About the day » Thursday December 21, 1911Calender converter

• Andries Hessels RIENKS, Winsum (Baarderadeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Lasonder, Enschede († 1911)
• Aaltje Kuilman, Odoorn (Drenthe) († 2006)
• Andreas de Roo, Den Haag, 6000, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1917)
• Aafje Leentje Mulder, Jisp († 2005)
• Allie Bryant Blue, Moore County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Adrianus Gillesen, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Adriaantje Pors, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1991)
• Albert Simon, Nenderoth, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany († 1945)
• Adrianus Cornelius (Janus) van Asseldonk, Beek en Donk († 1988)

• * Elisabeth Adriana Vesters (87), Nijmegen
• Alfred von Khevenhüller-Metsch (59), Osterwitz, Autriche
• Catharina Jansen (28), Renkum
• Bertha Caro (80), Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Christiaan Willem Breukelman (89), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Alberta Doorn (62), Salne, Zwolle, NL
• Agatha Johannes Huitema (10), Witmarsum
• Allegonda Polak (1), Willemstad, Nederland
• Anna Philomena Wijnen (64), Veldwezelt
• Lasonder (0), Enschede

• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)
• 1915 » Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1918 » Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician; 9th President of Austria († 2007)

• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)

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

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

• 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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
• June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
• July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
• December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

The temperature on December 21, 1911 was between 4.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.