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• Gerardus Joannes Aloysius ter Weijden, Blaricum († 2021)
• Antoine Alphons Maria van Regenmortel, Koewacht († 1942)
• Jannie van Harten († 2003)
• Hendricus Hoogervorst, Hillegom († 2006)
• Cécile Turgeon, Plessisville, Québec, Canada († 1987)
• Henrietta Kate Henrichs, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2009)
• Jacobus Theodorus BARSELAAR, van den, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Abram Emens († 1991)
• Dale Nedervelt († 1992)
• Antonia Bongaarts, Zutphen († 2012)

• Angeniet van Welzenis (75), 's-Gravenhage
• Alberdina Bos (46), Kalkwijk gem. Hoogezand
• Bernardus Vorspel (88), Groningen
• Arie Buitelaar (80), Rijswijk, Nederland
• Brigitta Meijers (81), Geldrop, Gemeente Geldrop-Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Aaltje Wegloop (38)
• Albert Pol (0), Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Klazienaveen
• Adrianus Petrus Cornelius Anthonius van den Ende (65), Seattle,King Co.,Washington,United States
• Adriana Jacoba Montijn (26), Rotterdam
• Antje Durks Boekema (77), Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1938 » Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria († 2015)
• 1938 » Mickie Most, English music producer († 2003)
• 1939 » Budge Rogers, English rugby player and manager
• 1939 » Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer († 1998)
• 1940 » Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian
• 1940 » John Mahoney, English actor († 2018)
• 1941 » Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer
• 1941 » Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
• 1942 » Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 » Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist

• 1909 » Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 » Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)

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.
• May 15 » Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• June 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
• October 9 » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• October 11 » Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• December 12 » Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
• December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

The temperature on June 20, 1941 was between 11.6 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.