1920

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 - 1920 - 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

Births

• January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author
• February 11 - [Billy Halop]?, actor.
• February 11 - [[Daniel Francis Galouye]?, American science fiction author.
• February 11 - [Farouk I]?, last King of Egypt (1936-52?).
• February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, artist.
• May 18 - pope John Paul II
• September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer

Deaths

Events

• Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp Belgium
• Worlds first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government in Sweden. [Hjalmar Branting]?.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Charles Edouard Guillaume]?
• Chemistry - [Walther Hermann Nernst]?
• Medicine - [Schack August Steenberg Krogh]?
• Literature - [Knut Pedersen Hamsun]?
• Peace - [Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois]?