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• Adam de Wit, Swalmen, Limburg, Nederland († 2000)
• Christina Margaretha Landman, Haarlemmermeer († 1962)
• Adolf Frans Karel Rudolf Graaf van Meran Vrijheer van Brandhofen, Goldegg, Salzburgerland († 2010)
• Antonia Maria van der Loo, Son, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)
• Adriana Johanna Leijten, Stratum, Nbr.NL († 1919)
• Anthonia Maria Ludovica (Marie) Bakker, Obdam († 1983)
• Anna Maria van Dongen, Den Haag († 1998)
• Cornelia Anna Schagen, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Aaltina Bremer, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1921)
• Bertha Johanna van Werkhoven, Hilversum († 2002)

• Griffioen (0), Kamerik
• Arnoldus van Hout (0), Oerle
• Aartje van de Kleut (45), Hilversum, Nederland
• Anje Mantjes (27), Zuidbroek, Netherlands
• Abraham Rodenburg (78), Alphen aan den Rijn, ZH, Nederland
• ANNE - MARIE ODOUX (68), Linselles, 59126
• Antonio Cavriani (83)
• Antonetta Maria Josephina Ligtvoet (19), Tilburg
• Albertus van der Tuuk (89), Garrelsweer
• Adriaan van Spreeuwel (61)

• 1916 » Dennis Day, American singer and actor († 1988)
• 1916 » Harold Robbins, American author and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1916 » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter and police officer († 2002)
• 1917 » Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director († 1993)
• 1918 » Anthony Steel, English actor and singer († 2001)
• 1919 » George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1920 » Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator († 2007)
• 1920 » Forrest White, American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company († 1994)
• 1921 » Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1921 » Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO († 2010)

• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)

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

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

• 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
• February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
• June 15 » John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
• September 28 » Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
• October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
• October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
• December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

The temperature on May 21, 1919 was between 6.5 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.