1920 in Iran

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See also:	Other events of 1920 Years in Iran

The following lists events that happened during 1920 in Qajar era.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Ahmad Shah Qajar
• Prime Minister: Vosugh od-Dowleh (until July 3), Hassan Pirnia (July 3 – October 27), Fathollah Khan Akbar (starting October 27)

Events

• January 21 – Battle of Shekar Yazi.
• May 18 – Anzali Operation.

Births

• January 13 – Jahangir Amouzegar, Iranian politician.
• January 24 – Abdol Ali Badrei, Iranian general.
• February 1 – Farideh Ghotbi, The mother of Farah Pahlavi.
• March 9 – Mohammad Amir Khatami, Iranian pilot and association football player.
• June 9 – Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, Kurdish poet.
• June 18 – Enayatollah Reza, Iranian historian and encyclopedist.
• July 16 – Ahmad Qadakchian, Iranian actor.
• July 26 – Taghi Rouhani, Iranian radio personality.
• August 22 – Hooshang Seyhoun, Iranian architect, artist and academic.
• September 2 – Hamid Notghi, Iranian poet, writer and faculty.
• September 16 – Mohammad Karim Pirnia, Iranian architect.
• November 9 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer.
• December 12 – Salim Neisari, Iranian writer.
• ? – Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian, Iranian architect.
• ? – Ahmad Nafisi, Iranian bureaucrat.
• ? – Fakhereh Saba, Iranian opera singer.
• ? – Fereydun Adamiyat, social historian.
• ? – George Ovadiah, Iraqi-born Israeli and Iranian screenwriter and film director.
• ? – Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi, Iranian politician.
• ? – Haj Qorban Soleimani, Iranian musician.
• ? – Hayk Mirzayans, entomologist.
• ? – Jahangir Oshidri.
• ? – Jalil Ziapour, Iranian painter.
• ? – Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Persian musician.
• ? – Mohammad-Hadi Shadmehr, Iranian military officer.
• ? – Sadeq Kia, Iranian historian and linguist.
• ? – Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian historian and linguist.

Deaths

• January 28 – Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai, Iraqi Shi'a theologian.
• February 28 – Hajj Nematollah, Iranian Kurdish scholar.
• April 3 – Sheyda Gerashi, Iranian poet.
• August 17 – Mirza Taqi al-Shirazi, Iraqi cleric.
• September 14 – Mohammad Khiabani, Iranian politician.
• September 15 – Taqi Rafat, Iranian poet.
• October 23 – Forsat-od-Dowleh Shirazi, Iranian poet, literary and musician.
• ? – Fethullah Qa'ravi Isfahani, Iranian cleric.