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• Antonia Roovers, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Lee, Vlijmen († 1943)
• Arie Vonk († 1984)
• Agetta Jani Sparreboom, Barendrecht († 2015)
• Aafje Catherina (tante Aafje) van der Klugt, overveen († 1988)
• Arie Geijtenbeek, Barneveld († 1995)
• Anna Van Roosbroeck, Berlaar Be († 1983)
• Aida Raffaelli, Tripoli († 1965)
• Arie VONK († 1984)
• Bonnie Ranee Chisolm, Kemper County Mississippi († 1987)

• Anna Raidt (82), Muskegon, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• aleida maria van ophoven (1), helden-grashoek
• Alberdine Wolters (65), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes Cornelius Goverde (2), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• NN van der Weide (0)
• DONNE MARIA-ELISABETH (42), MAASEIK
• Antje Rientzes Reitsma (39), Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abel Charles Ursmer Joseph Canivez (51), Mettel Soleiment, Belgium
• Alberdina Wolters (65), Emmen, Nederland
• Arie van Woudenberg (23), Oegstgeest

• 1918 » Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader († 2013)
• 1918 » Charles Read, Australian air marshal († 2014)
• 1918 » E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author († 2007)
• 1920 » Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1920 » Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator († 1976)
• 1920 » Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator († 2013)
• 1921 » Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1921 » Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright († 2014)
• 1922 » Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, American actor († 2016)
• 1922 » Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic († 1997)

• 1897 » Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
• 1911 » Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1934 » Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (b. 1888)
• 1934 » Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)
• 1937 » Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

• 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.
• February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• 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 19 » The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
• September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
• November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The temperature on October 9, 1920 was between 8.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.