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• Aleida Biglaar, Enschede († 2010)
• Adrianus Kooiman, Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Anna Penninck, Oostnieuwkerke († 2007)
• Aloijsius Johannes Kok, Nijmmegen († 1923)
• A. Somad, Palembang, Indonesië († 1999)
• Andries Philip († 2018)
• Andry Emery Lefebvre, Moirnville, Alberta, Canada († 1997)
• Aleida Biglaar, Enschede († 2010)
• Adrianus Maria Johannes Wilhelmus (Ad) van Gool, Tilburg († 1994)
• Adriaan Jespers, Baarle-Hertog (B), België († 1987)

• Antje Andries (Anna) POSTHUMUS (75), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cattenstart (74), Oost-, West-en Middelbeers
• Cornelia Maria Ludwina van der Drift (25), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Grashoff (56), Voerendaal, Limburg, Netherlands
• Carel Frederik Rondaij (55), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Bosscha (60), Oranjewoud,Gemeente Heerenveen,Friesland,Nederland
• Catharina Keij (67), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• (Stillborn) NAUTA (0), Het Bildt Friesland Netherladns
• Aaltje Nijk (30), Groningen
• (85), Amsterdam

• 1919 » Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer († 2008)
• 1919 » Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge, English writer († 2012)
• 1920 » Elliot Richardson, American lieutenant and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Defense († 1999)
• 1921 » Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author († 2013)
• 1922 » Alan Stephenson Boyd, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 1923 » Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist († 2005)
• 1924 » Lola Albright, American actress and singer († 2017)
• 1924 » Mort Garson, Canadian-American songwriter and composer († 2008)
• 1924 » Thomas Berger, American author and playwright († 2014)
• 1925 » Jacques Delors, French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission

• 1908 » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 1908 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 1910 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
• 1927 » Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1932 » René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
• April 7 » The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
• April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• August 22 » Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
• November 4 » In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
• November 26 » The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)

The temperature on July 20, 1922 was between 7.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.