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• Anna Cornelia van der Post, Woubrugge
• Adrianus Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom († 1911)
• Andries Hoogerwerf, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Hoedjes, Berkhout, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Albrecht Willem Ernst Maria Graaf van Seilern-Aspang, München, Oberbayern, Beieren († 1985)
• Achiel Petrus Aloïs Van Mele, Temse (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 2001)
• Adrianus Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1911)
• Alida Maria Hendrika Karssen, Zwolle († 1911)
• Anna TRIEBEL, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 2004)

• Adrianus van den Broek (47), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adam Jacobsz Jong (22), Schellngwoude
• Anna Elisabeth Frijns (46), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Margaretha Tholen (53), Lindloh, Haren (Ems)
• Arie Jansz Muijs (82), Bergambacht, Zuid Holland
• Anna Maria Catharina VESTERS (47), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Andries Westra (0), Dantumadeel
• Arie Muijs (82), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van den Broek (47)
• Albert van Kraaikamp, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1907 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet († 1985)
• 1908 » Niyazi Berkes, Cypriot-English sociologist and academic († 1988)
• 1911 » Mary Blair, American illustrator and animator († 1978)
• 1912 » Alfredo Pián, Argentinian race car driver († 1990)
• 1912 » Don Byas, American saxophonist and educator († 1972)
• 1912 » Georg Solti, Hungarian-English conductor and director († 1997)
• 1914 » Martin Gardner, American mathematician and author († 2010)
• 1915 » Owen Bradley, American country music record producer († 1998)
• 1917 » Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader († 1993)
• 1918 » Milton Himmelfarb, American sociologist and author († 2006)

• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
• March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
• March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
• September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
• October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

The temperature on October 21, 1910 was between 4.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.