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This article is about the year 1920. For the lm, see The forces of Russian White Admiral
1920 (lm). Alexander Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
The Great Siberian Ice March ensues.
1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday The New York State Assembly refuses to seat
(dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar and a ve duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
leap year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter ED)
of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common January 9 Thousands of onlookers watch as The
Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th Human Fly George Polley climbs the Woolworth
year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th Building in New York City. He reaches the 30th
century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the oor before being arrested.
start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead
January 10 League of Nations Covenant enters
of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use
into force. On January 16 the organization holds its
until 1923.
rst council meeting, in Paris.
January 16
January 16: Beginning of Prohibition in the United States January 19 The United States Senate votes against
joining the League of Nations.
January 4,025 suspected communists and anar- January 22 The Australian Country Party is o-
chists arrested and held without trial in the United cially formed, led by Nelson Pollard.
States following raids in several cities.
January 23 The Netherlands refuses to extradite
January 1 the German Kaiser.
Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox for January 28 El Tercio de Extranjeros, the Regi-
$125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a ment of Foreigners, later the Spanish Legion, is es-
player at that time. tablished by decree of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
Bolsheviks increase troops from four divisions
to twenty along the Polish border January 30 The oldest surviving pro wrestling
match on lm takes place, with Joe Stecher defeat-
January 7 ing Earl Caddock.
1
2 1 EVENTS
February 7 Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pe- The worlds rst peaceful establishment of a
pelyayev are executed by ring squad near Irkutsk. social democratic government takes place in
Sweden as Hjalmar Branting takes over as
February 9 The Svalbard Treaty, signed by mem- Prime Minister when Nils Edn leaves oce.
bers of the League of Nations in Paris, recog-
The Baylor Business Mens Club changes its
nises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic
name to the Baylor University Chamber of
archipelago of Svalbard (at this time called Spitzber-
Commerce.
gen) while giving the other signatories economic
rights in the islands. March 1317 Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von
Lttwitz's 'Kapp Putsch', an attempted coup in Ger-
February 10 General Jzef Haller rst performs
many, briey ousts the Weimar Republic govern-
Polands Wedding to the Sea, a symbolic celebration
ment from Berlin but fails due to public resistance
of the restitution of Polish access to the Baltic Sea.
and a general strike.
February 1224 Conference of London: Leaders March 15 The Ruhr Red Army, a communist army
of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to 60,000 men strong, is formed in Germany.
discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.
March 1516 Military occupation of Constantino-
February 13 Switzerland rejoins the League of Na- ple by British Empire forces acting for the Allied
tions. Powers against the Turkish National Movement.
Retrospectively, the Grand National Assembly of
February 14 The League of Women Voters is
Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the
founded in Chicago.
Ottoman regime in Istanbul.[3]
February 17 A woman named Anna Anderson
March 18 Greece begins using the Gregorian cal-
tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to
endar.
a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand
Duchess Anastasia of Russia. March 19 The United States Congress refuses to
ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
February 19 The United States Senate refuses to
ratify the Treaty of Versailles. March 23 Admiral Mikls Horthy declares that
Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the
February 20 1920 Gori earthquake: An earth- throne.
quake hits Gori in the Democratic Republic of
Georgia, killing 114. March 25 Irish War of Independence: British re-
cruits to the Royal Irish Constabulary begin to arrive
February 21 The island province of Marinduque in Ireland. They become known from their impro-
in the Philippines archipelago is founded. vised uniforms as the "Black and Tans".[4]
February 22 In Emeryville, California, the rst dog March 26 The German government asks France
racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens. for permission to use its own troops against the re-
bellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied
February 24 Adolf Hitler presents his National So- area.
cialist Program in Munich to the German Workers
Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) which renames itself March 28 The 1920 Palm Sunday tornado out-
as the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche break hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South
Arbeiterpartei). of the United States.
1.5 May 3
April 6 The short-lived Far Eastern Republic is April 24 PolishSoviet War: Polish and anti-
declared in eastern Siberia. Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in So-
viet Ukraine.
April 11 Mexican Revolution: lvaro Obregn
ees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin April 26 The Khorezm Peoples Soviet Republic
his reputation; he ees to Guerrero where he joins is ocially created by Bolshevist Russia as the suc-
Fortunato Maycotte. cessor to the Khanate of Khiva.
April 1926 San Remo conference: Represen- April 28 The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
tatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom and is ocially created.
Japan meet to determine the League of Nations
mandates for administration of territories following 1.5 May
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.
May 2 The rst game of Negro National League
April 19 Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to
baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
the exchange of prisoners of war.
May 3 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic
Republic of Georgia.
May 7
PolishSoviet War: Polish troops occupy
Kiev. The government of the Ukrainian Peo-
ples Republic returns to the city.
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza
leaves Mexico City in a large train.
Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia rec-
ognizes independence of the Democratic Re-
public of Georgia only to invade the country
six months later.
May 15 Russian Revolution: Russian White sol-
dier Maria Bochkareva is executed in Soviet Russia.
May 16
Canonization of Joan of Arc. Over 30,000
people attend the ceremony in Rome, includ-
ing 140 descendants of Joan of Arcs family.
Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for
which the interior of St. Peters Basilica in
Rome is richly decorated.
A referendum in Switzerland is favorable to
joining the League of Nations.
1920 Summer Olympics
May 17
4 1 EVENTS
French and Belgian troops leave the cities they 1.7 July
have occupied in Germany.
July 1 Germany declares its neutrality in the war
The rst ight of Dutch air company KLM,
between Poland and Soviet Russia.
from Amsterdam to London, takes place.
July 2 PolishSoviet War: Red Army continues
May 19 Mexican Revolution: lvaro Obregn's
oensive into Poland.
troops enter Mexico City.
July 7 Arthur Meighen becomes Canadas ninth
May 20 Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Car-
prime minister.
ranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo.
Troops of Rodolfo Herrero attack him at night and July 11 In the East Prussian plebiscite the local
shoot him. populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
May 24 Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico July 12 SovietLithuanian Peace Treaty: The
City; all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic recog-
de la Huerta is elected provisional president. nizes independent Lithuania.
May 26 Ganja revolt: Anti-Soviet opposition in July 13 London County Council bars foreigners
the Azerbaijan SSR launches an abortive revolt in from council jobs.
Ganja.
July 19 August 7 The Second Congress of the
May 27 Tom Garrigue Masaryk becomes presi- Communist International takes place in Saint Peters-
dent of Czechoslovakia. burg and Moscow. The notorious Twenty-one Con-
ditions are adopted.
May 29 Great Floods at Louth, Lincolnshire in
England kill 23. July 20 The United Kingdom cedes its brief con-
trol of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the
Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1.6 June
July 21 The Interallied Mission to Poland takes
June 4 Treaty of Trianon: Peace is restored be- place.
tween the Allied Powers and Hungary. Hungary
July 22 PolishSoviet War: Poland sues for peace
loses 72% of its territory.
with Bolshevist Russia (refused).
June 5 Bolshevik Cavalry break through Polish and July 24 Battle of Maysalun: The French defeat the
Ukrainian lines south of Kiev, precipitating eventual Syrian army whose leader Yusuf al-'Azma is killed.
withdrawal. French troops occupy Damascus and depose Faisal
June 12 PolishSoviet War: The Red Army re- I of Syria as king.[7]
takes Kiev. July 26 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes
June 13 over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to oer his
conditional surrender. He signs his surrender on July
Essad Pasha Toptani, nominal ruler of 28.
Albania, is assassinated by Avni Rustemi in
July 29 The United States Bureau of Reclamation
Paris.
begins construction of the Link River Dam as part
The United States Post Oce Department of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
rules that children may not be sent via parcel
post.[6] July 30August 8 1st World Scout Jamboree held
at Olympia, London.[8]
June 15
July 31
A new border treaty between Germany and
Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Den- Irish-born Australian Catholic Bishop
mark. Daniel Mannix is detained onboard ship o
Queenstown and prevented from landing in
The Estonian Constituent Assembly adopts the Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish
rst constitution of Estonia, which will come Catholic communities elsewhere in the United
into eect on December 21 the same year. Kingdom.[9]
June 22 Greek Summer Oensive: Greece attacks France prohibits the sale or prescription of
Turkish troops. contraceptives.
1.10 October 5
Representatives of British revolutionary so- September 17 The National Football League is es-
cialist groups meet at the Cannon Street Hotel tablished as the American Professional Football As-
in London and agree to form the Communist sociation.
Party of Great Britain.
September 20 The rst soldier joins El Tercio de
Extranjeros, the Regiment of Foreigners, later the
1.8 August Spanish Legion, established on January 28, in Spain;
today is celebrated as the units anniversary. Under
August 3 Irish War of Independence: Catholic the command of Jos Milln Astray and Francisco
riots in Belfast in protest at the continuing British Franco, its rst duties are against Rif rebels in the
Army presence. Spanish protectorate in Morocco.
August 13 Irish War of Independence: The The rst domestic radio sets come to stores in
Restoration of Order in Ireland Act, passed by the the United States; a Westinghouse radio costs
Parliament of the United Kingdom, receives Royal $10.
Assent, providing for Irish Republican Army ac- Adolf Hitler makes his rst public political
tivists to be tried by court-martial rather than by jury speech, in Austria.
in criminal courts.[4]
August 26 The Nineteenth Amendment to the October 10 Carinthian Plebiscite: A large part of
United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria
womens surage. rather than Yugoslavia.
August 28September 2 Bukhara operation: The October 14 A peace treaty between the Soviet and
Russian Red Army and Young Bukharians over- the Finnish governments is concluded at Tartu.
throw the Emirate of Bukhara, leading to establish-
October 16 PolishSoviet War: After the Polish
ment of the Bukharan Peoples Soviet Republic.
army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa,
the ceasere is enforced.
1.9 September October 18 Thousands of unemployed demon-
strate in London; 50 are injured.
September 5 Presidential elections begin in Mex-
ico. October 26 lvaro Obregn is announced the
elected president of Mexico.
September 8 Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the
Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume. October 27
September 16 The Wall Street bombing: A bomb The League of Nations moves its headquarters
in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Mor- to Geneva, Switzerland.
gan building in New York City, killing 38 and injur- Baron Louis De Geer the younger becomes the
ing 400. new Prime Minister of Sweden.
6 1 EVENTS
1.11 November (with three of its men also dying), which leads to
ocial reprisals.[4]
November 2
United States presidential election, 1920: Re- 1.12 December
publican U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding de-
feats Democratic Governor of Ohio James M. December 1 The Mexican Revolution ends with
Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the rst a new regime coming to power, which couples with
national U.S. election in which women have the end of the Old West.
the right to vote.
December 5 A referendum in Greece is favorable
In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh to the reinstatement of the monarchy.
(owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting
as a commercial radio station. The rst broad- December 10 Irish War of Independence: Martial
cast is the results of the presidential election. law is declared in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick
Meiji Shrine, one of a landmark spot in Tokyo, and Tipperary.[4]
ocially built in Japan.[10] December 11 The Burning of Cork in Ireland:
November 11 The Unknown Warrior is buried in British forces set re to some 5 acres (20,000 m2 )
Westminster Abbey. of the centre of Cork, including the City Hall, in
reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary is killed in a
November 13 The evacuation of the White Army's guerilla ambush.
last units and civilian refugees from the Crimea on
board 126 ships, the remnants of the Russian Impe-
rial Navy, to Turkey, Tunisia and the Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, accompanied by wide-
scale civilian massacres. The total number of evac-
uees amounted to approximately 150,000 people, of
which ~20% were civilians.
November 14 The Edmonton Symphony Orches-
tra holds its rst concert.
November 15 In Geneva, the rst assembly of the
League of Nations is held.
November 16 Queensland and Northern Territory
Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded by Hudson
Fysh and Paul McGinness.
November 17 The council of the League of Na- Haiyuan earthquake
tions accepts the constitution for the Free City of
Danzig.
December 16
November 21 Irish War of Independence: Bloody
Sunday: The Irish Republican Army, on the in- Finland joins the League of Nations.
structions of Michael Collins, shoot dead the Cairo An 8.6 Richter scale Haiyuan earthquake
gang, fourteen British undercover agents in Dublin, causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China,
most in their homes. Later that day in retaliation the killing 180,000.
Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary
open re on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association December 1522 The Brussels Conference estab-
Football match in Croke Park, killing thirteen spec- lishes a timetable for German war reparations in-
tators and one player and wounding 60. [4][11]
Three tended to extend for over 42 years.
men are shot this night in Dublin Castle while try- December 22 The 8th Congress of Soviets of the
ing to escape. Russian SFSR adopts the GOELRO plan, the major
November 28 Irish War of Independence: plan of the economical development of the country.
Kilmichael Ambush: The ying column of the 3rd December 23
Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, led by
Tom Barry, ambushes two lorries carrying men of United Kingdom and France ratify the bor-
the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabu- der between French-held Syria and British-
lary at Kilmichael, County Cork, killing seventeen held Palestine.
2.1 January 7
2 Births
Federico Fellini
2.1 January
Jos Antonio Bottiroli, Argentinean composer Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter
and poet (d. 1990) (d. 2009)
8 2 BIRTHS
Isaac Asimov, American author (d. 1992) DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
George Herbig, American astronomer (d. January 23 Gottfried Bhm, German architect
2013)
January 24 Jerry Maren, American actor
Anne-Soe stvedt, Norwegian resistance
leader (d. 2009) January 27
January 9
January 16
January 19
Farouk of Egypt
Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine Army gen-
eral and 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
Buddy O'Grady, American basketball player February 2 Heikki Suolahti, Finnish composer (d.
and coach (d. 1992) 1936)
Javier Prez de Cullar, Peruvian Secretary- February 3 Henry Heimlich, American physician
General of the United Nations and medical researcher (d. 2016)
2.2 February 9
February 7
February 11
February 12
February 13
February 18
February 26
Giriraj Kishore, Indian activist and politician Virgnia Lane, Brazilian actress, singer and
(d. 2014) vedette (d. 2014)
10 2 BIRTHS
Zaim Topi, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (d. Alfred Peet, Dutch American entrepreneur,
1990) founder of Peets Coee & Tea (d. 2007)
February 29 Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and
musician (d. 1959)
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
March 11 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist,
Michele Morgan, French actress (d. 2016) Nobel Prize laureate
March 14 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.
2.3 March 2001)
March 15
Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d.
1998)
E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, re-
cipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 2012)
March 17 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founder of
Bangladesh, rst President & Prime Minister of
Bangladesh (d. 1975)
March 16 Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
March 19
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d.
2002)
Paul Hagen, Danish actor (d. 2003)
March 20
Pamela Harriman, English-born United States
diplomat, socialite (d. 1997)
Vickie Panos, Greek-Canadian female profes-
sional baseball player (d. unknown)
James Doohan Rosemary Timperley, British author (d. 1988)
March 22
March 3 Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
2005) Albert H. Pearson, American farmer and
politician (d. 1963)
Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (d. 2011)
March 23 Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball
March 4
player and coach (d. 2013)
Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993) March 24 Corbin Harney, elder and spiritual
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002) leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d.
2007)
March 5
March 25 Patrick Troughton, British actor (d.
Rachel Gurney, British actress (d. 2001) 1987)
Del Latta, American politician (d. 2016)
March 27 Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d.
March 6 Lewis Gilbert, British lm director, pro- 1995)
ducer and screenwriter
March 31
March 9 Franjo Mihali, Croatian-Serbian athlete Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
(d. 2015) (d. 2014)
March 10 Marga Minco, Dutch journalist and writer
2.4 April 11
2.4 April
Toshiro Mifune
Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
April 11
April 2 Jack Webb, American actor, director, and Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
producer (d. 1982) Liam Cosgrave, fth Taoiseach of Ireland
April 4 ric Rohmer, French lm director (d. Jack Lambert, American actor (d. 2002)
2010) April 15
April 5 Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist
Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime and writer (d. 2012)
Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 until Richard von Weizscker, German politician,
1973 (d. 2001) President of Germany (19841994) (d. 2015)
12 2 BIRTHS
April 16 Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (d. May 6 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, rst Prime Min-
1986) ister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
April 19 Gene Leis, American jazz guitarist and May 7 Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (d. 1985)
educator (d. 1993)
April 20 John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of May 8 Touko Laaksonen, Finnish artist,
the Supreme Court of the United States pseudonym Tom of Finland (d. 1991)
April 21 Edmund Adamkiewicz, German foot- May 8 Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d.
baller (d. 1991) 1996)
April 22 Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet (d. 2014)
May 9
April 27 Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d.
1956) Richard Adams, English novelist (d. 2016)
April 29 Harold Shapero, American composer (d. Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
2013)
May 11 Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
May 18
May 26
May 30
May 2
Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. Godfrey Binaisa, President of Uganda (d.
2004) 2010)
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and Franklin Schaner, American lm and televi-
ecological activist (d. 2000) sion director (d. 1989)
Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (d. 1990) Shtar Yasuoka, Japanese writer (d. 2013)
2.7 July 13
June 22
June 25
June 12
June 16
June 17
Anthony Barber, British Conservative politi- Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Inter-
cian (d. 2005) national Olympic Committee president (d.
Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator, 2010)
real estate investor (d. 2007) June Vincent, American actress (d. 2008)
July 5 Mary Louise Hancock, American politician Gordon Gould, American physicist (d. 2005)
July 18 Dolph Sweet, American actor (d. 1985)
July 7
July 19
Sandy Tatum, American golfer
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., American at- mile Ide, French professional road bicycle
torney and politician racer
Henry Williams Hise, United States Marine Robert Mann, American violinist
Corps Brigadier General (d. 2010) George Dawkes, English rst-class cricketer
(d. 2006)
July 10
July 20
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) Jasper Blackall, British sailor
J. T. White, American college football assis- Jack Harman, English Adjutant-General to the
tant coach (d. 2005) Forces (d. 2009)
July 11 July 21
Yul Brynner, Russian-born American actor (d. Jean Daniel, Algerian-born French-Jewish
1985) journalist and author
2.8 August 15
July 25
2.8 August
Maureen O'Hara
Ella Raines
August 1
August 4
August 6 Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988) Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (d. 2006)
16 2 BIRTHS
August 26
Mauri Favn, Finnish painter (d. 2006)
Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai prime minister
August 27 Baptiste Manzini, American football
player (d. 2008)
August 29
Charlie Parker, African-American saxophon-
ist and composer (d. 1955)
Herb Simpson, American baseball player (d.
2015)
2.9 September
Ray Bradbury
August 10
August 16 Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. September 1 Richard Farnsworth, American actor
1994) and stuntman (d. 2000)
August 17 Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American ac- September 3 Les Medley, English footballer (d.
tress (d. 2015) 2001)
August 18 September 4 Catherine Bennett, Canadian female
professional baseball player
Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2005) September 10 Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle
Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006) engineer (d. 2001)
September 14
September 23
2.10 October
Montgomery Clift
October 1
October 9
October 17
Nanette Fabray, American actress, dancer and November 12 Josip Boljkovac, Croatian politician
singer (d. 2014)
K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005) November 13
October 29 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Phys-
Georg Olden, African-American graphic de-
iology or Medicine (d. 2011)
signer (d. 1975)
October 31 November 17 George Dunning, cartoon director
and animator (d. 1979)
Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist
(d. 2010) November 19 Gene Tierney, American actress (d.
Joseph Gelineau, French composer (d. 2008) 1991)
November 25
2.12 December
Rex Allen
2.13 Possible
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (born between
October 4, 1919, and January 2, 1920, inclusive;[13]
d. 1992)
3 Deaths
Patriarch Germanus V of Constantinople (b. 1835)
Amedeo Modigliani
Emir Nasrullah Khan (b. 1874)
Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (b. 1884) January 2 Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)
3.3 March 21
January 6
January 24
Aleksander Aberg, Estonian professional
William Percy French, Irish songwriter and wrestler and strongman (b. 1881)
entertainer (b. 1854) Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner,
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculp- Mississippi (b. 1837)
tor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
February 16 Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (b.
January 25 Jeanne Hbuterne, French artist, 1857)
model, and common-law wife of Amedeo February 20
Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898)
Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b.
1856)
3.2 February Jacinta Marto, beatied, witnessed apparitions
of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 at Ftima,
February 2 Field E. Kindley, American World War
Portugal (b. 1910)
I aviator (b. 1896)
February 21 Afonso, Duke of Porto (b. 1865)
February 3 Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland
(b. 1846) February 27 William Sherman Jennings, Governor
of Florida (b. 1863)
February 6 Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian
merchant and politician (b. 1839)
3.3 March
February 8 Richard Dehmel, German poet and
writer (b. 1863) March 1
February 7 Alexander Kolchak, Russian naval John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Al-
commander (b. 1874) abama (b. 1842)
William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania
February 11 Gaby Deslys, French dancer, actress
(b. 1846)
& spy (b. 1881)
Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
February 15
March 3 Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b.
Prince Alexis Karageorgevich (b. 1859) 1840)
22 3 DEATHS
March 26
3.4 April
April 8
3.6 June
Venustiano Carranza
May 11
Maria Bochkareva, Russian White soldier (b. Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840)
1889) Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847)
May 16 June 6 James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b.
Joselito, Spanish bullghter (b. 1895) 1851)
Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the June 13 Essad Pasha Toptani, Ottoman general,
United States (b. 1824) 3rd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
May 21 June 14
24 3 DEATHS
Max Weber
Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. July 11 Empress Eugnie of France (b. 1826)
1835)
July 14 Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
July 17
June 20
Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet (b. 1846)
Marie-Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, min-
Charles E. Courtney, American rower and
ing engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
rowing coach (b. 1849)
John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b.
1838) July 18 Prince Joachim of Prussia (b. 1890)
dm Politzer, Austrian otologist (b. 1835) September 18 Robert Beaven, Canadian politician
(b. 1836)
August 12 Hermann Struve, Russian-born as-
tronomer (b. 1854) September 24 Peter Carl Faberg, Russian jeweler
(b. 1846)
August 16
September 25 Jacob Schi, German-born banker
Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia and philanthropist (b. 1847)
(b. 1866)
Joseph Norman Lockyer, British astronomer September 30 William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian
(b. 1836) journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
September 7 Simon-Napolon Parent, Premier of October 10 Hudson Stuck, British mountaineer (b.
Quebec (b. 1855) 1865)
26 3 DEATHS
October 17
Saint Nectarios of Aegina
Reginald Farrer, British botanist (b. 1880)
John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887) November 9 Alberto Blest Gana, Chilean novelist
October 24 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna and diplomat (b. 1830)
of Russia (b. 1853) November 13 Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter
October 25 King Alexander of Greece (b. 1893) and illustrator (b. 1846)
November 8 Saint Nectarios of Aegina, Greek Or- November 27 Alexius Meinong, Austrian philoso-
thodox priest and saint (b. 1846) pher (b. 1853)
27
November 30 Eugene W. Chan, American politi- [2] Nthling, Kol C.J., Martins, Maj du P. (1990). Kro-
cian (b. 1852) niek van die Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag (1920-1990), (1st
ed.). Direktoraat Openbare Betrekkinge, SAW. Uit-
gewer: Staatsdrukkery, Pretoria. Gedruk deur Promedia
3.12 December Drukkers, Posbus 255, Silverton, 0127.
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