About the day » Tuesday March 8, 1921Calender converter

• Clemens Janssen († 2012)
• Kuijpers, Cromvoirt († 1993)
• Alida Anthonia Wiegman, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Cornelis Geurts, 't Goy, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1973)
• André Debrock († 1921)
• Antonius Gielen, Liessel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)
• Cornelis Beekman, Middelburg, Nederland († 1972)
• Aafke Groenewold, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Alexandre Rosenberg, Paris († 1987)
• Cecil Greeley Newkirk, Blockton, Taylor, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2004)

• Aalbert van 't Hoff (69), Zwijndrecht
• Arendje Barends (51), Papendrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cramers (70), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aukje Inia (34), Oldeboorn,, Friesland, Nederland
• Romanie Marie Sophie de Jonghe (0), Raamsdonk
• Anneke van der Markt (13), Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Anna Beckers (0), Heerlen
• Aalbert Alberts (0), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• "Grietien" Hendriksdr Stegink (87), Ruinen
• Anton Raimund Johann Maria Von Ceschi Di Santa Croce (68)

• 1918 » Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress († 2008)
• 1920 » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright († 1985)
• 1921 » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor († 1990)
• 1921 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter († 1980)
• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)
• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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

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

• 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 6.9 million citizens.
• March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
• April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
• June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
• August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
• October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

The temperature on March 8, 1921 was between -1.3 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.