About the day » Friday February 20, 1948Calender converter

• Pleun Nicolaas Blokland, Meerkerk
• Rietbergen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Michel Bervoets († 1949)
• Gino Claude Ginette Pottel, Comines,7780,Hainaut,België († 1996)
• Cornelia Geertruida Wilhelmina Zaal, Noordwijkerhout († 2015)
• Gerhardus (Gert) Suselbeek, Meppel († 2001)
• Gerrie Koenen († 2013)
• Fonte Rosa (Titina) Colella, Altamura, Puglia, Italia († 1972)
• Cornelia Apolonia Westgeest, Voorschoten († 1982)
• NN Govers, Tilburg

• Rietbergen (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Vriezelaar (62), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Bert D. Cundiff [Wk Bu] (38), Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Annigje IJspeert (0), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lauwers (66), Turnhout, 2300, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Catharina Johanna Niemeijer (86), Nijmegen
• Adrianus van Diemen (81), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Alix LERUSTE (83), Pecq, 57062, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anna Catharina Uilkens (76), Groningen
• Adriana Maatje Houkamp (55), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1946 » Brenda Blethyn, English actress
• 1946 » J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)
• 1946 » Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1947 » Peter Osgood, English footballer († 2006)
• 1947 » Peter Strauss, American actor and producer
• 1948 » Jennifer O'Neill, American model and actress
• 1948 » Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1949 » Eddie Hemmings, English cricketer
• 1949 » Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model
• 1950 » Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2017)

• 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)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
• March 18 » Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
• April 9 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
• May 26 » The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
• June 18 » Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
• September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
• October 5 » The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.

The temperature on February 20, 1948 was between -9.9 °C and -5.5 °C and averaged -7.7 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.