About the day » Saturday August 14, 1920Calender converter

• Anna van Hemmen, Rotterdam
• Anthonia Schol, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1980)
• Albert van Hien, Steenwijk († 1998)
• Anthonie Verboom, Alblasserdam († 2006)
• Anna Hendrika Smit, Alkmaar († 2013)
• Adriana Johanna Tiemessen, Amsterdam († 2010)
• Anna Catharina van Gisbergen, Hoge en Lage Mierde († 1920)
• Aalt van Ommen, Oldebroek († 2001)
• Anna Hermans, Meerssen († 1980)
• Huisman, Sellingen (Vlagtwedde) († 1920)

• Antonia Louisa Duchateau (0), Borgharen, Maastricht, Nederland
• Anderson Eugene Ancie Hatfield (36)
• Adrianus van der Steen (68), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Huisman (0), Sellingen (Vlagtwedde)
• Arend van Wijngaarden (42), Almkerk
• Arie Verburg (71), Middelharnis
• Antonius Johannes Taman (1), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Louisa Duchateau (0), Borgharen, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Lakerveld (73), Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Amandus Emilius Marcoen (46), Winksele, Brabant, Belgie

• 1916 » Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists (twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016)
• 1916 » Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player and manager († 1992)
• 1916 » Wellington Mara, American businessman († 2005)
• 1918 » Patsy Smart, English actress († 1996)
• 1922 » Leslie Marr, English race car driver
• 1923 » Alice Ghostley, American actress († 2007)
• 1923 » Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem († 2000)
• 1924 » Georges Prêtre, French conductor († 2017)
• 1924 » Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor († 2013)
• 1924 » Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum († 2009)

• 1890 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
• 1905 » Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
• 1926 » John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 1928 » Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1943 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)

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.
• February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
• April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
• 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.
• October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
• November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The temperature on August 14, 1920 was between 8.0 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.