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• * Elisabeth (Bep) Liesveld, Rotterdam († 2010)
• Aleida Visser, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Alida Hendrica Lohman, Obdam († 1991)
• Anders Verner Sixten Lindblom, Hulterstad, Kalmar, Sverige († 1999)
• Adriana Maria Louwers, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Klasina BLAAUBOER, Schagen Noord-Holland Netherlands († 2001)
• Alida de Boer, Heerenveen
• Adrianus Gerardus Herman, Vlijmen († 1970)
• Agnes Maria Geraads, Helden
• Adrianus Gerardus Herman, Vlijmen († 1970)

• Arnoldus Martin (66), Bergen op Zoom
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• Aafke Faber (47), Amsterdam
• Abraham van Dorp (52), Rotterdam
• Charles Henry Stanley Monck (37), Killed in Action
• Arij Cornelis de Goederen (84), Schiedam
• Aafke Jacobs Faber (47), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendricus van Ginneken (86), Ginneken en Bavel
• Christiaan Goetschalckx (53), Rijkevorsel, Antwerpen, België
• Charles Louis Debruyne (70), Esen

• 1911 » Mary Blair, American illustrator and animator († 1978)
• 1912 » Alfredo Pián, Argentinian race car driver († 1990)
• 1912 » Don Byas, American saxophonist and educator († 1972)
• 1912 » Georg Solti, Hungarian-English conductor and director († 1997)
• 1914 » Martin Gardner, American mathematician and author († 2010)
• 1915 » Owen Bradley, American country music record producer († 1998)
• 1917 » Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader († 1993)
• 1918 » Albertina Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist († 2011)
• 1918 » Milton Himmelfarb, American sociologist and author († 2006)
• 1919 » Jim Wallwork, English-Canadian sergeant and pilot († 2013)

• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)

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

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

• 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
• August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
• August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
• September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
• November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

The temperature on October 21, 1914 was between 7.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.