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• * Jan Sevrin van Laar, Leerdam († 2002)
• Anna Catherine {Vrooman} Ruggeri, Johnstown, Fulton, New York, United States of America († 1971)
• Annigje Dekker († 2023)
• Adrianus van Stein, Noordwijkerhout († 1968)
• Arnolda van Pel, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Ardell KOLMAN KLINGE, North Dakota U.S.A († 1989)
• Adriana de Jong († 1994)
• Anna Katharina Rass, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1921)
• Angele Bauwens, Bassevelde († 2010)
• Arie OVERHEUL, hellouw († 1991)

• Alice Emily Georgiana Olivia Bethell Codrington
• Heil (0), Utrecht
• Adriana Daatje Ponsioen (81), Utrecht
• Annechien LAAN (81), Lieveren (Roden), Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Overdorp (79), Middelburg
• Adriana Ponsioen (81), utrecht
• Alida Antonia Sanders (67), Den Haag
• Anna Cornelia Keesen (0), Wijk aan Zee, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Rodenrijs (0), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Lucas Laan (78), Lieveren

• 1916 » Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City († 1984)
• 1917 » Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer († 2007)
• 1919 » Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls († 2013)
• 1919 » Brian Urquhart, English soldier and diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1920 » Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect († 2014)
• 1921 » Pierre Clostermann, French pilot, engineer, and author († 2006)
• 1922 » Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar († 1993)
• 1923 » Charles Durning, American soldier and actor († 2012)
• 1924 » Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1924 » Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect († 2000)

• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1942 » Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
• 1959 » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1888)

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 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
• January 19 » The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• January 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
• March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
• August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.

The temperature on February 28, 1920 was between -1.1 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.