1920 births

Finnish writer

American politician (1920-1998)

American graphic designer and filmmaker (1920–1996)

Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

Spanish writer (1920–2010)

Soviet aviator, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1991)

American musician (1920–2001)

Japanese actress (1920–2015)

American film director (1920–1989)

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)

American actor (1920–2000)

American actor (1920–1999)

American author and journalist

Italian founder of the Focolare Movement (1920–2008)

British-Canadian writer

American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (1920–1951)

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)

Mexican actor (1920–2009)

Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (1920-2019)

president of Guyana, prime minister of Guyana, nurse (1920-2009)

Estonian writer (1920–2007)

English philosopher (1920–2010)

American psychologist (1920–2012)

German architect (1920-2021)

American actress (1920–2005)

English actor (1920–1987)

American animator (1920–2013)

American lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)

first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (r. 1955-1992)

French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker (1920-2002)

Finnish artist (1920–1991)

United States Supreme Court justice (1920–2019)

Chinese actress and singer (1920-1957)

King of Nepal (1920-1972)

British politician (1920–2003)

American ecologist (1920–1980)

American actor (1920–2006)

Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)

Irish politician (1920-2017)

American actor (1920-2004)

4th president of Vietnam (1920-2019)

Dutch astronomer (1920–2002)

Canadian actor (1920–2005)

French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin

American-Israeli author of Azerbaijani origin (1920-2010)

Swedish actress (1920–1995)

German entrepreneur (1920-2014)

English film director (1920–2018)

Argentine writer (1920-1999)

Indian-American mathematician (1920–2023)

Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)

Talmudic scholar, posek and Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983

American actor and director (1920-1994)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1993)

French actress (1920–1967)

President of Fiji (1920-2004)

Italian pianist

Italian conductor (1920–1956)

American jazz musician and actress (1922-1994)

American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (1920–2013)