About the day » Wednesday December 8, 1920Calender converter

• Dennis Young, Genua († 1995)
• van Maurik, IJsselstein
• Arthur Edward Coulter Sr, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, United States of America († 1993)
• Arij van Hoorn, Rotterdam († 1992)
• Alida Johanna Teune, Amsterdam († 2017)
• Bart Willem Cornelis Eringaard, Den Haag, Nederland († 1921)
• Albertus Johannes Kalter, IJsselmuiden († 1922)
• Henrica(Rika)Adriana Reijchler, Steenbergen († 1996)
• Annie E. Dogan, Mississippi († 1975)
• Baukje Hermina Maria Engwerda, Sint Nicolaasga († 2013)

• - van der Wijk (0), de Leeuwte (Vollenhove, Ambt)
• Antonette Wendels (72), Enschede
• Berend Baas (0), Valthermond, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aart Beuzekom (78), Noordeloos
• Alberta de Man (52), Ede, Nederland
• Aart Beuzekom (78), Noordeloos
• Bernardus van Eck (57), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amanda Kantorek (51), Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Berend Baas (0), Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Dorothea van Alem (0)

• 1916 » Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1917 » Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator († 1998)
• 1919 » Julia Bowman, American mathematician and theorist († 1985)
• 1919 » Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic († 2001)
• 1919 » Peter Tali Coleman, Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa († 1997)
• 1920 » McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player († 2013)
• 1922 » Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1922 » Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator († 2011)
• 1923 » Dewey Martin, American actor († 2018)
• 1923 » Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist

• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 » J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1929 » José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)

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 16 » The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• February 13 » The Negro National League is formed.
• March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
• December 16 » The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5M_w , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.

The temperature on December 8, 1920 was between -0.8 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.