About the day » Friday December 17, 1920Calender converter

• Afina Rademaker († 1994)
• Abraham van Delft, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Albertus Johannes Wigger, Geesteren († 1997)
• Catharina Johanna Anna Rubbens, Hoeven († 2001)
• Anna Hendrika Groot Koerkamp, Lettele († 1985)
• Aaltje Ensink, Dalerveen (Dalen) († 2007)
• Adriaan Zwartepoorte, den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Maria Santegoets, Goirle († 1920)
• Andries Gerbens, Deinum, gem. Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1980)
• Antoon Beijn, Rotterdam († 1922)

• Agathonike Fenerlis (79), Hove, Sussex, England
• Augustinus Theodorus Boeijkens (0), Hengstdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ferdinants (73), Weesp
• Berend Jager (71), Nieuweschans
• Berend Jager (71), Nieuweschans, Nederland
• Carolus Ludivicus GELDERMANS (75), Kallo,9120,Flandre-Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Berend Beerends Jager (71), Nieuweschans, Reiderland, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Ferdinants (73), Weesp
• Bertus de Roos (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• almer middelbeek (70), Warder, Nederland

• 1914 » Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2013)
• 1914 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer († 2005)
• 1916 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet († 2000)
• 1917 » Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic († 1983)
• 1920 » Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language († 2004)
• 1921 » Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator († 1943)
• 1922 » Alan Voorhees, American engineer and academic († 2005)
• 1923 » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar († 2006)
• 1926 » John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician († 2014)
• 1926 » Ray Jablonski, American baseball player († 1985)

• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856)

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 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
• February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• 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 December 17, 1920 was between -6.5 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.