About the day » Sunday January 21, 1912Calender converter

• Aart Willem van Meerveld, Hazerswoude
• Adriaan Dirk BRAS, Dordrecht († 1981)
• Adriana Overvoorde, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• (3) Elsje Frederika Buhl, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1997)
• Adriaan Dirk Bras (Adri) Bras, dordrecht († 1981)
• (Andries) Schure ter, Steenwijkerwold, Ov, Nederland
• Aaltien Veenema, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Wilhelmina Johanna Maria Olsthoorn, Kethel en Spaland,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Albert Boes, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aalbert Lourentius Kroeze, Geldermalsen († 1945)

• Antonia Hendrika Veen (76), Hilversum
• Arie van der REE (62), Numansdorp
• Johannes Balvert (20), Nieuwkoop
• Annigje Woning (30), Wilsum, Nederland
• Alberdina Luteijn (77), Vlissingen, Nederland
• Aaltje van ’t HOOGE (78), Barsbeek, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Bouwesd MEULEN (57), Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Marie HAIVERLAIN (HAIVERLING-HEVERLAIN) (70), Hasselt,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi
• Aaltje Willems van het Hooge (78), Ambt Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland, Overrijssel, The Netherlands
• de Vree (0), Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1909 » Teofilo Spasojević, Serbian footballer († 1970)
• 1909 » Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor († 2004)
• 1910 » Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington († 2011)
• 1910 » Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer († 1975)
• 1910 » Károly Takács, Hungarian shooter († 1976)
• 1910 » Rosa Kellner, German athlete († 1984)
• 1911 » Dick Garrard, Australian wrestler († 2003)
• 1911 » Lee Yoo-hyung, Korean footballer and manager († 2003)
• 1912 » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1915 » André Lichnerowicz, French mathematician († 1998)

• 1901 » Elisha Gray, American engineer, co-founded Western Electric (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)

• 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.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
• March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

The temperature on January 21, 1912 was between -0.6 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.