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January 7 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia
January 7 - Kolcak , Russian White general (executed)
January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor
January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, painter, partner of Modigliani
February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner, founder and first mayor of Sumner, Mississippi, USA
February 20 - Robert Peary, explorer
March 1 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842)
March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, early Zionist activist (b. 1880)
March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
March 20 - Paul Bachmann, mathematician
April 20 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (b. 1876)
April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
May 9 - Susan Agnes Bernard-Macdonald, First Lady of Canada
May 11 - William Dean Howells, writer (b. 1837)
May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer, journalist
June 14 - Max Weber father of the science of sociology
July 10 - Jackie Fisher, First Sea Lord (b. 1841)
July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, railway magnate
August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian political activist
October 20 - Max Bruch, composer
October 24 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia , (The Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), only daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia

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1920

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1920 in musicSee also 1919 in music, other events of 1920, 1921 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Events Mamie Smith's first blues recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the African American market Published popular music "After You Get What Yo	1920 in filmSee also 1919 in film 1920 1921 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events November 28 The Mask of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Top grossing films # Way Down East # Over the Hill to the Poorhouse Movies released Movies released in 1920 inclu	1920 in literatureSee also 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. Events Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theater on February 2 partly as an experiment
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