* 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 )

Although it draws heavily on symbiosis ideas first put forward by mid-19th century scientists and by Merezhkovsky ( 1905 ) and Ivan Wallin ( 1920 ) in the early-20th century, Margulis's endosymbiotic theory formulation is the first to rely on direct microbiological observations ( as opposed to paleontological or zoological observations which were previously the norm for new works in evolutionary biology ).

* Ivan the Terrible ( Treblinka guard ) ( born c. 1920 ), notorious guard ( presumed Ukrainian ) at the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp

John Demjanjuk ( born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk ; ; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012 ) was a Ukrainian-American convicted for war crimes as an accessory to the murder of 27, 900 Jews while acting as a guard at the Sobibor Nazi German extermination camp.

The Bristol plane piloted by Capitain Ivan Lamb, Toncontín, 1920

They produced Kissing Time ( 1919, with a book by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and music by Ivan Caryll ), followed by A Night Out ( 1920 ), both starring Stanley Holloway.

* Ivan Dresser-Class of 1919-gold medalist in the 3000 meter track & field event at the 1920 Olympic Games

Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (; February 11 / 23, 1832, Ranenburg-February 15, 1920 ) was an anti-Normanist Russian historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks.

In Yugoslavia there was heavy Dada activity between 1920 and 1922 run mainly by Dragan Aleksić and including Mihailo S. Petrov, Zenitist's two brothers Ljubomir Micić and Branko Ve Poljanski.

* Valeri Petrov ( b. 1920 ), writer

The most intensive use of armoured trains was during the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 1920 ).

Vkhutemas, the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, has been compared to Bauhaus.

The last major cavalry battle was the Battle of Komarów in 1920, between Poland and the Russian Bolsheviks.

* 1920 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine ( d. 1944 )

* 1920 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.

* 1920 – Fyodor Abramov, Russian novelist ( d. 1983 )

Similarly, it was presented to various government officials, military and diplomatic, in the United States and in Europe ( 1919 – 1920 ), in opposition to the Russian Revolution, and to influence the terms of the peace settlement which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

In 1920 after the defeat of the Russian White army of General Pyotr Wrangel, a significant number of emigre soldiers and their families evacuated to Gallipoli from the Crimea.

* 1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian actor ( d. 1985 )

Many Kazakhs and Russian fought the communist takeover and resisted their control until 1920.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

A rising sense of Latvian nationalism from the 1850s onwards bore fruit after World War I when, after two years of struggle in the Russian Civil War, Latvia finally won sovereign independence recognised by Russia in 1920 and by the international community in 1921.

* 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler ( d. 1920 )

* 2011 – Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer ( b. 1920 )

* 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

* 1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander ( d. 1920 )

By 1920 the coffins were interred in a former Russian Mission in Beijing, now beneath a parking area.

* 1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general ( d. 1920 )

The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeevich Termen ( known in the West as Léon Theremin ) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian civil war.

However, after a short period of independence, on 29 November 1920, the Bolshevik 11th Red Army entered Yerevan during the Russian Civil War, on 29 November 1920, and Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union on 2 December 1920.