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• Anna Wassenbergh, Swalmen, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Adrienne Robijns, Lummen († 1992)
• Bartel Oranje, Zuilen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1985)
• Adolf Jr. Sloof, Utrecht († 1992)
• Cornelia Adriana Ganzeman, Deil († 1995)
• van Wanrooij, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Betty Bernice Blackburn, Eureka, Juab County, Utah († 2002)
• Clasina Maria Ammerdorffer, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Antonius Johannes Cornelis Meulenbroeks, Knegsel († 2000)
• Alberdina Johanna Helena (Alberdien) Horst van der, Haarlem († 1993)

• Aletta Hazenbroek (62), Katwijk
• Antonie Leijs (67), Kapelle, Kapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anton Willem Peetoom (2), Batavia
• Adriaan Rekelhof (11), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wolfswinkel (18), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Augustinus van Zeele (46), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Anno Alexius Antonius Ahlers (0), Veendam
• "Pauline" Louise Marie Suzanne Desbaines (29), Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
• Abraham Aaron (oom duwkracht) Cohen Belinfante (84), Amsterdam Holland, Netherlands
• Bart Beunders (79), Gramsbergen

• 1917 » Evelyn Knight, American singer († 2007)
• 1918 » Ray Graves, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1919 » Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2017)
• 1919 » Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician († 2007)
• 1920 » Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter († 1999)
• 1922 » Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator († 2001)
• 1922 » Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player († 2013)
• 1922 » Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop († 2014)
• 1923 » Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1924 » Taylor Mead, American actor and poet († 2013)

• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
• 1910 » Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
• 1910 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
• 1921 » Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1936 » Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1950 » Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (b. 1867)

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 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• 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.
• August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
• October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

The temperature on December 31, 1921 was between 3.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.