* 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 )

* 1920 – Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer ( d. 1975 )

* Georg Gärtner ( born 1920 ), known as " Hitler ´ s last Soldier in America "

In that time he became acquainted with Theodor Adorno and befriended Georg Lukács, whose The Theory of the Novel ( 1920 ) much influenced him.

On December 4, 1920, the left wing of the USPD, with about 400, 000 members, merged into the KPD, forming the VKPD ( Vereinigte Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, " United Communist Party of Germany "), while the other half of the party, with about 340, 000 members and including three quarters of the 81 Reichstag members, continued under the name USPD ; led by Georg Ledebour and Arthur Crispien, they advocated a parliamentary democracy.

* February 15-Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen ( died 1920 ), Danish mathematician.

In 1920 Itten invited Paul Klee and Georg Muche to join him at the Bauhaus.

Fraenkel also was interested in the history of mathematics, writing in 1920 and 1930 about Gauss ' works in algebra, and he published a biography of Georg Cantor.

A teaching hospital from 1920 on, the Krankenhaus Moabit employed notable physicians like the Nobel Laureate Werner Forssmann, Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner and the resistance fighter Georg Groscurth.

The specific term " economic sociology " was first coined by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be used in the works of Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and Georg Simmel between 1890 and 1920.

Georg Ots, People's Artist of the USSR ( 21 March 1920, Petrograd, Russian SFSR – 5 September 1975, Tallinn, Estonia ) was an Estonian opera singer.

In 1920 he graduated from the Academy after having studied piano also with Leonid Kreutzer, composition with Friedrich Gernsheim and Georg Schumann.

Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen ( 15 February 1839 – 6 January 1920 ) was a Danish mathematician.

In November 1920 its penultimate head had adopted Prince Johann Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his sister Princess Marie Luise, children of Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Georg Lurich ( – 20 January 1920 ) was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century.

Following Georg Lurich's death on 20 January 1920 at the age of 43, many Estonians began embellishing his accomplishments with such voracity that Lurich's legend began taking on an almost mythological light.

The German classical historian Georg Busolt ( 1850 – 1920 ) derives the name from Graikos ," inhabitant of Graea, a town on the coast of Boeotia.

Georg Leber ( 7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012 ) was a German politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

1967 ); Andrei Bely ( 1880-1934 ): Petersburg ( 1913 ); Guillaume Apollinaire ( 1880-1918 ): Alcools ( 1913 ); Georg Trakl ( 1887-1914 ): Poems ( 1913 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ), Sonnets to Orpheus ( 1922 ), Duino Elegies ( 1922 ); Gottfried Benn ( 1886-1956 ): Morgue and other Poems ( 1912 ); Luigi Pirandello ( 1867-1936 ): Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1921 ); D. H. Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ): Sons and Lovers ( 1913 ), The Rainbow ( 1915 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ): Tarr ( 1918 ); W. B. Yeats ( 1865-1939 ): The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), Wild Swans at Coole ( 1917 ); Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888-1953 ): Anna Christie ( 1920 ), The Emperor Jones ( 1920 ); Karel Čapek ( 1890-1938 ): R. U. R.

* 1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist ( d. 1920 )

* 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician ( d. 1920 )

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

* 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer ( d. 1991 )

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

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

( 1999 ) The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920 – 1939.

* Sinesi, Michael Patrick ( 2001 ) Modern Bewegungskrieg: German Battle Doctrine, 1920 – 1940.

" A leaflet published in 1920 by German Jewish veterans in response to accusations of the lack of patriotism

* 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / DAP German Workers Party, which was soon renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers Party ) or Nazi Party in Munich.

* 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist

* 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer ( d. 1977 )

* 1855 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist ( d. 2002 )

* 1838 – Max Bruch, German composer ( d. 1920 )

* Diego von Bergen: German Ambassador to the Vatican ( 1915 – 1918, 1920 – 1943 )

* Rudolf Buttmann: German Ambassador to the Vatican ( 1920 – 1943 )

Complaints about the attitude of the German authorities led to rioting and eventually to the first two Silesian Uprisings ( 1919 and 1920 ).

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator