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• Agnes Hommes, Chicago,, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Aldegonda Gerarda Hendrix, Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)
• Adriana Kouwenberg, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1914)
• Anna Nijhof, Rekken,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• * Wilhelmus Christiaan Consent, Helmond († 1972)
• Adriana Weitering, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert de Bruijn, amsterdam, Nederland
• Alice Mae Cain, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Adriana Groen, Scheveningen († 2001)
• Adriana Schot, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1914)

• Barones Elisabeth Maria Van Boetzelaer (46), Huize Zandbergen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Pas (84), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van Noort (82), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Bulthuis (72), Kantens, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonius Arnoldus van den Hurk (0), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes Antonius Haarmans (58), Utrecht
• Alida Bergman (84), Leiden
• Adriana Baardman (74), Papendrecht
• Antje Luijendijk (78), S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie de Joode (1), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1906 » Gale Gordon, American actor († 1995)
• 1912 » Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War († 2006)
• 1912 » Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author († 1994)
• 1913 » Tommy Henrich, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1914 » John Charles Daly, South African–American journalist and game show host († 1991)
• 1916 » Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer
• 1918 » Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat († 2009)
• 1919 » James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot († 1974)
• 1920 » Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi († 2014)
• 1921 » Buddy Rogers, American wrestler († 1992)

• 1893 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 » Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
• 1920 » Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)

• 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
• August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
• December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
• December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

The temperature on February 20, 1914 was between 3.0 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.