About the day » Thursday March 20, 1924Calender converter

• Antonetta Johanna Henrica Teurlinckx, Eindhoven († 2019)
• Alida Berdina ten Bos, Lonneker,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1979)
• Adriana Maria de Weijer, Udenhout († 1985)
• Bernice Pannecoucke, Lendelede, België († 2002)
• Anna Lucia DHONDT, Ouwegem, Kruisem, Province of East Flanders, Belgium († 2015)
• Arij Jansen, Rotterdam († 1979)
• Aaltje IJmes Jongema, Hennaard (Hennaarderadeel) († 2008)
• Vonk, Den haag († 1994)
• Arend Eding, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 2003)
• Adriana Maria de Weijer, Udenhout, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1985)

• Arend Akse (48), Den Haag(ZH)
• Albertje Zwolle (5), Zuidveen (Steenwijkerwold), Ov, The Netherlands
• Adriaantje Maria van Veen (71), Nieuwenhoorn
• Adriana ROS (89), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Adriaantje OLREE (79), Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ANNA CORNELIA NEVE (77), ROTTERDAM
• Albertje Zwolle (5), Zuidveen (Steenwijkerwold)
• Antje de Vries (38), Kollumerzwaag, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Amos Murray (77), Botsford, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

• 1921 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist († 1970)
• 1921 » Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher († 1977)
• 1921 » Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker († 1971)
• 1922 » Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2020)
• 1922 » Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader († 2017)
• 1922 » Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter († 1990)
• 1923 » Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1923 » Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist († 2006)
• 1925 » John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel († 1999)
• 1927 » John Joubert, South African-English composer and academic († 2019)

• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)
• 1940 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• 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 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 7.2 million citizens.
• March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

The temperature on March 20, 1924 was between -1.7 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.