List of Famous people who died in 1920

Charles Remond Douglass was the third and youngest son of Frederick Douglass and his first wife Anna Murray Douglass. He was the first African-American man to enlist in the military in New York during the Civil War, and served as one of the first African-American clerks in the Freedmen's Bureau in Washington, DC.

Mario Caserini was an Italian film director, as well as an actor, screenwriter, and early pioneer of film making in the early portion of the 20th century. Caserini was born in Rome, Italy, and was married to early 20th-century Italian actress Maria Caserini. His 1906 film Otello is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Othello.

John Grigg was a New Zealand astronomer.

William Kissam Vanderbilt I was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family, he managed his family's railroad investments.

Josef Antonín Hůlka was a Czech Roman Catholic clergyman. He was ordained priest on 18 July 1875 in Budweis, later becoming one of its canons. He was nominated its bishop on 4 December 1907 by Francis Joseph I of Austria, a nomination confirmed by pope Pius X twelve days later. He was consecrated bishop on 6 January 1908.

Joseph Paxson Iddings was an American geologist and petrologist.

Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev was a Russian botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.