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• Adriaan Cornelis (Ap) Wagemaker, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1945)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Loenen, Meteren († 1994)
• Carel Kruisbrink, Zoeterwoude († 2010)
• Aagje van Jeveren, Moordrecht († 1921)
• Annegien Santing, Hoensbroek († 2011)
• Aaltje Perton, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2004)
• Cloosterman, Nijmegen († 1920)
• Bernardus Hermanus Pothuizen, Mijdrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland († 2005)
• Adriana van Giessen, Poederoijen († 1982)
• Anna Maria Elisa Slootmakers, Maaseik († 2005)

• Adriaan Buijks, Baarle Nassau
• Amelia E Rogers (59), Everman, Tarrant County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje Boer (77), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Didden (77), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cloosterman (0), Nijmegen
• Aartje SLUIMER Cdr (86), Oude-Tonge, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Albertus Franken (79), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina VERNANS (87), Born
• Adriana Maria Heemskerk-RK (67), Warmond
• Aaltje Cornelis PRANGER (51), Oudkarspel, NH, Nederland

• 1914 » Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach († 2008)
• 1915 » Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider († 2011)
• 1915 » Ray Ellington, English drummer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1915 » Robert S. Arbib Jr., American ornithologist, writer and conservationist († 1987)
• 1919 » Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host († 1965)
• 1920 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1921 » Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician, 12th Israeli Minister of Communications († 2009)
• 1922 » Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher († 2014)
• 1924 » Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor († 2015)

• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)

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

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

• 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
• February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
• May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
• August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
• October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

The temperature on March 17, 1920 was between 3.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.