* 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 )

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

1850 in New York City ) invented the vacuum hot table for relining paintings in 1920 ’ s, he filed a patent for the table in 1937.

* Johnson, Willis Fletcher, The History of Cuba, New York: B. F. Buck & Company, Inc., 1920

Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.

By 1920, Cambridge was one of the main industrial cities of New England, with nearly 120, 000 residents.

* 1920 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach ( d. 2012 )

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

In 1920, he became the stage manager for the Knickerbocker Players, a troupe that shuttled between Syracuse and Rochester, New York, and the following year he was hired as general manager of the newly formed Lyceum Players, an upstate summer stock company.

Paul Van Arsdale ( b. 1920 ), a player from upstate New York, uses flexible hammers made from hacksaw blades, with leather-covered wooden blocks attached to the ends ( these are modeled after the hammers used by his grandfather, Jesse Martin ).

The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 and then re-established 1950 de facto at the Constitutive Convention in New York, de jure on September 10, 1951 when ten countries had become members.

Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount Jellicoe served as Governor-General of New Zealand from September 1920 to November 1924.

His dictum, " Architecture or Revolution ," developed in his articles in this journal, became his rallying cry for the book Vers une architecture ( Toward an Architecture, previously mistranslated into English as Towards a New Architecture ), which comprised selected articles he contributed to L ' Esprit Nouveau between 1920 and 1923.

* 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

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

* Monk Eastman ( 1875 – 1920 ), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang

The first simple, two-pole magnetron was developed in 1920 by Albert Hull at General Electric's Research Laboratories ( Schenectady, New York ), as an outgrowth of his work on the magnetic control of vacuum tubes in an attempt to work around the patents held by Lee De Forest on electrostatic control.

The Country Party was formally founded in 1913 in Western Australia, and nationally in 1920 from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union ( VFU ) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales.