About the day » Wednesday September 1, 1920Calender converter

• Benedito Ribeiro de Carvalho, Itapuí, São Paulo, Brasil († 1934)
• van den Hurk, Eersel
• Aalstje Doornbos, Zuidhorn, Briltil († 2013)
• Adriana Maria Blom, Vinkeveen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1972)
• Carolus Hubertus Vereijken, Helmond († 1923)
• Abraham Van Beelen, Nederland († 1960)
• Agaath Theodora Korver, Alkmaar († 2006)
• Afien Maat, Noorddijk († 2009)
• Andreas Lindeboom, De Pein († 2009)
• Aalbert Gerhardus Vlutters, Oldenzaal († 2014)

• Cecilia Beckers (87), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Annigje Otten (47), Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Jenzes Terpstra (77), Westdongeradeel, Netherlands
• Adriana Josephina HUIJBREGTS (2), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius de Kok (38)
• Agatha van Sloten (75), Zwolle
• Cornelia Hus (80), Katwijk aan Zee {ZH} (Katwijk)
• Cornelis van ALTENA (34), Op Zee
• Carel Hendricus van den Heuvel (0), Zaltbommel
• Adrianus Leendert Rietveld (0), 's-gravenhage (zuid holland)

• 1919 » Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic († 2013)
• 1919 » Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer († 2008)
• 1920 » Eduardo J. Corso, Uruguayan lawyer and journalist († 2012)
• 1920 » Liz Carpenter, American journalist, author, and activist († 2010)
• 1920 » Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman († 2000)
• 1921 » Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright († 1995)
• 1922 » Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1922 » Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer († 2007)
• 1923 » Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector († 2006)
• 1923 » Rocky Marciano, American boxer († 1969)

• 1868 » Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1799)
• 1922 » Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1878)
• 1943 » Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (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.
• January 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
• February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
• April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• August 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
• November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• 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 September 1, 1920 was between 11.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.