* 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: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan ( called " the Mad Mullah " by the British ) dies and the longest and bloodiest colonial resistance war in Africa ends.

** Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist ( b. 1920 )

The new head of the Senussites maintained the friendly relations of his predecessors with Wadai, governing the order as regent for his young cousin, Mohammed Idris ( the future King Idris of Libya ), who signed the Acroma treaty with the Italians in 1917, and was later recognized by them as Emir of Cyrenaica on October 25, 1920.

The most popular modern singers of maqam are Rachid Al-Qundarchi ( 1887 – 1945 ), Youssouf Omar ( 1918 – 1987 ), Nazem Al-Ghazali ( 1920 – 1963 ), Salim Shibbeth ( born 1908 ), Hassan Chewke ( 1912 – 1962 ), Najim Al-Sheikhli ( 1893 – 1938 ), Mohammed Al-Qubanchi ( 1900 – 1989 ), Hamid Al Saadi ( 1959 -) and Farida Mohammad Ali ( 1963-).

Known variously as Shimbiris / Shimbir Beris ( abode of the birds ), Surad Cad, and other names, the peak was one of the locations where Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan built a fort, which was subsequently attacked and destroyed by British forces in 1920.

In the government area of the town of Erigavo referred to as the Shaab, a simple masonry monument holds the wrecked engine block of a British biplane that crashed in the area in 1920 while carrying out bombing operations against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.

The last ruling monarch, Mohammed Alim Khan ( d. 1944 ), of Genghisid ancestry was overthrown by Red Army in 1920.

Perhaps the best known Somali Salihiyah figure was Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, leader of a lengthy resistance to the British until 1920.

* Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade ( 1920 – 1973 ) – prominent Somali poet known for his nationalist poems such as Kana siib Kana Saar.

Nurul Hossain also published Weekly Titas, Weekly Deshdarpan Edited and Published by Journalist, Poet and Rhyme Writer, Jurist and Educationist Dr Mohammed Yeasin Khan LLB Honours, LLM, PhD ( England ), now an Advocate-on-Record of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, who in his PhD thesis ‘ Protection and Promotion of Human Rights for Peace and Development ’ recommended a new doctrine of world peace: ‘ The Man for Man Theory of World Peace ’( 1981 ), Weekly Penbridg ( 1999 ), Fortnightly Charch ( 1997 ); Periodicals-Sahitya Academy Patrika, Nasirnagar Barta, Sarail Barta, Muktaprabaha ; extinct-Bangabandhu ( 1875, Kalikachha ), Usha ( 1893 ), Hira ( 1894 ), Sudhakar ( nineteenth century ), Santan ( 1913 ), Palli Pradip ( 1920, Kalikachha ), Al Bushra ( 1921 ), Prajabandhu ( 1920 ), Chunta Prakash ( 1926 ), Tripura Prakash ( 1301 BS ), Rayat Bandhu ( 1929, Kalikachha ), Jayanti ( nineteenth century ), Sebak ( 1957 ), Parichaya ( 1964 ), Samaj ( 1966 ), Pari ( 1966 ), Vhela ( 1967 ), Tridhara ( 1967 ), Pratinidhi ( 1970 ), Pratibedan ( 1979 ), Renessa ( 1988 ), Belaseshe ( 1992, Sarail )

Under the leadership of Sayid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Dhulbahante waged war against Britain and Ethiopia for over twenty years, which ended with the British Royal Air Force bombing their command center in Taleex in 1920.

Samuel's terms were accepted, he returned to Jerusalem, leaving Captain Alex Kirkbride as the British representative east of the Jordan until the arrival on 21 November 1920 of Abdullah, the brother of recently deposed King Faisal, who marched into Ma ' an at the head of an army of 300 men.

* Ovadia Yosef ( born 1920 ), Israeli rabbi, born Abdullah Youssef

In 1920, he was assassinated by his cousin, Abdullah bin Talal ( a brother of the 12th amir ).

High Commissioner with Col. Lawrence, Emir Abdullah, Air Marshal Geoffrey Salmond | Salmond and Sir Wyndham Deedes, 1920.

The Hashemite emir Abdullah I arrived in Ma ' an in 1920 with several hundred fighters in his attempt to restore the Sharifian throne in Damascus following its overthrow by France.

On 2 February 1920, Khiva's last Kungrad khan, Sayid Abdullah, abdicated and a short-lived Khorezm People ’ s Soviet Republic ( later the Khorezm SSR ) was created out of the territory of the old Khanate of Khiva, before in 1924 it was finally incorporated into the Soviet Union, with the former Khanate divided between the new Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR.

* Sayid Abdullah ( 1 October 1918 – 1 February 1920 )

* 1920 – King Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Malaysia ( d. 2000 )

In 1920, the British launched their fifth and final expedition against Hassan and his followers.

After 1917, according to Payne, there was a general deterioration both in the quantity and quality of Delius's output as illness took hold, though Payne exempts the incidental music to Hassan ( 1920 – 23 ) from condemnation, believing that it contains some of Delius's best work.

The KAR were part of the British air and ground force that successfully defeated Hassan in 1920.

Hassan al-Amri () ( 1920 – 1989 ) Known as The General of Yemen.

Her father, born Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff ( March 21, 1920 – March 6, 2009 ), worked at a race track ; he was a Bulgarian Muslim immigrant, born in Oraio, Xanthi, Greece, and lived in Bulgaria, where his half brother Ferhat still lives, before moving to the United States on May 4, 1949.

* General Hassan Aryani-Imperial Iranian Air Force, killed in a hang-gliding accident in 1975 ; based on HE General Muhammad Amir Khatami, CVO ( 1920 – 1975 ), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who served as Chief Pilot to the Shah and was married to one of his sisters, HIH Fatimeh Pahlavi ( 1928 – 1987 )

The campaign, which encompassed the army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, succeeded in defeating Hassan in 1920, after two decades of conflict.

Majrooh Sultanpuri was born as Asrar ul Hassan Khan in Nizamabad ( Azamgarh ) where his father was posted in the Police Department though the family was from Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh in either 1919 or 1920.