* 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 – Helmut Newton, German photographer ( d. 2004 )

* February 28 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist ( b. 1920 )

* 1920 in art-Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Elaine Hamilton-O ' Neal, Death of Amedeo Modigliani

In 1946, Helmut Newton ( 1920 – 2004 ) established himself as a fashion photographer in Melbourne.

* Helmut Newton, photographer, born October 31, 1920, Innsbrucker Straße 24, died January 23, 2004 in West Hollywood, buried in the Städtischer Friedhof III cemetery, Friedenau

Buried here are Ferruccio Busoni ( 1866 – 1924 ), Marlene Dietrich ( 1901 – 1992 ) and Helmut Newton ( 1920 – 2004 ).

Helmut Hasse's accomplished this in a proof using his local-global principle and the fact that the theory is relatively simple for p-adic systems in October of 1920.

* 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 )

* 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