About the day » Thursday May 21, 1891Calender converter

• amand jh. CHALET, Wasmuël (Belgium)
• --- van Beurden, Gorinchem († 1891)
• Alfred Marcel Eugène Baudry, Nouan le Fuzelier, 41600, FRANCE († 1970)
• Alida Kamman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Catharina Savelkoul, Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland († 1955)
• Adriana van Lierop, Deurne, Nederland († 1960)
• adriana arnolda vlijmen van, oss
• Adolf Vrijenhoek, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aclau Nogueira, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria Hamers, Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 1928)

• Caroline Bowers Rust (71), St. Faiths, Norwich, Norfolk
• Albertus FAAS (0), Kampen Overijssel Netherlands
• --- van Beurden (0), Gorinchem
• Adrianus Spruijt (0), Veldhuizen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Jansz Dekker (86), Andijk,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Kramer (0), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Schulte (73)
• Adriana Catharina Paulina van Fenema (64), Utrecht, Utrecht (NL.)
• Arie Dekker (86), Andijk, Medemblik,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Janssens (6), Tilburg

• 1884 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)

• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 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)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
• December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

The temperature on May 21, 1891 was about 16.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.