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19201920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January February March April-May * April 10 - Frank Cavaliero born. Governor declares Holiday. * May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint. June-July * July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast. August-September * August 18 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage. October-November * November 2 - In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.* November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey. December Undated Births January - January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
- January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author (d. 1992)
- January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
- January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
- January 6 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1999)
- January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- January 19 - Javier Prez de Cullar, United Nations Secretary General
- January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
- January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- January 20 - John O'Connor, Cardinal of New York City
- January 23 - Ray Abrams, tenor saxophonist
- January 23 - Gottfried Bhm, architect
- January 27 - Frankie Albert, American football star
- January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and director
- January 31 - Paul Warnke, diplomat
February-March - February 7 - An Wang, computer pioneer (d. 1990)
- February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
- February 11 - Daniel Francis Galouye, American science fiction author
- February 11 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (d. 1965)
- February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, artist (d. 1996)
- February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
- February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
- February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
- February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
- February 26 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (d. 1991)
- March 3 - Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
- March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian actor
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
- March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
- March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
- March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
April-July - April 1 - Toshir Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
- April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer (d. 1982)
- April 5 - Arther Hailey, American writer
- April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
- April 10 - Frank Cavaliero, pigeon racer and real estate tycoon
- April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise
- April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, professor of psychiatry and writer
- April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
- April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
- April 29 - Harold Shapero, composer
- May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
- May 6 - Ross Hunter, producer
- May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
- May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
- May 18 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
- May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
- May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
- May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
- June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (Mad Magazine) (d. 2002)
- July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official and IOC president
- July 21 - Isaac Stern, violinist (d. 2001)
August-December - August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist
- August 16 - Charles Bukowski, writer (d. 1994)
- August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin (d. 1996)
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer
- August 29 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer
- September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
- September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
- September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993])
- October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
- October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
- October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
- October 9 - Jens Bjrneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
- October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
- October 31 - Fritz Walter, German football player (d. 2002)
- November 21 - Stan Musial, Baseball Hall of Famer
- November 23 - Paul Celan, Romanian born German language poet
- November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, later Raja of Perlis and 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2000)
- December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
- December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944)
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