About the day » Monday May 24, 1920Calender converter

• Berend Jan Zweverink, Brummen († 1940)
• Albert Okken, Annen, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland († 1989)
• Adriana Bakker, Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Aldene Adelblue, Gladwin, Gladwin County, Michigan († 1972)
• Arie Steeneveld, Rijswijk († 2000)
• Arie Jansz Boon, de Cocksdorp Texel († 2001)
• Anne Frances Deneui, Big Stone City, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Albert Okken, Annen (gem. Aa en Hunze) († 1989)
• Anneke Weijts, Sint-Michielsgestel († 2007)
• Bennie Harry Davis <ssKssOb>1, Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina († 1998)

• Aletta Galesloot (81), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Bremen (67), Kerkrade (L
• Adriana Martha Kooij (84), Klaaswaal (Hoeksche Waard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elizabeth SEVERINGHAUS (87), Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Jans Bultstra (43), Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Martha Kooij (84), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Anthonie Kleine (78), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Maatje Gaikhorst (71), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Maria Bremen (66), Kerkrade (L.)
• Adriana Goossens (45), Eersel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1913 » Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier († 1993)
• 1914 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress († 1986)
• 1916 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales († 2002)
• 1917 » Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1918 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit († 1997)
• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter

• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)

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.
• January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
• January 16 » Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
• August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
• August 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
• 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 24, 1920 was between 11.8 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.