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• Anna Irene WORLEY, Storrs, Carbon County, Utah, United States of America († 2004)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Haaren, Udenhout († 2002)
• (naamloos) Suykerbuyk, Essen (B) († 1921)
• Aaltje Klaassen, Ermelo († 2008)
• Arend Kort, Valthermond, Odoorn († 1987)
• Beatrice Hercules, Modjokerto († 2015)
• "Charles" Yorick Joseph Savary de Beauregard, Mérignac, Gironde, France († 1949)
• Anna Maria van LOENHOUT, Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Antonio Augusto Caldeira Brant, Bocaiúva, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 2001)
• Alida Johanna Lafeber, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1921)

• Agnes Tibosch, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Aerts (26), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Adriana Theodora Besseling (0), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleijdis Reijmers (79), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Berdina Antonia Maria Verburg (34), Utrecht, Utr, Nederland
• Cornelia Klaas Andriessen (65), Hilversum
• Cintha Nargaret Shultz (79), Truro, Madison County, Iowa
• Adrianus Hendrickx (76), Antwerpen
• Derk Roelfsema (86), Wagenborgen (Termunten)
• Annigje Schans (79), Beilen, Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1918 » Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager († 2009)
• 1918 » Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane († 2007)
• 1918 » Nel Benschop, Dutch poet and educator († 2005)
• 1918 » Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer († 1996)
• 1919 » Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic († 2012)
• 1920 » Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver († 1991)
• 1920 » Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1921 » Francesco Scavullo, American photographer († 2004)
• 1923 » Anthony Hecht, American poet († 2004)
• 1923 » Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company († 2014)

• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
• 1906 » Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1917 » George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1936 » Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1942 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)

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 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
• April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

The temperature on January 16, 1921 was between -3.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.