Editing 1920

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==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1920}}
[[File:5 Prohibition Disposal(9).jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[January 17]]: Beginning of [[Prohibition in the United States]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Polish–Soviet War]]: The Russian [[Red Army]] increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** [[Kauniainen]] in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of [[Espoo]], secedes from Espoo as its own market town.<ref>[https://www.kaunisgrani.fi/2017/04/ministeri-kerenski-kanta-asiakkaana-kauniaisissa/ Monsieur le ministre - KaunisGrani] (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: The forces of [[White movement|Russian White]] Admiral [[Alexander Kolchak]] surrender in [[Krasnoyarsk]]; the [[Great Siberian Ice March]] ensues.
* [[January 10]]
** The [[Treaty of Versailles]] takes effect, officially ending World War I.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/28/treaty-of-versailles-centenary-relics-tell-story-of-historic-signing |title=Treaty of Versailles centenary: Relics tell story of historic signing |first=Emma |last=Beswick |date=28 June 2019 |access-date=29 June 2019 |work=[[Euronews]]}}</ref>
** The [[League of Nations Covenant]] enters into force. On [[January 16]], the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
* [[January 11]] &ndash; The [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] is recognised [[de facto]] by European powers in [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://today.az/news/politics/53534.html|title=Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official: result of overcoming obstacles by first Azerbaijani diplomats was international recognition in Versailles|work=Today.az|date=2009-07-03|access-date=2013-03-13}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; ''[[The New York Times]]'' [[Robert H. Goddard#Publicity and criticism|ridicules]] American rocket scientist [[Robert H. Goddard]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE7D7153EE433A25750C1A9679C946195D6CF |title=Topics of the Times |date=13 January 1920 |access-date=29 June 2019 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723044207/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE7D7153EE433A25750C1A9679C946195D6CF |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> which it will rescind following the launch of [[Apollo 11]] in [[1969]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-1851-2001-the-facts-that-got-away.html |title=150th Anniversary: 1851-2001; The Facts That Got Away |first=Tom |last=Kuntz |date=14 November 2001 |access-date=29 June 2019 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=36}}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
** The [[Allies of World War I]] demand that the Netherlands [[Extradition|extradite]] ex-[[German Emperor]] [[Wilhelm II]] who fled there in [[1918]].
** [[Zeta Phi Beta]] sorority, is founded on the campus of [[Howard University]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Prohibition in the United States]] begins, with the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution]] which bans the sale of [[alcoholic beverage|alcohol]] in all States.
* [[January 19]] &ndash; The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU) is founded.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2012/08/the-founding-of-the-american-civil-liberties-union-1920/|title=The founding of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1920|date=1 August 2012|first=Christa|last=Cleeton|access-date=29 June 2019|work=Mudd Manuscript Library Blog|publisher=[[The Trustees of Princeton University]]|agency=[[Princeton University]]}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The final session of the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] is held, even though peace treaties with Hungary and Turkey remain to be concluded. The United States does not conclude its own treaty with Germany until August 25, 1921.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The Australian [[National Party of Australia|Country Party]] is officially formed.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The Netherlands refuses to extradite ex-German Emperor [[Wilhelm II]]; on May 15 he moves into [[Huis Doorn]] in the country where he remains permanently in exile until his death in [[1941]].
* [[January 28]] &ndash; ''El Tercio de Extranjeros'' (the "Regiment of Foreigners"), later the [[Spanish Legion]], is established by [[decree]] of King [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]].

===February===
{{Main|February 1920}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The [[South African Air Force]] (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force in the world, after the British [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF).<ref name="SALM">Nöthling, Kol C.J., Martins, Maj du P. (1990). ''Kroniek van die Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag (1920-1990)'', (1st ed.). Direktoraat Openbare Betrekkinge, SAW. Uitgewer: Staatsdrukkery, Pretoria. Gedruk deur Promedia Drukkers, Posbus 255, Silverton, 0127.</ref>
* [[February 2]]
** [[Estonian War of Independence]]: The [[Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian)|Tartu Peace Treaty]] is signed, ending the war and recognizing the independence of both the [[Republic of Estonia]] and the [[Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic]].
** [[French Third Republic|France]] occupies the [[Memel Territory]] of East Prussia.
** [[Sayid Abdullah|Sayyid Muhammad]], Khan of [[Khanate of Khiva|Khiva]], abdicates.
* [[February 9]] &ndash; The [[Svalbard Treaty]], signed by members of the League of Nations in Paris, recognises the sovereignty of [[Norway]] over the [[Arctic]] archipelago of [[Svalbard]] (at this time called Spitzbergen), while giving the other signatories economic rights in the islands.<ref>{{cite book|title=Statistical Yearbook of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdiCkoG3buIC|year=1999|publisher=Statistisk sentralbyrå|page=15}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] &ndash; General [[Józef Haller]] first performs ''[[Poland's Wedding to the Sea]]'', a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the [[Baltic Sea]].
* [[February 12]]–[[February 24|24]] &ndash; [[Conference of London (1920)|Conference of London]]: Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the [[partitioning of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[February 13]] &ndash; Switzerland joins the [[League of Nations]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The [[League of Women Voters]] is founded in Chicago.
* [[February 17]] &ndash; A woman named [[Anna Anderson]] tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital where she claims she is [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]].
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[1920 Gori earthquake]]: An earthquake hits [[Gori, Georgia|Gori]] in the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]], killing 114.
* [[February 21]] &ndash; The island province of [[Marinduque]] in the [[Philippines]] archipelago is founded.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; In [[Emeryville, California]], the first [[greyhound racing|dog racing]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Adolf Hitler]] presents his [[National Socialist Program]] in [[Munich]] to the [[German Workers' Party]] (''Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''), which renames itself as the [[Nazi Party]] (''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'').

===March===
{{Main|March 1920}}
* [[March 1]]
** Hungarian [[Admiral]] and statesman [[Miklós Horthy]] becomes the [[Regent]] of [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Hungary]].
** The [[United States Railroad Administration]] returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
* [[March 7]] &ndash; The Syrian National Congress proclaims [[Arab Kingdom of Syria|Syria]] independent, with [[Faisal I of Iraq]] as king.
* [[March 10]] &ndash; The world's first peaceful establishment of a [[social democracy|social democratic]] government takes place in [[Sweden]] as [[Hjalmar Branting]] takes over as [[Prime Minister of Sweden|prime minister]] when [[Nils Edén]] leaves office.
* [[March 13]]–[[March 17|17]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Kapp]] and [[Walther von Lüttwitz]]'s ''[[Kapp Putsch]]'' (an attempted [[coup d'état|coup]] in Germany) briefly ousts the [[Weimar Republic]] government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; The [[Ruhr Red Army]], a communist army 50,000 men strong, is formed in [[Weimar Republic|Germany]].
* [[March 15]]–[[March 16|16]] &ndash; [[Occupation of Constantinople#Military occupation of Constantinople|Constantinople is occupied]] by [[British Empire]] forces, acting for the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]] against the [[Turkish National Movement]]. Retrospectively, the [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey]] regards this as the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman regime]] in [[Istanbul]].<ref>Declaration of 1 November [[1922]].</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]] begins using the [[Gregorian calendar]].
* [[March 19]] &ndash; The [[United States Senate]] refuses to ratify the [[Treaty of Versailles]].
* [[March 23]] &ndash; Admiral [[Miklós Horthy]] declares that [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Hungary]] is a monarchy, without anyone on the throne.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: British recruits to the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] begin to arrive in Ireland. They become known from their improvised uniforms as the "[[Black and Tans]]".<ref name=Cottrell>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Cottrell|title=The War for Ireland, 1913-1923|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84603-9966}}</ref>
* [[March 26]]
** The German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against the rebellious [[Ruhr Red Army]], in the French-occupied area.
** American fiction writer [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] makes his name with publication of ''[[This Side of Paradise]]''.
* [[March 28]] &ndash; The [[1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak]] hits the [[Great Lakes region]] and [[Deep South]] of the United States.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet|Sir William Robertson]] is promoted to [[Field Marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]], the first man to rise from [[Private (rank)|private]] (enlisted [[1877]]) to the highest rank in the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35786|title=Robertson, Sir William Robert, first baronet (1860–1933)|first=David R.|last=Woodward |edition=Online|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35786|access-date=2007-12-07 |date=September 2004}}</ref>

===April===
{{Main|April 1920}} 
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The German army marches to the [[Ruhr]] to fight the [[Ruhr Red Army]].
* [[April 3]] &ndash; Failed [[Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim#1920 assassination attempt|assassination attempts on General Mannerheim]], retired leader of the victorious [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guard]] in the Finnish Civil War, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of [[Eino Rahja]], during a White Guard parade in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]].<ref>[http://www.mikkoporvali.fi/index.php?page=1038&lang=1 Mikko Porvali : Murhayritys joka jäi tekemättä] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://walkhelsinki.fi/mannerheimin-murhayrityksen-jalkinaytos-kaytiin-vallilassa/ Mannerheimin murhayrityksen jälkinäytös käytiin Vallilassa] (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[1920 Palestine riots]]: Violence erupts between Arab and Jewish residents in [[Jerusalem]]; 9 are killed, 216 injured.
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The short-lived [[Far Eastern Republic]] is declared in eastern [[Siberia]].
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Álvaro Obregón]] flees from Mexico City (during a trial intended to ruin his reputation) to [[Guerrero]], where he joins Fortunato Maycotte.
* [[April 19]]–[[April 26|26]] &ndash; [[San Remo conference]]: Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan meet to determine the [[League of Nations mandate]]s for administration of territories, following the [[partitioning of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[April 19]] &ndash; Germany and [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Álvaro Obregón]] announces (in [[Chilpancingo]]) that he intends to fight against the rule of [[Venustiano Carranza]].
* [[April 23]] &ndash; The [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey]] is founded by [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], in [[Ankara]]. It denounces the government of Sultan [[Mehmed VI]] and announces a temporary constitution.
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Second Polish Republic|Polish]] and anti-Soviet [[Ukrainian People's Republic|Ukrainian]] troops attack the [[Red Army]] in Soviet Ukraine.
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The [[Khorezm People's Soviet Republic]] is officially created by [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]], as the successor to the [[Khanate of Khiva]].
* [[April 28]] &ndash; The [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic]] is officially created.

===May===
{{Main|May 1920}}
* [[May 3]] &ndash; A [[1920 Georgian coup attempt|Bolshevik coup]] fails in the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]].
* [[May 7]]
** [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Second Polish Republic|Polish]] troops occupy [[Kyiv]]. The government of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] returns to the city.
** [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Venustiano Carranza]] leaves Mexico City in a large train.
** [[Treaty of Moscow (1920)]]: [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] recognizes the independence of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]], only to invade the country six months later.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Agnès Souret]] is elected "The most beautiful woman in France", retrospectively considered the first [[Miss France]].
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution]]: Russian White soldier [[Maria Bochkareva]] is executed in Soviet Russia.
* [[May 16]]
** [[Canonization of Joan of Arc]]: Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. [[Pope Benedict XV]] presides over the rite, for which the interior of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome is richly decorated.
** A [[referendum]] in Switzerland favors joining the [[League of Nations]].
* [[May 17]]
** French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
** The first flight of Dutch air company [[KLM]], from [[Amsterdam]] to London, takes place.
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Álvaro Obregón]]'s troops enter Mexico City.
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Venustiano Carranza]] arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo; troops of [[Rodolfo Herrero]] attack him at night and shoot him.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Venustiano Carranza]] is buried in Mexico City; all of his mourning allies are arrested. [[Adolfo de la Huerta]] is elected provisional president.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[1920 Ganja revolt|Ganja revolt]]: [[Anti-Soviet]] opposition in the [[Azerbaijan SSR]] launches an abortive revolt in [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]].
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] becomes president of [[Czechoslovakia]].
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Louth, Lincolnshire#Floods|Floods at Louth, Lincolnshire]] in England kill 23.

===June===
{{Main|June 1920}}
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Trianon]]: Peace is restored between the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]] and [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]], which loses 72% of its territory.
* [[June 5]] &ndash; Bolshevik cavalry breaks through Polish and Ukrainian lines south of Kyiv, precipitating eventual withdrawal.
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: The [[Red Army]] retakes [[Kyiv]].
* [[June 13]]
** [[Essad Pasha Toptani]], nominal ruler of [[Principality of Albania|Albania]], is assassinated by [[Avni Rustemi]] in Paris.
** The [[United States Postal Service|United States Post Office Department]] rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.<ref>[http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun13.htm June 13] On-This-Day.com</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/|title=A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail|last=Lewis|first=Danny|website=Smithsonian|language=en|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref>
* [[June 15]]
** A new border treaty between [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] and Denmark gives northern [[Duchy of Schleswig|Schleswig]] to Denmark.
** The [[Estonian Constituent Assembly]] adopts the [[Constitution of Estonia#First Constitution (1934–1938)|first constitution]] of [[Estonia]], which will come into effect on [[December 21]] this year.
** [[Duluth lynchings]]: Three African American circus workers are sprung from jail, subjected to a [[kangaroo court]] and hanged by a white mob in [[Duluth, Minnesota]], in the northern United States.
** Australian soprano [[Nellie Melba]] becomes history's first well-known performer to make a radio broadcast when she sings two arias as part of an experimental series of broadcasts from a studio at the [[Marconi Company]]'s factory at [[Chelmsford]] in England.
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Greek Summer Offensive (1920)|Greek Summer Offensive]]: [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]] attacks [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] troops.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Sigma Tau Gamma]] is founded on campus at the [[University of Central Missouri]] in Warrensburg, Missouri
* [[June 29]] &ndash; The Republic of China joins the [[League of Nations]].

===July===
{{Main|July 1920}}
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] declares its neutrality in the [[Polish–Soviet War]].
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: The [[Red Army]] continues its offensive into [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]].
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Arthur Meighen]] becomes Canada's ninth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[East Prussian plebiscite]] determines that most of the territory in question will remain German.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty]]: The [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] recognizes independent [[Lithuania]].
* [[July 19]]–[[August 7]] &ndash; The [[2nd World Congress of the Comintern|Second Congress]] of the [[Comintern|Communist International]] takes place in [[Saint Petersburg]] and Moscow; the [[Twenty-one Conditions]] are adopted.
* [[July 20]] &ndash; The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key [[Black Sea]] port of [[Batumi|Batum]] to the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]].
* [[July 21]] &ndash; The [[Interallied Mission to Poland]] takes place.
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] sues for peace with [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] (which refuses).
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Maysalun]]: The [[French Third Republic|French]] defeat the [[Syria (region)|Syria]]n army, whose leader [[Yusuf al-'Azma]] is killed. French troops occupy [[Damascus]] and depose [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal I of Syria]] as king.<ref name="French occupation of Syria">{{cite book|title=World War I|url=https://archive.org/details/worldwari0000carl|url-access=registration|last=Carlisle|first=Rodney|year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldwari0000carl/page/291 291]|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=978-0-8160-6061-0}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Pancho Villa]] takes over [[Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León|Sabina]] and contacts Mexican president de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender, which he signs on [[July 28]].
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] begins construction of the [[Link River Dam]], as part of the [[Klamath Reclamation Project]].
* [[July 30]]–[[August 8]] &ndash; The [[1st World Scout Jamboree]] is held at [[Olympia, London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pinetreeweb.com/1920-jamboree.htm|title=1st World Jamboree|work=The Pine Tree Web|year=1998|access-date=2011-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514054243/http://www.pinetreeweb.com/1920-jamboree.htm|archive-date=May 14, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[July 31]]
** Irish-born Australian [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Archbishop [[Daniel Mannix]] is detained on board ship by British authorities off [[Cobh|Queenstown]] and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Patrick|last=O'Farrell|title=Mannix, Daniel (1864–1963)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55446|access-date=2011-11-11|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55446}}</ref>
** France prohibits the sale or prescription of [[birth control|contraceptives]].
** Representatives of [[British people|British]] [[Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary socialist]] groups meet at the Cannon Street Hotel in [[London]] and agree to form the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].

===August===
{{Main|August 1920}}
[[File:1920 olympics poster.jpg|thumb|115px|right|[[1920 Summer Olympics]]]]
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] riot in [[Belfast]], in protest at the continuing [[British Army]] presence.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Ottoman Dynasty|Ottoman Sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]]'s representatives sign the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] with the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]], confirming arrangements for the [[partitioning of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Bolshevik Russia]] [[Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty|recognizes]] independent [[Latvia]].
* [[August 13]]–[[August 25|25]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)|Battle of Warsaw]] &ndash; The [[Red Army]] is defeated.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: The [[Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920|Restoration of Order in Ireland Act]] (passed by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]) receives [[Royal Assent]], providing for [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] activists to be tried by [[court-martial]], rather than by [[jury]] in criminal courts.<ref name=Cottrell/>
* [[August 14]]–[[September 12]] &ndash; Main events of the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] in [[Antwerp]], Belgium (there have been ceremonies and outlying events since April). The [[Olympic symbols]] of five interlocking rings and the associated flag are first displayed at the games.
* [[August 19]]–[[August 25|25]] &ndash; [[Silesian Uprisings#Second Silesian Uprising (1920)|Second Silesian Uprising]]: The Poles in [[Upper Silesia]] rise up against the Germans.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: Peasants in [[Tambov Governorate]] begin the [[Tambov Rebellion]] against the [[Bolshevik]] government of [[Soviet Russia]].
* [[August 20]] &ndash; The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK ([[WWJ (AM)|WWJ]]), begins operations in [[Detroit]]. It is owned by the ''Detroit News'', the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.
* [[August 22]] &ndash; The [[Salzburg Festival]] in Austria is inaugurated as a regular event.<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael P.|last=Steinberg|title=The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epOfAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, NY|isbn=978-0-8014-2362-8|page=164}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] &ndash; The [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is ratified, guaranteeing [[women's suffrage]].
* [[August 28]]–[[September 2]] &ndash; [[Bukhara operation (1920)|Bukhara operation]]: The [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian]] [[Red Army]] and [[Young Bukharians]] overthrow the [[Emirate of Bukhara]], leading to the establishment of the [[Bukharan People's Soviet Republic]].

===September===
{{Main|September 1920}}
* [[September 5]]  
** [[Mahatma Gandhi]] launches the [[Non-cooperation movement (1909–22)|Non-Cooperation Movement]] in India, with the goal of obtaining independence from British rule
** Presidential elections begin in Mexico.
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] proclaims the [[Italian Regency of Carnaro]] in the city of [[Rijeka|Fiume]].
* [[September 9]] &ndash; The [[Lotta Svärd]] women's paramilitary auxiliary is founded in Finland.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jukka Paakki|title=Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher: A Thematic Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Py0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=8 October 2019|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-3-030-16049-4|pages=13}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; The position of [[List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church|Patriarch of the Serbs]] is re-established as the authority over the [[Serbian Orthodox Church]], almost 156 years to the day after it was abolished by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in [[1766]].<ref>"Yugoslavia", in ''The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936'' (Macmillan and Co., 1936) p1388</ref>
* [[September 16]]
** [[Wall Street bombing]]: A bomb in a horse wagon (perhaps planted by ''[[Galleanisti]]'') explodes in front of the [[23 Wall Street|J. P. Morgan Building]] in New York City, killing 38 and injuring 400.
** The [[Latvian Land Reform of 1920]] is adopted by the [[Constitutional Assembly of Latvia]].
* [[September 17]] &ndash; The [[National Football League]] is established, as the American Professional Football Association.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The first soldier joins ''El Tercio de Extranjeros'' (the "Regiment of Foreigners", later the [[Spanish Legion]]). Under the command of [[José Millán Astray]] and [[Francisco Franco]], its first duties are against [[Rifian people|Rif]] rebels in the [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco]].
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The [[Communist Party of Uruguay]] is founded.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; The London [[Metropolitan Police]] forms the [[Flying Squad]], a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.
* [[September 25]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Seeb]] is signed, ending the [[Muscat rebellion]] and granting the [[Imamate of Oman]] Autonomy from the [[Muscat and Oman|Sultanate of Muscat and Oman]].
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] sues for peace with Poland.
* [[September 29]]
** The first domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States; a [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse]] radio costs $10.
** [[Adolf Hitler]] makes his first public appearance in Austria, with speeches in Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg.

===October===
{{Main|October 1920}}
* October &ndash; English writer [[Agatha Christie]]'s first novel, ''[[The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]'', appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective character [[Hercule Poirot]] in the setting of an [[English country house]]. (The book is published in the U.K. in 1921.)
* [[October 3]] &ndash; The [[Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe]] horse race first runs in Paris.
* [[October 4]] &ndash; The [[Mannerheim League for Child Welfare]], a Finnish [[non-governmental organization]], is founded on the initiative of [[Sophie Mannerheim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/helsinki/art-2000006380719.html|title=Sophie Mannerheim käveli Kalliossa ja järkyttyi: Sitten hän keksi ovelan juonen, jolla koko Suomi saatiin syytämään apua äärimmäisessä köyhyydessä eläville lapsille|first=Marjaana|last=Varmavuori|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=September 15, 2021|language=fi}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Polish–Lithuanian War]]: Polish troops take [[Vilnius]].
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Carinthian Plebiscite]]: A large part of [[Carinthia (province)|Carinthia Province]] votes to become part of Austria, rather than [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[October 14]] &ndash; A peace treaty between the Soviet and the Finnish governments is concluded at [[Tartu]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Polish–Soviet War]]: After the Polish army captures [[Ternopil|Tarnopol]], [[Dubno]], [[Minsk]] and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London; 50 are injured.
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Álvaro Obregón]] is announced as the elected [[president of Mexico]].
* [[October 27]]
**The [[League of Nations]] moves its headquarters to [[Geneva]], Switzerland.
**Baron [[Gerhard Louis De Geer|Louis De Geer the Younger]] becomes the new prime minister of Sweden.
*[[October 30]] &ndash; The [[Communist Party of Australia]] is founded in Sydney.
*[[October 31]] &ndash; Dr. [[Frederick Banting]] of Ontario first records his insight on how to isolate [[insulin]] for the treatment of [[diabetes]]; the first successful human trial of insulin will occur 15 months later.

===November===
{{Main|November 1920}}
* [[November 2]]
** [[1920 United States presidential election]]: Republican [[United States Senator|U.S. senator]] [[Warren G. Harding]] defeats [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] governor of [[Ohio]] [[James M. Cox]] and Socialist [[Eugene V. Debs]], in the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
** In the United States, [[KDKA (AM)|KDKA AM]] of [[Pittsburgh]] (owned by [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse]]) starts broadcasting as a commercial [[radio broadcasting|radio station]]. The first broadcast is the results of the [[1920 United States presidential election|presidential election]].
** [[Meiji Shrine]], one of many landmark spots in [[Tokyo]], is officially built in [[Japan]].<ref>[[:ja:明治神宮#沿革]] '''(Japanese language)''' Retrieved January 15, 2016.</ref>
* [[November 11]] &ndash; In London, [[The Cenotaph]] is unveiled and [[The Unknown Warrior]] is buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]; while in Paris the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated beneath the [[Arc de Triomphe]].
* [[November 12]] &ndash; Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the [[Treaty of Rapallo (1920)|Treaty of Rapallo]].
* [[November 13]] &ndash; The [[White Army]]'s last units and civilian refugees are evacuated from the [[Crimea]] onboard 126 ships, "[[Wrangel's fleet]]" (the remnants of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet), to [[Turkey]], [[Tunisia]] and the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], accompanied by wide-scale civilian massacres. The total number of evacuees amounts to approximately 150,000 people, of which 20% are civilians.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; The [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]] holds its first concert, in Alberta.
* [[November 15]] &ndash; In [[Geneva]], the first assembly of the [[League of Nations]] is held.
* [[November 16]] &ndash; Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (''[[Qantas]]'') is founded by [[Hudson Fysh]] and [[Paul McGinness]].
* [[November 17]] &ndash; The council of the [[League of Nations]] accepts the [[constitution]] for the [[Free City of Danzig]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Prince Arthur of Connaught]] is appointed the 3rd [[Governor-General of South Africa]].
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Bloody Sunday (1920)|Bloody Sunday]] – The [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] (IRA), on the instructions of [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], shoot dead the "Cairo gang", 14 British undercover agents in [[Dublin]], most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation, the [[Auxiliary Division]] of the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] open fire on a crowd at a [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] football match in [[Croke Park]], resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded.<ref name=Cottrell/><ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/488 488–490]}}</ref> Three men are shot this night in [[Dublin Castle]] "while trying to escape".
* [[November 28]]
** [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Kilmichael Ambush]] – The flying column of the [[3rd Cork Brigade]] of the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]], led by [[Tom Barry (Irish republican)|Tom Barry]], ambushes two lorries carrying men of the [[Auxiliary Division]] of the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] at [[Kilmichael, County Cork]], killing 17 (with 3 of its own men also dying), which leads to official reprisals.<ref name=Cottrell/>
** [[FIDAC]] (French: '''''F'''édération '''I'''nteralliée '''d'''es '''A'''nciens '''C'''ombattants'', English: ''The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations'') is established in Paris at the initiative of veterans from [[World War I]], predominantly [[Pacifism|pacifists]], joined by associations of veterans from France, the United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Serbia.<ref name=":0">''F.I.D.A.C. (Fédération Interalliée des Anciens Combattants) – Historique. Statuts. Règlement intérieur. Carte d’Identité FIDAC. La Médaille Scolaire FIDAC | History. Constitution. By-Laws. FIDAC Identity Card. FIDAC Educational Medal; Paris'', 1933, p. 2-3</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1920}}

* December 
** The so-called [[Spanish flu]] pandemic ends with an estimated total of between seventeen and fifty million dead since [[1918]]. It would be the last global [[pandemic]] until the [[2009 swine flu pandemic]] almost 90 years later.
** The first edition of the ''[[Poems (Wilfred Owen)|Poems]]'' of the English [[war poet]] [[Wilfred Owen]], killed in action in [[1918]], appears in London, introduced by his friend [[Siegfried Sassoon]]. Only five of Owen's verses having been published in his lifetime, the collection introduces his work to many readers. It includes the [[1917]] poems "[[Anthem for Doomed Youth]]" and "[[Dulce et Decorum est]]", one of the best-known poetic condemnations of war.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Scott-Kilvert|title=British Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNZN1_tGI4MC|year=1979|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-16637-7|page=459}}</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; The [[Mexican Revolution]] effectively ends with a new regime coming to power.<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie Bethell|title=Mexico since Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltPLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA204|date=27 September 1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-58356-2|pages=204}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; Following more than a month of the [[Turkish–Armenian War]], the Turkish-dictated [[Treaty of Alexandropol]] is concluded.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The first draft of the [[Mandate for Palestine]] is submitted to the League of Nations.
* [[December 5]] &ndash; A [[referendum]] in [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] is favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Martial law]] is declared in Counties [[County Cork|Cork]], [[County Kerry|Kerry]], [[County Limerick|Limerick]] and [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]] by the British authorities.<ref name=Cottrell/>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Burning of Cork]] in Ireland: British forces set fire to some {{convert|5|acre|m2}} of the centre of [[Cork (city)|Cork]], including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; Confectionery company [[Haribo]] is founded in Bonn, Germany.
* [[December 15]]–[[December 22|22]] &ndash; The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations, intended to extend for over 42 years.
[[File:1920 Gansu earthquake.svg|thumb|115px|[[1920 Haiyuan earthquake|Haiyuan earthquake]]]]
* [[December 16]]
** An 8.2 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[1920 Haiyuan earthquake|Haiyuan earthquake]] causes a [[landslide]] in [[Gansu|Gansu Province]], China, killing 273,000.
** Finland joins the [[League of Nations]].
* [[December 17]] &ndash; South Africa is granted a [[League of Nations mandate|League of Nations Class C mandate]] over [[South West Africa]].
* [[December 22]] &ndash; The 8th [[Congress of Soviets|Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR]] adopts the [[GOELRO plan]], the major scheme for the economic development of the country.
* [[December 23]] 
** The United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held [[Syria]] and British-held [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
** The [[Government of Ireland Act 1920]], passed by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]], receives [[Royal Assent]] from [[George V]], providing for the [[partition of Ireland]] into [[Northern Ireland]] and [[Southern Ireland (1921–22)|Southern Ireland]], with separate parliaments, granting a measure of [[home rule]].<ref name=Cottrell/><ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; The [[Rosicrucian Fellowship]]'s spiritual healing temple ''The Ecclesia'' is dedicated at [[Mount Ecclesia]], [[Oceanside, California]].

===Date unknown===
* [[Hydrocodone]], a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine, is first synthesized in Germany, by [[Carl Mannich]] and Helene Löwenheim.
* Approximate date &ndash; The [[HIV/AIDS]] [[Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS|pandemic]] almost certainly originates in Léopoldville, modern-day [[Kinshasa]], the capital of the [[Belgian Congo]].<ref>Based on its genetic history. {{cite web|title=HIV pandemic's origins located|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-10-03-hiv-pandemics-origins-located#|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|date=2014-10-03|access-date=2014-10-29}}</ref>

==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}

===January===
[[File:Isaac.Asimov01.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Isaac Asimov]]]]
[[File:John Maynard Smith.jpg|thumb|120px|[[John Maynard Smith]]]]
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[[File:Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1982).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]]]]
[[File:Federico Fellini NYWTS 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Federico Fellini]]]]
[[File:DEFOREST KELLEY.jpg|thumb|110px|[[DeForest Kelley]]]]
[[File:Alf Ramsey (1969).jpg|thumb|110px|Sir [[Alf Ramsey]]]]
* [[January 2]]
** [[Isaac Asimov]], American author (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Analog Science Fiction & Fact|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coMnAQAAIAAJ|date=July 2002|publisher=Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact|page=112}}</ref>
** [[George Herbig]], American astronomer (d. [[2013]])
** [[Anne-Sofie Østvedt]], Norwegian resistance leader (d. [[2009]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[David Musuguri]], Tanzanian soldier and military officer (d. [[2024]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]], Italian pianist (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{Cite Grove |author=Bryce Morrison|title=Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18592|date=20 January 2001}}</ref>
* [[January 6]]
** [[Sun Myung Moon]], Korean evangelist, founder of the Unification Church (d. [[2012]])
** [[John Maynard Smith]], English biologist (d. [[2004]])
** [[P. Chitran Namboodirippad]], Indian writer (d. [[2023]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Vincent Gardenia]], American actor (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/25883/Vincent-Gardenia/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021201953/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/25883/Vincent-Gardenia/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2012 |title=Vincent Gardenia |access-date=June 22, 2009}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Abbey Simon]], American classical pianist (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Clive Dunn]], British actor (d. [[2012]])<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/9662584/Clive-Dunn.html Clive Dunn]. Telegraph (7 November 2012). Retrieved on 4 February 2013.</ref> 
** [[Hakim Said]], Pakistani scholar, philanthropist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Stefan Żywotko]], Polish association football coach (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 10]] 
** [[Raymond Cauchetier]], French photographer (d. [[2021]]) 
** [[Roberto M. Levingston]], Argentinian general, politician and 36th president of Argentina (d. [[2015]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Jarbas Passarinho]], Brazilian military officer, politician (d. [[2016]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Bill Reid]], Canadian artist (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Jahangir Amuzegar]], Iranian economist, academic and politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Vahe Danielyan]], Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor 
* [[January 15]] 
** [[Trevor Dannatt]], English architect (d. [[2021]])
** [[John O'Connor (cardinal)|John O'Connor]], American Catholic cardinal (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Golway|first=Terry|author-link=Terry Golway|year=2001|title=Full of Grace: An Oral Biography of John Cardinal O'Connor|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0-7434-4814-7 | page=1}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]], Peruvian [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]], 135th [[Prime Minister of Peru|prime minister of Peru]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[Federico Fellini]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris Wiegand|title=Federico Fellini: Ringmaster of Dreams, 1920-1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M5ypTi3n0X0C&pg=PA10|year=2003|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-1590-8|pages=10}}</ref>
** [[Theodore H. Geballe]], American physicist (d. [[2021]]) 
** [[DeForest Kelley]], American actor (''[[Star Trek]]'') (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web |title=DeForest Kelley {{!}} American actor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/DeForest-Kelley |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Fabian Ver]], Filipino general (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Errol Barrow]], 1st prime minister of Barbados (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Sir [[Alf Ramsey]], English footballer and manager (d. [[1999]])
* [[January 23]] 
** [[Gottfried Böhm]], German architect (d. [[2021]])
** [[Charles Njonjo]], Kenyan attorney and politician (d. [[2022]])
** [[Walter Frederick Morrison]], American entrepreneur, inventor (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Walter Fredrick Morrison dies at 90; father of the Frisbee |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fred-morrison13-2010feb13,0,7076853.story |accessdate=2010-02-14 |date=2010-02-13 |last=McLellan |first=Dennis}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Manuel Yan]], Filipino general (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Alicia Montoya]], Mexican actress (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Heinz Kessler]], German politician, military officer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Vasant Raiji]], Indian cricketer (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Hiroyoshi Nishizawa]], Japanese fighter ace (d. [[1944]])
** [[Helmut Zacharias]], German violinist (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao]], Indian writer (d. [[2018]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Michael Anderson (director)|Michael Anderson]], English film director (d. [[2018]])
**[[Ben Bagdikian]], Armenian-American journalist, political commentator and critic (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ben-bagdikian-20160311-story.html | title=Ben H. Bagdikian dies at 96; journalist who helped publish the Pentagon Papers | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=March 12, 2016 }}</ref>
** [[Delbert Mann]], American television and film director (d. [[2007]])

===February===
[[File:Kingfarouk1948.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Farouk of Egypt]]]]
[[File:Lady Hartington.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]]]]
[[File:1976 Tony Randall.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Tony Randall]]]]
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* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[John Russell (equestrian)|John Russell]], American Olympic equestrian (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Henry Heimlich]], American physician, medical researcher (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Giriraj Kishore]], Indian activist, politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Frank Muir]], British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (d. [[1998]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Gordon Van Wylen]], American physicist and author (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 7]] 
** [[Jacqueline Diffring]], German-born English sculptor (d. [[2020]])
** [[An Wang]], Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Tony Murray (businessman)|Tony Murray]], French-English billionaire and businessman (d. [[2023]]) 
* [[February 11]]
** [[Farouk of Egypt|Farouk I, King of Egypt]] (d. [[1965]])
** [[George Mandel]], American author (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 12]] 
** [[Heleno de Freitas]], Brazilian footballer (d. [[1959]])
** [[Yoshiko Yamaguchi]], Chinese-Japanese actress and singer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Yoshiko Yamaguchi|author2=Sakuya Fujiwara|title=Fragrant Orchid: The Story of My Early Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDAEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=28 February 2015|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-5404-1|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] 
** [[Seneka Bibile]], Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. [[1977]])
** [[Annæus Schjødt Jr.]], Norwegian barrister (d. [[2014]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Anna Mae Hays]], American general (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash;[[Ivo Caprino]], Norwegian film director (d. [[2001]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Eddie Slovik]], U.S. Army private, only deserter to be executed during World War II (d. [[1945]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton]], English noble (d.  [[2021]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Hilmar Baunsgaard]], Danish politician (d. [[1989]])
** [[Tony Randall]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
** [[Lucjan Wolanowski]], Polish journalist, writer and traveler (d. [[2006]])
** [[Henry Hu]], Hong Kong barrister
* [[February 28]]
** [[Alf Kjellin]], Swedish film actor and director (d. [[1988]])
** [[Jadwiga Piłsudska]], Polish pilot (d. [[2014]])
** [[Zaim Topčić]], Bosnian writer (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 29]] 
** [[Howard Nemerov]], American poet (d. [[1991]])
** [[Michele Morgan]], French actress (d. [[2016]])

===March===
[[File:James Doohan Actor.jpg|thumb|110px|[[James Doohan]]]]
[[File:Boris Vian - WIKI retouched.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Boris Vian]]]]
[[File:Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Nicolaas Bloembergen]]]]
[[File:Dan OSRH Josip Manolic 28052011 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Josip Manolić]]]]
* [[March 3]]
** [[James Doohan]], Canadian actor, voice actor, author and soldier (''[[Star Trek]]'') (d. [[2005]])
** [[Ronald Searle]], British cartoonist (d. [[2011]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Jean Lecanuet]], French politician (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Rachel Gurney]], British actress (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 6]] 
** [[Lewis Gilbert]], British film director, producer and screenwriter (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lewis-gilbert-dead-death-dies-bond-director-alfie-education-rita-profile-a8240366.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lewis-gilbert-dead-death-dies-bond-director-alfie-education-rita-profile-a8240366.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Remembering Lewis Gilbert, director behind Bond and Shirley Valentine|date=5 March 2018|website=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Celina Seghi]], Italian alpine skier (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Ingemar Hedberg]], Swedish canoeist (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Franjo Mihalić]], Croatian-Serbian athlete (d. [[2015]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Robert Cardenas]], American Air Force general (d. [[2022]])
** [[Alfred Peet]], Dutch-American entrepreneur, founder of [[Peet's Coffee & Tea]] (d. [[2007]])
** [[Boris Vian]], French writer, poet, singer and musician (d. [[1959]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Cismaru|title=Boris Vian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvFcAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-2951-1|page=11}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] 
** [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology|title=Review and Implementation of the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives...January 3, 29, 31, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA409|year=1991|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=409}}</ref>
** [[Ben Ferencz]], Hungarian-American lawyer (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 15]]
** [[Sid Hartman]], American sports journalist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Lawrence Sanders]], American novelist (d. [[1998]])
** [[E. Donnall Thomas]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1990/thomas/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Leo McKern]], Australian actor (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/arts/leo-mckern-82-veteran-actor-who-gave-voice-to-rumpole.html|title=Leo McKern, 82, Veteran Actor Who Gave Voice to 'Rumpole'|last=Goldman|first=Ari L.|date=24 July 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 May 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], founder, 2-time president and second prime minister of [[Bangladesh]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Pamela Harriman]], English-born American diplomat, socialite (d. [[1997]])
** [[Vickie Panos]], Greek-Canadian female professional baseball player (d. [[1986]])
** [[Qemal Stafa]], Albanian politician (d. [[1942]])
** [[Rosemary Timperley]], British author (d. [[1988]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Éric Rohmer]], French film director (d. [[2010]])
* [[March 22]]
** [[Josip Manolić]], [[Prime Minister of Croatia]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Europa Publications|title=The International Who's Who 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA1087|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|pages=1087}}</ref> (d. [[2024]])
** [[Fanny Waterman]], English pianist, educator (d. [[2020]])
** [[Helmut Winschermann]], German oboist, conductor and teacher (d. [[2021]])
* [[March 23]] 
** [[Tetsuharu Kawakami]], Japanese baseball player, coach (d. [[2013]])
** [[Neal Edward Smith]], American pilot, lawyer and politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Corbin Harney]], elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. [[2007]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Patrick Troughton]], English actor (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nyti.ms/2cf1tl5 |title=Patrick George Troughton, 'Doctor Who' on British TV |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=31 March 1987 |page=111 |agency=[[Associated Press]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Ernest Courant]], American accelerator physicist (d. [[2020]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[William Moncrief]], American businessman (d. [[2021]])
* [[March 29]] 
** [[Marion Mann]], American physician and pathologist (d. [[2022]])
** [[Gottfried Weilenmann (cyclist, born 1920)|Gottfried Weilenmann]], Swiss racing cyclist (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 31]]
** [[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]] (d. [[2014]])
** [[Marga Minco]], Dutch journalist, writer (d. [[2023]])

===April===
[[File:Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai (1954) (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Toshiro Mifune]]]]
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1991-039-11, Richard v. Weizsäcker.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Richard von Weizsäcker]]]]
* [[April 1]] 
** [[Toshiro Mifune]], Japanese actor (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Film Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ8IAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=W.H. Allen|isbn=978-1-85227-767-3|page=177}}</ref>
** [[Yosh Uchida]], American judo coach, businessman, entrepreneur and educator (d. [[2024]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Ehsan Yarshater]], Iranian scholar (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Barend Biesheuvel]], Dutch politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] from 1971 until 1973 (d. [[2001]])
** [[Arthur Hailey]], American writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Edmond H. Fischer]], [[Swiss Americans|Swiss American]] biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Ravi Shankar]], Indian sitar player (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ram Avtar|title=History of Indian Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0XaAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Pankaj Publications|isbn=978-81-87155-64-5|page=92}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] 
** [[Emilio Colombo]], 40th prime minister of Italy (d. [[2013]])
** [[Peter O'Donnell]], British author, comic strip writer (d. [[2010]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Anita Ellis (singer)|Anita Ellis]], Canadian-American singer and actress (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger D. Kinkle|title=Leading Musical Performers (popular Music and Jazz) 1900-1950: 2150 Biographies Updated to 1996 with Additions and Corrections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4o4AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Windmill Publications|page=100}}</ref>
* [[April 13]]
** [[Roberto Calvi]], Italian banker (d. [[1982]])
** [[Marthe Cohn]], French author and Holocaust survivor 
** [[Liam Cosgrave]], sixth [[Taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] (d. [[2017]])
** [[Theodore L. Thomas]], American [[chemical engineer]], [[Patent attorney]] and writer (d. [[2005]])
* [[April 14]]
** [[Stanley Stutz]], American basketball player (d. [[1975]])
** [[Antônio Afonso de Miranda]], Brazilian [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] bishop (d. [[2021]])
** [[Eleonore Schönborn]], Austrian politician (d. 2022)
* [[April 15]]
** [[Thomas Szasz]], Hungarian-born psychiatrist, writer (d. [[2012]])
** [[Richard von Weizsäcker]], German politician, [[President of Germany]] (1984–1994) (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 16]] 
** [[Prince Georg of Denmark]] (d. [[1986]])
** [[Bill Sidwell]], Australian tennis player (d. [[2021]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Arnold Yarrow]], British actor (d. [[2024]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Wang Zigan]], modern papercutting artist, master of arts and crafts (d. [[2000]])
* [[April 19]] 
** [[Gene Leis]], American jazz guitarist, educator (d. [[1993]])
** [[Ragnar Ulstein]], Norwegian journalist and writer (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[John Paul Stevens]], American judge, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Edmund Adamkiewicz]], German footballer (d. [[1991]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Valeri Petrov]], Bulgarian poet (d. [[2014]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Kim Hyung-suk]], South Korean philosopher 
* [[April 25]] 
** [[Robert Q. Lewis]], American radio and television personality (d. [[1991]])
** [[Marko Račič]], Slovenian athlete (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Padú del Caribe]], Aruban musician and songwriter (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Guido Cantelli]], Italian conductor (d. [[1956]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Legge|title=Walter Legge: Words and Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zX6icuyyVJoC&pg=PA227|year=1998|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92108-4|pages=227}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] 
** [[Diet Eman]], Dutch author and resistance worker (d. [[2019]])
** [[Gerda Lerner]], Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Gerda Lerner |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lerner-gerda |website=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=31 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Captain Tom|Captain Sir Tom Moore]], English army officer and fundraiser (d. [[2021]])

===May===
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[[File:Touko-Laaksonen-1959.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Tom of Finland|Touko Laaksonen]]]]-->
[[File:JohannesPaulusSimonis1985.2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope John Paul II]]]]
[[File:Peggy Lee 1950.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Peggy Lee]]]]
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Alan Burgess (cricketer)|Alan Burgess]], New Zealand cricketer (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Jean-Marie Auberson]], Swiss conductor (d. [[2004]])
** [[Otto Buchsbaum]], Austrian-born writer, ecological activist (d. [[2000]])
** [[Joan van der Waals]], Dutch physicist (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Jon Naar]], British-American author, photographer (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 6]] 
** [[Mollie Lentaigne]], English medical artist and Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse (d. [[2024]])
** [[Kamisese Mara|Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara]], first [[Prime Minister of Fiji|prime minister of Fiji]] and [[President of Fiji]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[May 8]] 
** [[Tom of Finland]], Finnish artist (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David A. Gerstner|title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS_SnVPixE8C&pg=PA564|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-30651-5|pages=564}}</ref>
** [[Jean Maran]], French politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Saul Bass]], American graphic designer (d. [[1996]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Michael Dauncey]], British Army brigadier (d. [[2017]])
** [[Mitsuko Mori]], Japanese actress (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Richard Adams]], English novelist (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Gene Hermanski]], American baseball player (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 12]] 
** [[John Tyler Bonner]], American biologist (d. [[2019]])
** [[Gerald Stapleton]], South African [[Battle of Britain]] fighter pilot (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Vassos Lyssarides]], Cypriot politician and physician (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir]], Lebanese cardinal (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Lydia Wideman]], Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Pope John Paul II]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Ted Knap]], American journalist (d. [[2023]])
** [[Tina Strobos]], Dutch psychiatrist known for rescuing Jews during [[World War II]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 20]] 
** [[John Cruickshank]], Scottish [[Victoria Cross]] recipient 
** [[Betty Driver]], British singer and actress (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Betty Driver|author2=Daran Little|title=Betty: The Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rexNAAAAYAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Granada Media|isbn=978-0-233-99780-3|page=8}}</ref>
** [[Domenico Leccisi]], Italian politician (d. [[2008]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Sonja de Lennart]], German fashion designer 
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Helen Andelin]], American author (d. [[2009]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Helen O'Connell]], American singer (d. [[1993]])<ref>The Annual Obituary - Louise Mooney Collins, Roland Turner - 1993 Page 693  "HELEN O'CONNELL American Singer Born Lima, Ohio, 23 May 1920 Died San Diego, California, 9 September 1993 A ... O'Connell was also the affable host of the Miss Universe Pageant for nine years, and was the longtime television ... "</ref>
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Arthur Wint]], Jamaican runner (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 26]]
** [[John Dall]], American actor (d. [[1971]])<ref>{{cite news|title=John Dall, 50, Oscar Nominee For 'Corn Is Green' Role, Dies|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E2D61F38E53BBC4052DFB766838A669EDE|access-date=December 2, 2014|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 18, 1971}}</ref>
** [[Peggy Lee]], American singer (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Strom|title=Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDsIAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1936-4|page=5}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Gene Levitt]], American television writer, producer and director (d. [[1999]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[John Harsanyi]], Hungarian-born economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2000]])
* [[May 30]]
** [[Godfrey Binaisa]], [[President of Uganda]] (d. [[2010]])
** [[James F. Leonard]], American diplomat (d. [[2020]])
** [[Frederick M. Nicholas]], American lawyer 
** [[Franklin Schaffner]], American film, television director (d. [[1989]])
** [[Shōtarō Yasuoka]], Japanese writer (d. [[2013]])

===June===
[[File:Jose Lopez Portillo new.jpg|thumb|110px|[[José López Portillo]]]]
[[File:Zeno Colò.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Zeno Colò]]]]
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Amos Yarkoni]], Israeli soldier (d. [[1991]])
* [[June 2]] 
** [[Marcel Reich-Ranicki]], German literary critic, member of the literary Gruppe 47 (d. [[2013]])
** [[Tex Schramm]], American football executive (d. [[2003]])
** [[Johnny Speight]], British television scriptwriter (d. [[1998]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Marion Motley]], American football player (d. [[1999]])
* [[June 10]] 
** [[Ruth Graham]], American evangelist, wife of Billy Graham (d. [[2007]])
** [[Paula Stafford]], Australian fashion designer (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 11]] 
** [[Albin Chalandon]], French politician (d. [[2020]])
** [[King Mahendra]] of [[Nepal]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Dave Berg (cartoonist)|Dave Berg]], American cartoonist (d. [[2002]])
* [[June 13]] 
** [[Rolf Huisgen]], German chemist and academic (d. [[2020]])
** [[Larry Kenney (basketball)|Larry Kenney]], American basketball player (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Bob Brogoitti]], American politician (d. [[2009]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Alberto Sordi]], Italian actor (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Screen International: The international film & television directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSgIAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=EMAP Media Information|page=74}}</ref>
* [[June 16]]
** [[Eva Estrada-Kalaw]], Filipino politician (d. [[2017]])
** [[José López Portillo]], 51st president of Mexico (d. [[2004]])
** [[Bob Ryland]], American tennis player (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 17]]
** [[Patrick Duffy (British politician)|Patrick Duffy]], English economist and president of the NATO Assembly 
** [[Jacob H. Gilbert]], American politician (d. [[1981]])
** [[Setsuko Hara]], Japanese actress (d. [[2015]])
** [[François Jacob]], French biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2013]])
** [[Peter Le Cheminant]], Guernesiase air force commander (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 18]] 
** [[Utta Danella]], German writer (d. [[2015]])
** [[Aster Berkhof]], Belgian author and academic (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Eliana Navarro]], Chilean poet (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 20]] 
** [[Amos Tutuola]], Nigerian writer (d. [[1997]])
** [[Thomas Jefferson (musician)|Thomas Jefferson]], American musician (d. [[1986]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Hans Gerschwiler]], Swiss figure skater (d. [[2017]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Lester Wunderman]], American executive (d. [[2019]])
** [[Jack Karwales]], American football player (d. [[2004]])
** [[Walt Masterson]], American right-handed baseball pitcher (d. [[2008]])
** [[Paul Frees]], American voice actor (d. [[1986]])
** [[Jovito Salonga]], Filipino statesman (d. [[2016]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Saleh Ajeery]], Kuwaiti astronomer (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 25]]
** [[Jeanne Tomasini]], Corsican writer (d. [[2022]])
** [[Lassie Lou Ahern]], American actress (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ozan Marsh]], American pianist (d. [[1992]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Fernando Riera]], Chilean football player, manager (d. [[2010]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Clarissa Eden]], wife of British prime minister [[Anthony Eden]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 29]]
**[[Armin Hofmann]], Swiss graphic designer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Ray Harryhausen]], American animator (d. [[2013]])
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Eleanor Ross Taylor]], American poet (d. [[2011]])
** [[Zeno Colò]], Italian Olympic alpine skier (d. [[1993]])

===July===
[[File:Yul Brynner in 1959 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Yul Brynner]]]]
[[File:Juan Antonio Samaranch DF-ST-01-00128.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Juan Antonio Samaranch]]]]
[[File:Émile Idée.png|thumb|110px|[[Émile Idée]]]]
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* [[July 1]]
** [[George I. Fujimoto]], American chemist (d. [[2023]])
** [[Aziz Sedky]], Egyptian politician, engineer (d. [[2008]])
** [[Lucidio Sentimenti]], Italian footballer (d. [[2014]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Lennart Bladh]], Swedish politician (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Anthony Barber]], British Conservative politician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Leona Helmsley]], American hotel operator, real estate investor (d. [[2007]])
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Mary Louise Hancock]], American politician (d. [[2017]])
** [[Viola Harris]], American actress (d. [[2017]])
** [[Rosemarie Springer]], German equestrian (d. [[2019]])
* [[July 7]]
** [[Sandy Tatum]], American golfer (d. [[2017]])
** [[William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]], American attorney, politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 10]] 
** [[Owen Chamberlain]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2006]])
** [[J. T. White]], American college football assistant coach (d. [[2005]])
** [[Milo Anstadt]], Dutch-Jewish writer, journalist (d. [[2011]])
* [[July 11]] 
** [[Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi]], South African Politician, [[Gazankulu]] Chief Minister (d. [[1993]])
** [[Yul Brynner]], Russian actor (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|title=International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aJmAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Screen International, King Publications Limited|page=312}}</ref>
** [[Zecharia Sitchin]], Soviet-born American author (d. [[2010]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Randolph Quirk]], British linguist, life peer (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Marijohn Wilkin]], American songwriter (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 15]] 
** [[Theresa Kobuszewski]], American professional baseball player, World War II veteran (d. [[2005]])
** [[Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[July 16]] 
** [[Ulysses S. Washington]], American college football player, coach (d. [[2018]])
** [[Larry Jansen]], American right-handed pitcher, coach (d. [[2009]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]], Spanish International Olympic Committee president (d. [[2010]])
** [[Gordon Gould]], American physicist (d. [[2005]])
** [[June Vincent]], American actress (d. [[2008]])
* [[July 18]] 
** [[Zheng Min]], Chinese scholar and poet (d. [[2022]])
** [[Dolph Sweet]], American actor (d. [[1985]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Émile Idée]], French professional road bicycle racer (d. [[2024]])
** [[Robert Mann]], American violinist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=New York Philharmonic|title=Programs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tkEAAAAMAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York.}}</ref>
** [[Frank Maznicki]], American football player (d. [[2013]])
** [[George Dawkes]], English cricketer (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Jasper Blackall]], British sailor (d. unknown)
** [[Byron Krieger]], American foil, sabre and épée fencer (d. [[2015]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[Jean Daniel]], Algerian-born French-Jewish journalist and author (d. [[2020]])
** [[Gunnar Thoresen (footballer)|Gunnar Thoresen]], Norwegian footballer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Constant Nieuwenhuys]], Dutch painter (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Wolf Stubbe|title=History of Modern Graphic Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ1Vd_pH7VcC|year=1963|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=260}}</ref>
** [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian-born violinist (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8|date=6 October 2001|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=8}}</ref>
** [[Ndabaningi Sithole]], Zimbabwean politician (d. [[2000]])
* [[July 23]] 
** [[L. Martin Griffin]], American environmentalist and conservationist (d. [[2024]])
** [[Amália Rodrigues]], Portuguese [[fado]] singer and actress (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7gHAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0748-4|page=185}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Bella Abzug]], American feminist politician (d. [[1998]])
* [[July 25]] 
** [[Rosalind Franklin]], British crystallographer (d. [[1958]])
** [[David P. Buckson]], American lawyer, politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Howard Hibbett]], American translator (d. [[2019]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Lea Padovani]], Italian film actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Elói (footballer)|Elói]], Portuguese footballer (d. [[2000]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Lady Brigid Guinness]] of the [[United Kingdom]] (d. [[1995]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Franca Valeri]], Italian actress (d. [[2020]])

===August===
[[File:PD James Cologne.JPG|thumb|110px|[[P. D. James]]]]
[[File:Maureen O'Hara in April 1942.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Maureen O'Hara]]]]
[[File:Studio publicity Shelley Winters.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Shelley Winters]]]]
[[File:Ray Bradbury (1975) -cropped-.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ray Bradbury]]]]
[[File:Prem Tinsulanonda (Cropped) (2).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Prem Tinsulanonda]]]]
[[File:Ali Sabri 1966.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ali Sabri]]]]
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Sammy Lee (diver)|Sammy Lee]], Korean-American diver (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[P. D. James]], English mystery novelist (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/27/pd-james | title=PD James obituary | newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 November 2014 | access-date=27 November 2014 | author=Reynolds, Stanley}}</ref>
* [[August 4]]
** [[John Figueroa]], Jamaican poet (d. [[1999]])
** [[Helen Thomas]], American author, news service reporter, member of the [[White House press corps]] and columnist (d. [[2013]])<ref name=cnnfacts>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/us/helen-thomas-fast-facts |title=Helen Thomas Fast Facts |publisher=CNN.com |access-date=July 21, 2013}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] 
** [[Bill Grayden]], Australian politician 
** [[Mickey Shaughnessy]], Irish-American character actor, comedian (d. [[1985]])
** [[Selma Diamond]], Canadian-American comedic actress (d. [[1985]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Ella Raines]], American actress (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 7]] 
** [[Glauco Della Porta]], Italian politician, economist (d. [[1976]])
** [[Françoise Adret]], French ballet dancer, choreographer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Mario Astorri]], Italian football player, coach (d. [[1989]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Leo Chiosso]], Italian poet (d. [[2006]])
** [[Dominique Marcas]], French actress (d. [[2022]])
** [[Jimmy Witherspoon]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 9]] 
** [[Willi Heinrich]], German Second World War veteran, later an author (d. [[2005]])
** [[Milton G. Henschel]], American member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, 5th president of the Watch  (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Ann Harnett]], American female baseball player (d. [[2006]])
** [[Red Holzman]], American basketball coach (d. [[1998]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Florence Bjelke-Petersen]], Australian politician, writer (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Anna-Kaarina Aalto]], Finnish physician and politician (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kangosjärvi |first=Jaakko |date=1994-04-22 |title=Lääketieteen lisensiaatti Anna-Kaarina Aalto |trans-title=Licentiate of Medicine Anna-Kaarina Aalto |url=https://www.hs.fi/ihmiset/art-2000003326346.html |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=[[Helsingin Sanomat]] |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Neville Brand]], American actor, highly decorated World War II combat soldier (d. [[1992]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[María Teresa Linares Savio]], Cuban musicologist (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 15]] 
** [[Prince Konstantin of Bavaria]] (d. [[1969]])
** [[Peter Lloyd (aviator)|Peter Lloyd]], Australian aviator (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Charles Bukowski]], American writer (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Maureen O'Hara]], Irish-American actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Bob Kennedy]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[2005]])
** [[Mervyn Lee]], Australian politician (d. [[2009]])
** [[Shelley Winters]], American actress (d. [[2006]])
** [[Godfrey Evans]], English cricketer (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Boris Braun]], Croatian university professor and Holocaust survivor (d. [[2018]]) 
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Christopher Robin Milne]], English author, bookseller (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Ray Bradbury]], American science fiction writer (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Martin Harry Greenberg|author2=Joseph D. Olander|title=Ray Bradbury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DssfAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Taplinger Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8008-6638-9|page=214}}</ref>
* [[August 26]]
** [[Prem Tinsulanonda]], Thai politician, 16th prime minister of Thailand (d. [[2019]])
** [[Richard E. Bellman]], American mathematician (d. [[1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author=National Academy of Engineering|title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBTQGADOJsEC&pg=PT35|date=1 January 1989|publisher=National Academies Press|isbn=978-0-309-03939-0|pages=23}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Baptiste Manzini]], American football player (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Jaime de Almeida]], Brazilian football player, manager (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Charlie Parker]], African-American saxophonist, composer (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Johnson Publishing Company|title=Ebony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA132|date=January 1989|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|pages=132}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Ali Sabri]], Egyptian politician, 32nd [[Prime Minister of Egypt|prime minister of Egypt]] (d. [[1991]])

===September===
[[File:ChabucaCantando.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Chabuca Granda]]]]
[[File:Mickey Rooney still.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mickey Rooney]]]]
* [[September 1]] 
** [[Richard Farnsworth]], American actor, stuntman (d. [[2000]])
** [[Rayson Huang]], Hong Kong chemist (d. [[2015]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Mónica Echeverría]], Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor (d. [[2020]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Apolonia Muñoz Abarca]], American health professional and reproductive rights advocate (d. [[2009]]) 
* [[September 8]] 
**[[Lawrence LeShan]], American psychologist, educator and author (d. [[2020]])
**[[Lesław Bartelski]], Polish male writers (d. [[2006]])
* [[September 10]] 
** [[Robert F. Inger]], American herpetologist (d. [[2019]])
** [[C. R. Rao]], Indian-born American mathematician and statistician (d. [[2023]])
** [[Fabio Taglioni]], Italian motorcycle engineer (d. [[2001]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Darussalam (actor)|Darussalam]], Indonesian actor (d. [[1993]])
** [[Lore Lorentz]], German cabaret artist, standup comedian (d. [[1994]])
* [[September 13]]
** [[Else Holmelund Minarik]], Danish-American author and illustrator (d. [[2012]])
** [[Alan Sagner]], American public servant, political fundraiser (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 14]]
** [[Mario Benedetti]], Uruguayan writer (d. [[2009]])
** [[Don Johnson (American football)|Don Johnson]], American football player (d. [[1965]])
** [[Hans Pfann]], German gymnast (d. [[2021]])
** [[Fuad Stephens]], Malaysian politician (d. [[1976]])
** [[Lawrence Klein]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Dave Garcia]], American baseball coach, manager (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Marjorie Holt]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Jack Warden]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Roger Angell]], American journalist, author and editor (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Jay Ward]], American animation producer (d. [[1989]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Kenneth McAlpine]], English racing driver (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[William H. Riker]], American political scientist (d. [[1993]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Mickey Rooney]], American actor, dancer and entertainer (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 24]] 
** [[Dick Bong]], American fighter ace (d. [[1945]])
** [[Harber H. Hall]], American politician (d. [[2020]])
** [[Ovadia Yosef]], Israeli Chief Rabbi (d. [[2013]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Wan Haifeng]], Chinese military officer (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[William Conrad]], American actor, film director and producer (d. [[1994]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Peter D. Mitchell]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1992]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Milton P. Rice]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
* Unknown &ndash; [[Wu Ningkun]], Chinese academic (d. [[2019]])

===October===
[[File:Walter Matthau - 1952.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walter Matthau]]]]
[[File:Aankomst Melina Mercouri . Melina Mercouri tijdens persconferentie in het NVV-ge, Bestanddeelnr 921-3504 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Melina Mercouri]]]]
[[File:Timothy-Leary-Los-Angeles-1989.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Timothy Leary]]]]
* [[October 1]]
** [[Charles Daudelin]], Canadian sculptor (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Champagne|first=Michel|title=Charles Daudelin|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/charles-daudelin|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|publisher=Historica-Dominion|accessdate=14 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006173058/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/charles-daudelin|archive-date=6 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Walter Matthau]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Tun Tin]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Burma|prime minister of Burma]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Bung Tomo]], Indonesian military leader and 1st Minister of State (d. [[1981]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Burrell (musician)|Charles Burrell]], American musician 
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Ralph Turlington]], American politician (d. [[2021]]) 
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Pietro Consagra]], Italian sculptor (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Frank Herbert]], American author (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William F. Touponce|title=Frank Herbert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AO1aAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-7514-3|page=4}}</ref>
* [[October 9]]
** [[Jens Bjørneboe]], Norwegian author (d. [[1976]])
** [[Yusef Lateef]], American jazz musician, composer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jack Salzman|author2=David L. Smith|author3=Cornel West|title=Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4QYAAAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Macmillan Library Reference|isbn=978-0-02-897365-4|page=1579}}</ref>
** [[Jason Wingreen]], American actor (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 10]] 
** [[Gail Halvorsen]], American Air Force pilot (d. [[2022]])
** [[Noah Keen]], American actor (d. [[2019]])
** [[Zou Yu]], Chinese jurist and politician
* [[October 13]] 
** [[Laraine Day]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
** [[Donald Russell (classicist)|Donald Russell]], English author (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Mario Puzo]], American author (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=413}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Alicia Dussán de Reichel]], Colombian educator (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 17]] 
**[[The Barry Sisters|Claire Barry]], American singer (''[[The Barry Sisters]]'') (d. [[2014]])
** [[Montgomery Clift]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
** [[Miguel Delibes]], Spanish novelist (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eaude |first1=Michael |title=Miguel Delibes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/14/miguel-delibes-obituary |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=14 March 2010}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Melina Mercouri]], Greek actress and politician (d. [[1994]]) 
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Pandurang Shastri Athavale]], Indian founder of the Swadhyay Movement (d. [[2003]])
* [[October 20]]
** [[Janet Jagan]], 6th president of Guyana (d. [[2009]])
** [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]], Indian politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Ruth Terry]], American singer, actress (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Timothy Leary]], American psychologist, author and proponent of [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Vern Stephens]], American baseball player (d. [[1968]])
*[[October 24]] &ndash; [[Steve Conway (singer)|Steve Conway]], British singer (d. 1952)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Steve Conway Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-conway-mn0000032317/biography|access-date=2021-09-23|website=AllMusic|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[J. Denis Summers-Smith]], English ornithologist and mechanical engineer (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 26]] 
** [[Sarah Lee Lippincott]], American astronomer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Robert D. Maxwell]], American [[Medal of Honor|Medal of Honour]] recipient (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 27]] – [[K. R. Narayanan]], [[President of India]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Baruj Benacerraf]], Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2011]])
** [[Hilda Bernard]], Argentine actress (d. [[2022]])
* [[October 31]]
** [[Dedan Kimathi]], Kenyan revolutionary leader (d. [[1957]])
** [[Dick Francis]], British jockey-turned-novelist (d. [[2010]])
** [[Fritz Walter]], German footballer (d. [[2002]])

===November===
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[[File:Esther Rolle 1974.JPG|110px|thumb|[[Esther Rolle]]]]
[[File:Studio publicity Gene Tierney.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gene Tierney]]]]
[[File:Stan Musial 1953.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Stan Musial]]]]
<!--[[File:Fantasy Island Ricardo Montalban (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ricardo Montalbán]]]]-->
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Kim Chol-man]], North Korean politician and military official (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Oodgeroo Noonuccal]], Australian political activist, artist, and educator (d. [[1993]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Val Heim]], American Major League Baseball player (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[John H. Land]], American politician, mayor of Apopka, Florida (d. [[2014]])
** [[Douglass North]], American economist (d. [[2015]])
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Sitara Devi]], Indian dancer (d. [[2014]])
** [[Esther Rolle]], American actress (d. [[1998]])
** [[Wally Westlake]], American Major League Baseball player (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 11]] 
** [[Paul Ignatius]], American government official 
** [[Walter Krupinski]], German World War II fighter ace, postwar general (d. [[2000]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Josip Boljkovac]], Croatian politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[November 13]]
** [[Jack Elam]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
** [[Georg Olden (graphic designer)|Georg Olden]], African-American graphic designer (d. [[1975]])
** [[Stanley M. Truhlsen]], American ophthalmologist (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Mary Greyeyes]], first [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] woman to join the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Wayne Thiebaud]], American painter (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Eric P. Hamp]], American linguist (d. [[2019]])
** [[José Lewgoy]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Mustafa Khalil]], 40th prime minister of Egypt (d. [[2008]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Gene Tierney]], American actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[November 21]]
** [[Ralph Meeker]], American actor (d. [[1988]])
** [[Stan Musial]], American baseball player (d. [[2013]])
* [[November 22]]
**[[Anne Crawford]], British actress (d. [[1956]])
**[[Baidyanath Misra]], Indian economist (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Paik Sun-yup]], South Korean military officer (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Jorge Mistral]], Spanish-Mexican actor (d. [[1972]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Noel Neill]], American actress (d. [[2016]])
** [[Ricardo Montalbán]], Mexican actor (d. [[2009]])
** [[Putra of Perlis]], Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. [[2000]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Buster Merryfield]], British actor (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Patrick Rodger]], Scottish Anglican bishop (d. [[2002]])
* [[November 29]] 
** [[Bob Wolff]], American sportscaster (d. [[2017]])
** [[Yegor Ligachyov]], Soviet and Russian politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Virginia Mayo]], American actress (d. [[2005]])

===December===
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[[File:Ciampi ritratto.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]]]]
[[File:Clark Terry in 1981.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Clark Terry]]]]
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<!--[[File:Vaino Linna color.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Väinö Linna]]]]-->
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* [[December 1]] 
** [[Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami]], Japanese Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2014]])
** [[Lê Đức Anh]], 4th [[president of Vietnam]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Poldine Carlo]], American author (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Dave Brubeck]], American jazz pianist and composer (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxRAAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Barrie & Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7|page=132}}</ref>
** [[George Porter]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2002]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Ivar Martinsen]], Norwegian speed skater (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], 49th [[Prime Minister of Italy|prime minister of Italy]], 10th [[president of Italy]] (d. [[2016]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Stanko Todorov]], Bulgarian communist politician (d. [[1996]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Jorge Dória]], Brazilian actor and humorist (d. [[2013]])
** [[Margot Duhalde]], Chilean pilot (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 13]] 
** [[Kaysone Phomvihane]], 2nd president, 11th prime minister of Laos (d. [[1992]])
** [[George P. Shultz]], American economist, politician and 60th [[United States secretary of state]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 14]] 
** [[Frank T. Cary]], American executive, businessman (d. [[2006]])
** [[Clark Terry]], American jazz musician and composer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/clark-terry-dead-grammywinning-trumpet-player-dies-aged-94-10062719.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/clark-terry-dead-grammywinning-trumpet-player-dies-aged-94-10062719.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=Neela Debnath |title=Clark Terry dead: Grammy-winning trumpet player dies aged 94 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=February 22, 2015 |access-date=February 23, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] 
** [[Bernice Falk Haydu]], American aviator (d. [[2021]])
** [[Eddie Robinson (baseball)|Eddie Robinson]], American Major League Baseball player (d. 2021)
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[John Hale Stutesman]], American public official (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Ewa Paradies]], German Nazi war criminal (d. [[1946]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Gianni Di Venanzo]], Italian cinematographer (d. [[1966]])
* [[December 19]] 
** [[Trygve Brudevold]], Norwegian bobsledder (d. [[2021]])
** [[Little Jimmy Dickens]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Wolff|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&pg=PA110|year=2000|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-534-4|pages=110}}</ref>
** [[David Susskind]], American producer, talk show host (d. [[1987]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Väinö Linna]], Finnish author (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite web |author=Nummi, Jyrki|title=Linna, Väinö (1920–1992)|work=100 Faces from Finland – a Biographical Kaleidoscope |publisher=the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society |date=2003–2007 |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/701 |access-date=2020-12-09 }}</ref>
* [[December 21]] 
** [[Alicia Alonso]], Cuban ballerina (d. [[2019]])
** [[Iris Cummings]], American Olympic swimmer and aviator (d. [[2025]]) 
** [[Adele Goldstine]], American mathematician (d. [[1964]])
** [[Harold Lang (dancer)|Harold Lang]], American dancer and actor (d. [[1985]])
** [[J. Roderick MacArthur]], American businessman, philanthropist (d. [[1984]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Robin Dalton]], Australian literary agent and film producer (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Tim Elkington]], English Royal Air Force pilot (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Edy Reinalter]], Swiss alpine skier (d. [[1962]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Josefa Iloilo]], 3rd president of Fiji (d. [[2011]])
** [[Viveca Lindfors]], Swedish-American actress (d. [[1995]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Jack Lord]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Rex Allen]], American actor, singer and songwriter (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael McCall|author2=John Rumble|author3=Paul Kingsbury|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLZz02EzmBYC&pg=PA10|date=1 February 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-992083-9|pages=10}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===

* [[Mimi Jennewein|Emilia "Mimi" Jennewein]], American painter (d. [[2006]])

==Deaths==
===January===
[[File:Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845-1920).jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Zygmunt Gorazdowski]]]]
[[File:Edmund Barton crop.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Edmund Barton]]]]
[[File:Amedeo Modigliani Photo.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Amedeo Modigliani]]]]
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Zygmunt Gorazdowski]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1845]])
** [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]], French Symbolist writer (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1930 |title=Adam, Paul |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |edition=14|volume=1|page=149 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Zygmunt Janiszewski]], Polish mathematician; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Manuel de la Cámara]], Spanish admiral (b. [[1835]])
** [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1843]])
* [[January 6]] 
** [[Heinrich Lammasch]], Austrian statesman, last minister-president of Austria (as part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]) in 1918 (b. [[1853]])
** [[Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe]], English banker (b. [[1856]])
** [[Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen]], Danish mathematician (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Edmund Barton|Sir Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia|prime minister of Australia]] (b. [[1849]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Bakhirev]], Russian admiral; [[executed]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Kataoka Shichirō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1854]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[John Francis Dodge]], American automobile manufacturer; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Georg Lurich]], Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler, strongman (b. [[1876]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[William Percy French]], Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. [[1854]])
** [[Amedeo Modigliani]], Italian painter, sculptor; [[tuberculosis]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Sichel|title=Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZBAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-491-00120-5|page=500}}</ref>

===February===
[[File:RobertPeary.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Robert Peary]]]]
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Field Eugene Kindley]], American World War I aviator (b. [[1896]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Frank Brown (governor)|Frank Brown]], 42nd [[governor of Maryland]] (b. [[1846]])
* [[February 7]]
** [[Alexander Kolchak]], Russian naval commander; [[executed]] (b. [[1874]])<ref name="Onacewicz1985">{{cite book|author=Wlodzimierz Onacewicz|title=Empires by Conquest: 1905-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwfUAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Hero Books|isbn=978-91-597-9040-6|page=120}}</ref>
** [[Viktor Pepelyayev]], Russian politician; [[executed]] (b. [[1874]])<ref name="Onacewicz1985"/>
* [[February 9]] – [[Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky]], Austrian general (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=120954 |title=General Friedrich Graf Beck-Rzikowsky |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1 February 2022 |website=Hmdb.org |publisher=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=14 November 2024}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Gaby Deslys]], French dancer, actress and spy; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1881]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal]], Portuguese politician and antiquarian (b. [[1847]])
* [[February 15]]
**[[Aleksander Aberg]], Estonian professional wrestler, strongman (b. [[1881]])
**[[Joseph Burton Sumner]], American founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. [[1837]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Augustus F. Goodridge]], Canadian merchant and politician (b. [[1839]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Eduard von Knorr]], German admiral (b. [[1840]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Robert Peary]], American Arctic explorer (b. [[1856]])
** [[Jacinta Marto]], Portuguese saint; [[Spanish flu]] (b. [[1910]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Afonso, Duke of Porto]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[William Sherman Jennings]], Governor of Florida (b. [[1863]])

===March===
[[File:Evelina Haverfield.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Evelina Haverfield]]]]
* [[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 4]] &ndash; [[Roswell P. Bishop]], U.S. congressman from Michigan (b. [[1843]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Jaan Poska]], Estonian barrister, politician (b. [[1866]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Julio Garavito Armero]], Colombian astronomer (b. [[1865]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Korotkov]], Russian surgeon (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16340219/|title=A centenary of auscultatory blood pressure measurement: a tribute to Nikolai Korotkoff|first1=Dobrin|last1=Paskalev|first2=Anna|last2=Kircheva|first3=Stefan|last3=Krivoshiev|date=October 17, 2005|journal=Kidney & Blood Pressure Research|volume=28|issue=4|pages=259–263|via=PubMed|doi=10.1159/000090084|pmid=16340219|s2cid=21377576 }}</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Berthold]], German World War I fighter ace (b. [[1891]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Evelina Haverfield]], British suffragette (b. [[1867]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Mary Augusta Ward]], Tasmanian novelist (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Stewart | first1 = Herbert L | year = 1920 | title = Mrs. Humphry Ward | url = https://archive.org/stream/n1universitymag19mcgiuoft#page/192/mode/2up | journal = The University Magazine | volume = XIX | issue = 2| pages = 193–207 }}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[William Chester Minor]], American surgeon (b. [[1834]])
* [[March 31]]
** [[Paul Bachmann]], German mathematician (b. [[1837]])
** [[Abdul Hamid Madarshahi]], Bengali Islamic scholar and author (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite magazine|language=bn|url=https://at.jamiahislamiahpatiya.com/?p=1022|title=আল্লামা আবদুল হামিদ (রহ.) অনুপ্রেরণার উৎস সাধক|trans-title=Allama Abdul Hamid (Rh.), the saintly source of inspiration|last=Rasel|first=Khalid|magazine=Monthly Al-Tawheed|publisher=[[Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya]]|access-date=September 4, 2022|archive-date=December 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220065701/https://at.jamiahislamiahpatiya.com/?p=1022|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Lothar von Trotha]], German military commander (b. [[1848]])
** [[Edwin Warfield]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1848]])

===April===
[[Image:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 1.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]]]
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Walter Simon (philanthropist)|Walter Simon]], German philanthropist (b. [[1857]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[John Brashear]], American astronomer (b. [[1840]])
** [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (b. [[1884]]), [[Spanish flu]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Griffes|title=Charles Griffes &#124; Romanticism, Impressionism, Piano Music &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=September 13, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Moritz Cantor]], German mathematical historian (b. [[1829]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Walter Edwards (director)|Walter Edwards]], American film director (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Maria Sanford]], American educator (b. [[1836]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], Indian mathematician (b. [[1887]])

===May===
[[File:James "Big Jim" Colosimo.jpg|thumb|120px|[[James Colosimo]]]]
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]], Crown Princess of Sweden (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Mary Catherine Crowley]], American author (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Johan Reinhold Sahlberg]], Finnish entomologist (b. [[1845]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[John Wesley Hyatt]], American inventor (b. [[1837]])
* [[May 11]]
** [[Big Jim Colosimo]], Italian-born American gangster (b. [[1878]])
** [[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. [[1837]]), [[Spanish flu]] <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manhattan-daily-nationalist-william/120954194/ | title=William Dean Howells Obituary, New York, NY 11 May 1920 | work=The Manhattan Daily Nationalist | date=May 11, 1920 | page=1 }}</ref>
* [[May 16]] 
** [[José Gómez Ortega|Joselito]], Spanish bullfighter (b. [[1895]])
** [[Levi P. Morton]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|22nd]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1824]])
** [[Maria Bochkareva]], Russian White soldier (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Curry Cabral]], Portuguese physician and professor (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 21]]
** [[Venustiano Carranza]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lahistoriamexicana.mx/biografia/venustiano-carranza|publisher=La Historia de Mexico|title=Venustiano Carranza |date=January 3, 2017|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (b. [[1868]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Svetozar Boroević]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Hardwicke Rawnsley]], English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist (b. [[1851]])
* [[May 30]]
** [[Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali]], Bengali writer and social activist (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Ali, Mirza Muhammad Yusuf|author=Badiuzzaman, Muhammad}}</ref>
** [[George Ernest Morrison]], Australian adventurer (b. [[1862]])

===June===
[[File:Essad Pasha Toptani.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Essad Pasha Toptani|Essad Pasha]]]]
[[File:Max Weber 1894.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max Weber]]]]
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete]], Mexican archaeologist and Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monterrey]] (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museodezamora.wixsite.com/museozam/single-post/2017/09/08/FRANCISCO-PLANCARTE-Y-NAVARRETE-PIONERO-DE-LA-ARQUEOLOG%C3%8DA-NACIONAL|title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pionero de la Arqueología Nacional|date=September 8, 2017|publisher=Consejo Ciudadano de la Cronica de Zamora|access-date=February 10, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pioneer of National Archaeology}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[James Dunsmuir]], Canadian politician (b. [[1851]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Essad Pasha Toptani]], [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Ella Eaton Kellogg]], American dietetician (b. [[1853]])
** [[Anna Maria Mozzoni]], Italian feminist (b. [[1837]])
** [[Gabrielle Réjane]], French actress (b. [[1856]]); [[Spanish flu]]
** [[Max Weber]], German political economist (b. [[1864]]); [[Spanish flu]] 
* [[June 18]]
** [[Jewett W. Adams]], Governor of Nevada (b. [[1835]])
** [[John Macoun]], Irish-born Canadian 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]] &ndash; [[Adolphe-Basile Routhier]], Canadian judge, author and lyricist (b. [[1839]])

===July===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Delfim Moreira]], 10th [[president of Brazil]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[William Louis Marshall]], American general, engineer (b. [[1846]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[William C. Gorgas]], American Army surgeon (b. [[1854]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Max Klinger]], German painter and sculptor (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Yust|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iA1AAAAIAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=527}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Roberto Silva Renard]], Chilean general (b. [[1855]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1841]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Empress Eugénie]] of France (b. [[1826]])
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Charles E. Courtney]], American rower, rowing coach (b. [[1849]])
** [[Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet]], English potter (b. [[1846]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Sarada Devi]], Indian mystic and saint (b. [[1853]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]], American heir (b. [[1849]])

===August===
[[File:Ray_Chapman_Baseball.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Ray Chapman]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Frank Hanly]], Governor of Indiana (b. [[1863]])
** [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], Indian nationalist (b. [[1856]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Ormer Locklear]], American stunt pilot, film actor (b. [[1891]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Remus von Woyrsch]], German field marshal (b. [[1847]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Eduard Birnbaum]], Polish-born German cantor (b. [[1855]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Samuel Griffith|Sir Samuel Griffith]], Australian politician and judge (b. [[1845]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Clara Lachmann]], Danish-Swedish patron of the arts (b. [[1864]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1979 |title=Clara Lachmann |encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Swedish National Biography]] |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=10817 |last=Kjellander |first=Rune |volume=22 |page=23 |language=sv}}</ref>
** [[James O'Neill (actor, born 1847)|James O'Neill]], American actor (b. [[1847]])
** [[Ádám Politzer]], Austrian otologist (b. [[1835]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Hermann Struve]], Russian-born astronomer (b. [[1854]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[Henry Daglish]], [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. [[1866]])
** [[Joseph Norman Lockyer|Sir Norman Lockyer]], English astronomer (b. [[1836]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Ray Chapman]], American baseball player (b. [[1891]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Paul W. Abt]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1845]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anders Zorn|title=Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MdIAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-936270-23-4|page=16}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture)|James Wilson]], Scottish-born American politician (b. [[1835]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Wundt]], German physiologist, psychologist (b. [[1832]])

===September===
[[File:Karl Gustavovich Faberge.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Peter Carl Fabergé]]]]
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]], [[Premier of Quebec]] (b. [[1855]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Harmon Northrop Morse]], American chemist (b. [[1848]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Robert Beaven]], Canadian politician (b. [[1836]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Peter Carl Fabergé]], Russian jeweler (b. [[1846]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Jacob Schiff]], German-born banker, philanthropist (b. [[1847]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[William Wilfred Sullivan|Sir William Wilfred Sullivan]], Canadian journalist, politician and jurist (b. [[1843]])

===October===
* [[October 2]]
** [[Max Bruch]], German composer (b. [[1838]])<ref name="Orchestra1947">{{cite book|author=Chicago Symphony Orchestra|title=Program Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auMEAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Orchestral Association|page=513}}</ref>
** [[Winthrop M. Crane]], Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. [[1853]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[William Heinemann]], English publisher (b. [[1863]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Yves Delage]], French zoologist (b. [[1854]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Hudson Stuck]], English mountaineer (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 17]] 
**[[Reginald Farrer]], English botanist (b. [[1880]])
**[[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Alexander of Greece]], Greek king (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-king-of-Greece ''Britannica''].</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Agda Montelius]], Swedish feminist (b. [[1850]])

===November===
[[File:Kevin Barry.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|[[Kevin Barry]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Kevin Barry]], Irish republican paramilitary; [[executed]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[November 2]]
** [[James Daly (mutineer)|James Daly]], Irish [[Mutiny|mutineer]]; [[executed]] (b. [[1899]])
** [[Louise Imogen Guiney]], American poet and essayist (b. [[1861]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Warren Terhune]], [[United States Navy]] [[Commander (United States)#Naval rank|Commander]] and 13th [[governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Struve]], Russian astronomer (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Michael Hogan (Gaelic footballer)|Michael Hogan]], Irish [[Gaelic football|football]]er and activist, one of 14 civilians killed in the [[Croke Park massacre]] by British paramilitary forces (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[George Callaghan|Sir George Callaghan]], British admiral (b. [[1852]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Gaston Chevrolet]], Swiss-born racing driver and manufacturer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Madeline McDowell Breckinridge]], American leader of the women's suffrage movement, one of Kentucky's leading progressive reformers (b. [[1872]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Alexius Meinong]], Austrian philosopher (b. [[1853]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Eugene W. Chafin]], American politician (b. [[1852]])

===December===
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Olive Schreiner]], South African writer (b. [[1855]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Edward Gawler Prior]], Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. [[1854]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[George Gipp]], American football player (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Cayetano Arellano]], first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (b. [[1847]])
* ''Unknown date'' &ndash; [[Nikolai Pavlovich Bobyr]], Russian general; [[executed]] (b. [[1854]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Alimuddin Ahmad]], Bengali revolutionary and activist (b. [[1884]]) <ref>{{cite book|author=Sengupta, Subodha|editor=Bose, Anjali|title=সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান|volume=1|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|location=[[Kolkata]]|date=November 2013|page=80|isbn=978-81-7955-135-6|language=bn}}</ref>
* [[Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov]], Russian general (executed) (b. [[1853]])

==Nobel Prizes==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Charles Édouard Guillaume]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; [[Walther Nernst]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] &ndash; [[Schack August Steenberg Krogh]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[Knut Hamsun]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; [[Léon Bourgeois|Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Primary sources and year books===
* [https://archive.org/details/NewInternationalYearBookFor1920 ''New International Year Book 1920'' (1921)], Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 844 pp

{{Events by month links}}
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