About the day » Sunday August 1, 1920Calender converter

• Ana Barbara Oliveira Noronha, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil († 2008)
• Alfonsus Johannes Antonius ten Bokum, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2004)
• Annie Ellen Schaafsma, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2007)
• Amy Rose Roach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica († 2010)
• Alfonsius Henricus Rasing († 1980)
• Antonius Aloysius Rasing, Didam, NL († 1996)
• Antonetta Anna van den Wijngaard, Princenhage († 1998)
• Anna Caroline (Ankie) BEELS († 2009)
• Middelkoop, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Arie Muntjewerf, Oudesluis, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1940)

• Antonius Kooij (9), Baarn, Nederland
• Cecilia Maria Ballering (54), Haarlem
• Christina Kaljouw (41), Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL
• Bernardus Lodevicus (Lodewijk) de Joode (82), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albertine Caroline Auguste Gaulke (54), Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin
• Middelkoop (0), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacobse den Dulk (81), Rijswijk, Nederland
• Abel Fernand Cyprès (31), Flénu, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alida Margaretha Horeman (37), Haarlem, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Menko (47), Beverwijk

• 1916 » Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet († 2000)
• 1916 » Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal († 2014)
• 1918 » T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist († 2013)
• 1919 » Stanley Middleton, English author († 2009)
• 1920 » Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player († 1992)
• 1921 » Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1921 » Pat McDonald, Australian actress († 1990)
• 1922 » Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor († 2006)
• 1923 » Val Bettin, American actor
• 1924 » Abdullah of Saudi Arabia († 2015)

• 1903 » Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 » Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 » Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1921 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)

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 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
• January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
• 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.
• November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France

The temperature on August 1, 1920 was between 13.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.