1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1920 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1920
MCMXX
Ab urbe condita2673
Armenian calendar1369
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6670
Baháʼí calendar76–77
Balinese saka calendar1841–1842
Bengali calendar1327
Berber calendar2870
British Regnal year10 Geo. 5 – 11 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2464
Burmese calendar1282
Byzantine calendar7428–7429
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
4617 or 4410
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4618 or 4411
Coptic calendar1636–1637
Discordian calendar3086
Ethiopian calendar1912–1913
Hebrew calendar5680–5681
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1976–1977
 - Shaka Samvat1841–1842
 - Kali Yuga5020–5021
Holocene calendar11920
Igbo calendar920–921
Iranian calendar1298–1299
Islamic calendar1338–1339
Japanese calendarTaishō 9
(大正9年)
Javanese calendar1850–1851
Juche calendar9
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4253
Minguo calendarROC 9
民國9年
Nanakshahi calendar452
Thai solar calendar2462–2463
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2046 or 1665 or 893
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
2047 or 1666 or 894

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January 17: Beginning of Prohibition in the United States

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1920 Summer Olympics

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Haiyuan earthquake

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Births edit

Births
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Isaac Asimov
 
John Maynard Smith
 
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
 
Federico Fellini
 
DeForest Kelley
 
Sir Alf Ramsey

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Farouk of Egypt
 
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
 
Tony Randall

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James Doohan
 
Boris Vian
 
Nicolaas Bloembergen
 
Josip Manolić

April edit

 
Toshiro Mifune
 
Richard von Weizsäcker

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Pope John Paul II
 
Peggy Lee

June edit

 
José López Portillo
 
Zeno Colò

July edit

 
Yul Brynner
 
Juan Antonio Samaranch
 
Émile Idée

August edit

 
P. D. James
 
Maureen O'Hara
 
Shelley Winters
 
Ray Bradbury
 
Prem Tinsulanonda
 
Ali Sabri

September edit

 
Chabuca Granda
 
Mickey Rooney

October edit

 
Walter Matthau
 
Montgomery Clift
 
Melina Mercouri
 
Timothy Leary

November edit

 
Esther Rolle
 
Gene Tierney
 
Stan Musial

December edit

 
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
 
Clark Terry

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

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Saint Zygmunt Gorazdowski
 
Edmund Barton
 
Amedeo Modigliani

February edit

 
Robert Peary

March edit

 
Evelina Haverfield

April edit

 
Srinivasa Ramanujan

May edit

 
James Colosimo

June edit

 
Essad Pasha
 
Max Weber

July edit

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Ray Chapman

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Peter Carl Fabergé

October edit

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Kevin Barry

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Nobel Prizes edit

 

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