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• August Mariën, Beerzel, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1985)
• (Stillborn) PRONK, Hoogezand Groningen Netherlands († 1920)
• Antonia Frederika (Toos) Braskamp, Epse, Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2012)
• Aaltje Tol, Edam volendam (Nederland) († 2010)
• Albert Penney Jr, United Kingdom († 1989)
• Anton van der Zande († 2010)
• Antonius Johannes Leijten, Gilze en Rijen († 2000)
• Alida Goedkoop, Amsterdam († 1974)
• Auke Antonie BECKERINGH van RHIJN, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 2017)
• Antonius van Meer, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)

• Cornelis van de Vlasakker (68), Hoogland
• Cornelis Kosse (50), Groningen
• Catharina Adriaansen (67), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniel Boone (80), Leavenworth, Kansas
• Agatha WELLE (48), Haarlem Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Cornelis van der Vlies (72), Zutphen
• (Stillborn) PRONK (0), Hoogezand Groningen Netherlands
• Cornelis Bloemendaal (84), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Reith (0), Großenlüder, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Kempers (0), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1916 » Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator († 2000)
• 1916 » Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot († 2013)
• 1917 » I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower († 2019)
• 1917 » Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach († 1992)
• 1917 » Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach († 2013)
• 1918 » Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper († 2004)
• 1921 » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer († 2008)
• 1922 » J. C. Holt, English historian and academic († 2014)
• 1922 » Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada († 1993)
• 1922 » Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer († 2019)

• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)

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.
• February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
• July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
• August 31 » Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
• November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France

The temperature on April 26, 1920 was between 4.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.