About the day » Thursday August 21, 1913Calender converter

• Aaltje Koster, Deventer († 1913)
• Albert Maurits GARWIG, Herseaux (Herzeeuw) († 1915)
• Andries Johannes Timmerman, Amsterdam
• Alida Johanna Bul, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1913)
• Lucianus Julianus van Duyse, St. Niklaas († 1983)
• Alida Greevink, Odoorn († 2003)
• Boekholt, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Afien Kiewiet, Dedemsvaart († 2001)
• Adrianus Wilhemus Bernardus van Zummeren, Rotterdam
• Aaltjen Zwak

• Concepción Ibarra (39), Nochistlán, Zacatecas, México
• Bartha de Ruig (79), Arnhem
• Catharina Rood (90), Grootebroek
• Bartha de Ruijg (79), Arnhem
• Cornelia Marianna van Eendenburgh (77), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clementia Versele (59), Nazareth, Oost-Vlaanderen
• Bertha von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck (46), Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Frankreich
• Antonius van Tilburg (79), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL
• Anna Mechtildis Wouters (57), Limmel, Limburg, Netherlands
• arie den BOER (76), lekkerkerk

• 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)
• 1918 » Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 2004)

• 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. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

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. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
• 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.
• June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
• September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
• December 14 » Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

The temperature on August 21, 1913 was between 9.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.