About the day » Wednesday January 21, 1914Calender converter

• Agnes Miller, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Agnès Jeanine Dehollain († 1981)
• * Johanna Maria Giller, Heeze († 1998)
• Adriana Maria Boer
• Adriana Naaktgeboren, 's-Gravendeel (Zuid-Holland) († 1999)
• Adriana Johanna Krullaars, 's Gravenhage
• Albertje Werkman, Uithuizen Oud, Groningen, Nederland († 2006)
• ? van Genesen, Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Nieuwenweg, Odoorn († 1914)
• Alexander Luigjes, Amersfoort († 1999)

• Augustinus Sap (86), Zwevezele,8750,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anna Elisabeth Wickert (47), Naarden
• Adrianus Mols (45), Udenhout, Nederland
• Abraham Rijbroek (74), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Schols (0), Eilendorf, Aachen (D)
• Andries Baljeu (76), Middelburg, prov. Zeeland
• ANTJE BRONWASSER (53), ROTTERDAM
• Aaltje Elisabeth Oskam (0), Jutphaas
• Tonnies Faber (82), Groningen
• Arend Jacob van Krieken (0), Jutphaas

• 1910 » Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington († 2011)
• 1910 » Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer († 1975)
• 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)
• 1916 » Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage († 2002)
• 1917 » Erling Persson, H&M founder († 2002)

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 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 6.2 million citizens.
• August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
• August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
• August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
• November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
• December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

The temperature on January 21, 1914 was between -6.2 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.