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• Anna Maria Josephina Paulussen, Wijnandsrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Hölscher, Barger-Compascuum († 1990)
• Adriana Cornelia Beljaards, Haarlem († 1983)
• Adriana van Essen, Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2020)
• Anna Pekel, Heerlen († 1920)
• Lukassen, Groningen († 1987)
• Antonetta Catharina Cornelia van Valenberg, Bergeijk († 1989)
• Adriana Cornelia van Wijngaarden, Dordrecht († 1973)
• annie paulussen († 2002)
• Anna Maria Lutgens, Helmond, Gemeente Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)

• Aaltje Bakker (65), Veendam
• Adrianus Gooijer (72), Heemskerk
• Adrianus Korstiaanse (86), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Smits (0), soest
• Antje Schothorst (9), Beilen
• Anthonius Dorotheus Hornung
• Anne Harryt van der Hoek (80), Metslawier, gem. Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna van Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg (78), Namest-nad-Oslavou (Namiest aan de Oslava), Hoogland, Tsjechië
• Alida Klijnkramer (2), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Pieter van Paassen (46), Schiedam

• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic († 1989)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)
• 1921 » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman († 2001)
• 1921 » Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer († 1986)
• 1922 » Jack Kerouac, American author and poet († 1969)
• 1922 » Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader († 1999)
• 1923 » Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist († 2013)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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 13 » The Negro National League is formed.
• February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
• 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 18 » The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
• August 25 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.

The temperature on March 12, 1920 was between 2.8 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.