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• Eertje Hummel, Tweede Exloërmond († 2020)
• Antonia Maria Francisca van Dijk, Moergestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1959)
• Antonie Lam, Nieuwveen, Gemeente Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1999)
• Antonie Lam, Nieuwveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Eertje Hummel, Tweede Exloërmond (Odoorn) († 2020)
• Edward Loyd Cottle, Sulfer, Ok († 2006)
• Age van der Hoff, Rips,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Decede Siereveld, Den Haag († 1930)
• Christina Langevoort, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1932)
• Corry Zwetsloot, Sassenheim († 2014)

• Aukje Wubbes de BOER (75), Weststellingwerf
• Möller (63), Äggen, Undersåker, Jämtland, Sweden
• Bessie Matilda Brown (56)
• Andries Oebele Visser (16), Assen
• Adriana van Dal (53), Heusden
• Albertus van der Zee (51), Arnhem (Arnhem) (Gelderland)
• Aksel Bredeveien (18), Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway
• Anna Maria Oskam (50), Overschie
• Antonius Johannes de Ruiter (0), Dalmsholte
• Agatha Elisabeth FRANKEN (61), Hilversum, NH, Nederland

• 1927 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian († 1959)
• 1928 » Alice Drummond, American actress († 2016)
• 1928 » Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer († 1975)
• 1929 » Larance Marable, American drummer († 2012)
• 1929 » Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer († 2000)
• 1930 » Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby player († 2019)
• 1930 » Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia († 2015)
• 1930 » Tommy Bryant, American bassist († 1982)
• 1932 » Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon († 2011)
• 1932 » Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief († 2014)

• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (b. 1888)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
• March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
• March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
• March 13 » The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
• April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
• May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
• October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.

The temperature on May 21, 1930 was between 3.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.