List of Famous people who died in 1920
Yu Gwansun
Yu Gwan-sun was a Korean independence activist organizer in what would come to be known as the March First Independence Movement against Imperial Japanese colonial rule of Korea in South Chungcheong. The movement was a peaceful demonstration by the Korean people against Japanese rule. Yu became one of the most famous figures in this movement and later a symbol of Korea's fight for independence.
Sir Kenneth James Matheson, 2nd Baronet
Charles Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun
Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun was a Scottish peer, the son of Charles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington and Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun.
Béla Lajta
Béla Lajta was a prominent Hungarian architect.
Claude Drummond Hay
The Honourable Claude George Drummond Hay was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Albert Roelofs
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.
Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber
Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber was a British Conservative politician.
Edward Digby, 10th Baron Digby
Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby, 10th Baron Digby, also 4th Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Edwin de Lisle
Edwin Joseph Lisle March Philipps de Lisle, DL FSA was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Loughborough in England from 1886 to 1892. He was the seventh son of Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle.