About the day » Thursday August 20, 1908Calender converter

• Albarta de Leeuw, Wageningen
• Anna Antonia Henkelman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Agnes Margaretha Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Utrecht († 1991)
• Anna Schoute, amsterdam, Nederland
• Agnes Margaretha SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAN DER OYE, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1991)
• albertus johannes Duits, Slijk-Ewijk
• Aafke van der Most, Hilversum
• Anna (annie) Steur, Volendam, Nederland († 1991)
• (Stillborn) HOVEN, Delfzijl Groningen Netherlands († 1908)
• Ada F Brooks († 1983)

• Antonia Francisca Wellens (0), Heppen, Limburg, België
• Adrianus Leenders (69), Olland, Sint-Oedenrode
• Arie van Rossum (0), Goudswaard
• Apolonia den Dulk (41), Scheveningen, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dol (17), schiermonnikoog
• Adriana Boon (56), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Apolonia den Dulk (41), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Schoeman (84), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Apollonia Hoffman (36), IL
• Andreas Frederik Nieuwboer (0), Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1905 » Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist († 1964)
• 1905 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher († 1973)
• 1905 » Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1906 » Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player († 1981)
• 1908 » Al López, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1909 » Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player († 1978)
• 1909 » André Morell, English actor († 1978)
• 1910 » Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch († 1961)
• 1912 » John H. Michaelis, American general († 1985)
• 1913 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)

• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
• September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

The temperature on August 20, 1908 was between 11.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.