In the year 1920, the Treaty of Versailles ends WWI (Jan 10), Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire (Jan 28), Prohibition begins in the U.S. (Jan 16), the Tartu Peace Treaty recognizes Estonian independence (Feb 2), Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich (Feb 24), the 7th Summer Olympics open in Antwerp, Belgium (Apr 20), Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome (May 16), the first KLM fight takes place (May 17), Pancho Villa surrenders in Mexico (Jul 28), the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees women’s suffrage (Aug 26), the Irish War of Independence goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1920-01xx Mehdi Ben Barka* politician/Moroccan nationalist - Rabat, Morocco (disappeared 1965/45) 1920-0102 Isaac Asimov* Russian-American biochemist/ science-fiction writer/to U.S. at age 3 - Petrovichi, Russia, Soviet Union (1992/72) 1920-0107 Francis Noel-Baker* politician/MP - London, England (2009/89) 1920-0110 Raymond Cauchetier* photographer - Paris, France (2021/101) 1920-0115 John O’Connor* Archbishop of New York - Philadelphia, PA USA (2000/80) 1920-0116 Walter Frederick Morrison* inventor of frisbee/OB - Richfield, UT USA (2010/90) 1920-0119 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar* diplomat/UN Secretary-General - Lima, Peru (2020/100) 1920-0120 DeForest Kelley* actor (Star Trek)/ screenwriter/poet - Toccoa, GA USA (1999/79) 1920-0131 1920-0202 Heikki Suolahti* composer - Helsinki, Finland (1936/16) 1920-0203 Russell Arms* actor/ singer - Berkeley, CA USA (2012/92) 1920-0216 Raymond Sackler* physician/developer of the drug Oxycontin/ billionaire entrepreneur - Brooklyn, NY USA (2017/97) 1920-0219 Richard E. Byrd III* naval officer/Antarctic explorer - Boston, MA USA (1988/68) OBI 1920-0219 Jürgen von Beckerath* egyptologist - Hanover, Germany (2016/96) 1920-0220 1920-0226 Tony Randall* actor - Tulsa, OK USA (2004/84) 1920-0228 Alf Kjellin* actor/ director - Lund, Sweden (1988/68) 1920-0229 Kosti Klemelä* actor - Metsämaa, Finland (2006/86) 1920-0301 Max Bentley* hockey player (NHL 100)/farmer – Delile, SK Canada (1984/63) 1920-0302 Shangguan Yunzhu* 上官雲珠 actress - Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China (1968/48) 1920-0303 James Doohan* actor (Star Trek)/voice actor/author - Vancouver, BC Canada (2005/85) 1920-0305 Rachel Gurney* actress - Buckinghamshire, England (2001/81) 1920-0310 Alfred Peet* Dutch-American entrepreneur/founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea - Alkmaar, The Netherlands (2007/87) 1920-0311 Nicolaas Bloembergen* Dutch-American physicist/N - Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2017/97) 1920-0311 Ben Ferencz* Hungarian-American lawyer/investigator of Nazi war crimes/to U.S. as infant - Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (2023/103) 1920-0315 Sid Hartman* sports journalist - Minneapois, MN USA (2020/100) 1920-0315 E. Donnall Thomas* physician/N - Mart, TX USA (2012/92) 1920-0316 Dorothea Binz* officer/supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp - Försterei Dusterlake, Province of Brandenburg (1947/27) 1920-0321 Georg Ots* Estonian singer/actor - Petrograd, Soviet Union (1975/55) 1920-0322 Ross Martin* (b Martin Rosenblatt) Polish-American actor/to U.S. as an infant - Gródek, Poland (1981/61) 1920-0322 Kaija Rahola* actress - Tampere, Finland (1962/42) 1920-0331 Paul Zorner* night fighter pilot/engineer - Roben, Upper Silesia, Prussia (2014/93) 1920-0401 Toshiro Mifune* Japanese actor - Tsingtao, China (1997/77) 1920-0403 John Demjanjuk* Ukrainian-American accused of being a concentration camp guard - Kyiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2012/91) 1920-0410 1920-0413 Ken “The Voice” Nordine* voice-over/radio host/musician - Cherokee, IA USA (2019/98) ABC 1920-0415 Thomas Szasz*  Hungarian-American psychiatrist/ to U.S. at age 18 - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (2012/92) 1920-0420 Frances Ames* neurologist/ psychiatrist/human rights activist - Pretoria, South Africa (2002/82) 1920-0422 Per Olov Jansson* photographer/ brother of Tove Jansson - Helsinki, Finland (2019/98) 1920-0430 1920-0501 1920-0507 James E. McDonald* physicist/UFO researcher - Duluth, MN USA (1971/51) 1920-0508 Touko Aaltonen* “Tom of Finland”/ homoerotic artist - Kaarina, Finland (1991/71) 1920-0515 Patrick V. Murphy* police officer/law enforcement executive - Brooklyn, NY USA (2011/91) 1920-0518 Pope John Paul II* (b Karol Józef Wojtyła) recognized as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and the rest of Europe - Wadowice, Republic of Poland (2005/84) 1920-0519 Tina Strobos (b Tineke Buchter) WW2 resistance worker/ psychiatrist/to U.S. at age 30+ - Amsterdam, Netherlands (2012/91) 1920-0526 Peggy Lee (b Norma Egstrom)* singer-songwriter/ composer/ actress - Jamestown, ND USA (2002/81) 1920-0531 1920-0601 1920-0610 Paula Stafford* fashion designer/introducer of the bikini in Australia - Melbourne, Australia (2022/102) 1920-0621 Hans Gerschwiler* figure skater/OS -Winterthur, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland (2017/97) 1920-0621 Olha Ilkiv* partisan/ liaison officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Stryi, Ukraine (2021/101) 1920-0623 Saleh Ajeery* astronomer/writer - Kuwait 1920-0625 Lassie Lou Ahern* actress/dance teacher - Los Angeles, CA USA (2018/97) 1920-0710 Owen Chamberlain* physicist/N - San Francisco, CA USA (2006/85) 1920-0710 Ed Lowe* businessman/inventor of cat litter - Saint Paul, MN USA (1995/75) 1920-0711 Yul Brynner* actor - Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (1985/65) 1920-0711 Zecharia Sitchin* author/ufology - Baku, Azerbaijan (2010/90) 1920-0717 Gordon Gould* physicist/ inventor - New York, NY USA (2005/85) 1920-0724 Bella Abzug* lawyer/social activist/ feminist - New York City, NY USA (1998/77) 1920-0725 1920-0730 Walter Schuck* WW2 fighter ace - Frankenholz, Germany (2015/94) 1920-0731 Walter Arlen* (b Aptowitzer) Austrian-American composer/to U.S. at age 18 - Vienna. Austria (2023/103) 1920-0731 1920-0801 Victor Millan* (b Joseph Brown) actor/dean of a theatre arts department - Los Angeles, CA USA (2009/88) 1920-0805 Mickey Shaughnessy* actor - New York, NY USA (1985/64) 1920-0806 Ella Raines* actress - Snoqualmie Falls, WA USA (1988/67) 1920-0812 Marie-Jeanne* (b Pelus) ballet dancer - Manhattan, NY USA (2007/87) 1920-0816 Charles Bukowski* German-American poet/writer/to U.S. at age 2 - Andernach, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (1994/73) 1920-0817 Maureen O´Hara* actress - Ranelagh, County Dublin Ireland (2015/95) 1920-0820 1920-0822 Ray Bradbury* author/screenwriter - Waukegan, IL USA (2012/91) 1920-0829 Charlie Parker* jazz saxophonist/composer - Kansas City, KS USA (1955/34) 1920-0831 G. D. Spradlin* attorney/ oil producer/actor - Pauls Valley, OK USA (2011/90) 1920-0901 Richard Farnsworth* actor/stuntman - Los Angeles, CA USA (2000/80) 1920-0903 Sterling Lord* literary agent/editor/author - Burlington, IA USA (2022/102) 1920-0910 1920-0918 Cecilia Chiang* 江孫芸 Chinese-American restaurateur/chef - Wuxi, China (2020/100) 1920-0918 Jack Warden* actor - Newark, NJ USA (2006/85) 1920-0923 Mickey Rooney* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2014/93) 1920-0927 William Conrad* WW2 fighter pilot/ actor/director - Louisville, KY USA (1994/73) 1920-1001 Walter Matthau* actor - New York, NY USA (2000/79) 1920-1004 Steve Seymour* athlete (javelin/OS)/regarded as America’s original javelin technician - New York City, NY USA (1973/52) 1920-1008 Frank Herbert* science fiction writer (Dune)/ journalist/photographer - Tacoma, WA USA (1986/65) 1920-1010 1920-1013 Albert Hague* German-American songwriter/composer/actor (Fame) - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2001/81) 1920-1015 Mario Puzo* author/screenwriter/journalist (Godfather) - Manhattan, NY USA (1999/78) 1920-1016 Alicia Dussán de Reichel* educator/one of the first students of ethnology in Colombia - Bogotá, Colombia (2023/102) 1920-1017 Montgomery Clift* actor - Omaha, NE USA (1966/45) 1920-1018 Melina Mercouri* actress/singer/politician - Athens, Greece (1994/73) 1920-1019 Peter Aduja* lawyer/the first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States - Ilocos Sur, Philippine Islands (2007/86) 1920-1020 Janet Jagan* first female president of Guyana - Chicago, IL USA (2009/88) 1920-1020 Kari Suomalainen* political cartoonist - Helsinki, Finland (1999/78) 1920-1022 Timothy Leary* psychologist/LSD spokesman - Springfield, MA USA (1996/75) 1920-1025 1920-1029 Benjamin F. McAdoo* architect - Pasadena, CA USA (1981/60) 1920-1031 Dedan Kimathi* revolutionary leader in the struggle against the British colonial regime - Nyeri District, Central Province, Kenya Colony (1957/36) 1920-1101 1920-1107 Francis Rosa* sports journalist - Boston, MA USA (2012/91) 1920-1110 Peter Philp* dramatist/ antiques expert/host of Collectors' Club - Cardiff, Wales (2006/85) 1920-1112 Richard Quine* actor/ singer/director - Detroit, MI USA (1989/68) 1920-1119 Gene Tierney* actress - Brooklyn, NY USA (1991/70) 1920-1120 1920-1121 Erkki Viljos* actor/ sailor - Tampere, Finland (2001/81) 1920-1125 Ricardo Montalbán* actor - Mexico City, Mexico (2009/88) 1920-1130 Virginia Mayo* actress/dancer - St. Louis, MO USA (2005/84) 1920-1204 Nils Rinkama* (b Ringbom) composer/ conductor - Pori, Finland (1961/40) 1920-1210 Ragnhild Hveger* swimmer/OS - Nyborg, Denmark (2011/90) 1920-1212 Margot Duhalde* pilot/air traffic controller - Rio Bueno, Chile (2018/97) 1920-1214 Clark Terry* jazz musician/composer/educator  - St. Louis, MO USA (2015/94) 1920-1220 1920-1221 Iris Cummings* swimmer/ aviator - Los Angeles, CA USA (2025/104) 1920-1229 Viveca Lindfors* actress - Uppsala, Sweden (1995/74) 1920-0 1920-0 1920-0 Updated 2025-0218 Helsinki-Tallinn-Tampa Search for another year here