1920
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"The putrid flesh, like the flesh of fishes, gleamed greenish-white through the rents in the uniform. I turned away and then started back in horror: close to me a figure cowered beside a tree. It wore the shining straps and belt of the French, and high upon its back there was still the loaded pack, crowned with a round cooking utensil. Empty eye-sockets and the few wisps of hair on the black and weathered skull told me that this was no living man." --Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger |
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1920 (MCMXX) is the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade.
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Art and culture
- March 27 - manifestation at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
- August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
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Literature
- How to Make a Dadaist Poem
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
- Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard
- Letzte Lockerung by Walter Serner
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Theatre
- La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler premieres in Berlin
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Art
- Erste Internationale Dada-Messe
- Mechanischer Kopf by Raoul Hausmann
- Sainte Vierge by Picabia
- Angelus Novus, a watercolour by Paul Klee
- Industrial Farmers by Georg Scholz
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Film
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene
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Births
- January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003)
- January 20 – Federico Fellini, Italian film director, screenwriter (d. 1993)
- March 10 – Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer and musician (d. 1959)
- April 4 – Éric Rohmer, French film director (d. 2010)
- April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player (d. 2012)
- April 13 - Ken Nordine, American voiceover and recording artist (Word Jazz) (d. 2019)
- May 8 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
- June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator (d. 2013)
- July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 2005)
- August 16 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
- August 29 – Charlie Parker, African-American saxophonist, composer (d. 1955)
- October 9 – Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician, composer (d. 2013)
- October 22 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist, author and proponent of LSD (d. 1996)
- October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (d. 2004)
- November 15 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021)
- December 6 – Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist, composer (d. 2012)
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Deaths
- July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter, sculptor (b. 1857)
- July 14 – Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
- August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
- August 31 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist, psychologist (b. 1832)
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