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• Adriaan Hoogesteger, Hoedekenskerke
• (Andries) Schure ter, Steenwijkerwold, Ov, Nederland
• Adriana Overvoorde, Rijswijk († 1997)
• Aaltje Guichelaar, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1996)
• Aart Koldenhof, Emst, Gelderland, Nederland († 2003)
• Aaltje Bijkerk, Steenwijk († 1993)
• Aart Deelen, Nieuw-Lekkerland († 1987)
• "Bruno" Claude Charles Esprit Marie de La Bourdonnaye-Blossac, Vienne, Isère, France († 1957)
• Albert Boes, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Overvoorde, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)

• Alphonsius Aloijsius van Bavel (60), Oud-en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Artje Jans KUIPER (81), Coevorden
• Antonia Hendrika Veen (77), Hilversum
• Alphons (Alphonsius) van Bavel (60), Oud Gastel
• Albarta Hommersom (3), Rotterdam
• Artje Jans Kuiper (81), Coevorden
• Johannes Balvert (20), Nieuwkoop
• Aaltje Bouwes VAN DER MEULEN (57), Tytsjerksteradiel Friesland Netherlands
• Adriana Sulsters (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Aloijsius van Bavel (60), Oud en Nieuw Gastel

• 1909 » Teofilo Spasojević, Serbian footballer († 1970)
• 1909 » Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor († 2004)
• 1910 » Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington († 2011)
• 1910 » Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer († 1975)
• 1910 » Károly Takács, Hungarian shooter († 1976)
• 1910 » Rosa Kellner, German athlete († 1984)
• 1911 » Dick Garrard, Australian wrestler († 2003)
• 1911 » Lee Yoo-hyung, Korean footballer and manager († 2003)
• 1912 » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1915 » André Lichnerowicz, French mathematician († 1998)

• 1901 » Elisha Gray, American engineer, co-founded Western Electric (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
• January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on January 21, 1912 was between -0.6 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.