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• Antje Pol, Munnekezijl, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1998)
• Baukje Arjens Vervat, Deersum, Rauwerderhem, Friesland, Nederland († 1960)
• Anrie Hendrik Schakel, Meerkerk (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Agnes O'Neill McAliley Tuthill [McWkRbWdOSRCW], Baltimore County, Maryland († 2012)
• Arthur William Jenkins, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1969)
• Anna van der Werff
• Aaltje Zondag, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2001)
• Anne van Balen, Terband († 2000)
• Berend Jan Rabelink, Brummen († 2009)
• Baukje Vervat, Deersum, Friesland, Nederland († 1960)

• Antonius Hendrikus van Zwolgen (0), Appeltern
• Adriana Schrauwen (83), Ginneken
• Arieaantje Otten (60), Tienhoven, UT Netherlands
• Alice McDonald (45), aged 45 years, Rylstone, NSW, AU
• arij LEMS (64), vlissingen
• Adrianus Cornelis Vijverberg (48), Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus van Boxtel (61), Greenbay, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltjen Haverkate (75), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Veneman (6), Ambt Hardenberg
• Aaltjen Haverkate (75), Enschede

• 1916 » George Montgomery, American actor, stuntman, director, and producer († 2000)
• 1916 » Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1917 » Isabel Sanford, American actress († 2004)
• 1920 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer († 1955)
• 1920 » Herb Simpson, American baseball player († 2015)
• 1920 » Otis Boykin, American inventor and engineer († 1982)
• 1922 » Arthur Anderson, American actor († 2016)
• 1922 » John Edward Williams, American author and educator († 1994)
• 1922 » Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic († 2008)
• 1923 » Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer († 2014)

• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)

• 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 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
• 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.
• May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
• December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
• December 11 » Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.

The temperature on August 29, 1920 was between 7.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.