1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years: 1917 1918 191919201921 1922 1923
1920 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1920
MCMXX
Ab urbe condita2673
Armenian calendar1369
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6670
Bahá'í calendar76–77
Balinese saka calendar1841–1842
Bengali calendar1327
Berber calendar2870
British Regnal year10 Geo. 5 – 11 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2464
Burmese calendar1282
Byzantine calendar7428–7429
Chinese calendar己未(Earth Goat)
4616 or 4556
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4617 or 4557
Coptic calendar1636–1637
Discordian calendar3086
Ethiopian calendar1912–1913
Hebrew calendar5680–5681
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1976–1977
 - Shaka Samvat1841–1842
 - Kali Yuga5020–5021
Holocene calendar11920
Igbo calendar920–921
Iranian calendar1298–1299
Islamic calendar1338–1339
Japanese calendarTaishō 9
(大正9年)
Javanese calendar1850–1851
Juche calendar9
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4253
Minguo calendarROC 9
民國9年
Nanakshahi calendar452
Thai solar calendar2462–2463
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2046 or 1665 or 893
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
2047 or 1666 or 894

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January

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Isaac Asimov
 
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
 
John Maynard Smith
 
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
 
Federico Fellini
 
DeForest Kelley
 
Alf Ramsey
 
Gottfried Böhm

February

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Farouk of Egypt
 
Tony Randall
 
Michèle Morgan
 
Nicolaas Bloembergen
 
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
 
Toshirō Mifune
 
Edmond H. Fischer
 
Emilio Colombo
 
Liam Cosgrave
 
Richard von Weizsäcker
 
Pope John Paul II
 
Peggy Lee
 
Mahendra of Nepal
 
José López Portillo
 
Mario Beccaria
 
Yul Brynner
 
Juan Antonio Samaranch
 
Rosalind Franklin

August

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Maureen O'Hara
 
Shelley Winters
 
Ray Bradbury
 
Prem Tinsulanonda

September

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Mickey Rooney

October

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Walter Matthau
 
Montgomery Clift
 
Timothy Leary
 
Melina Mercouri

November

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Gene Tierney

December

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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
 
Kaysone Phomvihane

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