Year (''' MCMXX ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.
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The following are references to year 1920 in fiction: (unknown).
- January 1 - Virgilio Savona , Italian singer and songwriter ( Quartetto Cetra )
- January 2 - Isaac Asimov , Russian-born author (d. 1992 ), Anne-Sofie Østvedt , Norweigan resistance leader
- 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
- --- John Maynard Smith , English biologist (d. 2004 )
- --- Early Wynn , baseball player (d. 1999 )
- January 9 - Hakim Mohammed Said , Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d. 1998 )
- 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 )
- --- DeForest Kelley , American actor (d. 1999 )
- --- John O'Connor , American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000 )
- January 23 - Gottfried Böhm , German architect
- January 27 - Helmut Zacharias , German violinist (d. 2002 )
- January 30 - Delbert Mann , American television and film director
- February 7 - An Wang , Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990 )
- February 11
- --- Farouk I , King Of Egypt (d. 1965 )
- --- Billy Halop , American actor (d. 1976 )
- February 12 - William Roscoe Estep , American Baptist historian (d. 2000 )
- February 13 - Seneka Bibile , Sri Lankan pharmacologist (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 )
- --- Lucjan Wolanowski , Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. 2006 )
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov , American poet (d. 1991 )
- March 3
- --- James Doohan , Canadian-born actor (d. 2005 )
- --- Ronald Searle , British cartoonist
- March 4
- --- Jean Lecanuet , French politician (d. 1993 )
- --- Alan MacNaughtan , Scottish actor (d. 2002 )
- March 10
- --- Alfred Peet , Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007 )
- --- Boris Vian , French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959 )
- March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
- March 15
- --- Lawrence Sanders , American novelist (d. 1998 )
- --- E. Donnall Thomas , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- March 16 - Leo McKern , Australian actor (d. 2002 )
- 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 24 - Corbin Harney , an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007 )
- March 25
- --- Patrick Troughton , British actor (d. 1987 )
- --- Arthur Wint , Jamaican runner (d. 1992 )
- March 27 - Robin Jacques , English illustrator (d. 1995 )
- April 1 - Toshirô Mifune , Japanese actor (d. 1997 )
- April 2 - Jack Webb , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982 )
- April 5 - Arthur Hailey , American writer (d. 2004 )
- 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 8 - Carmen McRae , American jazz singer (d. 1994 )
- April 11 - Peter O'Donnell , British author and writer of comic strips
- April 13 - Liam Cosgrave , fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
- April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz , Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
- April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz , German footballer (d. 1991 )
- April 27 - Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d. 1956 )
- April 29 - Harold Shapero , American composer
- May 2
- --- Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss conductor (d. 2004 )
- --- Otto Buchsbaum , Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d. 2000 )
- May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara , first Prime Minister Of Fiji and President Of Fiji (d. 2004 )
- May 8 - Saul Bass , American graphic designer (d. 1996 )
- May 9 - Richard Adams , English author
- May 11 - Denver Pyle , American actor (d. 1997 )
- May 13 - Gareth Morris , British flautist (d. 2007 )
- May 18
- --- Pope John Paul II (d. 2005 )
- --- 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 laureate (d. 2000 )
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner , American film and television director (d. 1989 )
- June 2 - Tex Schramm , American football executive (d. 2003 )
- June 12
- --- Dave Berg , American cartoonist (d. 2002 )
- --- Jim Siedow , American actor (d. 2003 )
- June 16 - José López Portillo , President Of Mexico (d. 2004 )
- June 17
- --- Jacob H. Gilbert , American politician (d. 1981 )
- --- François Jacob , French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 25 - Ozan Marsh , American pianist
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen , American animator
- July 4 - Leona Helmsley , Hotel operator, Realestate investor (d. 2007 )
- July 10 - Owen Chamberlain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 11 - Yul Brynner , Russian-born actor (d. 1985 )
- July 13
- --- Bill Towers , English footballer (d. 2000 )
- --- Don Ralke , American music arranger (d. 2000 )
- 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 2 - Reginald Hugh Hickling , British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (d. 2007 )
- August 3 - Hayden Carruth , American poet and literary critic
- August 8
- --- Leo Chiosso , Italian poet (d. 2006 )
- --- Jimmy Witherspoon , American singer (d. 1997 )
- August 9 - Milton G. Henschel , a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d. 2003 )
- August 16 - Charles Bukowski , American writer (d. 1994 )
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara , Irish actress
- August 18
- --- Bob Kennedy , baseball player and manager (d. 2005 )
- --- Shelley Winters , American actress (d. 2006 )
- August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne , English author and bookseller (d. 1996 )
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury , American writer
- August 26 - Mauri Favén , Finnish painter (d. 2006 )
- August 29 - Charlie Parker , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955 )
- September 9 - Aldo Parisot , Brazilian/American cellist
- September 10 - Fabio Taglioni , Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001 )
- September 14 - Mario Benedetti , Uruguayan writer
- September 14 - Lawrence Klein , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 18 - Jack Warden , American actor (d. 2006 )
- September 22 - William H. Riker , American political scientist (d. 1993 )
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney , American film actor
- September 24 - Dick Bong , American fighter ace
- September 27 - Jayne Meadows , American actress
- September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992 )
- October 1
- --- Charles Daudelin , Canadian sculptor (d. 2001 )
- --- Walter Matthau , American actor (d. 2000 )
- October 6 - Pietro Consagra , Italian sculptor (d. 2005 )
- --- Helen Andelin , American author
- 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 22 - Timothy Leary , American psychologist and author (d. 1996 )
- October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf , Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- October 30 - Norman Bird , UK character actor (d. 2005 )
- October 31 - Fritz Walter , German footballer (d. 2002 )
- November 2 - Ann Rutherford , Canadian actress
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalban , Mexican actor
- November 30 - Virginia Mayo , American actress (d. 2005 )
- December 6
- --- Dave Brubeck , American jazz pianist and composer
- --- George Porter , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
- December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , President Of The Italian Republic
- December 21 - J. Roderick MacArthur American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984 )
- December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva , Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- December 30 - Jack Lord , American actor (d. 1998 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Patrick Campbell Rodger , Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002 )
- --- Tommy J. Smith , Australian trainer (d. 1998 )
- --- Amos Yarkoni , Israeli soldier (d. 1991 )
- 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 )
- --- Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884 )
- --- 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 )
- --- 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 )
- --- William A. Stone , Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Mary Augusta Ward , Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851 )
- March 31
- --- Paul Bachmann , German mathematician (b. 1837 )
- --- Edwin Warfield , Governor of Maryland (b. 1848 )
- April 8
- --- John Brashear , American astronomer (b. 1840 )
- --- 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 11
- --- James Colosimo , Italian-born gangster (b. 1877 )
- --- 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 )
- --- 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 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Max Weber , German political economist (b. 1864 )
- June 18
- --- Jewett W. Adams , Governor of Nevada (b. 1835 )
- --- John Macoun , Irish born naturalist (b. 1831 )
- June 20
- --- Marie Adolphe Carnot , French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839 )
- --- 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 2 - William Louis Marshall , American general and engineer (b. 1846 )
- 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 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Joseph Norman Lockyer , English astronomer (b. 1836 )
- August 17 - Ray Chapman , baseball player (b. 1891 )
- August 22 - Anders Zorn , Swedish painter (b. 1860 )
- August 26 - James Wilson , Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835 )
- August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt , German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832 )
- September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent , Premier of Quebec (b. 1855 )
- September 10 - Olive Thomas , American actress (b. 1894 )
- September 18 - Robert Beaven , Canadian politician (b. 1836 )
- September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé , Russian jeweler (b. 1846 )
- September 25 - Jacob Schiff , German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847 )
- September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan , Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843 )
- October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane , Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853 )
- October 10 - Hudson Stuck , English mountaineer (b. 1865 )
- October 19 - John Reed , American journalist (b. 1887 )
- October 20 - Max Bruch , German composer (b. 1838 )
- November 21 - Michael Hogan (sportsman) Was shot during a Gaelic Football match by the British army who also killed 14 Irish supporters .
- October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna Of Russia (b. 1853 )
- November 1 - Kevin Barry , Irish republican (hanged) (b. 1902 )
- 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 race car 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 )
- ''date unknown'' - Reginald John Farrer , English botanist (b. 1880 )
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