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• Evert Kamphorst, Nijkerk († 1942)
• Dirk van Turennout, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1942)
• catharina elisa johanna (rinie) peeters, helden-beringe
• Franciscus van der Ven, Dordrecht († 2021)
• johanna gertruda hunnekens, helden-grashoek
• Janny Irene Dronkers, Yerseke († 1968)
• Johanna Christina Beltman, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)
• David WEHDE, Illinois,America († 1997)
• Jeen Schouwstra, Leeuwarden († 1987)
• Jeen Schouwstra († 1987)

• Albertus Kuipers (67), Klijndijk
• Anna Hubertina Driessen (76), Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antoon Thijssen (70), Beesel,, Limburg, Nederland
• Egbert Kielman (58), Groningen
• Adriana Johanna van der Hagen (28), Baarland (Borsele), Zeeland, Nederland
• Geesje Van Der Weide (77), Haarlem
• Alida Kunneman (75), Utrecht
• Antonia Van der Westen (81), Breda
• Adriana Catharina Gudde (77), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertus Kuipers (67), Klijndijk

• 1939 » Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter († 2014)
• 1940 » Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
• 1940 » Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer († 1969)
• 1940 » Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster († 2018)
• 1941 » Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1941 » John Strasberg, American actor and teacher
• 1942 » Carlos Hathcock, American sergeant and sniper († 1999)
• 1942 » Frew McMillan, South African tennis player
• 1942 » Lynn Davies, Welsh sprinter and long jumper
• 1942 » Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States

• 1925 » Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
• 1931 » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (b. 1831)
• 1940 » Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1942 » Hector Guimard, French Architect (b. 1867)
• 1946 » Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1947 » Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1949 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)

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

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

• 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• July 4 » World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
• September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• September 30 » World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
• October 20 » World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
• December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
• December 19 » World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMSValiant and HMSQueen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.

The temperature on May 20, 1941 was between 3.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.