page_title: 1920
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1920 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Nicolaas Bloembergen
context_page_description: 1920 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: March 3
  James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek) (d. 2005)
  Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (d. 2011)
  March 4
  George W. Landau, American diplomat (d. 2018)
  Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
  Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
  March 5
  Rachel Gurney, British actress (d. 2001)
  Del Latta, American politician (d. 2016)
  March 6
  Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  Celina Seghi, Italian alpine skier
  March 8 – Ingemar Hedberg, Swedish canoeist (d. 2019)
  March 9
  Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian athlete (d. 2015)
  Erwin Schild, Canadian rabbi and author
  March 10
  Robert Cardenas, American Air Force general
  Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur, 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 laureate (d. 2017)
  Ben Ferencz, Hungarian-American lawyer
  March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
  March 15
  Sid Hartman, American sports journalist
  Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
  E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012)
  March 16 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
  March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder, 2-time President & 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
  March 19
  Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet, artist (d. 2002)
  Paul Hagen, Danish actor (d. 2003)
  Laurent Noël, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop
  March 20
  Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat, socialite (d. 1997)
  Edwin Hunt, English waterman
  Vickie Panos, Greek-Canadian female professional baseball player (d. 1986)
  Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (d. 1942)
  Rosemary Timperley, British author (d. 1988)
  March 22
  Werner Klemperer, German actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 2000)
  Josip Manolić, Prime Minister of Croatia
  Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
  Fanny Waterman, English pianist, educator
  Helmut Winschermann, German oboist, conductor and teacher
  March 23
  Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player, coach (d. 2013)
  Neal Edward Smith, American pilot, lawyer and politician
  March 24 – Corbin Harney, elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007)
  March 25 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
  March 26 – Ernest Courant, American accelerator physicist (d. 2020)
  March 27
  Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
  William Moncrief, American businessman
  March 29
  Marion Mann, American physician and pathologist
  Gottfried Weilenmann, Swiss racing cyclist (d. 2018)
  March 31
  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 2014)
  Marga Minco, Dutch journalist, writer
caption: Nicolaas Bloembergen
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