About the day » Saturday May 21, 1904Calender converter

• Alphonsus Anthonie Akemann, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Corbee, Hillegom
• Adrianus Gerardus Scheerman, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Gerardina Maria Catharina Gieliam, Almelo († 1907)
• Adriana van Tuijl, Zaltbommel (GL) († 1926)
• Amélie Gysens, Schepdaal
• Aart Loch, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1993)
• Abram Koolmoes, Leiderdorp († 1975)
• Annetje Faasse, Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• André Coemelck, Menen († 1991)

• Agatha de Wolf (0), Leiden
• Barend Blankwaeter (84), Haarlem, Nederland
• Adriaan van Winterswijk (0), Hillegersberg
• Antje Alles Hiemstra (59)
• Arie van der Meijden, Hardinxveld
• Arie van der Meijden (74), Hardinxveld
• Annie Hagelskamp (19)
• Arie van der Meijden (74), Hardinxveld (Hardinxveld-Giessendam)
• Catharina RODENBOOG (37), Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Bertus de Weerd (0), Geldermalsen, Nederland

• 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)
• 1901 » Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright († 1992)
• 1902 » Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)
• 1902 » Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower († 1981)
• 1903 » Manly Wade Wellman, American author († 1986)
• 1904 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1943)
• 1904 » Robert Montgomery, American actor and director († 1981)

• 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)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Neeltje
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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on May 21, 1904 was between 4.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.