About the day » Saturday July 31, 1920Calender converter

• Annigje WINGERDEN, van, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Anne van der Zaag, Grijpskerk († 1996)
• Berend Meilink, Holtheme († 2013)
• Aukje van den Bos, Naaldwijk († 1981)
• C. Vooijs, Katwijk († 2004)
• Antonius Michiel Notten, Nuenen († 2003)
• Carel Leo Wolf, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Albertus Foppes Klijnsma, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1922)
• Anna Kristine (Nanna) Kristensen, Setså, Nordland, Norway († 1997)
• Betty Floyd Day * († 2012)

• Charles Nelson Knight [Wk |||] (0)
• Adriaan Mattheus Groenenberg (47), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Anthonius Schroeijers (63), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertina Maria Cornelia Maas (76), 's-Gravenhage
• Abraham Prins Az (51), 's Gravenzande (ZH-NLD)
• Borghild Petterson (20), Østerkløft, Fauske
• Christina Kathmann (61), Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Sophia Tannetje Kempff (13), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius SCHROEIJERS (63), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barend Jan Lode (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1918 » Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier († 1998)
• 1918 » Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 2010)
• 1918 » Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1919 » Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor († 2006)
• 1919 » Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer († 2003)
• 1919 » Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author († 1987)
• 1920 » James E. Faust, American religious leader, lawyer, and politician († 2007)
• 1921 » Donald Malarkey, American sergeant and author († 2017)
• 1921 » Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International († 2005)
• 1921 » Whitney Young, American activist († 1971)

• 1891 » Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Belgian stained glass painter (b. 1814)
• 1913 » John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
• 1914 » Jean Jaurès, French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1917 » Francis Ledwidge, Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
• 1917 » Hedd Wyn, Welsh language poet (b. 1887)
• 1920 » Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Francis Younghusband, British Army Officer, explorer and spiritual writer (b.1863)
• 1943 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)

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.
• March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
• July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
• August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
• September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association 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 July 31, 1920 was between 9.7 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.