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• Annigje Adriana van der Vlies, Sliedrecht († 2010)
• Ada Dewsnup, Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States († 1999)
• Aaltien (Aaltje) Gortmaker, Eext (Anloo) († 1983)
• Arend Guijt, Katwijk († 2000)
• Hes, Limmen († 1920)
• Alfons Marten Vermeiren, Wortel (B) († 1996)
• Adrianus Jaspers van Dam, Valkenswaard († 1950)
• Apolônia Pereira Braz, Gaspar, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aaltien Heersmink, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 2020)
• Adrianus LOOS, Wognum(Nh) († 1920)

• Aale Schonewille (1), Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berry A Smith (73), Collins, Saint Clair County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antoine Joseph Charles Lucas (66), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Bastiaantje Klerk (26), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Voorn
• Berend Hageman (57), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus van de Laarschot, Beek en Donk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes van de Pas (85), Tilburg
• Aale Schonewille (1), Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen
• Adriana Maria Winkel (0), Hedikhuizen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1917 » George Osmond, American talent manager († 2007)
• 1918 » Robert Walker, American actor († 1951)
• 1919 » Jackie Ronne, American explorer († 2009)
• 1920 » Laraine Day, American actress († 2007)
• 1921 » Yves Montand, Italian-French actor and singer († 1991)
• 1922 » Nathaniel Clifton, American athlete († 1990)
• 1923 » Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer († 2006)
• 1923 » John C. Champion, American screenwriter and producer († 1994)
• 1923 » Rosemary Anne Sisson, English author and playwright († 2017)
• 1924 » Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader

• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)
• 1930 » T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and educator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (b. 1894)

• 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 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
• 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.
• March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
• August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• December 16 » The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5M_w , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.

The temperature on October 13, 1920 was between 1.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.