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• aart van rumpt, melissant (goeree overflakkee) († 2001)
• Albertina Tonia Stolte († 2002)
• Carl Albert Drew, Woden, Hancock County, Iowa († 2011)
• Adolf Herman Fritz Bosscher, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Antonia Geertruida Maria van der Haar, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2019)
• Berdina Elisabeth Jonckers, Alphen en Riel († 2009)
• Aaltje Mast, De Veenhoop, Smallingerland (Frl) († 2001)
• Arie Huisman, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Antonius Scheerens, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1999)
• Antonie van Lienden, Est en Opijnen († 1992)

• Baatje van WOUDENBERG (73), Zeist (Utr.), Neth
• Arie Broek (42)
• van den Berg (0), Echteld
• Adriana Rosalia Verraes (0), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Anna Lina Wetzig (45)
• Aaltje Jans Nanninga (77), obergem
• Anne Barbe Agnes POLLET (65), Helmond, 3703, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Baatje van Woudenberg (73), Zeist
• Caroline Eugenie Marie Berckmans de Weert (67), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Agnes Hood Hill (75), Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

• 1917 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator († 1973)
• 1919 » Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina († 1991)
• 1920 » Pope John Paul II († 2005)
• 1921 » Michael A. Epstein, English pathologist and academic
• 1922 » Bill Macy, American actor († 2019)
• 1922 » Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer († 1983)
• 1923 » Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica († 2004)
• 1923 » Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 2013)
• 1924 » Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster († 2019)
• 1924 » Priscilla Pointer, American actress

• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (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. 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.
• January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
• March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
• March 19 » The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
• June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
• August 16 » The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.

The temperature on May 18, 1920 was between 9.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.