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

In 1920, Aleksandr Zatayevich, a Russian official, created major works of art music with melodies and other elements of Kazakh folk music.

In June 1920, America and its allied coalition partners withdrew from Vladivostok after the capture and execution of White Army leader Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak by the Red Army.

In 1920 near the end of the Russian Civil War, after the White Russian Army under Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak was defeated and the Bolsheviks occupied Siberia, a mass exodus of Russian refugees moved into Manchuria.

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (, – 7 February 1920 ) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later-the Supreme ruler of the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War.

Last photo of Admiral Kolchak taken before his execution in 1920

* Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (; 1873 – 1920 ), Russian naval commander, head of anti-Bolshevik White forces

By 1920, the Red Army, under its commander Trotsky, had largely defeated the royalist White Armies.

* July 3 – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander ( d. 1920 )

Admiral Adolf von Trotha, the Navy's commander came out in the support of the Kapp putsch as soon as he learned of it on March 13, 1920.

* Lothar von Trotha ( 1848 – 1920 ), a German commander who instigated the Herero massacre

In May 1920 he was made chief of staff to the 3rd Cavalry Division, based in Weimar, thus achieving his early ambition of being a cavalry commander.

During the Ruhr Uprising in 1920 he was battalion commander of the " III.

Nagumo graduated from the Naval War College, and was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1920.

In February 1920 Wilson persuaded the Cabinet to withdraw the remaining 3 battalions from Batum, but the Foreign Secretary Curzon had the decision reversed on his return from holiday, although to Curzon ’ s fury ( he thought it “ abuse of authority ”) Wilson gave the local commander permission to withdraw if necessary.

By October 1920 the local British commander Sir Aylmer Haldane managed to restore order but on 10 December Wilson minuted his agreement to an appraisal by the Director of Military Operations that “ we ran things too fine and that a great disaster was only narrowly avoided ”.

* John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford ( 1920 – 2009 )-naval commander, clergyman, politician ( Sandford Principle )

Due to his injuries, he retired in August 1920, following his promotion to commander.

At the same time the First Dail saw the possibilities, and Sean Wall, Chairman of Limerick County Council in 1920 and commander of the East Limerick IRA, asked the Council to make another survey of river levels but was killed in a gunfight at Annacotty in May 1921.

He fought in World War I as a tank commander, studied at Université Laval, and was admitted to the bar of Quebec in 1920.

In April 1920 No. 59 TDS handed over to No. 3 Flying Training School whose first commander was Squadron Leader A T Harris, later to become known as Air Marshal Arthur ' Bomber ' Harris.

From 1917 to 1920, Davis was assigned to the 9th Cavalry at Camp Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands, as supply officer, commander of 3rd Squadron, and then of 1st Squadron.

In the crucial month of August 1920 alone, Polish cryptologists decrypted 410 signals: from Soviet General Mikhail Tukhachevsky, commander of the northern front ; from Leon Trotsky, Soviet commissar of war ; from commanders of armies, e. g. the commander of the IV Army, Sergieyev ; the commander of the Horse Army, Semyon Budionny ; the commander of the 3 Cavalry Corps, Gaya ; from the staffs of the XII, XV and XVI Armies ; from the staffs of the Mozyr Group ( named after the Belarussian city ); the Zolochiv Group ( after the Ukrainian town ); the Yakir Group General Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir ; from the 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 41, 44, 45, 53, 54, 58 and 60 Infantry Divisions ; from the 8 Cavalry Division, etc.

Returning to Japan after the war, Shimada held various staff positions in the 1920s as a staff officer the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in 1920, executive officer of the battleship in 1922, an instructor at the Naval War College in 1923 and commander of the 7th Submarine Division in 1926.

Reverted to basic rank of major and was director of the Army War College, 1919 – 1920 ; was promoted to colonel of cavalry and assigned as commander, District of Arizona, 1920 – 1921 ; was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army, April 1921 ; served as commandant of the United States Army Cavalry School, 1921 – 1923 ; commanded the Coast Artillery District of Manila, 1923 – 1924 ; was promoted to major general and assigned as chief of cavalry, 1924 – 1926 ; was assistant chief of staff, G – 3, of the Army, 1926 – 1927, then commanded the Fourth Corps Area, 1927, the Panama Canal Division, 1927 – 1928, the Panama Canal Department, 1928 – 1930, and the Ninth Corps Area, 1930 – 1935 ; was commandant of the Army War College, 1935 ; was promoted to general, October 1935 ; was chief of staff of the United States Army, October 2, 1935 – August 31, 1939 ; Malin Craig Chief of Staff of the United States Army | U. S. Army Chief of staff ( in the centre of the pictire ) riding in an Armistice Day parade with Fulgencio Batista ( on left in the picture ) in Washington D. C .,.

By 1920, Harley-Davidson was the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.

Syndicalism can be accurately divided into the purely economic focused camp, exemplified by the Italian USI ( Unione Sindacale Italiana, the largest Italian syndicalist union in 1920, taking part in Biennio rosso ) and the anarcho syndicalism of the CNT ( national confederation of labour ), taking both political and economic action, wishing to take control of both workplace and political life, while syndicalism has traditionally focused on the economic sector alone.

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

In the 1920 election, he and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, defeated Democrat and fellow Ohioan James M. Cox in the largest presidential popular vote landslide ( 60. 36 % to 34. 19 %) since popular vote totals were first recorded in 1824.

Several sports clubs were founded across the entire territory, among them were some of the largest and oldest sports organizations of Mozambique like Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques established in 1920.

The Finnish University of Turku is the second largest university in Finland ( 18, 000 students ), as measured by student enrollment, and one of the oldest as well, having been founded in 1920.

William Chester Minor, also known as W. C. Minor ( June 1834 – March 26, 1920 ) was an American army surgeon who, later, was one of the largest contributors of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Juneau was the largest city in Alaska during the inter-war years, passing Fairbanks in the 1920 census and displaced by Anchorage in 1950.

Clarksdale, one of the county seats, is now the largest and most important city in the county, and had a population of 7, 500 in 1920.

By 1920, New Albany was the largest producer of plywood and veneer in the world with other producers including Indiana Veneer Panel Company and Hoosier Panel Company.

By 1920 Wichita had entered the top 100 largest cities in the United States and by 1930 reached 77th in rank.

It was one of the nation's 100 largest cities for many US Census counts, from 1890 to 1960, including 1920, when it had over 100, 000 residents for the first time.

* Percy H. Johnston, president of Chemical 1920 – 1946, responsible for building Chemical into one of the largest U. S. banks.

Naturally by 1920, the town became the largest in the Jackson Parish, with " a thousand residents, having a post office, three hotels, a newspaper, a company commissary, three doctors, a drug store, three churches, a jail, a bank, its own telephone exchange and Jackson Parish's first high school with six hundred pupils " ( Busbice, 6 ).

In 1920 developers embarked on an effort to establish the largest Hydroelectric Power Plant system in California's Northeast Wilderness.

The population began with 9 people, grew to its largest 1, 260 in 1860, but by 1920, was 610.

In 1920, this was the largest coal tipple in the world.

Gold was born on May 22, 1920 in Vienna, Austria to Max Gold, a wealthy Jewish industrialist ( pre-war ) who ran one of Austria's largest mining and metal fabrication companies, and German former actress Josefine Martin.

For ecclesiastical ( i. e. Church of England ) purposes, several areas of England were part of Welsh dioceses until disestablishment of the Church in Wales in 1920, the area around Oswestry, Shropshire — part of St Asaph diocese — being the largest.

In the same month, Samsung unveiled what was then the world's largest OLED Television at 40-inch with a Full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixel.

It was the first time since 1920 that the Social Democratic Party lost its position as the largest party in the Folketing ( parliament ), mainly due to a loss of working class votes to Dansk Folkeparti ( The Danish People's Party ).

The province was one of the largest provinces in the Philippines during that time, spanning more than 20, 000 square kilometers ; it lasted from 1920 until 1967, when the province split into three provinces, namely: Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, and Davao del Sur.

During the elections for the national assembly on January 19, 1919, from which the SPD emerged as the strongest party with 37. 9 % of the votes, the USPD only managed to attract 7. 6 %; nevertheless, the party's strong support for the introduction of a system of councils ( Räterepublik ) instead of a parliamentary democracy attracted many former SPD members, and in spring 1920, the USPD had grown to more than 750, 000 members, managing to increase their share of votes to 17. 9 % during the parliamentary elections on June 6, 1920 and becoming one of the largest fractions in the new Reichstag, second only to the SPD ( 21. 7 %).