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• Jan Evert Hazenhoek, Slochteren († 2017)
• Bruce Ellwyn Vissers, Allendale, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Carla Swabe, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 1943)
• Hendrikus Dirk Aloijsius (Henk) TE LOO, Doesburg (NL) († 2008)
• (levenloos) Hoogenbosch, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1943)
• Edite Steiner, São Martinho, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1985)
• Cornelius Dale Kammeraad († 2015)
• David Calvin Sportel, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota († 2021)
• Doodgeboren kind van Apeldoorn, Schiedam († 1943)
• Larry Gruizenga, Youngstown, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2003)

• Arend van Schie (62), Maasland
• Antje Klaasd. Wijker (79), Utrecht
• Antje Kallenkoot, Groningen
• Alida A. Brakenhoff- (4), Castricum, Nederland
• Antje JAGER (82), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Johannes Cornelis Zijlmans (62), Waspik
• Alida A. Brakenhoff (4), Castricum
• Aaltje Steffens (68), Steenwijk
• Aaltje Steffens (68), Steenwijk Akte 39
• Aafje Kossen (87), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1941 » Don Chuy, American football player († 2014)
• 1942 » Pete Hamilton, American race car driver († 2017)
• 1943 » Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician († 2010)
• 1943 » Bob McNab, English footballer
• 1943 » Chris Amon, New Zealand race car driver († 2016)
• 1943 » Wendy Richard, English actress († 2009)
• 1944 » Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1944 » Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor
• 1944 » T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer-songwriter
• 1944 » W. Cary Edwards, American politician († 2010)

• 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)
• 1951 » Abdullah I, king of Jordan (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Jan Struther, English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
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 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 9.1 million citizens.
• February 2 » World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
• May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
• August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
• September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
• October 14 » World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.
• October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.

The temperature on July 20, 1943 was between 12.5 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.