1920

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (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

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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
• September 22 - William H. Riker, political scientist

Deaths

Events

• Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp Belgium
• March - Worlds first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
• November - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote

Nobel Prizes

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