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• Abraham van West vuijsje († 1938)
• Albertus Nijwening, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriaan Jacob v.d. Berg, Vlaardingen († 2001)
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• Aleida Beffers, Deventer {OV} († 2006)
• Anna Maria Heijnen, Fehndorf, Haren, Duitsland († 2014)
• Aalbert de Jongh, Waardenburg (GL) († 1959)
• Adriana Langendoen, Rotterdam († 1917)
• Aaf Kroon, Volendam († 1988)
• Alfred Frank Kirn, St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2001)

• Alida Hendrika Goossens (97), Nijkerk,Gemeente Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Adrianus Schalij (0), Benschop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agatha van Montfoort (86), Hoenkoop (U)
• Catharina van der Helm (52), Mijdrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Hermans (68), Dongen
• Aleida Kupers (Kuipers) (84), Borne, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonetta Christina Zweers (79), Steenderen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Jans Nievaart (67), Leiden
• CHRISTINE Katharine Dorothea Mathilde FREYER (31)
• Aaltje de WACHTER (75), Spijkenisse

• 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)
• 1918 » Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor († 1989)
• 1918 » Jimmy Hagan, English footballer († 1998)
• 1918 » Richard Winters, American soldier († 2011)
• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)
• 1920 » Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados († 1987)

• 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. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Albert
13. Gerardus
14. Dirk
15. Wilhelmus
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
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 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 6.5 million citizens.
• June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
• July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
• October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
• December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
• December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
• December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

The temperature on January 21, 1917 was between -8.6 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -6.7 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.