About the day » Friday May 21, 1897Calender converter

• Amedeus P.E. Smet, Kallo
• Alphons Harry Swensen, Batavia, West-Java († 1897)
• Adrianus van Gemst, Woensdrecht († 1967)
• Adriana Pas, Breda († 1920)
• Alphons Harry Swensen, Batavia († 1897)
• Adriana Petronella Bouwens, Halsteren
• Albert Hinkema, Noordwolde, Weststellingwerf,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Susanna VREKE, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1898)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Alberta Peperkamp, Utrecht († 1897)
• Alphonsus Adrianus Maria Rijnties, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Antoinette Catharine Petronella Pfeiffer (78), Heusden
• Andries STAMMEN (76), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• andries bernard herfst (6), amsterdam
• Aaltje Harms Arends (82), Bellingwolde
• Alberta Wilhelmina Ybema (1)
• Aafje Gerrits Veldman (64)
• Adrianus Kroon (72), Uithoorn
• Alida Nap (71), Zegveld
• Alida Nap (71), Zegveld, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Kimmel (81), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 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 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)

• 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)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

• 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
• August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
• December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
• December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

The temperature on May 21, 1897 was about 17.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.