List of Famous people who died in 1920

Viscount Suematsu Kenchō was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author, who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Apart from his activity in the Japanese government, he also wrote several important works on Japan in English. He was portrayed in a negative manner in Ryōtarō Shiba's novel Saka no ue no kumo.

Max Bruch was a German Romantic composer, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.

The Hon. Captain Herbert Tongue Allsopp was an English first-class cricketer who played for Cambridge University.

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, later Fritz Hoffmann-von der Mühll was the founder of Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd..

Demetriu Radu was between 1897 and 1903 the Greek Catholic bishop of Lugoj, and during 1903 to 1920 the Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare.

John Stratford Dugdale was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Josiah Conder was a British architect who was hired by the Meiji Japanese government as a professor of architecture for the Imperial College of Engineering and became architect of Japan's Public Works. He started his own practice after 1888.

Hector Hodler was a Swiss Esperantist who had a strong influence on the early Esperanto movement.

Thomas Nörber was a German Roman Catholic clergyman. From 1898 until his death he served as Archbishop of Freiburg.