* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

* 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

* 1920 – Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver ( d. 1994 )

* 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress ( d. 1988 )

* 1867 – Evelina Haverfield English activist ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician ( d. 1993 )

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

* 1920 – Neville Brand, American actor ( d. 1992 )

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist

* 1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player ( d. 1971 )

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

He became a naturalized U. S. citizen in 1920, taking the name Frank Russell Capra.

* 1920 – Frank Herbert, American writer ( d. 1986 )

In an idea originated by the Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd, formed in 1920, Frank Smith originally packaged a twist of salt with his crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were then sold around London.

* August 4 – Frank Fontaine, American comedian and singer ( b. 1920 )

** Frank Herbert, American author ( b. 1920 )

** Frank Fennelly, Major League Baseball player ( d. 1920 )

* Motion Study for the Handicapped ( 1920 ) with Frank B. Gilbreth

* Frank O. Slater ( born 1920 ), United States Navy sailor

* Frank T. Cary ( 1920 – 2006 ), American businessman

In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks ( who later gained fame as an air racer ) gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life.

The Orpington Car, designed by Frank Smith and built by Smith & Milroy Ltd at their works in Wellington Road, was shown at the 1920 Motor Show.

* Frank Fontaine ( 1920 – 1978 ), comedian, Crazy Guggenheim on The Jackie Gleason Show

* Reuven Frank ( 1920 – 2006 ), former NBC News president and pioneer of Vietnam War-era news coverage.

In 1916, the world's first commercially licensed radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting here as experimental station 8XK from a small garage owned by Frank Conrad before it was launched with its current call letters on November 2, 1920.

The 1920 appointment of Frank Aydelotte as President began the development of the school's modern academic focus, particularly with his vision for the Honors program, based on his experience as a Rhodes Scholar.

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900, and Baum created a number of other successful Oz-oriented books in the period from 1904 to 1920.

Radio historians Frank Buxton and Bill Owen, in The Big Broadcast 1920 – 1950, noted that The Goldbergs, which they considered a soap opera as much as a comedy, " differed from most of the other ' soaps ' in that its leading characters lived through relatively normal situations.

After experiencing finanicial losses from 1912 – 1919, the team was sold to Art Ranney, an Akron businessman and former football player at the University of Akron, and Frank Nied, a cigar store proprietor in 1920.

* David Bryn-Jones, biographer of U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, taught history, economics, and international relations at Carleton from 1920 to 1951.

Frank Munsey acquired the Telegram in 1920, which ceased its connection to the Herald.

The Assistant Architects were: George Esselmont Gordon Leith, Wilfred Clement von Berg, Charles Henry Holden ( who in 1920 became a Principal Architect ), William Harrison Cowlishaw, William Bryce Binnie, George Hartley Goldsmith, Frank Higginson, Arthur James Scott Hutton, Noel Ackroyd Rew, and John Reginald Truelove.

Lepper teamed up with Hughitt and Patterson in early 1920 to create the Buffalo All-Americans, then quickly sold the team to Frank McNeil, a somewhat abrasive and aggressive owner who was able to get the team into the National Football League for its first season.

The Group of Seven — sometimes known as the Algonquin school — were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael ( 1890 – 1945 ), Lawren Harris ( 1885 – 1970 ), A. Y. Jackson ( 1882 – 1972 ), Frank Johnston ( 1888 – 1949 ), Arthur Lismer ( 1885 – 1969 ), J. E. H. MacDonald ( 1873 – 1932 ), and Frederick Varley ( 1881 – 1969 ).