Events
- January 7 - The Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
- January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann
- January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
- January 12 - British government releases Irish prisoners
- January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain
- January 15 - Michael Collins becomes head of the Irish Provisional Government
- January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
- January 21 - Irish parliament accept the treaty of the Irish Free state
- January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
- February 2 - Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
- February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
- February 6 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
- February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
- February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
- February 17 - British parliament accept Irish Free State
- February 25 - Henri Desire Landru executed by guillotine
- February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
- March 1 - Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
- March 1 - British Civil Aviation Authority established
- March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi arrested in Bombay for sedition
- March 15 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only 2 years.
- March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
- April 7 - First air collision between Daimler Airways DH 18 ja Grands Express Farman Goliat collide over Poix
- April 13 - State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women
- April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia.
- May 19 — Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union created.
- May 29 - British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley jailed for 7 years for fraud
- May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- June 22 - IRA agents assassinated British field marshal Henry Wilson in Belgravia - assassins are sentenced to death July 18
- June 24 - Assassination of Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau - murderers are captured July 17
- June 26 - Louis Honorй Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
- June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins
- August 12 - Assassianation of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
- August 22 - Assassination of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army.
- August 23 - Revolt against the Spanish in Morocco
- August 28 - Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia
- September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter Smyrna
- September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- September 13 - 15 - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of Smyrna. Death toll estimated 100.000
- September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations
- October 9 - Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
- October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister.
- October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
- September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
- November 1 - Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
- November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
- November 19 - Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire is elected Caliph.
- November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
- November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- December 6 - The Irish Free State comes into existence. George V becomes King of Ireland. Tim Healy appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
- December 14 - Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
- December 30 - Russia and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Year in topic
Births
- January 1 - Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina senator
- January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
- January 8 - Jimmy Fischer, usher at Orpheum Theatre (d. 1985)
- January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
- January 16 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
- January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, politician
- January 17 - Betty White, actress
- January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
- January 22 - Leonel Brizola, politician
- January 30 - Dick Martin, comedian
- February 1 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano
- February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor
- February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980)
- February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
- February 11 - Tudor Jarda, composer.
- February 15 - John Bayard Anderson, U.S Representative and presidential candidate
- February 17 - Marshall Teague, race car driver (d. 1959)
- February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher
- February 24 - Richard Hamilton, pop-art painter
- February 24 - Steven Hill, actor
- March 1 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine (d. 1992)
- March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
- March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
- March 8 - Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1982)
- March 9 - Tommy Cooper, UK comedian and magician
- March 12 - Jack Kerouac, US author
- March 18 - Egon Bahr, politician
- March 20 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian
- March 21 - Russ Meyer, pornographic film director, producer
- March 28 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
- March 28 - Joey Maxim, American boxer, world champion
- March 31 - Richard Kiley, actor, singer (d. 1999)
- April 1 - William Manchester, writer
- April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
- April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
- April 7 - Mongo Santamaria, Latin jazz musician (d. 2003)
- April 16 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
- April 22 - Charles Mingus, musician (d. 1979)
- April 28 - Alistair Maclean, actor
- May 7 - Darren McGavin, actor
- May 14 - Franjo Tuđman, president of Croatia (d. 1999)
- May 15 - Setouchi Jakucho, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
- May 17 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
- May 18 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983)
- May 21 - James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001)
- May 22 - Quinn Martin, television producer (d. 1987)
- May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer, politician (d. 1984)
- May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
- May 28 - Lou Duva, boxing trainer
- May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, composer
- May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer
- May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992)
- June 2 - Charlie Sifford, first African American golfer on the PGA TOUR
- June 10 - Judy Garland, performer
- June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
- July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
- August 17 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- August 23 - George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer
- September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
- September 3 - Salli Terri, mezzo soprano (d. 1996)
- September 8 - Sid Caesar, actor, comedian
- September 12 - Jackson Mac Low, poet (d. 2004)
- September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
- September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (d. 1992)
- October 5 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Formula One driver
- November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
- November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
- November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
- December 22 - Barbara Lillian Combes, later by marriage Barbara Billingsley, American actress
- December 22 - Jack Brooks, American politician
- December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
- December 28 - Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and many other Marvel Comics characters
- Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, later Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Deaths
- January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
- January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
- February 2 - William Desmond Taylor, film director
- February 11 - Gerardus J. P. Bolland, Dutch philosopher.
- March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
- March 24 - Walter Robinson Parr, British preacher
- April 1 - Emperor Karl of Austria
- April 2 - Hermann Rorschach
- May 19 - Son, Byong-Hi, one of the leaders of the Samil, or March 1st Movement in Korea
- June 6 - Lillian Russell, singer, vaudeville star
- June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
- June 26 - Albert I of Monaco
- July 20 - Andrey Markov, mathematician
- August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone.
- August 5 - Harry Boland, Irish republican, killed in the Irish Civil War
- August 12 - Arthur Griffith, President of Dбil Йireann
- August 22 - Michael Collins assassinated.
- September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House
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