About the day » Saturday April 21, 1928Calender converter

• Arthur Nick William Burrows, St Lawrence County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Clarence Arnold Wieberdink, Roseland, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Arta Jeanette van Maanen, Sioux County-Iowa (USA) († 2018)
• Cornelia Lucia Jansen, Made en Drimmelen († 1928)
• Altje Zoetemeijer, Fehndorf, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 2016)
• Anna Spijkstra, Nijland, Wymbritseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1964)
• Alexander Trompetter, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Cornelia den Hertog, 's Gravenhage († 1933)
• André Jan Louis Marie Mallens, Zundert († 1994)
• Cornelis van der Klooster, Rotterdam († 2014)

• ADRIAAN DOOGE (53), ROTTERDAM
• Adriana Jacoba Gaanderse (29), Wageningen Gld. NL
• Aaltje Veldman (26), Oldekerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Veldman (26), Oldekerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Hubertus van den Berg (76), Neder-Betuwe, Netherlands
• Albertina Arnoldina Hooijer (77), Baarn
• Aafje Cornelisdr Wagenaar (58), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arent Brondijk (70), Muskegon Heihgts (Muskegon County) (Michigan)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Simons (40), Mechelen, Gulpen-Wittem
• Annigje Jans Hannen (79), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland

• 1925 » Anthony Mason, Australian soldier and judge, 9th Chief Justice of Australia
• 1925 » John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire († 2018)
• 1926 » Arthur Rowley, English footballer, manager and cricketer († 2002)
• 1926 » Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms
• 1927 » Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author († 1991)
• 1928 » Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1996)
• 1930 » Dieter Roth, German-Swiss illustrator and sculptor († 1998)
• 1930 » Hilda Hilst, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright († 2004)
• 1930 » Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee († 2012)
• 1930 » Silvana Mangano, Italian actress († 1989)

• 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.

The temperature on April 21, 1928 was between -0.1 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.