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• Carl August Christian Rümke, Niedermehnen 23, D († 1997)
• Arnold Kuik († 1980)
• Ardella Maxine Sherwood, Momence (Kankakee County) (Illinois) († 1994)
• Adriana Elisabeth de Kort, Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1919)
• Catharina Hendrica Maria Meijer, Monster († 1992)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Velderman, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland († 1994)
• Adriana Elisabeth de Kort, Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1919)
• Bernadete Lima, Minas do Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brasil
• Adrianus Johannes Veldhoven, Lisse († 1967)
• Anna Maria van der Hijden, Best, Nederland († 2005)

• Antonius Adrianus Bakker (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anje Wolters Stratingh (87), Winsum (gem. Het Hogeland)
• Anna Maria van den Heuvel (76), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Beek (49), Stiphout, 4243, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina De Bie (87), Oorderen
• Bernardus van Hattem (72), Sliedrecht
• Catharina Elisabethe Feth (67), Gardnersville, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States
• Anna Dorothea Scheeler Wilde \ Penno (88), Piaski, Leczyca, Lodz, Polen
• Adriaan Adam de Visser (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Laura Wheeler Ullery (62), Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, Verenigde Staten

• 1914 » Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician († 2005)
• 1914 » Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian philanthropist († 2018)
• 1914 » Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal († 2013)
• 1918 » Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer († 2006)
• 1919 » Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer († 2008)
• 1919 » Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge, English writer († 2012)
• 1920 » Elliot Richardson, American lieutenant and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Defense († 1999)
• 1921 » Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author († 2013)
• 1922 » Alan Stephenson Boyd, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 1923 » Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist († 2005)

• 1903 » Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 1908 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 1910 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
• 1927 » Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1932 » René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)

• 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 6.7 million citizens.
• January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
• June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
• September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• October 3 » Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
• October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

The temperature on July 20, 1919 was between 11.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.