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• ?? Platje, (DR) Odoorn-Valthermond († 1920)
• Albert Tot, Midlum († 1996)
• Antonie Clazinus Loose, Oirschot († 2005)
• Aafke Riemersma, Opeinde († 2016)
• Albert Antonius Marie Hubert Hendriks, Valkenburg, Nederland († 1992)
• Arie Paulus Meulenberg, Wissenkerke († 1989)
• Anna Katharina Rass, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1921)
• Annigje Dekker († 2023)
• Alberdina van den Berg, Genemuiden, Nederland († 2018)
• Arie OVERHEUL, hellouw († 1991)

• Aaltje Schipper (0), Oud-Beijerland
• Anna Petronella van Gemert (34), Eindhoven
• Adriana Daatje Ponsioen (81), Utrecht
• Albertus Hulleman (56), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Aartje van Wijngaarden (58), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Veenstra (1), Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Versantvoort (58), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Rodenrijs (0), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Ponsioen (81), utrecht
• Anna Cornelia Keesen (0), Wijk aan Zee, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1916 » Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City († 1984)
• 1917 » Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer († 2007)
• 1919 » Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls († 2013)
• 1919 » Brian Urquhart, English soldier and diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1920 » Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect († 2014)
• 1921 » Pierre Clostermann, French pilot, engineer, and author († 2006)
• 1922 » Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar († 1993)
• 1923 » Charles Durning, American soldier and actor († 2012)
• 1924 » Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1924 » Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect († 2000)

• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1942 » Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
• 1959 » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1888)

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

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

• 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 6.8 million citizens.
• January 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
• February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
• August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
• September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
• November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

The temperature on February 28, 1920 was between -1.1 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.