* 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 )

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, ( July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004 ) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.

* Pierre Auguste Roques ( 1856 – 1920 ), founder of the French Air Force and Minister of War in 1916.

After several years of silence, in 1920 he produced a tribute to his friend Debussy in the form of La plainte, au loin, du faune ... for piano, which was followed by Amours, a setting of a sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard, for voice and piano, published in 1924 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth.

Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de Coubertin's Paris, respectively.

Pierre Poujade ( 1 December 1920 – 27 August 2003 ) was a French populist politician after whom the Poujadist movement was named.

Pierre de Polignac, member of a cadet branch of one of France's most renowned ducal families, noble at least since the 12th century, duke in 1780, peer in 1817, and a descendant of Marie Antoinette's favourite, Yolande de Polatron, duchesse de Polignac ), he changed his name and coat of arms to those borne by the House of Grimaldi by Monegasque ordinance issued on 18 March 1920, the day before his wedding.

Pierre Lambert ( June 9, 1920 – January 16, 2008 ) ( real name Pierre Boussel ) was a French Trotskyist leader, who, for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste ( CCI ) which founded the Parti des Travailleurs.

Claude Cheysson ( born 13 April 1920 in Paris ) is a French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Pierre Mauroy from 1981 to 1984.

Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000 ) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the " Great Monarch " prophesied by Nostradamus.

Pierre Plantard was born in 1920, in Paris, the son of a butler and a concierge ( described as a cook for wealthy families in police reports of the 1940s ).

From 1920 to 1929 the Porters lived at 13 rue Monsieur, a house next door to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and with a garden adjoining the future residence of Nancy Mitford.

During the 1920 Tours Congress in which a majority of the SFIO decided to spin off to found the French Communist Party, Marcel Déat positioned himself at the right wing of the SFIO, taking part to the groupe de la Vie socialiste current, alongside Pierre Renaudel.

* POUJADE, Pierre Marie Raymond ( 1920 – 2003 ) Leader of anti-tax group the Union de Defense Commercants et Artisans.

In London in 1920 at the Lyric Theatre, Baliol Holloway was Pierre.

It was sold by the Marqués ' son to Vicomte Pillet-Will in 1879, an era that ended in 1920 with the sale to a syndicate initially headed by the broker Pierre Moreau.

Pierre Berton ( 1920 – 2004 ) was a Canadian author of non-fiction and a well-known television personality and journalist.

On 20 March 1920, shortly after Charlotte's marriage to Pierre de Polignac, he, like Jacques-François de Goyon-Matignon, took the title of Duke of Valentinois, having already changed his surname to Grimaldi.

* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )

* 1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2002 )

* 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.

* 1920 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian politician

* 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist

* 2012 – Ralph Raymond Loffmark, Canadian lawyer and politician ( b. 1920 )

* 1920 – Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian chemist ( d. 2002 )

* 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1984 )

* 1839 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian judge, author, and lyricist ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian ( d. 2011 )

* 1920 – Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.

The merger of these two police forces in 1920 formed the world famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

* 2012 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man ( b. 1920 )

* 1855 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1920 )

By 1920, the University of Manitoba was the largest university in the Canadian Prairies and the fifth largest in Canada.

* The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs ( annual, 1901 – 1938 ), full text for 1920 online and downloadable.

** Bill Reid, Canadian artist ( b. 1920 )

** The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police ( which is renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920 ).

** Robert Herbert McElroy, Canadian politician and merchant ( d. 1920 )

Arthur Hailey ( 5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004 ) was a British / Canadian novelist, whose works have sold more than 170 million copies in 40 languages.