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• Alida Krassenburg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Reindert ten Bokkel Huinink, Nijkerk († 2008)
• Cornelis Dorland, Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Adriaan Foekens, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen († 1980)
• Cornelis Herman Scholten († 2008)
• Cees Schapendonk, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Christina de Lang († 1997)
• Bancras Beentjes, Heemskerk († 2001)
• Christianus Leonardus Stoffelen, Steenbergen († 1924)
• Augustinus Adrianus Couwenberg, Herpt en Bern († 1944)

• Anna Maria Poel, van de (94), Druten
• Antje van der Oord (48), Bloemendaal, Nederland
• Anna Scheer (73), Maartensdijk
• Abe Ages Hofstra (84), Baarderadeel
• Abe Ages Hofstra (84), Baarderadeel
• Aaltje van der Weide (85), Avereest
• Abraham Cornelis BRINKMAN (89), Castricum, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Aart den Besten (93), Leerdam
• Amalia Herrán Mosquera (78), Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
• Poppeliers (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1917 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1918 » Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician; 9th President of Austria († 2007)
• 1919 » Doug Young, American voice actor († 2018)
• 1920 » Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer († 1964)
• 1920 » Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2019)
• 1922 » Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist († 2017)
• 1922 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician († 1989)
• 1922 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist († 2005)
• 1923 » Wataru Misaka, American basketball player († 2019)

• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
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 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 6.8 million citizens.
• January 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
• January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
• January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
• January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
• August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
• August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio

The average temperature on December 21, 1920 was 1.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.