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'''1920''' '''(MCMXX)''' is a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will take you to calendar)

==Events==
{{Year DC}}
===January===
* [[January 7]] - Forces of [[White movement|Russian White]] admiral [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak|Kolchak]] surrender in [[Krasnoyarsk]].
* [[January 9]] - [[Britain]] announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
* [[January 9]] - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" [[George Polley]], climbs the [[New York]] [[Woolworth Building]]. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
* [[January 10]] - [[League of Nations]] holds its first meeting and ratifies the [[Treaty of Versailles]] ending [[World War I]].
* [[January 16]] - [[Prohibition]] goes into effect in the [[United States of America|United States]] with the [[Eighteenth Amendment]] coming into effect.
* [[January 16]] - Allies demand that the [[Netherlands]] extradite the German [[Kaiser]], who has fled there.
* [[January 19]] - The [[United States Senate]] votes against joining the [[League of Nations]].
* [[January 22]] - The [[Australia]]n [[National Party of Australia|Country Party]] is officially formed.
* [[January 23]] - The [[Netherlands]] refuses to extradite the German [[Kaiser]].
* [[January 28]] - The [[Spanish legion]] is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in [[Morocco]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Turkey]] gives up the [[Ottoman Empire]] and all non-Turkish areas.

===February===
* [[February 1]] - The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] begin operations.
* [[February 2]] - [[Estonia]]'s independence is recognised.
* [[February 2]] - [[France]] occupies [[Memel]].
* [[February 9]] - League of Nations gives [[Spitzbergen]] to [[Norway]].
* [[February 10]] - [[Jozef Haller de Hallenburg]] performs [[Engagement of Poland with the sea|symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea]], celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
* [[February 17]] -A woman named [[Anna Anderson]] tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is [[Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia|Anastasia]].
* [[February 14]] - The [[League of Women Voters]] is founded in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
* [[February 22]] - In [[Emeryville, California]], the first [[dog racing]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
* [[February 24]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] presents his [[National Socialist]] program in [[Munich]].

===March===
* [[March]] - World's first peaceful establishment of a [[social democracy|social democratic]] government takes place in [[Sweden]]. [[Hjalmar Branting]] takes over when [[Nils Edén]] resigns.
* [[March 1]] - [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Admiral]] and [[statesman]] [[Miklós Horthy]] becomes the [[Regent]] of [[Hungary]]
* [[March 1]] - The [[United States Railroad Administration]] returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
* [[March 13]]-[[March 17]] - [[Wolfgang Kapp]] fails in his [[coup]] attempt in [[Germany]] due to public resistance and a general strike.
* [[March 15]] ? [[Red Army of Ruhr]], communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
* [[March 19]] - US Congress refuses to ratify [[Versailles Treaty]].
* [[March 23]] - Admiral Horthy declares that [[Hungary]] is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
* [[March 26]] - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious [[Ruhr Red Army]] in the French-occupied area.
* [[March 26]] - The [[Black and Tans]] special constables arrive in [[Ireland]]
* [[March 29]] - [[William Robertson|Sir William Robertson]], who enlisted in [[1877]], becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
* [[March 31]] - [[Government of Ireland Act 1920]] is presented in British parliament.

===April-May===
* [[April 2]] - German army marches to [[Ruhr]] to fight [[ Red Ruhr Army]].
* [[April 4]] - [[Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920]] ? Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem ? governor declares the state of siege
* [[April 6]] - French troops occupy [[Frankfurt]].
* [[April 6]] - The short-lived [[Far Eastern Republic]] declared in eastern [[Siberia]]
* [[April 11]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Alvaro Obregon]] flees from [[Mexico City]] during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to [[Guerrero]] where he joins [[Fortunato Maycotte]]
* [[April 19]] - Germany and [[Bolshevist Russia]] agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
* [[April 20]] - [[Alvaro Obregon]] announces in [[Chilpancingo]] that he intends to fight against the rule of [[Venustiano Carranza]]
* [[April 23]] - National council in [[Turkey]] denounces the government of [[sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]] and announces a temporary constitution.
* [[April 24]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] troops attack [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] army occupying Ukraine.
*[[May 2]] - The first game of the [[Negro National League (the first)|Negro National League baseball]] is played in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].
* [[May 7]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland|Polish]] troops occupy [[Kyiv]]. [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] government returns to the city.
* [[May 7]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] leaves [[Mexico City]] in a large train
* [[May 9]] - [[Alvaro Obregon]]'s troops enter [[Mexico City]]
* [[May 15]] - [[Maria Bochkareva]] executed in Soviet Union
* [[May 16]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Switzerland]] is favorable to joining [[League of Nations]].
* [[May 16]] - In [[Rome]], [[Pope Benedict XV]] [[canonization|canonizes]] [[Joan of Arc]] as a [[saint]].
* [[May 17]] - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
* [[May 17]] - First flight of [[KLM]], Dutch air company, from [[Amsterdam]] to [[London]].
* [[May 20]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of [[Rodolfo Herrero]] attack him at night and shoot him
* [[May 24]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] is buried in [[Mexico City]] - all of his mourning allies are arrested. [[Adolfo de la Huerta]] is elected provisional president
* [[May 24]] - [[France|French]] president [[Paul Deschanel]] falls out of a train and is later found wandering along the railroad track, wearing pajamas.
* [[May 27]] - [[Thomas Masaryk]] becomes president of [[Czechoslovakia]].
* [[May 29]] - Great [[Horncastle]] flood. 20 people killed.

===June-July===
* [[June 4]] - [[Treaty of Trianon]], Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
* [[June 12]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Red Army]] retakes [[Kyiv]].
* [[June 13]] - The [[United States Postal Service]] rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
* [[June 15]] - New border treaty between [[Germany]] and [[Denmark]] gives northern [[Schleswig]] to Denmark.
* [[June 22]] - [[Greece]] attacks [[Turkey|Turkish]] troops.
* [[July 1]] - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
* [[July 2]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Red Army]] continues offensive into [[Poland]].
* [[July 10]] - [[Arthur Meighen]] becomes [[Canada]]'s ninth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[July 12]] - [[Bolshevist Russia]] recognizes independent [[Lithuania]].
* [[July 13]] - [[London County Council]] bars foreigners from council jobs.
* [[July 14]] - France declares that [[Faisal I of Syria]] is deposed and occupies [[Damascus]] and [[Aleppo]]
* [[July 17]] - Republic of [[Mirdite]] proclaimed near [[Albania]]n-[[Serbia]]n border with [[Yugoslav]] support
* [[July 22]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: [[Poland]] sues for peace with [[Bolshevist Russia]].
* [[July 25]] - First transatlantic two-way [[radio]] broadcast.
* [[July 26]] - [[Pancho Villa]] takes over [[Sabina]] and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in [[July 28]]
* [[July 29]] - The [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] begins contruction of the [[Link River Dam]] as part of the [[Klamath Reclamation Project]].

===August-September===
* [[August 2]] - British parliament passes bill to restore order in [[Ireland]], suspending jury trials.
* [[August 3]] - Catholics riot in [[Belfast]].
* [[August 10]] - [[Ottoman sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]]'s representatives signs the [[Treaty of Sevres]].
* [[August 11]] - [[Bolshevik Russia]] recognizes independent [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]].
* [[August 13]] - [[August 25]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]]: The [[Red Army]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)|Battle of Warsaw]].
* [[August 15]] - Town Hall of [[Templemore]], [[Ireland]], is burned down during the riots.
* [[August 18]] - [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment to US constitution]] is passed, guaranteeing women's [[suffrage]].
* [[19 August]]-[[25 August]] - [[Second Silesian Uprising]], the Poles in [[Upper Silesia]] rise against the Germans
* [[August 20]] - The first commercial [[radio]] station in the United States, 8MK ([[WWJ]]), begins operations in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
* [[September 4]] - ''La Tercio de Extranjenos'', the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day [[Spanish Legion]]) inaugurated in [[Spain]]
* [[September 5]] - Presidential elections begin in [[Mexico]]
* [[September 8]] - [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] declares [[Rijeka|Fiume]] a free state.
* [[September 16]] - The [[Wall Street bombing]]: a bomb in a [[horse wagon]] explodes in front of the [[J.P.Morgan]] building in [[New York City]] - 39 dead, 400 injured
* [[September 20]] - The first soldier joins the [[Spanish Legion]].
* [[September 22]] - [[Flying Squad]] formed in [[London Metropolitan Police]].
* [[September 29]] - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]] radio costs $10.
* [[September 29]] - [[Adolf Hitler]]'s makes first public political speech, in [[Austria]].

===October-November===
* [[October 9]] - Polish troops take [[Vilnius]]
* [[October 10]] - In the [[Carinthian Plebiscite]] a large part of [[Carinthia (province)|Carinthia Province]] votes to become part of [[Austria]] rather than of the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes|Yugoslavia]].
* [[October 12]] - [[Polish-Soviet War]] After Polish army captures [[Tarnopol]], [[Dubno]], [[Minsk]], and [[Dryssa]], the ceasefire is enforced.
* [[October 18]] - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
* [[October 26]] - [[Alvaro Obregon]] is announced elected [[president of Mexico]]
* [[October 27]] - [[League of Nations]] moves its headquarters to [[Geneve]], [[Switzerland]]
* [[November 2]] - [[Warren G. Harding]] defeats [[James M. Cox]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920|U.S. presidential election]], the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
* [[November 2]] - In the [[United States]], [[KDKA AM]] of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] (owned by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]]) starts broadcasting as a commercial [[radio station]]. The first broadcast was the results of the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920]].
* [[November 11]] - [[Unknown Soldier]] buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].
* [[November 15]] - In [[Geneva]], the first assembly of the [[League of Nations]] is held.
* [[November 16]] - Queensland and Northen Territory Aviation Services ([[Qantas]]) is founded by [[Hudson Fysh]] and [[Paul McGinniss]].
* [[November 17]] - Council of [[League of Nations]] accepts the [[constitution]] of Danzig([[Gdansk]]) [[free state]].
* [[November 21]] - [[Bloody Sunday (1920)|Bloody Sunday]] - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a [[gaelic football|Football]] match in [[Dublin]]'s [[Croke Park]], following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
* [[November 28]] - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Gen. Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael ,Co.Cork.

===December===
* [[December 1]] - [[Álvaro Obregón]] becomes [[president of Mexico]].
* [[December 5]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Greece]] is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
* [[December 11]] - [[Martial law]] in [[Ireland]].
* [[December 16]] - [[Finland]] joins the [[League of Nations]].
* [[December 16]] - 8.6 Richter scale [[Earthquake]] causes [[landslide]] in [[Gansu|Gansu Province]], [[China]] - 180.000 dead.
* [[December 23]] - [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] ratify the border between French-held [[Syria]] and British-held [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
* [[December 25]] - Foundation of [[The Rosicrucian Fellowship]]'s Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at [[Oceanside, California#Mount_Ecclesia|Mount Ecclesia]], [[Oceanside]], [[California]] ([[United_States|USA]]).

===Undated===
* Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the [[Prohibition]]
* [[France]] prohibits selling of [[contraceptives]].
* [[Ungern von Sternberg|Roman Ungern von Sternberg]] conquers [[Urga]] and declares himself as a ruler of [[Mongolia]].
* [[Kurd]] rebellion in [[Turkey]] begins.
* [[Johnny Torrio]] invites [[Al Capone]] to [[Chicago, Illinois]] from [[New York City, New York]].
* [[Bricks of wine]] are widely sold throughout U.S.

==Births==
===January===
*[[January 1]] - [[Virgilio Savona]], Italian singer and songwriter ([[Quartetto Cetra]])
*[[January 2]] - [[Isaac Asimov]], Russian-born author (d. [[1992]])
*[[January 3]] - [[Renato Carosone]], Italian musician and singer (d. [[2001]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]], Italian pianist (d. [[1995]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Sun Myung Moon]], Korean evangelist
*[[January 6]] - [[John Maynard Smith]], English biologist (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Early Wynn]], baseball player (d. [[1999]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Bill Reid]], Canadian artist (d. [[1998]])
*[[January 19]] - [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]], Peruvian [[United Nations Secretary General]]
*[[January 20]] - [[Federico Fellini]], Italian film director (d. [[1993]])
*[[January 20]] - [[DeForest Kelley]], American actor (d. [[1999]])
*[[January 20]] - [[John Cardinal O'Connor|John O'Connor]], American Catholic cardinal
*[[January 23]] - [[Gottfried Boehm|Gottfried Böhm]], German architect
*[[January 30]] - [[Delbert Mann]], American television and film director

===February-March===
*[[February 7]] - [[An Wang]], Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Farouk I]], [[King of Egypt]] (d. [[1965]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Billy Halop]], American actor (d. [[1976]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Paul Peter Piech]], American artist (d. [[1996]])
*[[February 12]] - [[William Roscoe Estep]], American Baptist historian (d. [[2000]])
*[[February 13]] - [[Seneka Bibile]], founder of [[Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy|Sri Lanka’s drug policy]] (d. [[1977]])
*[[February 17]] - [[Ivo Caprino]], Norwegian film director (d. [[2001]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Bill Cullen]], American game show host (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Eddie Slovik]], U.S. Army private (d. [[1945]])
*[[February 26]] - [[Tony Randall]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
*[[February 29]] - [[Howard Nemerov]], American poet (d. [[1991]])
*[[March 3]] - [[James Doohan]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[2005]])
*[[March 3]] - [[Ronald Searle]], British cartoonist
*[[March 10]] - [[Boris Vian]], [[France|French]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[singer]] and [[musician]] (d. [[1959]])
*[[March 11]] - [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 14]] - [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (d. [[2001]])
*[[March 15]] - [[Lawrence Sanders]], American novelist (d. [[1998]])
*[[March 15]] - [[E. Donnall Thomas]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[March 16]] - [[Leo McKern]], Australian actor (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Mujibur Rahman]], [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] (d. [[1975]])
*[[March 19]] - [[Kjell Aukrust]], Norwegian poet and artist (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Pamela Harriman]], English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d. [[1997]])
*[[March 22]] [[Werner Klemperer]], German actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Patrick Troughton]], British actor (d. [[1987]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Arthur Wint]], Jamaican runner (d. [[1992]])

===April===
* [[April 1]] - [[Toshiro Mifune|Toshirô Mifune]], Japanese actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Jack Webb]], American actor, director, and producer (d. [[1982]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Arthur Hailey]], American writer
*[[April 6]] - [[Edmond H. Fischer]], Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[April 7]] - [[Ravi Shankar]], Indian sitar player
* [[April 11]] - [[Peter O'Donnell]], British cartoonist and writer
* [[April 15]] - [[Thomas Stephen Szasz]], Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
* [[April 13]] - [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[President of Ireland]]
* [[April 27]] - [[Guido Cantelli]], Italian conductor (d. [[1956]])
* [[April 29]] - [[Harold Shapero]], American composer

===May===
*[[May 2]] - [[Jean-Marie Auberson]], Swiss conductor (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 6]] - [[Kamisese Mara|Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara]], first [[Prime Minister of Fiji]] and [[President of Fiji]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Richard Adams (author)|Richard Adams]], English author
*[[May 18]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] (d. [[2005]])
*[[May 18]] - [[Lucia Mannucci]], Italian singer ([[Quartetto Cetra]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Helen O'Connell]], American singer (d. [[1993]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Peggy Lee]], American singer (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Gene Levitt]], American television writer, producer, and director (d. [[1999]])
*[[May 29]] - [[John Harsanyi]], Hungarian-born economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2000]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Franklin Schaffner]], American film and television director (d. [[1989]])

===June-July===
*[[June 2]] - [[Tex Schramm]], American football team president and general manager (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Dave Berg]], American cartoonist (d. [[2002]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Jim Siedow]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 16]] - [[José López Portillo]], [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[June 17]] - [[François Jacob]], French biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[June 25]] - [[Ozan Marsh]], American pianist
*[[July 9]] - [[Malleboyina Gurunadham]], Indian mathematician and author, Andhrapradesh
*[[July 10]] - [[Owen Chamberlain]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 17]] - [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]], Spanish International Olympic Committee president
*[[July 21]] - [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian-born violinist (d. [[2001]])
*[[July 24]] - [[Bella Abzug]], American politician (d. [[1998]])
*[[July 25]] - [[Rosalind Franklin]], British crystallographer (d.[[1958]])

===August-December===
*[[August 8]] - [[Leo Chiosso]], Italian poet
*[[August 16]] - [[Charles Bukowski]], American writer (d. [[1994]])
*[[August 18]] - [[Bob Kennedy]], baseball player and manager (d. [[2005]])
*[[August 21]] - [[Christopher Robin Milne]], English author and bookseller (d. [[1996]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Ray Bradbury]], American writer
*[[August 29]] - [[Charlie Parker]], American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. [[1955]])
*[[September 10]] - [[Fabio Taglioni]], Italian motorcycle engineer (d. [[2001]])
*[[September 14]] - [[Mario Benedetti]], Uruguayan writer
*[[September 14]] - [[Lawrence Klein]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 22]] - [[William H. Riker]], American political scientist (d. [[1993]])
*[[September 29]] - [[Peter D. Mitchell]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[October 1]] - [[Charles Daudelin]], Canadian sculptor (d. [[2001]])
*[[October 1]] - [[Walter Matthau]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[October 6]] - [[Pietro Consagra]], Italian sculptor (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 8]] - [[Frank Herbert]], American author (d. [[1986]])
*[[October 9]] - [[Jens Bjørneboe]], Norwegian author (d. [[1976]])
*[[October 15]] - [[Mario Puzo]], American author (d. [[1999]])
*[[October 29]] - [[Baruj Benacerraf]], Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[October 31]] - [[Fritz Walter]], German football player (d. [[2002]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Douglass North]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[November 21]] - [[Stan Musial]], baseball player
*[[November 23]] - [[Paul Celan]], Romanian-born poet (d. [[1970]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail]], King of Malaysia (d. [[2000]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Ricardo Montalban]], Mexican actor
*[[November 25]] - [[Noel Neill]], American actress
*[[November 27]] - [[Abe Lenstra]], Dutch football player (d. [[1985]])
*[[December 6]] - [[Dave Brubeck]], American jazz pianist and composer
*[[December 6]] - [[George Porter]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2002]])
*[[December 9]] - [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], [[List of Presidents of the Italian Republic|President of the Italian Republic]]
*[[December 24]] - [[Evgeniya Rudneva]], Russian World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
*[[December 30]] - [[Jack Lord]], American actor (d. [[1998]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Patrick Campbell Rodger]], Scottish Anglican bishop (d. [[2002]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] - [[Paul Adam]], French writer (b. [[1862]])
*[[January 3]] - [[Zygmunt Janiszewski]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1888]])
*[[January 4]] - [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1843]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen]], Danish mathematician (b. [[1839]])
*[[January 7]] - [[Edmund Barton]], Prime Minister of Australia (b. [[1849]])
*[[January 18]] - [[Giovanni Capurro]], Italian poet (b. [[1825]])
*[[January 24]] - [[William Percy French]], Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. [[1854]])
*[[January 24]] - [[Amedeo Modigliani]], Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. [[1884]])
*[[January 24]] - [[William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket]], British diplomat and administrator (b. [[1864]])
*[[January 26]] - [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French artist, model, and common-law wife of [[Amedeo Modigliani]] (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
*[[February 2]] - [[Field E. Kindley]], American World War I aviator (b. [[1896]])
*[[February 3]] - [[Frank Brown]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1846]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Augustus F. Goodridge]], Canadian merchant and politician (b. [[1839]])
*[[February 7]] - [[Aleksandr Kolchak]], Russian naval commander (b. [[1874]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Joseph Burton Sumner]], founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. [[1837]])
*[[February 20]] - [[Joseph J. Fern]], Mayor of Honolulu (b. [[1872]])
*[[February 20]] - [[Robert Peary]], American Arctic explorer (b. [[1856]])
*[[February 27]] - [[William Sherman Jennings]], Governor of Florida (b. [[1863]])
*[[March 1]] - [[John H. Bankhead]], U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. [[1842]])
*[[March 1]] - [[William A. Stone]], Governor of Pennsylvania (b. [[1846]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Joseph Trumpeldor]], Russian Zionist (b. [[1880]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Roswell P. Bishop]], U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. [[1843]])
*[[March 11]] - [[Julio Garavito Armero]], Colombian astronomer (b. [[1865]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Charles Lapworth]], English geologist (b. [[1842]])
*[[March 26]] - [[William Chester Minor]], American surgeon (b. [[1834]])
*[[March 26]] - [[Mary Augusta Ward]], Tasmanian novelist (b. [[1851]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Paul Bachmann]], German mathematician (b. [[1837]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Edwin Warfield]], Governor of Maryland (b. [[1848]])
*[[April 8]] - [[John Brashear]], American astronomer (b. [[1840]])
*[[April 8]] - [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (b. [[1884]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Moritz Cantor]], German historian of mathematics (b. [[1829]])
*[[April 21]] - [[Maria L. Sanford]], American educator (b. [[1836]])
*[[April 26]] - [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], Indian mathematician (b. [[1887]])
*[[May 1]] - [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]], Crown Princess of Sweden (b. [[1882]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Agnes Macdonald]], wife of [[John A. Macdonald]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1836]]
*[[May 11]] - [[James Colosimo]], Italian-born gangster (b. [[1877]])
*[[May 11]] - [[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. [[1837]])
*[[May 16]] - [[Levi P. Morton]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1824]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1859]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (b. [[1868]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Svetozar Borojevic]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1856]])
*[[May 30]] - [[George Ernest Morrison]], Australian adventurer (b. [[1862]])
*[[June 5]] - [[Rhoda Broughton]], Welsh writer (b. [[1840]])
*[[June 5]] - [[Julia A. Moore]], American poet (b. [[1847]])
*[[June 6]] - [[James Dunsmuir]], Canadian politician (b. [[1851]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Essad Pasha]], [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1863]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Gabrielle Réjane]], French actress (b. [[1856]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Max Weber]], German political economist (b. [[1864]])
*[[June 18]] - [[Jewett W. Adams]], Governor of Nevada (b. [[1835]])
*[[June 18]] - [[John Macoun]], Irish born naturalist (b. [[1831]])
*[[June 20]] - [[Marie Adolphe Carnot]], French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. [[1839]])
*[[June 20]] - [[John Grigg (astronomer)|John Grigg]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1838]])
*[[June 27]] - [[Adolphe Basile Routhier]], Canadian poet (b. [[1839]])
*[[July 1]] - [[Delfim Moreira]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1868]])
*[[July 10]] - [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1841]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Empress Eugénie]] of France (b. [[1826]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Albert Keller]], German painter (b. [[1844]])
*[[July 22]] - [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]], American heir (b. [[1849]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Frank Hanly]], Governor of Indiana (b. [[1863]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], Indian nationalist (b. [[1856]])
*[[August 2]] - [[Ormer Locklear]], American pilot (b. [[1891]])
*[[August 9]] - [[Samuel Griffith]], Australian politician and judge (b. [[1845]])
*[[August 10]] - [[Adam Politzer]], Austrian otologist (b. [[1835]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Hermann Struve]], Russian-born astronomer (b. [[1854]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Henry Daglish]], Premier of Australia (b. [[1866]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Joseph Norman Lockyer]], English astronomer (b. [[1836]])
*[[August 17]] - [[Ray Chapman]], baseball player (b. [[1891]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]])
*[[August 26]] - [[James Wilson (U.S. politician)|James Wilson]], Scottish-born American politician (b. [[1835]])
*[[August 31]] - [[Wilhelm Wundt]], German physiologist and psychologist (b. [[1832]])
*[[September 7]] - [[Simon-Napoléon Parent]], Premier of Quebec (b. [[1855]])
*[[September 10]] - [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
*[[September 18]] - [[Robert Beaven]], Canadian politician (b. [[1836]])
*[[September 24]] - [[Peter Carl Fabergé]], Russian jeweler (b. [[1846]])
*[[September 25]] - [[Jacob Schiff]], German-born banker and philanthropist (b. [[1847]])
*[[September 30]] - [[William Wilfred Sullivan]], Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. [[1843]])
*[[October 2]] - [[Winthrop M. Crane]], Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. [[1853]])
*[[October 10]] - [[Hudson Stuck]], English mountaineer (b. [[1865]])
*[[October 19]] - [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (b. [[1887]])
*[[October 20]] - [[Max Bruch]], German composer (b. [[1838]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia]] (b. [[1853]])
*[[November 4]] - [[Ludwig Struve]], Russian astronomer (b. [[1858]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Luc-Olivier Merson]], French painter and illustrator (b. [[1846]])
*[[November 23]] - [[George Callaghan]], British admiral (b. [[1852]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Gaston Chevrolet]], Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b. [[1892]])
*[[November 30]] - [[Eugene W. Chafin]], American politician (b. [[1852]])
*[[December 3]] - [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]], English astronomer and photographer (b. [[1843]])
*[[December 11]] - [[Olive Schreiner]], South African writer (b. [[1855]])
*[[December 12]] - [[Edward Gawler Prior]], Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. [[1854]])
*[[December 14]] - [[George Gipp]], American football player (b. [[1895]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Charles Edouard Guillaume]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Walther Nernst]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine]] - [[Schack August Steenberg Krogh]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Knut Hamsun]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Thomas Woodrow Wilson]]
[[Category:1920]]

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 * [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Knut Hamsun]]
 * [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Thomas Woodrow Wilson]]
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