The examples and perspective in this article
deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
January 1
January 2 – Charles Willeford , American writer (d. 1988 )
January 3 – Dorothy Morrison , American actress
January 4 – Lester L. Wolff , American politician
January 5 – Hector Abhayavardhana , Sri Lankan political theorist (d. 2012 )
January 7 – Huang Feng , Hong Kong film director
January 10 – Ugo Sansonetti , Italian masters athlete and writer
January 13 – Robert Stack , American actor (d. 2003 )
January 14
January 15 – George Cadle Price , 2-Time Prime Minister of Belize (1981–84 and 1989–93) (d. 2011 )
January 17 – Mingote , Spanish cartoonist (d. 2012 )
January 18 – Juan Orrego-Salas , Chilean-American composer
January 19
January 23
January 24
January 26
January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. , American musician and actor (Alvin and the Chipmunks ) (d. 1972 )
January 28 – Gabby Gabreski , American fighter ace (d. 2002 )
January 30 – John C. Elliott , American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa (1952) (d. 2001 )
February 1 – Artie Singer , American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008 )
February 4
February 5
February 9 – Robert Martin , American fighter pilot (d. 2018 )
February 11 – Eva Gabor , Hungarian actress, better known for her role in Green Acres (d. 1995 )
February 12
February 13
February 15 – Norman Garbo , American author and lecturer
February 16 – Irene Brown , British author and codebreaker (d. 2017 )
February 17 – Kathleen Freeman , American actress (d. 2001 )
February 18
February 19 – William Gianelli , American politician
February 20
February 21 – Malcolm E. Beard , American politician (d. 2019 )
February 24 – Árpád Bogsch , Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004 )
February 25
February 26 – Rie Mastenbroek , Dutch swimmer (d. 2003 )
March 2 – Jennifer Jones , American actress (d. 2009 )
March 3
March 5 – Myron H. Bright , United States federal judge (d. 2016 )
March 6 – Michael Karkoc , German war criminal
March 7 – M. N. Nambiar , Indian film actor (d. 2008 )
March 10 – Leonor Oyarzún , First Lady of Chile
March 11 – Kira Golovko , Russian actress (d. 2017 )
March 12 – Donald Zec , English journalist
March 13 – Jack P. Lewis , American Biblical scholar (d. 2018 )
March 14 – Dickey Chapelle , American photojournalist (d. 1965 )
March 15 – Lawrence Tierney , American actor (d. 2002 )
March 17
March 18 – Santiago Álvarez , Cuban filmmaker (d. 1998 )
March 19 – Abdullah Tariki , Saudi politician and government official (d. 1997 )
March 20 – Gerhard Barkhorn , German World War II fighter ace (d. 1983 )
March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti , American poet and publisher
March 25 – Jeanne Cagney , American actress (d. 1984 )
March 26 – Strother Martin , American actor (d. 1980 )
March 29
April 1
April 3 – Ervin Drake , American songwriter (d. 2015 )
April 4 – Charles O. Porter , American politician (d. 2006 )
April 5 – Lester James Peries , Sri Lankan director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018 )
April 6 – Caren Marsh Doll , American actress and dancer
April 8 – Ian Smith , Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1967–79) (d. 2007 )
April 9 – Iain Moncreiffe , Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (d. 1985 )
April 12 – Billy Vaughn , American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader (d. 1991 )
April 13
April 16 – Edward Simons Fulmer , American Army Air Forces officer (d. 2017 )
April 18
April 19 – Gloria Marín , Mexican actress (d. 1983 )
April 21
April 22 – Donald J. Cram , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
April 23 – Anne Buydens , Belgian-American actress
April 24 – Glafcos Clerides , Cypriot president (1993–2003) (d. 2013 )
May 1
May 3
May 4
May 5 – Georgios Papadopoulos , President of Greece and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999 )
May 7
May 8 – Lex Barker , American actor (d. 1973 )
May 9 – Mitja Ribičič , Yugoslav politician (d. 2013 )
May 10 – Atmasthananda , Indian Hindu leader (d. 2017 )
May 15 – Eugenia Charles , 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2005 )
May 16
May 17 – Antonio Aguilar , Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007 )
May 18 – Margot Fonteyn , English ballet dancer (d. 1991 )
May 19
May 20
May 21 – Vera Altayskaya , Soviet actress (d. 1978 )
May 22 – Paul Vanden Boeynants , 2-time Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001 )
May 23
May 27 – Emvin Cremona , Maltese artist (d. 1987 )
May 28 – Lim Chong Eu , Malaysian politician (d. 2010 )
May 29 – Jacques Genest , Canadian physician and academic (d. 2018 )
May 30
René Barrientos , 2-time President of Bolivia (d. 1969 )
June 5 – Veikko Huhtanen , Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1976 )
June 6
June 7 – George Glamack , American basketball player (d. 1987 )
June 8
June 9 – Jimmy Newberry , American pitcher (d. 1983 )
June 11 – Richard Todd , Irish-born British actor (d. 2009 )
June 12 – Ahmed Abdallah , President of the Comoros (d. 1989 )
June 14 – June Spencer , English actress
June 16 – V. T. Sambanthan , Malaysian politician (d. 1979 )
June 18 – Gordon A. Smith , Canadian artist and teacher
June 19
June 21
June 22 – Clifton McNeely , American basketball player and coach (d. 2003 )
June 23
June 24
June 26
June 27 – Amala Shankar , Indian danseuse
June 28 – Joseph P. Lordi , American government official (d. 1983 )
June 29
Walter Babington Thomas , Commander of British Far East Land Forces (d. 2017 )
Slim Pickens , American film and television actor (d. 1983 )
July 1
July 2 – Henri Génès , French actor and singer (d. 2005 )
July 3
July 4
July 5 – Walter Obodzinsky , Polish-born member of the Wehrmacht (d. 2004 )
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 10
July 11 – Donald Zilversmit , Dutch-born U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator (d. 2010 )
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 17 – Milt Smith , American football player and business operator (d. 2010 )
July 18 – Lilia Dale , Italian actress
July 19
July 20
July 21
July 22 – Allie Paine , American college basketball standout (d. 2008 )
July 24
July 26 – James Lovelock , English biologist and chemist
July 31
Maurice Boitel , French painter (d. 2007 )
Primo Levi , Italian chemist and writer (d. 1987 )
August 2
August 7 – Bertha Moss , Argentine-Mexican actress (d. 2008 )
August 8 – Dino De Laurentiis , Italian film producer (d. 2010 )
August 9 – Joop den Uyl , Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973–77 (d. 1987 )
August 11 – Ginette Neveu , French violinist (d. 1949 )
August 12 – Margaret Burbidge , English-American astrophysicist and academic
August 13 – George Shearing , Anglo-American jazz pianist (d. 2011 )
August 14 – Isaac C. Kidd Jr. , American admiral (d. 1999 )
August 15
August 17 – Georgia Gibbs , American singer (d. 2006 )
August 18 – Walter Joseph Hickel , 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (d. 2010 )
August 19 – Margaret Marquis , Canadian-American actress (d. 1993 )
August 20
August 21 – Dalmiro Finol , Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994 )
August 22 – Larry Winn , American politician (d. 2017 )
August 24 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy , 31st President of Ecuador (d. 2004 )
August 25
August 28
August 29
August 30
August 31
Amrita Pritam , Indian poet and author (d. 2005 )
September 1 – Gladys Davis , Canadian professional baseball player
September 2 – Marge Champion , American actress
September 5
September 6
September 9
September 11 – Ota Šik , Czech economist and politician (d. 2004 )
September 13
September 14 – Kay Medford , American character actress and comedian (d. 1980 )
September 15 – Alfie Scopp , American actor
September 17 – Helmut Ashley , Austrian cinematographer
September 18 – Pál Losonczi , Hungarian politician (d. 2005 )
September 21
September 23 – Tōta Kaneko , Japanese writer (d. 2018 )
September 24
September 26 – Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and researcher (d. 2012 )
September 27
October 3 – James M. Buchanan , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013 )
October 5 – Donald Pleasence , English actor (d. 1995 )
October 6 – Siad Barre , President of Somalia (d. 1995 )
October 7 – Zelman Cowen , Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011 )
October 8 – Kiichi Miyazawa , 49th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007 )
October 11 – Art Blakey , American jazz drummer (d. 1990 )
October 14 – Edward L. Feightner , American navy officer
October 16 – Kathleen Winsor , American writer (d. 2003 )
October 17
October 18
October 21 – Donald West VanArtsdalen , American federal judge
October 22
October 23 – Manolis Andronikos , Greek archaeologist (d. 1992 )
October 25
October 26
October 27 – Jeremiah Stamler , American cardiologist (d. 2018 )
October 30
October 31
George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth , English politician
November 1
November 2 – Bill Mills , American Major League Baseball player
November 3
November 4
November 6 – Christoph Probst , German White Rose resistance member (d. 1943 )
November 9 – Eva Todor , Hungarian-born Brazilian actress (d. 2017 )
November 10
November 14
November 15
November 16 – Georges-Hilaire Dupont , French Roman Catholic bishop
November 18 – Andrée Borrel , French World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
November 19
November 20
November 21 – Gert Fredriksson , Swedish canoer (d. 2006 )
November 22 – Louise Watson , American child actress (d. 2018 )
November 26
December 1 – Charles Steen , American geologist and businessman (d. 2006 )
December 2 – Norma Miller , American dancer
December 4 – I. K. Gujral , Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 2012 )
December 5 – Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont , British politician and historian
December 6 – Paul de Man , Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983 )
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 11
December 13 – Hans-Joachim Marseille , German World War II fighter ace (d. 1942 )
December 21
December 23 – Vasily Reshetnikov , Soviet Air Force pilot
December 24 – Pierre Soulages , French artist
December 25
December 27 – Charles Sweeney , American WWII pilot (d. 2004 )
December 29 – Thomas Horton , New Zealand Air Force pilot
December 30 – David Willcocks , British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015 )
December 31
Folke Alnevik , Swedish athlete
Tommy Byrne , baseball player (d. 2007 )
Balto , American sled dog (d. 1933 )
January–June
January 4 – Georg von Hertling , 7th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843 )
January 6
January 8
January 10 – Wallace Clement Sabine , American physicist (b. 1868 )
January 15
January 16 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves , Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848 )
January 17
January 18
January 21 – Gojong , first Emperor of Korea (b. 1852 )
January 22 – Carl Larsson , Swedish painter (b. 1853 )
January 24 – Ismail Qemali , Albanian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania and 1st President of Albania (b. 1844 )
January 27 – Endre Ady , Hungarian poet (b. 1877 )
January 28 – Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1860 )
January 31 – Nat C. Goodwin , American actor and comedian (b. 1857 )
February 2 – Julius Kuperjanov , Estonian military commander (b. 1894 )
February 4 – John C. Bates , American general (b. 1842 )
February 14 – Pál Luthár , Slovene teacher, cantor and writer (b. 1839 )
February 17 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier , 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841 )
February 20 – Habibullah Khan , Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1872 ; assassinated)
February 21
March 2 – Melchora Aquino , Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812 )
March 5 – Ernest von Koerber , Austrian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1850 )
March 16 – Yakov Sverdlov , Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (b. 1885 )
March 26 – Ernest Henry , British explorer (b. 1869 )
April 4
April 8 – Frank Winfield Woolworth , American businessman (b. 1852 )
April 9 – Sidney Drew , American stage and film actor (b. 1863 )
April 10 – Emiliano Zapata , Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879 ; assassinated)
April 14 – Auguste-Réal Angers , Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1919)
April 15 – Jane Delano , American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862 )
April 20 – Thomas Egan , American gangster (b. 1874 )
April 21 – Jules Védrines , French pre-war aviator and wartime (WW1) pilot (b. 1881 )
April 23 – Prince Tsunehisa Takeda (b. 1882 )
April 27 – Anton Irv , Estonian military officer (b. 1886 )
May 2 – Gustav Landauer , German anarchist (b. 1870 ; assassinated)
May 4 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik , Slovak general, politician, and astronomer (b. 1880 )
May 6 – L. Frank Baum , American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz ) (b. 1856 )
May 9 – Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra , Dominican political figure, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1846 )
May 12 – D. M. Canright , American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (b. 1840 )
May 15 – Aaron Aaronsohn , Romanian-born Israeli botanist (b. 1876 )
May 28 – Hermann von Spaun , Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1833 )
June 1 – Caroline Still Anderson , American physician (b. 1848 )
June 15 – Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza (b. 1879 )
June 19 – Petre P. Carp , 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1837 )
June 29 – José Gregorio Hernández , Venezuelan medician and Roman Catholic venerable (b. 1864 )
July 1 – Sir John Brunner , British industrialist and politician (b. 1842 )
July 2 – Friedrich Soennecken , German entrepreneur and inventor of hole punch and ringbinder (b. 1848 )
July 5 – Eugen Leviné , German revolutionary (b. 1883 ; assassinated)
July 10
July 15 – Hermann Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
July 17 – Charles Conrad Abbott , American naturalist (b. 1848 )
July 18 – Raymonde de Laroche , French aviator, the first woman to receive an aviator' s license (b. 1882 )
July 26 – Sir Edward Poynter , British painter (b. 1836 )
August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I , Polish-born theater impresario and composer (b. 1847 )
August 7 – Felice Abrami , Italian painter (b. 1872 )
August 9
August 11 – Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1835 )
August 24 – Friedrich Naumann , German politician and pastor (b. 1860 )
August 27 – Louis Botha , Boer general, statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1862 )
September 16 – Alfred Parland , Russian architect (b. 1842 )
September 22 – Alajos Gáspár , Slovene writer in Hungary (b. 1848 )
September 27 – Adelina Patti , Italian opera singer (b. 1843 )
September 29 – Masataka Kawase , a.k.a. Kogorō Ishikawa, Japanese political activist and diplomat (b. 1840 )
October 2 – Victorino de la Plaza , Argentinian politician, 18th President of Argentina , leader (b. 1840 )
October 6 – Ricardo Palma , Peruvian writer (b. 1833 )
October 7 – Alfred Deakin , 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856 )
October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup , Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857 )
October 18 – Viscount William Astor , American financier and statesman (b. 1848 )
October 22 – John Cyril Porte , Irish-born British flying boat pioneer (b. 1884 )
October 23 – Charles Judd , British missionary to China (b. 1842 )
November 3 – Terauchi Masatake , 9th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852 )
November 9 – Eduard Müller , Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1848 )
November 15 – Alfred Werner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866 )
December 2
December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter (b. 1841 )
December 18 – Sir John Alcock , British aviator; pilot of first nonstop transatlantic flight in airplane, June 1919 (b. 1892 )
December 19 – Martin Savage , IRA commander (b. 1898 )
Physics – Johannes Stark
Chemistry – not awarded
Physiology or Medicine – Jules Bordet
Literature – Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
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^ Theodore Roosevelt Centre . Accessed 20 March 2014
^ a b MacMillan, Margaret (2002). Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World . Random House.
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^ Jankovics, Marcel, Húsz esztendő Pozsonyban (in Hungarian), pp. 65–67
^ Zaide, Sonia M. (1994), The Philippines: A Unique Nation , All-Nations Publishing Co., ISBN 978-971-642-071-5
^ Nicholson, G. W. L. (1962). Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War . Ottawa: Queen's Printer.
^ "QosFC: Club History" .
^ "WWI and the First Czechoslovak Republic" . Visit Bratislava . City of Bratislava. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2013-01-24 .
^ Kaba, John (1919). Politico-economic Review of Basarabia . United States: American Relief Administration. p. 14.
^ "The Legacy of One Man's Vision" . Aberystwyth University, Department of International Politics. Retrieved 2015-01-27 .
^ Beadle, Jeremy ; Harrison, Ian (2007). "Last time the British army used scaling ladders". Military . Firsts, Lasts & Onlys. London: Robson. p. 112. ISBN 9781905798063 .
^ Dyson, F. W.; Eddington, A. S.; Davidson, C. R. (1920). "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 220 (571–581): 291–333. Bibcode :1920RSPTA.220..291D . doi :10.1098/rsta.1920.0009 .
^ "Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official: result of overcoming obstacles by first Azerbaijani diplomats was international recognition in Versailles" . Today.az . 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2012-09-25 .
^ "1919, July 21: Dirigible (Balloon) Crash" . Chicago Public Library Archive. 1996. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved 2012-09-25 .
^ a b Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 138."2-Minute Wave of Silence" Revives a Time-honoured Tradition . Accessed on 5 June 2014.
^ Sykes, Christopher (1984). Nancy: the Life of Lady Astor . Academy Chicago Publishers. ISBN 978-0-89733-098-5 . The first elected was Constance Markievicz in 1918 .
^ Tonge, Stephen. "Weimar Germany 1919-1933" . European History . Retrieved 2012-09-25 .
^ Isaac Asimov. In Memory Yet Green . The date of my birth, as I celebrate it, was January 2, 1920. It could not have been later than that. It might, however, have been earlier. Allowing for the uncertainties of the times, of the lack of records , of the Jewish and Julian calendars , it might have been as early as October 4, 1919. There is, however, no way of finding out. My parents were always uncertain and it really doesn't matter. I celebrate January 2, 1920, so let it be.
Further reading
Klingaman, William K. 1919, The Year Our World Began (1987) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar. Primary sources and year books
Phelan, Paula (2007), 1919: Misfortune's End , ZAPmedia