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• Aaffiena Jakomina Korf, holwierde († 1991)
• Alberdina Maria Spierenburg, Den Haag († 1927)
• Aafje de Waard, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Jacobus van Moorsel, Den Haag († 1978)
• Aaltje van Vemde, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1993)
• Aaltje Vemde, Epe,8160,Gelderland,Nederland († 1993)
• Adrianus David Theodorus Steentjes, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfredo do Amaral, Lapa, Paraná, Brasil
• Alice Maria Migom, Zuiddorpe (NL) († 1929)
• Aaltje (Alve) van Vemde, Epe († 1993)

• Adriaan Oomen (62), Teteringen
• Aaltjen Huisjes (93), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Willems Lutke (65), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Put (56), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert LUTKE (65), Emmen (NL/DR)
• Adrianus Oomens (62), Teteringen, Nederland
• Aaltjen Huissies (93), Noord C296, Noord, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Albert Lutke (65), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Huissies (93), Hoogeveen
• Anje Kornelia van Anken (30), Midwolda

• 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)
• 1915 » Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter († 1981)
• 1916 » Pietro Rava, Italian footballer († 2006)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
• March 22 » Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
• May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
• August 16 » Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMSQueen Mary.
• November 7 » The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.

The temperature on January 21, 1913 was between 1.4 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.