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• Arnold Ottevanger, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Alida Agatha Glasbergen, Noordwijk († 1921)
• Adriaan Maria Jozef de Keijzer, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Agatha Catharina Leenes, Wolvega, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 1969)
• Antonius Cornelius Josephus van Tongeren, Tilburg († 2004)
• Angelina Ylst, Amsterdam († 1995)
• Alfred WAUTERS, Waasmunster,9250,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1973)
• "Huguette" Eugénie Pierrette Clerc, Paris († 2007)
• Adrianus leendert Overvoorde, Hof van Delft († 1945)
• Alida Wesselson († 2011)

• Adriana Leeuwenburg (69), Numansdorp
• Abraham Shelly Gibble (72)
• Albert Witter (11), Winschoten, Nederland
• (2) Maria Catharina Vahrmeijer (93), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Albertina Izaaks Poutsma (65), leeuwarden
• Anna Petronella Luca (73), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Geurten (74)
• Anna Gertrud Schürmann (39), Rheine
• adriana LEEUWENBURG (69), numansdorp
• Anna Maria Martens (62), Houthem, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1916 » Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor († 2000)
• 1917 » Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player († 1998)
• 1919 » Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator († 1978)
• 1920 » Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter († 2002)
• 1921 » Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop comedian († 1984)
• 1922 » Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1922 » Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant († 2014)
• 1923 » Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator († 1997)
• 1923 » Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist († 2013)
• 1923 » Pamela Britton, American actress († 1974)

• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)

• 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 16 » The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
• August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
• November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
• November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.

The temperature on March 19, 1920 was between 2.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.