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• Gerrit Jan Langius, Ambt Hardenberg († 1986)
• Beatrix Catharina Doornbos, Rotterdam († 2006)
• Gerritdina ter Keurst, wierden
• Bardina Bakker († 2021)
• Emma Marie Martin, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Aukje Nijdam, Woudsend († 2010)
• Gerritdina ter Keurs, wierden
• Dirk Gerrit Hooijer, Baarn († 2016)
• Els Brands († 1994)
• Adrianus Cattel, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)

• Anna Maria Wentholt (53), Amsterdam
• Aaltjen Wilgenhof (80), Diepenveen
• Camille Cyrille (Camiel) Desmet (65), Geluwe, West-Vlaanderen (B)
• Anna Atrops (47), Kapellen, Nord Rhein Wesfalen, Deutschland
• Aagje Krijgsman (59), Amsterdam
• Beertje (Beertien) Posthoorn (84), Zuidwolde, Nederland
• August Hendrik Frederik Gerardus Craanen (39)
• Berend SCHUITERD (74), Rijssen
• Aaltjen Wilgenhof (80), Diepenveen (Deventer)
• Alfred Gillard (76), Ulverstone, Tasmania

• 1933 » Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer
• 1934 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player († 1974)
• 1934 » Eddie Harris, American saxophonist († 1996)
• 1935 » Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer († 2004)
• 1937 » Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist († 2013)
• 1937 » Emma Tennant, English author († 2017)
• 1937 » Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player and sportscaster
• 1937 » Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 » Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1938 » Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer and educator († 2006)

• 1926 » Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)

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

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

• 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
• March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
• September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
• November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.

The temperature on October 20, 1936 was between 3.5 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.