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• Arend van der Wijk, Zuidbroek († 1991)
• Adriana Carharina Roos, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Arnoldus Ottevanger, Dinteloord en Prinsenland († 1980)
• Aletta Buijs, amersfoort († 2016)
• Anje Beishuizen, Usquert († 2011)
• Cato de Höndt, Amsterdam († 2002)
• Albert Arends, Opheusden († 2001)
• christianus (chris) verbakel, geldrop († 1988)
• Bartje van der Wey, Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1992)
• Augustus Cornelis van Berkel, Tilburg († 1983)

• Adolf Frederik Monhemius (41), Hendrik Ido Ambacht
• Adeline Hermine Georgine Rosine Bloem (74), Batavia, Nederlands-Indië
• van Gelder (0), Nijmegen
• Anna Helena Wilhelmina Waterloh (27), Düthe
• Alain de Kergariou (37), Fontainebleau, 77186, France
• Aldert Gieling (62), Medemblik
• Anna Maria Franke (0), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Heuvel (23), Gouda
• Alain Gabriël Maria Graaf van Kergariou (37), Fontainebleau, Ile-de-France
• Antonia Maria Elizabeth Schell (75), Hillegersberg Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland

• 1917 » John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States († 1963)
• 1917 » Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic († 2011)
• 1919 » Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic († 2018)
• 1920 » Clifton James, American actor († 2017)
• 1920 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1921 » Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer († 2010)
• 1922 » Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist († 2001)
• 1922 » Joe Weatherly, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1923 » Bernard Clavel, French author († 2010)
• 1923 » John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon († 2015)

• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)

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.
• February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
• April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
• August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
• August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
• September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
• December 11 » Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.

The temperature on May 29, 1920 was between 10.6 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.