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• Albert Otten, Onna († 2006)
• Clarence Walstra, Fair Oaks-California (USA) († 1996)
• Adriaantje Groeneveld, Puttershoek († 2013)
• Catharina Cornelia Straathof, Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen), Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Arthur Charles SAUNDERS, Kentish Town, Camden, Middlesex († 1995)
• Adriana MAAS, Kortgene († 1992)
• Alida Johanna Geertruida Willard, Laren N.H († 2011)
• André August Mauritz DE WILDE, Aalst, 41002, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1995)
• Adrianus "Adri" Albertus Heemskerk, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Brandina Klarenbeek, Barneveld († 2011)

• Antonia Klaassen (32), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Bolhuis (64), Pretoria (Zuid Afrika)
• Benjamin Lipman de Vries (63), Amsterdam
• Augustinus BAEKELANDT (75), Gullegem, 34012, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Anna Eliza Noll (56), Soerabaija, Java, Ned. Indie
• Adriaan Goderie (49), Zundert
• Aletta Susanna Potgieter (48)
• Adriaan Godrie (49), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Baukje Folkerts Bosma (83), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ettema (65), Smallingerland

• 1915 » Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel († 2012)
• 1917 » Joan Fontaine, British-American actress († 2013)
• 1918 » Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1976)
• 1919 » Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Kathleen Ankers, English-American actress and set designer († 2001)
• 1920 » Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author († 1996)
• 1921 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist († 1986)
• 1921 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
• 1921 » Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant († 2014)
• 1923 » Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager († 2013)

• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1917 » Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)
• 1928 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1935 » Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (b. 1847)

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 13 » The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
• April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
• May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
• May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
• August 16 » The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
• 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.

The temperature on October 22, 1920 was between -4.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.