Curated category
1920 births
- Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.A bell rang at Chicago's WJJD radio station in 1943, marking the moment Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. began his career under Al Benson.
- Christopher John DewhurstSir Christopher John Dewhurst entered the world on the 2nd of July 1920 in England. He grew up during a time when medical care for women and children was…
- John A. GarratyJohn Arthur Garraty was born on the 4th of July in 1920. He earned his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College in 1941.
- Norm DruckerNorm Drucker entered the world on the 4th of July 1920 in New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn and learned basketball from the first generation of…
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was born on the 22nd of October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He grew up as an only child in a strict Irish Catholic household.
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind Elsie Franklin was born on the 25th of July 1920 at 50 Chepstow Villas in Notting Hill, London. She entered a world where her father Ellis Arthur…
- Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar was born on the 7th of April 1920 in Benares, now known as Varanasi. He grew up as the youngest of seven brothers in a Bengali Hindu family.
- Gail HalvorsenGail Seymour Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City on the 10th of October 1920. He grew up on small farms first in Rigby, Idaho, and then in Garland, Utah.
- Dick JamesReginald Leon Isaac Vapnick entered the world on the 12th of December 1920 within the East End of London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a…
- Hans HolzerHans Holzer was born in Vienna, Austria, on the 26th of January 1920. His father Leo worked as a businessman while his mother Martha carried the family name…
- Éric RohmerJean Marie Maurice Schérer was born on the 21st of March 1920 in Nancy, France. He adopted the pseudonym Éric Rohmer from two famous artists: Erich von…
- Lawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein entered the world on the 14th of September 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father Leo Byron Klein and mother Blanche Monheit raised him…
- Gilbert PlassGilbert Norman Plass stood at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1942. He worked as an associate physicist during those critical…
- Sheikh Mujibur RahmanOn the 17th of March 1920, a boy named Sheikh Mujib was born in the village of Tungipara. His father held about 100 bighas of cultivable land and served as a…