About the day » Monday May 24, 1920Calender converter

• Berend Jan Zweverink, Brummen († 1940)
• Bernadine Swisher, Morgan, Indiana, United States († 2008)
• Albert Okken, Annen, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland († 1989)
• Wetzer, Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Carolina Metzen, Heerlen († 1990)
• Aaltje Sapes Pranger, Rinsumageest († 2011)
• Carolina Metzen, Heerlen († 1990)
• Anna Maria (Riet) van Abeelen, Tilburg († 2019)
• Aaltje Pranger, Rinsumageest, Friesland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Betsy David KOPS, Amsterdam († 1942)

• Adrianus de Lange (78), Utrecht
• Aletta Johanna Elizabetha Botes (71), Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
• Anna Maria van de Wiel (11), Vlijmen
• Adriana Martha Kooij (84), Klaaswaal (Hoeksche Waard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Hermanna Boekholt (56), Zwolle
• Adriana Boer (78), Dordrecht
• Anna Maria de Man (18), Tilburg
• Aaltje Bieren (50), Amsterdam
• Alphonsus Romandus Leijs (0), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Martha Kooij (84), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1913 » Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier († 1993)
• 1914 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress († 1986)
• 1916 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales († 2002)
• 1917 » Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1918 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit († 1997)
• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter

• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)

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. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
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.
• January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
• August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
• August 18 » The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
• October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
• November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

The temperature on May 24, 1920 was between 11.8 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.