About the day » Thursday September 21, 1871Calender converter

• Alida Hendrika Versteeg, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Kouwenberg, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Abraham Hubertus van den Akker, Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1883)
• Adriana den Ouden, Piershil
• Albertus Franciscus Habraken, Gestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1936)
• Alfred George Allen, Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales († 1949)
• Ann Onions, Newcastle Nortumberland England, United Kingdom († 1949)
• Ana Elisabeth Rohling, Teresópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Albert te Bos, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland († 1899)
• Klein, Den Helder

• Alida Hendrika Vermeer (2), Zoelen
• Antje Merbel van de (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleidis Steffens (66), Groningen (Gron.)
• Anthonius Lauret (34), Hengstdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alderts Mennes Smit (82), Winsum
• Anna Hendrika Dretsher (0), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Berendina Buitenhuis (0), Apeldoorn {GE}
• Anna van Kernebeek (1), Putten
• Anthonie Barbee (51)
• Anna van Hout (28), Gemert

• 1862 » James E. Talmage, English-American religious leader and author († 1933)
• 1863 » John Bunny, American actor († 1915)
• 1866 » Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1866 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1958)
• 1867 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State († 1950)
• 1872 » Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1873 » Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader († 1966)
• 1874 » Gustav Holst, English composer and educator († 1934)
• 1878 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager († 1951)

• 1812 » Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and playwright (b. 1751)
• 1832 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1771)
• 1860 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788)
• 1874 » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)
• 1880 » Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
• 1887 » Wazid Ali Shah, last Nawab of Awadh (b. 1822)
• 1904 » Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (b. 1840)
• 1905 » Nikolay Benardos, Ukrainian inventor (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
15. Jacoba
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

The temperature on September 21, 1871 was about 8.4 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.