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• Anna Maria van den Dobbelsteen, Hatert (gemeente Nijmegen) († 1911)
• Alino de Oliveira, São Roque, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Catharina Cornelia Maria Kagie, den haag
• Anna Odilia Jozefina (Enny) VROEMEN, Kerkrade (NL/LI) († 1963)
• Aloïs Raymond Sierens, Zomergem († 1992)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Maria Schellekens, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1911)
• Aaltje Bleeker, Beerta, Groningen, Nederland († 1949)
• Aleida Klein Meulenkamp, Steenderen
• Anna Hedvig Bengtsson († 1983)
• Aaldrik Henderikus Harmannus Baalman, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1951)

• Aleida Maria Nass (44), Didam (Montferland)
• Afra Mol (8), Wervershoof
• Anna Beatrix Smeets (12), Roosteren
• Arie Smit (0), Brielle
• Anna Streuper, (0), Groningen
• Alexander Mercier, Zevenbergen
• Berend Vegter (0), Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Streuper (0), Groningen
• Anna Freerks Hoving (87), Stedum (NL)
• Bernardina Johanna de Kuster (0)

• 1904 » Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1984)
• 1905 » Bipin Gupta, Indian actor and producer († 1981)
• 1906 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer († 1995)
• 1907 » P. Jeevanandham, Indian lawyer and politician († 1963)
• 1909 » Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist († 1992)
• 1912 » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1995)
• 1914 » Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach († 1998)
• 1916 » Bill Lee, American actor and singer († 1980)
• 1916 » Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter († 2005)
• 1917 » Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician († 2008)

• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)

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 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
• January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

The temperature on August 21, 1911 was between 13.0 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.