People Born in the 1920s

Veikko Laihanen

1924–2004 cinematographer, film director, film producer, screenwriter Viipurin maalaiskunta

Vern Benson

1924–2014 baseball player Granite Quarry

Vernon R. Fletcher

b. 1924 politician

Victor Fischer

1924–2023 politician, researcher, urban planner, writer Berlin

Victor Mercea

1924–1987 nuclear physicist, physicist, university teacher Timișoara

Vilgot Sjöman

1924–2006 actor, animator, cinematographer, comics artist, director, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, writer Stockholm

Vilém Kraus

1924–2013 pedagogue Prague

Vito Giacalone

b. 1924 politician Marsala

Vladeta Jerotić

1924–2018 philosopher, physician, psychiatrist, writer Belgrade

Vladimir Kos

1924–2022 Catholic priest, philosopher, poet Murska Sobota

Vladimir Pikalov

1924–2003 inventor Armavir

Vladimir Semichastny

1924–2001 politician Mezhova

Vladimír Salač

1924–1990 actor, musician Terezín

Vladimír Tylšar

1924–1945 student Prostějov

Vlasta Kubišová

1924–1942 Dolní Vilémovice

Vlastimil Herold

1924–2004 animator, caricaturist, director, illustrator, painter, typographer, visual artist Slovakia

Vojan Rus

1924–2015 lecturer, opinion journalist, partisan, philosopher, university teacher Gornja Radgona

Volker Weimar

1924–1983 historian, librarian Flensburg

Volodymyr Ovsiĭchuk

1924–2016 art historian Slavuta Raion

Volodymyr Semenov

1924–2004 jurist, public figure, university teacher Zolotonosha

Václav Turek

1924–1988 illustrator, painter, sculptor, teacher Šahy

Válter Nogueira e Vasconcelos

1924–2012 judge Tianguá

Věra Haluzová

1924–2013 ethnographer, musicologist, teacher Otrokovice

Walt Kirk

1924–2012 basketball coach, basketball player Mount Vernon

Walter Mende

1924–2015 caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator, painter Olomouc

Wendell Bell

1924–2019 military officer, sociologist, university teacher Chicago

Wendell H. Watson

1924–1989 politician

Werner Beutler

1924–2025 secondary school teacher Cologne

Werner Creutzfeldt

1924–2006 internist, university teacher Kiel

Werner E. Michel

1924–2020 civil servant, military personnel Landau in der Pfalz

Werner E. Reichardt

1924–1992 biologist, physicist, university teacher Berlin

Werner Hahn

1924–1985 politician Rendsburg

Werner Stumm

1924–1999 author, chemist, university teacher Wolfhalden

Werner Vreden

1924–1990 Prüfingenieur für Bautechnik, engineer Bad Honnef

Wiel Coerver

1924–2011 association football coach, association football player Kerkrade

Wilfried Hasselmann

1924–2003 farmer, military personnel, politician Celle

William Auld

1924–2006 Esperantist, editor, esperantologist, essayist, musicologist, poet, science fiction writer, translator, writer Erith

William Christopher Sullivan

b. 1924 politician

William F. Thomas

1924–2014 editor, newspaper editor Bay City

William G. Burgin

1924–2002 lawyer, politician Rock Hill

William Girometti

1924–1998 painter Milan

William J. Castagna

1924–2020 judge, lawyer Philadelphia

William R. Preddy

1924–1945 aircraft pilot

Willibald Sauerländer

1924–2018 art criticism, art historian, university teacher Bad Waldsee

Willy Koppen

1924–2002 motorcycle racer Overveen

Wilson de Queirós Campos

1924–2001 politician Brejo da Madre de Deus

Wim Rietveld

1924–1985 Dutch extraordinary professor, designer, furniture designer, industrial designer, university teacher Utrecht

Wladimir Granoff

1924–2000 psychiatrist, psychoanalyst Strasbourg

Worth H. Bagley

1924–2016 military officer Annapolis

Władysław Ciastoń

1924–2021 officer of the Milicja Obywatelska, politician Kraków