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• Clasina Maria Bleecke, Schiedam
• Catharina Hoogewerf, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1930)
• Bradford Beals HOLLISTER, Pittsfield, Massachusetts († 1985)
• Carolyn Gore, Columbus County, North Carolina († 2000)
• Bram Scholte, Weltevreden, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indie
• Addison Connet Cookson, Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Barend Johannes Glasius, Kampen († 2003)
• Ardina BEKS, Eindhoven (NL/NB) († 1922)
• Clazina Elisabeth van der Haven, Ter Aar (Aardam) († 1924)
• Anne Hoogeboom, -,VS, Verenigde Staten († 2007)

• Antonia Mentink (81), Deventer
• Anna Jacoba Bartha Post (79), Tiel
• Antonie Leonardus Hondius (61), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Lambregts (80), Meer, Provincie Antwerpen
• Adriana Johanna van Oosterhout (34), Hoeven
• Anna Jakoba Bartha Post (79), Tiel,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Nijeboer (88), Junne
• Abraham van der Burg (83), Vlaardingen
• Alida Versluis (27), Kedichem
• Antonie Leonardus Hondius (61), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1915 » Sidney Luft, American film producer († 2005)
• 1917 » Ann Rutherford, American actress († 2012)
• 1918 » Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot of Romanian descent († 2015)
• 1919 » Warren Stevens, American actor († 2012)
• 1920 » Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster († 2013)
• 1921 » Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1994)
• 1921 » Shepard Menken, American actor († 1999)
• 1922 » Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler († 2013)
• 1924 » David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1988)
• 1924 » Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer († 2016)

• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
• 1930 » Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1935 » Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)

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 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
• February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
• 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.
• 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 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
• November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.

The temperature on November 2, 1920 was between -3.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.