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• Berendina Josina Beckmann, Waldseite, Niedersachsen, Germany († 1921)
• Anna Alida (An) Groenendijk, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Anton Teunis Boekholt, Rotterdam († 2003)
• Anna Maria (Annie) van der Gulik, Avenhorn, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Arnoldina Maria HENDRIX, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Aline Haesen, Tessenderlo, België († 2012)
• Clarence Lester Versteeg, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1919)
• adrianus scheij († 1920)
• Andrew Louvern Harken, Austinville, Washington township, Butler, Iowa († 1959)
• Austin Elroy Minor, Alameda County, California († 1989)

• Adriaan de Laat (54), Kloetinge
• Alexis Carl Ernst Louis Ferdinand Eugen Bernhard zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (73), Burgsteinfurt (Dld)
• Adriana Johanna Mersch (14), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Adrianus Josephus de Wit (49), Gaanderen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alice Washington Hardin (79), Marion, Kentucky, United States
• Albert Withaar (82), Ambt Hardenberg
• Andreas van de Wiel (0), Drunen
• Adriaantje van SLUIS (72), Elkerzee
• Abert H Corbett (47), Hornellsville, Steuben, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Karel Ernst Lodewijk Ferdinand Eugene Bernhard Vorst van Bentheim-Steinfurt (73), Burgsteinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen

• 1916 » Pietro Rava, Italian footballer († 2006)
• 1916 » Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage († 2002)
• 1917 » Erling Persson, H&M founder († 2002)
• 1918 » Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor († 1989)
• 1918 » Jimmy Hagan, English footballer († 1998)
• 1918 » Richard Winters, American soldier († 2011)
• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)
• 1920 » Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados († 1987)
• 1921 » Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Labour († 2012)
• 1922 » Telly Savalas, American actor († 1994)

• 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)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)

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 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.
• May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• June 4 » Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
• July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
• September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.

The temperature on January 21, 1919 was between -2.9 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.