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• Anthony (Tony) Vandersteen, Fisher Branch, Manitoba, Canada († 2007)
• Albert Geessinus Meijering, Soest († 1953)
• Auguste Adrianus Willem Groeneveld, Magelang (Ned. Indië) († 1945)
• Aalbertus van den Born, Harderwijk († 1976)
• Aafke Hoekstra, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland († 1974)
• Antoinette Frederica Fenna Van der Feen de Lille, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Bep Breuker, Amsterdam († 2008)
• Baer Lambert Willem Lenders, Lomm († 1991)
• Anna Helena Westdijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Antonetta Johanna Maria Lindeman, Schiedam, ZH Netherlands († 1993)

• Antonet van den Broek (72), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Verkade (69), Leiden
• Barend Matteman (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Stuivenberg (47), Groot-Ammers
• Arend de Vries (81), Drouwenermond, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland
• Augusta von Fürstenberg Stammheim (43), Munster
• Christina Wilhelmina Kiliaan (71), Sitoebondo
• August Scheuer (69), Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Arend de Vries (81), Drouwenermond, Borger, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Cornelis Walter (57), Haarlem

• 1919 » Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic († 2018)
• 1920 » Clifton James, American actor († 2017)
• 1920 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1921 » Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer († 2010)
• 1922 » Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist († 2001)
• 1922 » Joe Weatherly, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1923 » Bernard Clavel, French author († 2010)
• 1923 » Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist
• 1923 » John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon († 2015)
• 1924 » Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator († 1999)

• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)

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.
• February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
• July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
• July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
• August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
• December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

The temperature on May 29, 1921 was between 5.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.