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1920 - Births

1920 - January

• January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
• January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
• January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
• January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
• January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
• January 6 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
• January 6 - Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
• January 12 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998)
• January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian 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, American Catholic cardinal
• January 23 - Gottfried Böhm, German architect
• January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director

1920 - February-March

• February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
• February 11 - Farouk I, King of Egypt (d. 1965)
• February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
• February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, American artist (d. 1996)
• February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
• February 13 - Seneka Bibile, founder of Sri Lanka’s drug policy (d. 1977)
• 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 (d. 1991)
• March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
• March 3 - Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
• March 10 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer and musician (d. 1959)
• March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
• March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 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 20 - Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
• March 22 Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
• March 25 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
• March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)

1920 - April

• April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
• April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
• April 5 - Arthur Hailey, American writer
• April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
• April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, British cartoonist and writer
• April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
• April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, President of Ireland
• April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
• April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer

1920 - May

• May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
• May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji 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 28 - Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (d. 1999)
• May 29 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)

1920 - June-July

• June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
• June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• June 12 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
• June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
• June 17 - François Jacob, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 25 - Ozan Marsh, American pianist
• July 10 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
• July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
• July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
• July 24 - Bella Abzug, American politician (d. 1998)
• July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d.1958)

1920 - August-December

• August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian poet
• August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
• August 18 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d. 1996)
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
• August 29 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
• September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
• September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
• September 14 - Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
• September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
• October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
• October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
• October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
• October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
• October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• October 31 - Fritz Walter, German football player (d. 2002)
• November 5 - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 21 - Stan Musial, baseball player
• November 23 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born poet (d. 1970)
• November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
• November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
• November 25 - Noel Neill, American actress
• November 27 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch football player (d. 1985)
• December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
• December 6 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
• December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)

1920 - Date unknown

• Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002)

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