About the day » Wednesday May 25, 1921Calender converter

• Albert Schrik, Valthermond, Odoorn († 2020)
• Arie van Santen, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• "Chantal" Marie Marthe Stanislas Thérèse Gardey de Soos († 1969)
• Agatha Gezina FELLINGER († 2002)
• Antonia Elisabeth Segers, Zevenbergen († 1998)
• Arie Boendermaker, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• August Wilhlem Dürrheim, Izeli, King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa († 1942)
• ? van Boven, Horsten, Gemeente Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)
• Bart Pronk, Den Haag († 2014)
• Aaltje Schiphorst († 1961)

• Antonius van Geel (76), Rotterdam
• Catharina Johanna Maria van Heugten (65), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Adrianus Maria Pepers, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Harrison "Charley" Bolt (48), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Alfred William James Maitland (30), New Zealand
• Anna van Dijk (93), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna van Heugten (65), Alkmaar
• Angelina Mangelschots (73), Vorst Kempen, 2430, België
• Aaltje Bregman (56), Westzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• antoinette hermance BROHET (56), Boussu (Belgium)

• 1917 » Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor († 1965)
• 1917 » Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic († 2015)
• 1920 » Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat († 1992)
• 1921 » Hal David, American songwriter and composer († 2012)
• 1921 » Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 » Kitty Kallen, American singer († 2016)
• 1922 » Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician († 1984)
• 1924 » István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer († 2005)
• 1925 » Jeanne Crain, American actress († 2003)
• 1925 » Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author († 1974)

• 1912 » Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1926 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)
• 1930 » Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859)

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

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

• 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 6.9 million citizens.
• March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
• May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
• June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
• June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
• July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.

The temperature on May 25, 1921 was between 10.8 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.