About the day » Sunday January 2, 1921Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Starke, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands († 1993)
• Adriana Maria Hendrica Lampers, Texel († 1968)
• Arie van der Steen, Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• (Stillborn) RENKEMA, Marum Groningen Netherlands († 1921)
• Adrianus Achterberg, Utrecht († 1921)
• Aalbertus Methorst, Ederveen († 1994)
• Barend Louis Gagliardi, Buitenzorg, West-Java († 1996)
• Bernardus Dokter, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1929)
• Anton Raabe, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland († 1941)
• Adriana Legius, Best († 1983)

• (Stillborn) RENKEMA (0), Marum Groningen Netherlands
• Adrianus Josephus Johannes van Hoorn (1), Tilburg
• Antonia Philippina van Luunen (52), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Jan Ziegeler, Schoten,Provincie Antwerpen,Flanders,Belgique
• Anna Frederika Nieuwland (69), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Agnes Josepha Bramfill (86), Weston Super Mare, Somerset. England
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• Anna Cornelia Terhell (45), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Tutelaars (0)
• Adrianus HEERINGS (2), Heeze (NL/NB)

• 1913 » Anna Lee, English-American actress († 2004)
• 1913 » Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist († 1992)
• 1917 » Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer († 2003)
• 1918 » Willi Graf, German physician and activist († 1943)
• 1919 » Beatrice Hicks, American engineer († 1979)
• 1920 » Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry († 1992)
• 1921 » Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2007)
• 1926 » Gino Marchetti, American football player († 2019)
• 1928 » Dan Rostenkowski, American politician († 2010)
• 1929 » Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland

• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)

• 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 » 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.
• March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
• September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

The temperature on January 2, 1921 was between 9.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.