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