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• Antonetta van Bladel, Gemeente Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Adrianus Anthonius Timmers, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Aaltje Makkinga, ommen
• Adriana Lingen, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1999)
• Anna Gesina Abel, Nieuw Schoonebekerveld († 2007)
• Anna Maria Jäckering, Drievorden († 2004)
• Albert Kramer, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1981)
• Ad van Kempen, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Adriaan Franciscus van Hoof, Helmond († 1923)
• Adrianus Antonius Timmers, Haarlemmermeer († 1920)

• Anna Maria SMITS (78), Helmond,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Cornelisdr Halff (70), Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Bax (7), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aagje Cornelia Verschoor (68), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Half (70), Egmond aan Zee
• Abraham Hendrik van Raam (32), Amsterdam
• Anthonius Petrus van Asselen- (0), Vinkeveen, Nederland
• Anna van den Boogert (63), Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna VAN BOEKEL, Herpen
• Arthur Bishop Wenink (41), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten

• 1915 » Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1917 » Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University († 2002)
• 1917 » Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress († 2012)
• 1919 » Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1996)
• 1919 » Red Buttons, American actor († 2006)
• 1919 » Tim Holt, American actor († 1973)
• 1921 » Ken Adam, German-born English production designer and art director († 2016)
• 1923 » Claude King, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1923 » James E. Bowman, American physician and academic († 2011)
• 1924 » Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal († 2014)

• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 » Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Hans Litten, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1941 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)

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 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
• March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
• August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

The temperature on February 5, 1920 was between -1.8 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.