1920 in the United States

Events from the year 1920 in the United States.

1920
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
See also:

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • July 1 – The Oahu sugar strike of 1920 ends.
  • July 6 – Lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur in Paris, Texas.
  • July 29 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

August

September

October–November

December

Undated

  • Black Cross Nurses founded.
  • Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twain's genius was twisted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America. This begins a reassessment of Twain, who has been seen hitherto mainly as a humorous entertainer, and his contemporaries.

Ongoing

Sport

Births

January

  • January 1 – Pete Turnham, American politician (died 2019)
  • January 4 – Cris Alexander, actor, singer, dancer, designer and photographer (died 2012)
  • January 6 – Early Wynn, baseball player (died 1999)
  • January 8
    • Richard Benedict, actor and director (died 1984)
    • Gordon Kahl, tax protester and cop-killer (died 1983)
  • January 10 – Max Patkin, baseball player and clown (died 1999)
  • January 12 – James Farmer, civil rights leader (died 1999)
  • January 15
  • January 16
  • January 19 – Buddy O'Grady, basketball player, coach (died 1992)
  • January 20
  • January 24 – Jerry Maren, actor (died 2018)
  • January 30 – Delbert Mann, television and film director (died 2007)
  • January 31 – James Yimm Lee, martial arts pioneer, teacher, author and publisher (died 1972)

February

  • February 3
    • Russell Arms, American actor and singer (died 2012)
    • Henry Heimlich, thoracic surgeon (died 2016)
    • George Armitage Miller, psychologist (died 2012)
  • February 8 – George W. George, theater, Broadway and film producer (died 2007)
  • February 11 – Billy Halop, actor (died 1976)
  • February 12
    • William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian (died 2000)
    • Bill Pitman, musician (died 2022)
  • February 17 – Annie Glenn, disability, communication disorder activist (died 2020)
  • February 18
  • February 20 – Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ("Kick" Kennedy), socialite (killed in aviation accident 1948)
  • February 22 – Burt L. Talcott, American politician (died 2016)
  • February 26 – Tony Randall, actor (died 2004)
  • February 29 – Howard Nemerov, poet (died 1991)

March

April

May

  • May 7 James B. Pearson, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1962 to 1978 (died 2009)
  • May 8
  • May 10 Jeff Cooper, soldier and journalist (died 2006)
  • May 11
    • Gene Hermanski, baseball player (died 2010)
    • Denver Pyle, actor (died 1997)
  • May 23 Helen O'Connell, singer (died 1993)
  • May 26 Peggy Lee, singer (died 2002)
  • May 28 Gene Levitt, television writer, producer and director (died 1999)
  • May 30 Franklin Schaffner, film and television director (died 1989)

June

  • June 2 – Tex Schramm, American football executive (died 2003)
  • June 11
  • June 12
  • June 22
    • Paul Frees, voice actor (died 1986)
    • Jack Karwales, American football player (died 2004)
    • Walt Masterson, baseball pitcher (died 2008)
    • Lester Wunderman, executive (died 2019)
  • June 25 – Ozan Marsh, pianist (died 1992)
  • June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, animator (died 2013)

July

  • July 4
    • Norm Drucker, basketball player and referee (died 2015)
    • Leona Helmsley, born Lena Rosenthal, businesswoman and tax evader (died 2007)
  • July 5 – Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
  • July 7
  • July 9 – Robert H. B. Baldwin, banker and Under Secretary of the Navy (died 2016)
  • July 10 – Owen Chamberlain, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
  • July 11 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (died 1985)
  • July 15 – Theresa Kobuszewski, underhand baseball pitcher (died 2005)
  • July 16
    • Henry Williams Hise, Marine Corps Brigadier General (died 2010)
    • Larry Jansen, baseball pitcher, coach (died 2009)
    • Phillip Pine, screen actor (died 2006)
    • Ulysses S. Washington, American college football player and coach (died 2018)
  • July 19 – Robert Mann, violinist (died 2018)
  • July 24 – Bella Abzug, politician (died 1998)

August

September

  • September 1 – Richard Farnsworth, actor, stuntman (died 2000)
  • September 3 – Sterling Lord, literary agent and editor (died 2022)[19]
  • September 5 – Apolonia Muñoz Abarca, health professional and reproductive rights advocate (died 2009)
  • September 7 – Al Caiola, guitarist and composer (died 2016)
  • September 8 – Lawrence LeShan, psychologist (died 2020)
  • September 13 – Alan Sagner, politician and public servant (died 2018)
  • September 14
  • September 15 – Dave Garcia, baseball coach, manager (died 2018)
  • September 17 – Marjorie Holt, politician (died 2018)
  • September 18 – Jack Warden, actor (died 2006)
  • September 19 – Roger Angell, journalist, author, and editor (died 2022)
  • September 22 – William H. Riker, political scientist (died 1993)
  • September 23 – Mickey Rooney, film actor (died 2014)
  • September 24
    • Richard Bong, fighter ace (killed in aviation accident 1945)
    • Harber H. Hall, politician (died 2020)
  • September 27 – William Conrad, actor (died 1994)
  • September 30 – Milton P. Rice, politician (died 2018)

October

November

  • November 5
  • November 8
    • Esther Rolle, African-American television actress (died 1998)
    • Wally Westlake, baseball player (died 2019)
  • November 13
    • Jack Elam, screen Western actor (died 2003)
    • Edward Hughes, Catholic bishop (died 2012)
    • Georg Olden, African-American graphic designer (died 1975)
  • November 19 – Gene Tierney, actress (died 1991)
  • November 21
  • November 29 – Bob Wolff, sportscaster (died 2017)
  • November 30 – Virginia Mayo, film actress (died 2005)

December

  • December 6 – Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer (died 2012)
  • December 14
    • Frank T. Cary, businessman (died 2006)
    • Clark Terry, swing and bebop trumpeter and composer (died 2015)
  • December 15
    • Bernice Falk Haydu, aviator (died 2021)
    • Eddie Robinson, baseball player (died 2021)
  • December 19
    • Little Jimmy Dickens, country music singer-songwriter (died 2015)
    • David Susskind, producer and talk show host (died 1987)
  • December 21
    • Iris Cummings, Olympic swimmer and aviator
    • Adele Goldstine, mathematician (died 1964)
    • Harold Lang, dancer and actor (died 1985)
    • J. Roderick MacArthur, businessman and philanthropist (died 1984)
  • December 30 – Jack Lord, actor (died 1998)[20]
  • December 31 – Rex Allen, screen actor, singer and songwriter, "the Arizona Cowboy" (d. 1999)

Deaths

  • January 8 – Maud Powell, violinist (born 1867)
  • January 14 – John Francis Dodge, automobile manufacturer (born 1864)
  • January 16 – Reginald De Koven, composer, conductor and critic (born 1859)
  • February 2 – Field Eugene Kindley, World War I aviator (born 1896)
  • February 3 – Frank Brown, 42nd Governor of Maryland from 1892 to 1896 (born 1846)
  • February 15 – Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (born 1837)
  • February 20
    • Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1920 (born 1872)
    • Robert Peary, Arctic explorer (born 1856)
  • February 27 – William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida from 1901 to 1905 (born 1863)
  • March 1
  • March 4 – Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1895 to 1907 (born 1843)
  • March 13 – Mary Devens, photographer (born 1857)
  • March 14 – Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (born 1834)
  • March 26
  • March 31 – Edwin Warfield, 45th Governor of Maryland from 1904 to 1908 (born 1848)
  • April 3 – Mary Katharine Brandegee, botanist (born 1844)
  • April 6 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, author and explorer (born 1849)
  • April 8
  • April 12 – Walter Edwards, film director (born 1870)
  • April 21 – Maria L. Sanford, educator (born 1836)
  • May 11 – William Dean Howells, novelist (born 1837)
  • May 10 – John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (born 1837)
  • May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (born 1824)
  • May 21 – Eleanor H. Porter, novelist (born 1868)
  • June 5 – Julia A. Moore, poet (born 1847)[21]
  • June 11 – Esther G. Frame, Quaker minister and evangelist (born 1840)
  • June 18 – Jewett W. Adams, 4th Governor of Nevada from 1883 to 1887 (born 1835)
  • July 2 – William Louis Marshall, general and engineer (born 1846)
  • July 6 – Andrew Traynor, soldier (born 1843)
  • July 17 – Charles E. Courtney, rower and coach (born 1849)
  • July 22 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir (born 1849)
  • August 1 – Frank Hanly, 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909 (born 1863)
  • August 2 – Ormer Locklear, pilot (born 1891)
  • August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (born 1841)
  • August 9 – Melvin O. Adams, attorney and railroad executive (born 1847)
  • August 10 – James O'Neill, actor (born 1847 in Ireland)
  • August 12 – Walter W. Winans, sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (born 1852)
  • August 17 – Ray Chapman, baseball player (born 1891)
  • August 26 – James Wilson, politician (born 1835 in Scotland)
  • September 5 – Robert Harron, actor (born 1893)
  • September 10 – Olive Thomas, silent film actress (born 1894)
  • October 2 – Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903 and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1904 to 1913 (born 1853)
  • October 17 – John Reed, journalist, in Moscow (born 1887)
  • November 2 – Louise Imogen Guiney, poet and essayist (born 1861)
  • November 3 – Warren Terhune, United States Navy Commander and 13th Governor of American Samoa (born 1869)
  • November 7 – Amelie Veiller Van Norman, educator and civic reformer (born 1844 in France)
  • November 25 – Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, women's suffrage campaigner (born 1872)
  • November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin, politician (born 1852)
  • December 9 – Mollie McConnell, actress (born 1865)
  • December 14
    • George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (born 1863 in Ireland)
    • George Gipp, American football player (born 1895)
  • December 18 – Casimiro Barela, politician, member of the Colorado Senate (born 1847)
  • December 24 – Stephen Mosher Wood, politician (born 1832)

See also

References

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  13. "Earl W Killian". Florida Resident Database. November 7, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  14. "Helen Thomas Fast Facts". CNN.com. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
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  19. Sterling Lord, agent who championed Jack Kerouac and more, dies at 102
  20. Chase's Calendar of Events 2021: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. October 27, 2020. p. 616. ISBN 978-1-64143-424-9.
  21. "Julia A. Moore | American poet | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved August 15, 2022.

Further reading

  • Burns, Eric. (2015). 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar. New York: Pegasus Books. IMDB 978-1-605-98772-9.
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