The following lists events that happened during 1920 in Australia .
"Deva Jazz: Jazz as you like it" circa 1920 by Reginald A A Stoneham Robert King 27 January – Frank Scully , Victorian politician (d. 2015 )3 February – Tony Gaze , fighter pilot and racing driver (d. 2013 )19 February – Kevin O'Leary , Northern Territory Supreme Court Chief Justice (d. 2015 )26 February – Michael Pate , actor (d. 2008 )6 March – Virgil Brennan , fighter pilot (d. 1943 )8 March – George Batchelor , mathematician (d. 2000 )13 March – Reg Gillard , New South Wales politician (d. 2001 )15 March – Donald Watt , cricketer, Australian rules footballer, and rugby league footballer (d. 2007 )16 March – Leo McKern , actor (d. 2002 )22 March – Robert King , Victorian politician (d. 1991 )26 March – Oriel Gray , dramatist and playwright (d. 2003 )29 March – Nigel Abbott , Tasmanian politician (d. 2011 ) Vince Martin Harold Ball 7 April – Allan Cuthbertson , actor (d. 1988 )9 April – Don Benson , Australian rules footballer (Richmond ) (d. 2019 )11 April 13 April – Alan Loxton , solicitor (d. 2004 )14 April – Eddie Jaku , writer and Holocaust survivor (born in Germany ) (d. 2021 )15 April – George Georges , Queensland politician (d. 2002 )16 April – Bill Sidwell , tennis player (d. 2021 )10 May – John Brack , painter (d. 1999 )12 May 16 May – Valda Aveling , pianist (d. 2007 )20 May – Bertie Brownlow , cricketer (d. 2004 )29 May – Harold Ball , Australian rules footballer (Melbourne ) and soldier (d. 1942 )30 May – Joe Kirkwood Jr. , golfer and actor (d. 2006 )8 June – Gwen Harwood , poet and librettist (d. 1995 )10 June – Paula Stafford , fashion designer (d. 2022 )18 June – Rosemary Dobson , poet (d. 2012 )19 June – Robert Klippel , artist and sculptor (d. 2001 )20 June – Bill Gunn , 24th Deputy Premier of Queensland (d. 2001 ) Albert Chowne Lady Bjelke-Petersen 12 July – Bill Heatley , Queensland politician (d. 1971 )15 July – Des Fothergill , Australian rules footballer (Collingwood ) (d. 2001 )19 July – Albert Chowne , military officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945 )20 July – Arthur Boyd , artist (d. 1999 )30 July – Keith Leopold , author (d. 1999 )31 July – Peter Isaacson , publisher and military pilot (born in the United Kingdom ) (d. 2017 )3 August – Max Fatchen , children's writer (d. 2012 )5 August – Bill Grayden , Western Australian politician7 August – Reg Saunders , military officer (d. 1990 )11 August – Lady Bjelke-Petersen , Queensland politician (d. 2017 )16 August – Jack Mannix , New South Wales politician (d. 1994 )18 August – Mervyn Lee , Victorian politician (d. 2009 )20 August – Keith Froome , rugby league player (d. 1978 )21 August – Joy Hester , artist (d. 1960 )1 September – Joyce King , Olympic athlete (d. 2001 )12 September – Kevin Brennan , actor (d. 1998 )16 September – J. J. C. Smart , philosopher (born in the United Kingdom ) (d. 2012 )17 September – Ronald Laurence Hughes , military officer (d. 2003 )29 September – Peter Connolly , Queensland politician and Queensland Supreme Court judge (d. 2009 )30 September – Russell Fox , author and Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court Chief Judge (d. 2013 ) Arthur Gietzelt 19 October – Nev Hewitt , Queensland politician (d. 2016 )23 October – Stuart Clarence Graham , military officer (d. 1996 )31 October – Helmut Newton , photographer (born in Germany and died in the United States ) (d. 2004 )3 November – Oodgeroo Noonuccal , poet and activist (d. 1993 )8 November – Ken Fry , Australian Capital Territory politician (d. 2007 )11 November – John Armitage , New South Wales politician (d. 2009 )14 November – Bob Cristofani , cricketer (d. 2002 )16 November – Colin Thiele , author (d. 2006 )30 November – John Hipwell , architect (d. 2007 )4 December – Bill Brown , Victorian politician (d. 2001 )7 December – Johnny Lockwood , actor (d. 2013 )17 December – Herbert S. Green , physicist (born in the United Kingdom ) (d. 1999 )26 December – Noel Desmond Gray , businessman (d. 1999 )27 December – Don Grossman , Australian rules footballer (South Melbourne ) (d. 2004 )28 December – Arthur Gietzelt , New South Wales politician (d. 2014 ) Sir Edmund Barton 4 January – Robert Etheridge Jr. , paleontologist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1847 )7 January – Sir Edmund Barton , 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (b. 1849 )10 February – Henry Strangways , 12th Premier of South Australia (born and died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1832 )20 March – Alexander William Jardine , engineer (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1843 )6 April – Archibald Peake , 25th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1859 )28 May – Angus Gibson , Queensland politician (b. 1842 )30 May – George Ernest Morrison , journalist and geologist (b. 1862 )9 August – Sir Samuel Griffith , 9th Premier of Queensland and 1st Chief Justice of Australia (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1845 )12 August – Louisa Lawson , writer, poet and feminist (b. 1848 )16 August – Henry Daglish , 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866 )15 September – Sir Thomas Ewing , New South Wales politician (b. 1856 )28 November – Alfred Conroy , New South Wales politician (b. 1864 )21 December – Claude Tozer , doctor and cricketer (b. 1890 )