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• Carl Albert Volmer, Owanka, Pennington, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Albertus Nanninga, Neerlandia († 2016)
• Andries Herbert van Oorschot, Rotterdam († 1938)
• Antonia van Geel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2013)
• Anna Rita Minella († 2019)
• Adrianus SCHNITKER, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2007)
• Carel Kuyvenhoven, Pijnacker, 2641, Nederland († 1998)
• Allan Ruesch, Springdale, Washington County, Utah, United States of America († 2005)
• Annie Moir Ellen VERRALL († 1920)
• Nn Van Der Meer, Emmen († 1920)

• Anna Maria Bernardina Hendricks (66), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Moir Ellen VERRALL (0), Queensland, Australia
• Antje Ypes Stelma (78), Leeuwarden
• Aaldert Beeling (85), Harderwijk
• Anna Maria Craenmehr (72), Horst, Li.NL
• Catherina Maria van der Sanden (71), Nijmegen
• Barelt en Klasina zoon 5 Moesker (0), Stillborn
• Antoon van den Berg (18), Deventer, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Verlaan (67), Lisse
• Auke Penninga (56), Haskerland, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1917 » Joan Roberts, American actress and singer († 2012)
• 1917 » Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1918 » Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1918 » Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
• 1919 » Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant († 2012)
• 1919 » Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher († 1999)
• 1921 » Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1921 » Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1922 » Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer († 2019)
• 1922 » Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)

• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
• 1932 » Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
• 1933 » Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
• 1933 » Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)

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 16 » Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 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 14 » Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
• November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
• November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The temperature on July 15, 1920 was between 8.5 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.