About the day » Thursday August 4, 1921Calender converter

• Boyd Franklin Grigg, North Carolina († 1987)
• Anna Klazina Wilderom, Wissenkerke († 1922)
• Adriana Agatha Brandwijk, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2010)
• Aaltje TIJSMA, Beetgum, Friesland, Nederland († 1958)
• Arne O Sveen, Loten, Løten, Hedmark, Norway († 1995)
• ANNA CORNELIA JOSEPHA WILS, Wuustwezel († 2014)
• Agnes De Rijcke, Jasper, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Aafke (Aaf) Meinema († 2013)
• Bernardus Johannes Maria van Deursen, Tilburg († 1921)
• Alfons Elsen, Terhagen († 1972)

• Bernard Gans (63), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonetta Hersmis (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Ceulemans (0), Maastricht
• Bonne Posma (58)
• Aart van Beek (1), Putten
• Antonio Gonçalves dos Santos (76), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Annegje de Rijk (26), Rijnsaterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida (Aaltje) Spruijt (79), Nederhorst den Berg
• "Maurice" Charles Casimir Charpentier (51)
• Arnold Joseph Wetzelaer (62), Eschweiler (DL

• 1917 » John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer († 2012)
• 1918 » Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist († 2012)
• 1919 » Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic († 2016)
• 1920 » Helen Thomas, American journalist and author († 2013)
• 1921 » Herb Ellis, American guitarist († 2010)
• 1921 » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2000)
• 1922 » Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal († 2012)
• 1922 » Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (d.2006)
• 1926 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer († 2000)
• 1926 » Perry Moss, American football player and coach († 2014)

• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)

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 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• 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.
• October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

The temperature on August 4, 1921 was between 10.2 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.