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• Antje Koens († 1971)
• Anna Maria Susanna Kosse, Slagharen († 2023)
• Bernard Meijer De Vries, Den Haag, The Netherlands († 1943)
• Adriaan Meerman, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2009)
• Aart van Triest, Utrecht († 1945)
• Alvin McClees, Johannesburg († 1992)
• Anna Margaretha Duran, Den Haag († 1976)
• Anna Maria Susanna Kosse, Slagharen († 2023)
• Berthus Gerardus Beerenfenger, Leiden
• Andrea Bertha Maria Vermeer, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant) († 1960)

• Ariën Hendrik Crum (0)
• Adrianus Norbertus van Oerle (66), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Norbertus van Oerle (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Boom (30), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberta (de) JAGER (63), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aleida Van Lier (56), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna BREE (4), Diepenheim, Overijssel, Nederland, Neth
• Anna Willemina Bouman (64), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Heijden. van der (82), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Martensz Jongsma (68), Heerenveen, aengwirden.fr.nld

• 1918 » Guy Gibson, Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1944)
• 1918 » Sid Bernstein, American record producer († 2013)
• 1919 » Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic († 2020)
• 1919 » Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic († 1971)
• 1920 » Charles Gibson, American ethnohistorian († 1985)
• 1920 » Percy Mayfield, American R&B singer-songwriter († 1984)
• 1922 » Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright († 1987)
• 1922 » Miloš Jakeš, Czech communist politician
• 1923 » John Holt, Jamaican cricketer († 1997)
• 1924 » Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire († 2007)

• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1928 » Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (b. 1856)
• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)

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 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.

The temperature on August 12, 1921 was between 8.6 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.