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• Goossen Snijder († 1998)
• ALFRED Eduard Friedrich Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersperg, Salzburg, Österreich († 1992)
• Harold Christopher "Hal" Todd ****, Dallas City, Hancock Co., Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Guilielmus Henricus Joannes Joseph Vrijens, Kanne, Riemst (B) († 2003)
• Angele Snoeckx, Zele († 1980)
• Elizabeth A. Boon († 2012)
• Geert Niezen, Nieuwe Pekela, Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands († 1996)
• Barry George EASTLEY († 1966)
• Francisca Theresia Josepha Maria Mutsaerts, Tilburg († 2015)
• Arie Dijkshoorn, Maasland (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Bernard Hietpas (64), Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin
• Cornelis Schraag (63), Den Burg
• Doodgeboren Boer (0), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amelie LAEVENS (95), Rekkem
• Arendje de Niet (86), Scheveningen
• Cornelis van Zelst (72), Hillegersberg
• Jan Jonker (0), Hilversum
• Alberdina Zanting (55), Beilen
• Caarl Wilhelm Visser (88), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Avis I Muse (24), Sherburne, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States of America

• 1933 » Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1999)
• 1933 » Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1935 » Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, English businessman and art collector
• 1936 » Alistair MacLeod, Canadian novelist and short story writer († 2014)
• 1936 » Barbara Mikulski, American social worker and politician
• 1938 » Deniz Baykal, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1938 » Diana Rigg, English actress
• 1938 » Natalie Wood, American actress († 1981)
• 1938 » Roger Hunt, English footballer
• 1938 » Tony Oliva, Cuban-American baseball player and coach

• 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 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Ludwig Beck, German general (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)

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

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

• 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• March 7 » Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
• July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
• September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
• October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
• October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.

The temperature on July 20, 1936 was between 11.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.