1920

**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

### January

- 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

- 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

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

### April

- 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

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

### June

- 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

- 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

- 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

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

### October

- 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

- 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

- 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.