About the day » Friday February 20, 1931Calender converter

• Albert T.M. de Kock, Kuitaart († 1996)
• Adriaan Witberg, 's-Gravenhage († 1931)
• Annie Kokkelkoren († 2014)
• Frouke Soolsma, Harlingen, Nederland († 1931)
• Avril Patronella Wilson, New Amsterdam, Guyana († 1996)
• Egbert Jan Withaar, De Schans († 2017)
• Eveliene Johanna Hulshoff, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1931)
• Augustinus Gerardus Derks, Belfeld, Limburg, Netherlands († 2009)
• Betty Lila DeHaan, Leighton Township (Allegan County) (Michigan) († 1938)
• Adriana Janna den Hartog, Culemborg (GL) († 2019)

• ANTON ADRIAAN BOLT (70), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Aaltje Bijker (71), Vels (Steenwijkerwold)
• Albertus Josephus van Straaten (87), Zuid Scharwoude
• Antonie Everhard van der Wal (40), Apeldoorn {GE}
• Anna Maria Wilhelmine Vedder (59), Losser
• Albertus Josephus van Straaten (87), Zuid-Scharwoude, Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Petri (76), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia van Rijswijk (44), Nederhemert, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Antonie van der Veer (74), Culemborg
• Anna van Leeuwen (20), Den Helder

• 1927 » Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer and musician († 2005)
• 1927 » Roy Cohn, American lawyer and political activist († 1986)
• 1927 » Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat
• 1928 » Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
• 1928 » Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter
• 1929 » Amanda Blake, American actress († 1989)
• 1931 » John Milnor, American mathematician and academic
• 1932 » Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author († 2007)
• 1934 » Bobby Unser, American race car driver
• 1935 » Ellen Gilchrist, American novelist, short story writer, and poet

• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 » Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
• 1920 » Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)

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

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

• 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
• January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
• October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

The temperature on February 20, 1931 was between -6.1 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.