# 1920

1920 in other calendars| Gregorian calendar | 1920 *MCMXX* |
| Ab urbe condita | 2673 |
| Armenian calendar | 1369 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6670 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 76–77 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1841–1842 |
| Bengali calendar | 1327 |
| Berber calendar | 2870 |
| British Regnal year | 10 Geo. 5 – 11 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2464 |
| Burmese calendar | 1282 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7428–7429 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4616 or 4556     *— to —* 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4617 or 4557 |
| Coptic calendar | 1636–1637 |
| Discordian calendar | 3086 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1912–1913 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5680–5681 |
| Hindu calendars |  |
|  - *Vikram Samvat* | 1976–1977 |
|  - *Shaka Samvat* | 1841–1842 |
|  - *Kali Yuga* | 5020–5021 |
| Holocene calendar | 11920 |
| Igbo calendar | 920–921 |
| Iranian calendar | 1298–1299 |
| Islamic calendar | 1338–1339 |
| Japanese calendar | Taishō 9 (大正９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1850–1851 |
| Juche calendar | 9 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4253 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 9 民國9年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 452 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2462–2463 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 2046 or 1665 or 893     *— to —* ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 2047 or 1666 or 894 |

**1920** (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.

## Events

* The King of Spain blesses the Real Madrid football team.
* August Krogh, Danish zoologist, won the **1920** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

## Births

### January

Isaac Asimov
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
John Maynard Smith
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Federico Fellini
DeForest Kelley
Alf Ramsey
Gottfried Böhm
* January 2 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer (d. 1992)
* January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
* January 6 – John Maynard Smith, British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (d. 2004)
* January 9 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 2012)
* January 19 - Roberto M. Levingston, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
* January 19 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2020)
* January 20 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (d. 1993)
* January 20 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
* January 22 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
* January 23 – Gottfried Böhm, German architect and sculptor (d. 2021)

### February

Farouk of Egypt
Tony Randall
Michèle Morgan
* February 11 – King Farouk of Egypt (d. 1965)
* February 26 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
* February 29 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (d. 2016)

### March

Nicolaas Bloembergen
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
* March 11 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2017)
* March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1975)

### April

Toshirō Mifune
Edmond H. Fischer
Emilio Colombo
Liam Cosgrave
Richard von Weizsäcker
* April 1 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
* April 5 – Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1998)
* April 6 – Edmond H. Fischer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2021)
* April 11 - Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
* April 13 – Liam Cosgrave, Taoiseach (d. 2017)
* April 15 – Richard von Weizsäcker, former President of Germany (d. 2015)

### May

Pope John Paul II
Peggy Lee
* May 18 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
* May 26 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (d. 2002)

### June

Mahendra of Nepal
José López Portillo
Mario Beccaria
* June 10 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007)
* June 11 – King Mahendra of Nepal (d. 1972)
* June 16 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico (d. 2004)
* June 18 – Mario Beccaria, Italian politician (d. 2003)

### July

Yul Brynner
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Rosalind Franklin
* July 11 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (d. 1985)
* July 17 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010)
* July 25 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (d. 1958)

### August

Maureen O'Hara
Shelley Winters
Ray Bradbury
Prem Tinsulanonda
* August 17 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American film actress and singer (d. 2015)
* August 18 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
* August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American writer (d. 2012)
* August 26 – Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2019)

### September

Mickey Rooney
* September 23 - Mickey Rooney, American actor (d. 2014)

### October

Walter Matthau
Timothy Leary
Melina Mercouri
* October 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
* October 17 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
* October 22 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist (d. 1996)
* October 31 – Melina Mercouri, Greek singer, actress and politician (d. 1994)

### November

Gene Tierney
* November 8 – Esther Rolle, American actress, known for role in Good Times and Maude (d.1998)
* November 19 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
* November 21 - Stan Musial, American baseball player (d. 2013)

### December

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Kaysone Phomvihane
* December 9 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President of Italy (d. 2016)
* December 13 – Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (d. 1992)

## Deaths

* 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)
* January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
* January 24 – 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)
* February 20 – 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)
* March 1 – William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846)
* March 1 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
* March 4 – Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843)
* March 11 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
* March 13 – Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b. 1842)
* March 26 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834)
* March 26 – Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851)
* March 31 – Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1837)
* March 31 – Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b. 1848)
* April 8 – John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840)
* April 8 – 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 9 – Agnes Macdonald, wife of John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1836)
* May 11 – James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b. 1877)
* May 11 – 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)
* May 21 – 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)
* June 5 – 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)
* June 14 – Max Weber, German political economist (b. 1864)
* June 18 – Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. 1835)
* June 18 – John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
* June 20 – Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
* June 20 – John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838)
* June 27 – Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b. 1839)
* July 1 – Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
* 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)
* August 1 – 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)
* August 16 – Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b. 1836)
* August 17 – Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
* August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
* August 26 – James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
* August 31 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
* September 7 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
* September 10 – Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
* September 18 – Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
* September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
* September 25 – Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
* September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
* October 2 – Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
* October 10 – Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
* October 19 – John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
* October 20 – Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
* October 24 – Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
* November 4 – Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
* November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
* November 23 – George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
* November 25 – Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile race 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)

## Art, music, theatre, literature

* *The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari* is released.