* 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 )

In fact, the " Twenty-Five Point Programme " of the Nazi party, adopted in 1920, demanded " the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations.

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.

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.

* 1920 – Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal ( d. 1947 )

In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, a swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920.

** John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant ( b. 1920 )

After the Völkischer Beobachter became the Nazi party newspaper ( December, 1920 ), Rosenberg became its editor in 1923.

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

By the end of February 1920, the DAP had been reconstituted as the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NSDAP ), or National Socialist German Workers ' Party, generally known as the " Nazi Party ".

* Miles Lerman ( 1920 – 2008 ), Holocaust survivor who fought as a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II in Nazi occupied Poland and helped to plan and create the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C.

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.

In August 2012, the original manuscript of Panofsky's Habilitationsschrift of 1920, which is entitled " Die Gestaltungsprinzipien Michelangelos, besonders in ihrem Verhältnis zu denen Raffaels ", was found in an old Nazi safe in Munich's Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.

Stephen Halbrook, in " Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews ," 17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-532 ( 2000 ), asserts that German arms laws were extremely lax, and even under the 1920 " Law on the Disarmament of the People ", only items such as grenades and machineguns were banned, however small arms such as rifles and pistols remained in common use.

" Mary Wigman-Schule " school existed from 1920 until 1942 and continued to operate under Nazi rule in World War II, when she obeyed the rule of government and fired all her Jewish dancers from her schools in Germany.

Hermann Esser ( 29 July 1900 – 7 February 1981 ) entered the Nazi party with Adolf Hitler in 1920, became the editor of the Nazi paper, Völkischer Beobachter, and a Nazi member of the Reichstag.

Noske was Governor of the Province of Hanover from 1920 on, but was dismissed by the Nazi government in 1933.

* Victor Klemperer 1920 – 1935 – Professor for romance studies ; He wrote “ LTI ”, an analysis of the Nazi's language, and detailed dairies during the Nazi time.

The Völkischer Beobachter (" völkisch Observer ") was the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( NSDAP or Nazi Party ) from 1920.

On February 24, 1920, Adolf Hitler proclaimed the twenty-five theses of the National Socialist program at the Hofbräuhaus, which reconstituted the German Workers ' Party as the National Socialist German Workers ' Party, known as the Nazi Party.

The Vienna Awards are two arbitral awards by which arbiters of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sought to enforce peacefully the claims of Hungary on territory it had lost in 1920 when it signed the Treaty of Trianon.

By the First Vienna Award, arbiters from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sought a non-violent way to enforce the territorial claims of Hungary, in revision of the Treaty of Trianon of 1920.

In the spring of 1920 he engineered the change of name to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei-NSDAP ), usually known as the Nazi party ( or, less commonly, the National Socialist party ).