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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

Births

February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director
February 11 - [Jerome Lowenthal]?, pianist/professor
February 26 - Johnny Cash, country music singer
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)

Deaths

Events

[Kennedy and Thorndike]? prove that measured time as well length are affected by motion (see Einstein's Special relativity and General relativity).

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
Medicine - [[Sir [Charles Scott Sherrington]?, [Edgar Douglas Adrian]?
Literature -[John Galsworthy]?
Peace - Not awarded.