About the day » Saturday May 21, 1892Calender converter

• Adrienne C Hilton, Swampscott, Essex Co, MA
• Anje Jonkman, Sauwerd, gem. Adorp († 1892)
• Adrianus Jan Udo, Charlois
• Albert van Geffen, Lith
• Adriana van den Heuvel, 's-Gravenhage († 1973)
• Abraham Pieter Heijboer, Wissenkerke († 1962)
• Adolf Harteveld, Scheveningen († 1976)
• Anna Hendrika van Binsbergen, Doesburg († 1958)
• Adrianus Jan UDO, Charlois/Rotterdam (NL/ZH) († 1971)
• Anna Maria KUIPERS (Amsterdammer), Amsterdam

• Arnoldus Spierings (73), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Lubberdina Beumer (0), Ellecom, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antje Rood (31), Spanbroek
• anna gertrud KLOCKHAUS (86), rotterdam
• Arnoldus Spierings (73), Sint-Michielsgestel, NL
• Anthonie Anthonij Hollebrandse (65), Biggekerke, Nederland
• Arie van Rijn (0), Katwijk aan Zee
• Beekje Pastoor (15), Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonij Hollebrandse (65), Biggekerke
• Arie Bennis (69), Arnhem Gld. NL

• 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. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

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

• 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 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.
• March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
• April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
• June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
• July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
• October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.

The temperature on May 21, 1892 was about 8.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.