About the day » Thursday May 13, 1920Calender converter

• Arnoldus Gerhardus ter Schure, Weststellingwerf († 1993)
• Albert Mathijs Janssen, Opglabbeek (B) († 1999)
• Bernardus Vermeer, Winterswijk
• Betsie Denneboom, Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen († 2019)
• Alfred Nadaner, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1972)
• Arie Broek, Vlaardingen († 1975)
• Anita Kempner, Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany († 1944)
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Ledderhof, Nederland Zevenaar († 1991)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria van Sijl, Maarssen († 1987)
• Adriana Elisabet van Eyck, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)

• Anna Maria van Gastel (58), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Berent Maalderink (68), Bekveld
• Arien Rotering (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Jans Blaak (55), Hoogezand, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arien Wallinga (77), Wolvega(FR)
• Albertje Abes van Duinen (73)
• Catharina Maria Kuiper (16), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berent Maalderink (68), Bekveld (Hengelo Gld)
• Anna Catharina Valke (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje van 't Zelfde (34), Haarlem

• 1916 » Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet († 2004)
• 1918 » Balasaraswati, Indian dancer and instructor († 1984)
• 1918 » Gwyn Howells, Australian public servant († 1997)
• 1920 » Gareth Morris, English flute player († 2007)
• 1922 » Bea Arthur, American actress and singer († 2009)
• 1922 » Michael Ainsworth, English cricketer († 1978)
• 1922 » Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer († 1991)
• 1923 » Ruth Adler Schnee, German-American textile designer and interior designer
• 1924 » Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and Ambassador († 2010)
• 1924 » Theodore Mann, American director and producer († 2012)

• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)

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. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
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 13 » The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
• January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
• March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
• September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
• October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

The temperature on May 13, 1920 was between 7.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.