About the day » Sunday August 20, 1876Calender converter

• Adriana Maria Morison, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Albert Mol, Goes Z († 1900)
• Adriana Maria van Dis, Fijnaart († 1915)
• Aleida Maria Henriëtte Hatoe, Batavia († 1966)
• Aaltje Vonk, Tienhoven, Nederland († 1925)
• Aaltje Kes, Volendam, Nederland
• Adam Schouwenaars, Zevenbergen († 1877)
• Angenes van Rijn, Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Anna Adriaantje Wolthuis, Euvelgunne, Noorddijk,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Caljouw, Koudekerke

• Agnes Todd (0), Chatsworth, Livingston, IL
• Alida Bakker (0), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ariaantje Dirks Riet (16), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Belder (0), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arie de Kok (0), Alblasserdam
• (Doodgeboren) Killewinger (Kielwing) (0), Almkerk, Nederland
• Antonie Berkers (50), Helmond, Nederland
• Aafje de Waal (63), Westbroek (De Bilt)
• Anna Van Eesbeke (0), Antwerpen
• Antje Roerdomp (0), den Helder

• 1865 » Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer and lawyer († 1911)
• 1868 » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player († 1954)
• 1873 » Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland († 1950)
• 1881 » Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1943)
• 1881 » Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author († 1959)
• 1884 » Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg († 1976)
• 1885 » Dino Campana, Italian poet and author († 1932)
• 1886 » Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian († 1965)
• 1887 » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar († 1959)
• 1888 » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam († 1980)

• 1835 » Agnes Bulmer, English merchant and poet (b. 1775)
• 1854 » Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801)
• 1859 » Juan Bautista Ceballos, President of Mexico (1853) (b. 1811)
• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Antje
15. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
• November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
• November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.

The temperature on August 20, 1876 was about 17.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.