About the day » Sunday March 20, 1904Calender converter

• Ada Stanford, Lillydale, Clay County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Aaltje Gerritsen, Nijkerk
• Alexandra Naldera "Baba" (Lady)(C.B.E.) CURZON (METCALF) († 1995)
• Abel Kazemier, Aduard († 1977)
• Aaltje Rademaker, 's Gravenhage
• Adrianus Mattheus van Noort, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Lagerwaard, Ridderkerk († 1940)
• Albertus Johannes Henneman, Den Haag († 1975)
• Andreas Wilhelmus Hubertus (Andre) Knols, Koningsbosch, Netherlands († 1984)
• Aaltje Johanna Mes, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Angelina van der Weerden (60), Meijel
• Amandus Franciscus VANROOSE (92), Eernegem
• Charles Henry Rolle HEPBURN-STUART-FORBES-TREFUSIS (70), Cairo, Egypt
• Arie Jacob Niemandsverdriet (28), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina de Hoop (34), Weesp
• Amandus Franciscus Van Roose (92), Eernegem
• anna maria behage (54), hillegom
• Arend Jan Boerdam (71), Holthone
• Anthonie Wesselson (0), Steenwijk
• Anna Hubertina Sophia Haane (2), Maastricht

• 1898 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist († 1954)
• 1900 » Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician († 1942)
• 1903 » Edgar Buchanan, American actor († 1979)
• 1904 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author († 1990)
• 1905 » Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer († 1949)
• 1906 » Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City († 2001)
• 1906 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader († 1975)
• 1907 » Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator († 1990)
• 1908 » Michael Redgrave, English actor and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower († 1999)

• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
• May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on March 20, 1904 was between 1.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.