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• Aaltjen Kracht, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1973)
• Adrianus Johannes Grauwmans, Ginneken en Bavel († 1971)
• Albertus Holleman, Wageningen
• Adriana Wilhelmina Vervoort, Waspik, Nederland († 1912)
• Albert Dontje, Kolham (Slochteren), Groningen, Nederland
• Achiel Reygaerts, Overboelare († 1985)
• Achiel REYGAERTS, Overboelare, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1985)
• Donga, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Aaltien Kracht, Emmen († 1973)
• Aaltje Paap, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Benjamin Berkhuijsen (43), Den Haag
• Alida Barendina Jong (56), Utrecht
• Antonius van Kampen (83), Schiedam
• Antonius van den Boom (56), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clasina Vorselman (1), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• C Jacob Wise (74), Lima, Allen, Ohio
• Antonius van den Bersselaar (72), Udenhout
• Catharina Maria van Rijn (39), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius VERBESTEL (8), Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Catharina Deenen (34), Posterholt

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
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.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
• July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
• November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

The temperature on October 21, 1912 was between 4.8 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.