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• Anna Wilhelmina Botbijl, Dordrecht († 1990)
• Aagje Stolk, Oud Beijerland Z.H († 2014)
• Albert van der Veen, Groningen († 1975)
• Alice Marie Thérèse Gabriëlle Conijn, Schiedam († 2008)
• Anna Maria Lutjens, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• * Pieternella van Gent, Leerdam († 2009)
• Anna Maria Lutgens, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1944)
• Antonia Henrika Grift, Benschop († 1944)
• Anna Paulina Wijsbeek, Gouda,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Aleida Gezina Hendrika Hekke, Losser († 2006)

• Antonia Maria Johanna Donkersloot (81), Zuilichem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Bakker (65), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Frederik Abram Meinecke (67), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Schothorst (9), Beilen
• Antonia Adriana Johanna (Tonia) Donkersloot (82), Zuilichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Annechien P Olthuis (82), Den Haag, Holland (South), Netherlands
• Alida (Lida) Moorlag (84), Groningen
• Anthonius Dorotheus Hornung
• Anna von Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg (78), Schloss Náměšť nad Oslavou, Tchéquie
• Adrianus Korstiaanse (86), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic († 1989)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)
• 1921 » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman († 2001)
• 1921 » Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer († 1986)
• 1922 » Jack Kerouac, American author and poet († 1969)
• 1922 » Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader († 1999)
• 1923 » Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist († 2013)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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.
• March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
• July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.

The temperature on March 12, 1920 was between 2.8 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.