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• Klaas ter Hoeve, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1950)
• Karel Struyf, Sint-Niklaas († 2002)
• Magy Moermans, Brustem, België († 2020)
• Jacob Gerrits Bonnema, Bozum, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1985)
• Johan Gerrit Nijhuis, Hengelo († 2025)
• Gloria Gayle Victoria, Sanborn, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1943)
• Karel Struyf, Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 2002)
• Catharina Johanna Bloebaum, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• levenloos kind Thier, Onstwedde, GRO, Nederland († 1943)
• Johannes Franciscus Welman, Amsterdam († 1988)

• Aaltje Boomers (75), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Verschuren (60), Boekel, Nederland
• Albertje Wijnstra (75), Nijeberkoop, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert van Joolen (29), Kiskino bij Leningrad, Rusland
• Adriana Catharina van der Helm (83), Zoetermeer
• Anna Brust (78), München
• Adriana Catharina van der Helm (83), Zoetermeer
• Albert Willem Peters (74), Gorssel (Lochem), Gelderland, Nederland
• Alletha Pruedella Edwards **** (88), Dallas, Collin, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Cornelia Wils (66), Antwerpen

• 1941 » Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1941 » Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1942 » Mitch McConnell, American lawyer, and politician
• 1942 » Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1943 » Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician
• 1943 » Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
• 1944 » Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor († 2015)
• 1944 » Robert de Cotret, Canadian economist and politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada († 1999)
• 1944 » Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach

• 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)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)

• 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.
• January 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
• April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
• September 11 » World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
• September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
• October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
• November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The temperature on February 20, 1943 was between -0.6 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.