELRO plan]], the major plan of the economical development of the country.
* [[December 23]] - [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] ratify the border between French-held [[Syria]] and British-held [[Palestine]].
* [[December 25]] - Foundation of [[The Rosicrucian Fellowship]]'s Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at [[Mount Ecclesia]], [[Oceanside, California]] ([[United States]]).
===Ongoing===
* [[Ethnic cleansing]] in [[Turkey]]:
** [[Assyrian Genocide]] ([[1914]]–[[1922]])
** [[Pontic Greek Genocide]] ([[1916]]–[[1923]]).
*[[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)]]
*[[Irish War of Independence]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 1]] - [[Virgilio Savona]], Italian singer and songwriter ([[Quartetto Cetra]])
*[[January 2]] - [[Isaac Asimov]], Russian-born author (d. [[1992]]), [[Anne-Sofie Østvedt]], Norweigan resistance leader
*[[January 3]] - [[Renato Carosone]], Italian musician and singer (d. [[2001]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]], Italian pianist (d. [[1995]])
*[[January 6]]
**[[Sun Myung Moon]], Korean evangelist
**[[John Maynard Smith]], English biologist (d. [[2004]])
**[[Early Wynn]], baseball player (d. [[1999]])
*[[January 9]] - [[Hakim Mohammed Said]], Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d. [[1998]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Bill Reid]], Canadian artist (d. [[1998]])
*[[January 19]] - [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]], Peruvian [[United Nations Secretary General]]
*[[January 20]]
**[[Federico Fellini]], Italian film director (d. [[1993]])
**[[DeForest Kelley]], American actor (d. [[1999]])
**[[John Cardinal O'Connor|John O'Connor]], American Catholic cardinal (d. [[2000]])
*[[January 23]] - [[Gottfried Boehm|Gottfried Böhm]], German architect
*[[January 27]] - [[Helmut Zacharias]], German violinist (d. [[2002]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Delbert Mann]], American television and film director
*[[February 2]] - [[Heikki Suolahti]], Finnish composer (d. [[1936]])
*[[February 7]] - [[An Wang]], Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 11]]
**[[Farouk I]], [[King of Egypt]] (d. [[1965]])
**[[Billy Halop]], American actor (d. [[1976]])
*[[February 12]] - [[William Roscoe Estep]], American Baptist historian (d. [[2000]])
*[[February 13]] - [[Seneka Bibile]], Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. [[1977]])
*[[February 17]] - [[Ivo Caprino]], Norwegian film director (d. [[2001]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Bill Cullen]], American game show host (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Eddie Slovik]], U.S. Army private (d. [[1945]])
*[[February 26]]
**[[Tony Randall]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
**[[Lucjan Wolanowski]], Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. [[2006]])
*[[February 29]] - [[Howard Nemerov]], American poet (d. [[1991]])
===March-April===
*[[March 3]]
**[[James Doohan]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[2005]])
**[[Ronald Searle]], British cartoonist
*[[March 4]]
**[[Jean Lecanuet]], French politician (d. [[1993]])
**[[Alan MacNaughtan]], Scottish actor (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 10]]
**[[Alfred Peet]], Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. [[2007]])
**[[Boris Vian]], French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. [[1959]])
*[[March 11]] - [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 14]] - [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (d. [[2001]])
*[[March 15]]
**[[Lawrence Sanders]], American novelist (d. [[1998]])
**[[E. Donnall Thomas]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[March 16]] - [[Leo McKern]], Australian actor (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 19]] - [[Kjell Aukrust]], Norwegian poet and artist (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Pamela Harriman]], English-born U.S. ambassador to France (d. [[1997]])
*[[March 22]] - [[Werner Klemperer]], German actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[March 23]] - [[Tetsuharu Kawakami]], Japanese baseball player and coach
*[[March 24]] - [[Corbin Harney]], an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. [[2007]])
*[[March 25]]
**[[Patrick Troughton]], British actor (d. [[1987]])
**[[Arthur Wint]], Jamaican runner (d. [[1992]])
*[[March 27]] - [[Robin Jacques]], English illustrator (d. [[1995]])
* [[April 1]] - [[Toshiro Mifune|Toshirô Mifune]], Japanese actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Jack Webb]], American actor, director, and producer (d. [[1982]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Arthur Hailey]], American writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[April 6]] - [[Edmond H. Fischer]], Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[April 7]] - [[Ravi Shankar (musician)|Ravi Shankar]], Indian sitar player
* [[April 8]] - [[Carmen McRae]], American jazz singer (d. [[1994]])
* [[April 11]] - [[Peter O'Donnell]], British author and writer of comic strips
* [[April 13]] - [[Liam Cosgrave]], fifth [[Taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
* [[April 15]] - [[Thomas Stephen Szasz]], Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
* [[April 21]] - [[Edmund Adamkiewicz]], German footballer (d. [[1991]])
* [[April 27]] - [[Guido Cantelli]], Italian conductor (d. [[1956]])
* [[April 29]] - [[Harold Shapero]], American composer
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*[[May 2]]
**[[Jean-Marie Auberson]], Swiss conductor (d. [[2004]])
**[[Otto Buchsbaum]], Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d. [[2000]])
*[[May 6]] - [[Kamisese Mara|Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara]], first [[Prime Minister of Fiji]] and [[President of Fiji]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 8]] - [[Saul Bass]], American graphic designer (d. [[1996]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Richard Adams (author)|Richard Adams]], English author
*[[May 11]] - [[Denver Pyle]], American actor (d. [[1997]])
*[[May 13]] - [[Gareth Morris]], British flautist (d. [[2007]])
*[[May 18]]
**[[Pope John Paul II]] (d. [[2005]])
**[[Lucia Mannucci]], Italian singer ([[Quartetto Cetra]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Helen O'Connell]], American singer (d. [[1993]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Peggy Lee]], American singer (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Gene Levitt]], American television writer, producer, and director (d. [[1999]])
*[[May 29]] - [[John Harsanyi]], Hungarian-born economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2000]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Franklin Schaffner]], American film and television director (d. [[1989]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Tex Schramm]], American football executive (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 12]]
**[[Dave Berg]], American cartoonist (d. [[2002]])
**[[Jim Siedow]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 16]] - [[José López Portillo]], [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[June 17]]
**[[Jacob H. Gilbert]], American politician (d. [[1981]])
**[[François Jacob]], French biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[June 25]] - [[Ozan Marsh]], American pianist
*[[June 29]] - [[Ray Harryhausen]], American animator
===July-August===
*[[July 4]] - [[Leona Helmsley]], Hotel operator, Realestate investor (d. [[2007]])
*[[July 10]] - [[Owen Chamberlain]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 11]] - [[Yul Brynner]], Russian-born actor (d. [[1985]])
*[[July 13]]
**[[Bill Towers]], English footballer (d. [[2000]])
**[[Don Ralke]], American music arranger (d. [[2000]])
*[[July 17]] - [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]], Spanish International Olympic Committee president
*[[July 21]] - [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian-born violinist (d. [[2001]])
*[[July 24]] - [[Bella Abzug]], American politician (d. [[1998]])
*[[July 25]] - [[Rosalind Franklin]], British crystallographer (d. [[1958]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Sammy Lee (diver)|Sammy Lee]], Korean American diver
*[[August 2]] - [[Reginald Hugh Hickling]], British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (d. [[2007]])
*[[August 3]] - [[Hayden Carruth]], American poet and literary critic
*[[August 8]]
**[[Leo Chiosso]], Italian poet (d. [[2006]])
**[[Jimmy Witherspoon]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
*[[August 9]] - [[Milton G. Henschel]], a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d. [[2003]])
*[[August 20]] - [[Red Holzman]], American basketball coach (d. [[1998]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Charles Bukowski]], American writer (d. [[1994]])
*[[August 17]] - [[Maureen O'Hara]], Irish actress
*[[August 18]]
**[[Bob Kennedy]], baseball player and manager (d. [[2005]])
**[[Shelley Winters]], American actress (d. [[2006]])
*[[August 21]] - [[Christopher Robin Milne]], English author and bookseller (d. [[1996]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Ray Bradbury]], American writer
*[[August 26]] - [[Mauri Favén]], Finnish painter (d. [[2006]])
*[[August 29]] - [[Charlie Parker]], American saxophonist and composer (d. [[1955]])
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*[[September 9]] - [[Aldo Parisot]], Brazilian/American cellist
*[[September 10]] - [[Fabio Taglioni]], Italian motorcycle engineer (d. [[2001]])
*[[September 14]]
**[[Mario Benedetti]], Uruguayan writer
**[[Lawrence Klein]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 16]] - Brittany Ellis/ voted greatest girl in Canada
*[[September 18]] - [[Jack Warden]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
*[[September 22]] - [[William H. Riker]], American political scientist (d. [[1993]])
*[[September 23]] - [[Mickey Rooney]], American film actor
*[[September 24]] - [[Dick Bong]], American fighter ace
*[[September 27]] - [[Jayne Meadows]], American actress
*[[September 29]] - [[Peter D. Mitchell]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1992]])
*[[October 1]]
**[[Charles Daudelin]], Canadian sculptor (d. [[2001]])
**[[Walter Matthau]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[October 6]] - [[Pietro Consagra]], Italian sculptor (d. [[2005]])
**[[Helen Andelin]], American author
*[[October 8]] - [[Frank Herbert]], American author (d. [[1986]])
*[[October 9]] - [[Jens Bjørneboe]], Norwegian author (d. [[1976]])
*[[October 13]] - [[Laraine Day]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
*[[October 15]] - [[Mario Puzo]], American author (d. [[1999]])
*[[October 19]] - [[Pandurang Shastri Athavale]], Founder Swadhyay Movement (d. [[2003]])
*[[October 22]] - [[Timothy Leary]], American psychologist and author (d. [[1996]])
*[[October 29]] - [[Baruj Benacerraf]], Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[October 30]] - [[Norman Bird]], British character actor (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 31]]
**[[Joseph Gelineau]] - [[France|French]] composer.
**[[Fritz Walter (footballer, 1920)|Fritz Walter]], German footballer (d. [[2002]])
===November-December===
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*[[November 2]] - [[Ann Rutherford]], Canadian actress
*[[November 22]] - [[Anne Crawford]], British actress (d. [[1956]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Ricardo Montalban]], Mexican actor
*[[November 29]] - [[Yegor Ligachev]], Soviet politician
*[[November 30]] - [[Virginia Mayo]], American actress (d. [[2005]])
*[[December 6]]
**[[Dave Brubeck]], American jazz pianist and composer
**[[George Porter]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2002]])
*[[December 9]] - [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], [[List of Presidents of the Italian Republic|President of the Italian Republic]]
*[[December 21]] - [[J. Roderick MacArthur]] American businessman and philanthropist (d. [[1984]])
*[[December 24]] - [[Evgeniya Rudneva]], Soviet World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
*[[December 30]] - [[Jack Lord]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
*[[December 31]] - [[Rex Allen]], American actor, singer, songwriter (d. [[1999]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Patrick Campbell Rodger]], Scottish Anglican bishop (d. [[2002]])
**[[Tommy J. Smith]], Australian trainer (d. [[1998]])
**[[Amos Yarkoni]], Israeli soldier (d. [[1991]])
==Deaths==
=== January - March ===
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*[[January 2]] - [[Paul Adam]], French writer (b. [[1862]])
*[[January 3]] - [[Zygmunt Janiszewski]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1888]])
*[[January 4]] - [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1843]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen]], Danish mathematician (b. [[1839]])
*[[January 7]] - [[Edmund Barton]], Prime Minister of Australia (b. [[1849]])
*[[January 18]] - [[Giovanni Capurro]], Italian poet (b. [[1825]])
*[[January 24]]
**[[William Percy French]], Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. [[1854]])
**[[Amedeo Modigliani]], Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. [[1884]])
**[[William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket]], British diplomat and administrator (b. [[1864]])
*[[January 26]] - [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French artist, model, and common-law wife of [[Amedeo Modigliani]] (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
*[[February 2]] - [[Field E. Kindley]], American World War I aviator (b. [[1896]])
*[[February 3]] - [[Frank Brown]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1846]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Augustus F. Goodridge]], Canadian merchant and politician (b. [[1839]])
*[[February 7]] - [[Aleksandr Kolchak]], Russian naval commander (b. [[1874]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Joseph Burton Sumner]], founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. [[1837]])
*[[February 20]]
**[[Joseph J. Fern]], Mayor of Honolulu (b. [[1872]])
**[[Robert Peary]], American Arctic explorer (b. [[1856]])
*[[February 27]] - [[William Sherman Jennings]], Governor of Florida (b. [[1863]])
*[[March 1]]
**[[John H. Bankhead]], U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. [[1842]])
**[[William A. Stone]], Governor of Pennsylvania (b. [[1846]])
**[[Joseph Trumpeldor]], Russian Zionist (b. [[1880]])
*[[March 3]] - [[Theodor Philipsen]], Danish painter (b. [[1840]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Roswell P. Bishop]], U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. [[1843]])
*[[March 11]] - [[Julio Garavito Armero]], Colombian astronomer (b. [[1865]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Charles Lapworth]], English geologist (b. [[1842]])
*[[March 26]]
**[[William Chester Minor]], American surgeon (b. [[1834]])
**[[Mary Augusta Ward]], Tasmanian novelist (b. [[1851]])
*[[March 31]]
**[[Paul Bachmann]], German mathematician (b. [[1837]])
**[[Edwin Warfield]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1848]])
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*[[April 8]]
**[[John Brasheer]], American astronomer (b. [[1840]])
**[[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (b. [[1884]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Moritz Cantor]], German historian of mathematics (b. [[1829]])
*[[April 21]] - [[Maria L. Sanford]], American educator (b. [[1836]])
*[[April 26]] - [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], Indian mathematician (b. [[1887]])
*[[May 1]] - [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]], Crown Princess of Sweden (b. [[1882]])
*[[May 11]]
**[[James Colosimo]], Italian-born gangster (b. [[1877]])
**[[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. [[1837]])
*[[May 16]] - [[Levi P. Morton]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1824]])
*[[May 21]]
**[[Venustiano Carranza]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1859]])
**[[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (b. [[1868]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Svetozar Borojevic]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1856]])
*[[May 30]] - [[George Ernest Morrison]], Australian adventurer (b. [[1862]])
*[[June 5]]
**[[Rhoda Broughton]], Welsh writer (b. [[1840]])
**[[Julia A. Moore]], American poet (b. [[1847]])
*[[June 6]] - [[James Dunsmuir]], Canadian politician (b. [[1851]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Essad Pasha]], [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1863]])
*[[June 14]]
**[[Gabrielle Réjane]], French actress (b. [[1856]])
**[[Max Weber]], German political economist (b. [[1864]])
*[[June 18]]
**[[Jewett W. Adams]], Governor of Nevada (b. [[1835]])
**[[John Macoun]], Irish born naturalist (b. [[1831]])
*[[June 20]]
**[[Marie Adolphe Carnot]], French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. [[1839]])
**[[John Grigg (astronomer)|John Grigg]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1838]])
*[[June 27]] - [[Adolphe Basile Routhier]], Canadian poet (b. [[1839]])
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*[[July 1]] - [[Delfim Moreira]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1868]])
*[[July 2]] - [[William Louis Marshall]], American general and engineer (b. [[1846]])
*[[July 10]] - [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1841]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Empress Eugénie]] of France (b. [[1826]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Albert Keller]], German painter (b. [[1844]])
*[[July 22]] - [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]], American heir (b. [[1849]])
*[[August 1]]
**[[Frank Hanly]], Governor of Indiana (b. [[1863]])
**[[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], Indian nationalist (b. [[1856]])
*[[August 2]] - [[Ormer Locklear]], American pilot (b. [[1891]])
*[[August 9]] - [[Samuel Griffith]], Australian politician and judge (b. [[1845]])
*[[August 10]] - [[Adam Politzer]], Austrian otologist (b. [[1835]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Hermann Struve]], Russian-born astronomer (b. [[1854]])
*[[August 16]]
**[[Henry Daglish]], Premier of Australia (b. [[1866]])
**[[Joseph Norman Lockyer]], English astronomer (b. [[1836]])
*[[August 17]] - [[Ray Chapman]], baseball player (b. [[1891]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]])
*[[August 26]] - [[James Wilson (U.S. politician)|James Wilson]], Scottish-born American politician (b. [[1835]])
*[[August 31]] - [[Wilhelm Wundt]], German physiologist and psychologist (b. [[1832]])
*[[September 7]] - [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]], Premier of Quebec (b. [[1855]])
*[[September 10]] - [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
*[[September 18]] - [[Robert Beaven]], Canadian politician (b. [[1836]])
*[[September 24]] - [[Peter Carl Fabergé]], Russian jeweler (b. [[1846]])
*[[September 25]] - [[Jacob Schiff]], German-born banker and philanthropist (b. [[1847]])
*[[September 30]] - [[William Wilfred Sullivan]], Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. [[1843]])
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*[[October 2]] - [[Winthrop M. Crane]], Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. [[1853]])
*[[October 10]] - [[Hudson Stuck]], English mountaineer (b. [[1865]])
*[[October 19]] - [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (b. [[1887]])
*[[October 20]] - [[Max Bruch]], German composer (b. [[1838]])
*[[November 21]]- [[Michael Hogan (sportsman)]] Was shot during a [[Gaelic football]] match by the British army who also killed 14 Irish supporters .
*[[October 24]] - [[Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia]] (b. [[1853]])
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*[[November 1]] - [[Kevin Barry]], Irish republican (hanged) (b. [[1902]])
*[[November 4]] - [[Ludwig Struve]], Russian astronomer (b. [[1858]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Luc-Olivier Merson]], French painter and illustrator (b. [[1846]])
*[[November 23]] - [[George Callaghan]], British admiral (b. [[1852]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Madeline McDowell Breckinridge]], a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers. (b. [[1872]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Gaston Chevrolet]], Swiss-born race car driver and manufacturer (b. [[1892]])
*[[November 30]] - [[Eugene W. Chafin]], American politician (b. [[1852]])
*[[December 3]] - [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]], English astronomer and photographer (b. [[1843]])
*[[December 11]] - [[Olive Schreiner]], South African writer (b. [[1855]])
*[[December 12]] - [[Edward Gawler Prior]], Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. [[1854]])
*[[December 14]] - [[George Gipp]], American football player (b. [[1895]])
*''date unknown'' - [[Reginald Farrer|Reginald John Farrer]], English botanist (b. [[1880]])
==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Charles Edouard Guillaume]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Walther Nernst]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Schack August Steenberg Krogh]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Knut Hamsun]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Léon Bourgeois|Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois]]
==Notes==
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