About the day » Sunday August 20, 1911Calender converter

• Anna Colebunders, Herselt, Antwerpen, België
• Alida Rosalie Theresia Bakker, Amsterdam
• Anna (Adriana) Kappen, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna August VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Sint-Gillis-Waas
• Adriana van Deutekom, Ede († 1943)
• Andreas Johannes Josephus Snijders, Drunen († 1988)
• Adriana van der Kruk, Delft, Nederland († 1981)
• Alida Corneli Aafke Vogels, wassenaar
• Agnes Spruytte, Hooglede West Vlaanderen België († 1988)
• Alice L Bryson, Union County, South Dakota († 1987)

• Adriaan Laurens Vader (0), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Prummel (64), Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Antoon Visser (0), Foxham, Groningen, Nederland
• Aalke Dijkema (57), Cook County (Illinois)
• Albertus Gerardus de Boer (0), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice M Nickerson (58), Malden, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Baby girl Hanneman (0), Craig, Burt, Nebraska
• Annechien Westeraling (0), Meppen (Zweeloo)
• Adriana Maria Jongenelen (0), Wouw
• Albartus ter Heijne (77), Tubbergen

• 1905 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher († 1973)
• 1905 » Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1906 » Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player († 1981)
• 1908 » Al López, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1909 » Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player († 1978)
• 1909 » André Morell, English actor († 1978)
• 1910 » Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch († 1961)
• 1912 » John H. Michaelis, American general († 1985)
• 1913 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1916 » Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player and chemist († 1984)

• 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)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
• August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
• September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
• September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
• November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.

The temperature on August 20, 1911 was between 8.9 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.