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• Bernardina Petronella Hermina van den Bosch, Vortum-Mullem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Bontje Mud, Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Monnikendam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Alicia de Liniers († 1954)
• Berendina Schuit, Putten († 1992)
• Aafje van Geelen, Amsterdam († 1988)
• Adrianus Jacobus Verweij, unbekannt († 2008)
• Christoofel Quido Waick, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Anne Elise Ariessen, Heerlen, Nederland († 1995)
• Christina Bernardina Albers, Amsterdam († 1979)

• Bartholomeus Nicolaas Swierstra (43), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertine Wilhelmine Schulze (71), Kemberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Andries Doldersum (0), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld)
• Adriana Elscot (64), Zierikzee,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anthonie van Bennekom (82)
• Aletta Johanna van Rooy van ROOIJ (36), Potchefstroom, Zuid-Afrika
• Antonius Hubertus Benedictus van Lijf (16), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina SCHOUTEN, Leeuwarden, 752, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Alberdina Wilhelmina van Riele (28), Wijhe
• Anthonie Johannes Huijgens (76), Velp,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands

• 1914 » Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach († 1998)
• 1916 » Bill Lee, American actor and singer († 1980)
• 1916 » Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter († 2005)
• 1917 » Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician († 2008)
• 1918 » Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 2004)
• 1921 » Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic († 2014)
• 1922 » Albert Irvin, English soldier and painter († 2015)
• 1923 » Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2014)
• 1924 » Jack Buck, American sportscaster († 2002)
• 1924 » Jack Weston, American actor († 1996)

• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Aaltje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
• January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
• February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
• September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

The temperature on August 21, 1919 was between 7.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.