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• Bernardus Antonius in het Veld, Hengelo († 2006)
• "Yolande" Marie Marthe Magdeleine de Bras de Fer, Rambouillet, Yvelines, France († 1989)
• Jan Kroezen, Hoogeveen († 1926)
• Albert Mastebroek, Slagharen († 1922)
• annigje van den berg, genemuiden († 1982)
• Berend Jan Maatman, Harfsen († 1923)
• Carl Schuster, Milwaukee († 1996)
• Clyde FENNER, Ticehurst, Rother, East Sussex († 1976)
• Antje Koopman, prins Hendrik polder (Texel) († 2010)
• Antonius Petrus Boons, Boxtel († 1942)

• Abeltje Klaasdr. Schipper, Sappemeer Gem Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Aartjen Uitenbogaard (83), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Mullaard (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Theodora Jansen (57), Amsterdam
• anna sibilla berden (berten) (73), beesel
• Adriana Mullaard (87), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Verbeek (48), Antwerpen
• Albert Arie Klik (64), Den Helder
• Abeltje SCHIPPER (61), Sappemeer Groningen Netherlands
• Adrianus Vermaat (67), Rotterdam

• 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. 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.
• February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
• March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
• July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
• July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
• July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.

The temperature on December 21, 1921 was between 5.4 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.