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• Albert Oosterhof, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1959)
• Adriana Montijn, Rotterdam († 1969)
• Abraham van Haarlem, Leiden († 1995)
• Antoinette Gerarda Wilhelmina Hulspas, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2007)
• Anna Doornbos († 2000)
• Anna Maria Oldenhof, Amsterdam († 2005)
• van der Schaaf, Amsterdam († 2003)
• Antonius Gilbertus Gijsbers, Gemert († 1943)
• Antje Beerda, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1920)
• Anna Catharina Kramer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1987)

• Anna WITJES (73), Vught
• Aart van Harten (58), Lunteren, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Akke Hettes van der Zee (74), Nijega (HO)
• Anna Clara van Eijk (1), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Akke van der Zee (74), Nijega
• Anna de Kort (66), Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Schout Velthuijs (57), Vlissingen
• Aalbert Jan Vermaat (28), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Rutten (71), Delft
• Anna Maria Derikx (66)

• 1914 » Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman († 1974)
• 1915 » Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor († 1997)
• 1918 » Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager († 2003)
• 1921 » Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2011)
• 1921 » Lana Turner, American actress († 1995)
• 1921 » Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician († 2020)
• 1922 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker († 1996)
• 1925 » Jack Lemmon, American actor († 2001)
• 1926 » Birgitte Reimer, Danish film actress
• 1926 » Neal Cassady, American author and poet († 1968)

• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

• 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 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
• March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• 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".
• July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.

The temperature on February 8, 1920 was between -1.4 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.