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• Arendje van Beelen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Anna Gerarda Geurts, Maasbree († 2003)
• ANNA MARIA KNUBBEN, Kerkrade († 1920)
• Alef Jan Tjeerd VAN DER HEIDE, Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands († 1920)
• Arendje van Beelen, Katwijk († 2011)
• Arendje Mos, Scheveningen († 1998)
• Aafje Timmerman, Sijbekarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Anna Gerarda Geurts, Maasbree († 2003)
• Arie Zuijderduijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1927)
• Arnoldus Maria Verbeek, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1920)

• Alphonse Victor Lenders (0), Lanaken (B)
• Aris ZIJDEWIND (60), Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bridget Gilsenan (34)
• Antje Hamminga (46), Slochteren
• Bernardus Kuijpers (68), Tilburg
• Berendina Josephina Maria Mensinck (0), Groenlo
• Berend Papenburg (43), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Elisabet Janmaat (22), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Betje Vissel (39), Groningen (NL)
• Nn Groen, Bellingwolde

• 1915 » Ray Stark, American film producer († 2004)
• 1916 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author († 1995)
• 1919 » James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1921 » Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier († 1996)
• 1923 » Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica († 2004)
• 1924 » Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach († 2012)
• 1924 » Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist († 1993)
• 1925 » George Wein, American pianist and producer, co-founded the Newport Folk Festival
• 1925 » Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic († 2012)
• 1928 » Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer († 1986)

• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)

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 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• 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.
• May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
• August 18 » The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

The temperature on October 3, 1920 was between 8.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.