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• Anny Elly Passier, Leiden († 1983)
• Anne Jan AUKES, Amsterdam(Noord Holland) († 2002)
• Aaltje de Jong († 1996)
• Aaltje Meertens, Wildervank (NL) († 1974)
• Anny Elly Passier, Leiden († 1983)
• Adrienne GELDHOF, Basse-Normandie († 2007)
• Albert Spin, Havelterberg, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Albertus Petrus Maria Zuidervaart, Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Anthony Paulus Adrianus Vink, 's Gravenhage († 2000)
• Anna Maria Vos, Velsen († 1920)

• Adriana Theodora Vermeij (50), Wijk bij Duurstede
• Berendina Eerkes (63), Eexterveenschekanaal (Anloo)
• Bernardus KOOPSEN (68), Visvliet (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Kessels (76), Maasniel
• "Margaret" Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (38), Stockholm
• Berendina Engelina Kemperman (61), Silvolde (Wisch)
• Antje Vos (0), Velsen
• Bernardus Michael Albertus Haanappel (75), Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arabella Mowbray (68), Marine City, St Clair, Michigan, United States
• Berendien Schoonbeek (63), Anloo, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 1917 » Danielle Darrieux, French actress and singer († 2017)
• 1917 » John Beradino, American baseball player and actor († 1996)
• 1917 » Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat († 2013)
• 1918 » Gersh Budker, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic († 1977)
• 1918 » Jack Paar, American comedian, author and talk show host († 2004)
• 1919 » Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor († 2005)
• 1919 » Manna Dey, Indian singer and composer († 2013)
• 1919 » Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Moroccan businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco († 2018)
• 1921 » Vladimir Colin, Romanian journalist and author († 1991)
• 1922 » Alastair Gillespie, Canadian scholar and politician († 2018)

• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1953 » Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (b. 1876)
• 1956 » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (b. 1883)

• 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 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
• February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
• August 18 » The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The temperature on May 1, 1920 was between 3.3 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.