People Born in the 1920s

Discover ancestors and historical figures in our database of 4,917 people with archival photographs and biographical details.

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4,917 people found

Xiao Weiyun

1924–2005 jurist

Yaoshan Dong

1924–1999 translator Ningbo

Yapasuyongʉ Yulunana

1924–1954

Yasuo Ishimoto

1924–2015 legal scholar, university teacher Tanabe

Yasuzō Masumura

1924–1986 film director, impresario, screenwriter Kofu

Yatsuko Tan'ami

b. 1924 actor, film actor Tokyo

Yaʻaḳov Nisan Rozenṭal

1924–2010 Av Beit Din, rabbi Jerusalem

Yoshiaki Shionishiki

1924–2005 rikishi

Yoshiko Kusuda

1924–2013 screenwriter Hamamatsu

Yoshimi Ebara

1924–1998 baseball player Kyoto Prefecture

Yoshio Tenpo

1924–1999 baseball player

Yu Ming

1924–2025 actor British Hong Kong

Yukie Kubo

1924–2010 singer Pingtung City

Yumiko Hasegawa

1924–2010 actor Tokyo

Yun-Suk Roh

1924–2014 pastor

Yuri Orlov

1924–2020 human rights defender, nuclear physicist, university teacher Moscow

Yōichi Ushihara

1924–1977 film director Kyoto Prefecture

Yūji Nanto

1924–1973 actor, owarai tarento Osaka

Zape

1924–2018 clown, comedian Vitoria-Gasteiz

Zaquia Jorge

1924–1957 actor Rio de Janeiro

Zbigniew Herbert

1924–1998 author, essayist, playwright, poet, writer Lviv

Zbigniew Plewa

1924–1947 military officer

Zbigniew Śliwiński

1924–2003 music educator, pianist, university teacher Warsaw

Zita Kaiser

1924–2011 entrepreneur

Zoltán Gábos

1924–2018 physicist, school teacher Huedin

Zoran Žagar

1924–2008 banker, diplomat, economist, partisan, politician Celje

Zádor Tordai

1924–2010 philosopher Cluj-Napoca

Álvaro Célio de Magalhães Hugenneyer

b. 1924 São Paulo

Ángel Tavira

1924–2008 composer, fiddler, film actor, musician, printmaker Guerrero

Émile Barneoud

1924–2021 entrepreneur Saint-Chamas

Óscar Jacob Azancot de Menezes

1924–1994 agronomist, botanical collector, botanist, scientific collector São Tomé and Príncipe

Óscar Martínez Castro

b. 1924 poet Ferrol

Čestmír Lovětínský

1924–2006 diplomat, politician Klatovec

Štefanie Horčičková

b. 1924 politician

ʻAdnān almallūḥy

1924–2002 historian, journalist, writer Homs

Adesio Lombardo

b. 1925 basketball player Montevideo

Alexander Pestel

1925–2013 director Auerbach

Antonio Puchades

1925–2013 association football player Sueca

Asfò Bussotti

1925–1987 athletics competitor Florence

Eduino Francini

1925–1944 partisan, resistance fighter Province of Massa-Carrara

Farley Granger

1925–2011 actor, autobiographer, film actor, stage actor, television actor San Jose

Francis Garnung

1925–2016 children's writer, playwright Mios

Freddie Oversteegen

1925–2018 resistance fighter Schoten

Hella Faassen

1925–2016 actor Amsterdam

Inga Almlöf-Holmström

1925–2000 painter

Kazuo Hamasaki

1925–2005 painter

Manol Manolov

1925–2008 association football coach, association football player Sofia

Ola Sandin

1925–2010 painter

Robert B. Sherman

1925–2012 autobiographer, composer, essayist, lyricist, novelist, painter, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter New York City

Roger Armengaud

1925–2008 archaeologist, historian, journalist Cintegabelle