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• Adriana Cornelia Haverhals, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Albertus Johannes Dresmé, Den Haag († 1984)
• Afien Maat, Noorddijk († 2009)
• Billa Leijsten, Egchel († 2007)
• Adriana Maria van Steen, Fijnaart, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 2009)
• Ada Annette Inman, Clear Creek, Jasper County, Iowa († 2004)
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• van den Hurk, Eersel
• Anna Adelheid Christina Elisabeth Olthaus, Tilburg († 1996)
• Aalbert Gerhardus Vlutters, Oldenzaal († 2014)

• Adriana Juliana Poppe (1), Kieldrecht, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgie
• Aaldrik Stuut (1), Emmen
• Anna Maria Barbara de Leeuw (0), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Cornelis Huiskens (59), Bergschenhoek Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Charles Henri Pesch (41), Batavia, Indonesië
• Barbera Verlaan (52), Reeuwijk
• Carel Hendricus van den Heuvel (0), Zaltbommel
• Charles H Lukens (87), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha van Sloten (75), Zwolle
• Adam Walker Hardin (72), South Carolina

• 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)

• 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.
• March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
• November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
• November 16 » Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

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.