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• Adrianus Cornelis Peters, Ginneken en Bavel († 1994)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Spijker († 2003)
• Aaltje Zomermaand, Steenwijk († 1921)
• Antoinette van Hooff, Meerssen († 2002)
• Alice Nadine Siemsen, Grundy County, Iowa († 2010)
• Antonius Petrus van Meel, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1944)
• Alexander Booij, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Antonius Johannes Beekmans, Besoijen († 1974)
• Anneliese Martha Gertrud Gernig, Neukölln, Neukölln, Berlin, Duitsland († 2005)
• Aart Verschoor, De Werken en Sleeuwijk († 2007)

• "Joseph" Marie Charles de Saporta (32), Lyon
• Albertus Mollink (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Sibilla Meerdink (63), Rheden
• Alexander Schreuders (0), Klundert, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Anna Catharina d'Hont (82), Boschkapelle
• Albertha Wilhelmina Kappers (47), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alijda Peters (78), Nijmegen
• Aletta Agatha van der Steen (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) KRUIT (0), Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands
• Anita Mary Lamm (0), Spokane, Washington, Verenigde Staten

• 1916 » Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author († 2002)
• 1916 » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer († 2020)
• 1917 » James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent († 1987)
• 1917 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1918 » Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress († 2012)
• 1919 » V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1919 » William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1920 » Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver († 2007)
• 1920 » Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy († 2016)
• 1922 » Redd Foxx, American actor († 1991)

• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

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 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
• November 21 » Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".
• December 22 » The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.

The temperature on December 9, 1920 was between -2.3 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.