About the day » Monday January 31, 1921Calender converter

• Donald KAYE, Barnsley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England († 2004)
• Alida Geertruida de Kok, Loosduinen († 2013)
• Apolonia Alida Johanna van Elswijk, Monster († 1990)
• Dirkje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Antonius Kwaijtaal, Zevenbergen († 1921)
• Cornelia Wagenaar, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Adriana Hanemaaijer, de Lier († 2003)
• Cornelis Dirk Houweling, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Alphonsus TEMPELS, Koersel, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 2007)
• Achiel Seys, Zarren († 2000)

• Andreas van der Kallen (61), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adrianus de Vaan (0), Vlijmen
• Annechien Fietje (Vietje)- (88), Borger, Nederland
• Andre Joseph D' HEEDENE (0), Oostrozebeke,8780-,West Vlaanderen-,Vl, België
• Anneken Rekers, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Agnes gerarda Van grieken (29), Heerhugowaard
• Berend Luttjeboer (74), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Abraham Crama (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Lochs (1), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Aart (Arie) Versteegt (80), Harmelen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1917 » Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects († 2013)
• 1919 » Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1972)
• 1920 » Bert Williams, English footballer († 2004)
• 1920 » Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior († 2010)
• 1921 » Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2019)
• 1921 » E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel († 2004)
• 1921 » John Agar, American actor († 2002)
• 1921 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor († 1959)
• 1922 » Joanne Dru, American actress († 1996)
• 1923 » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author († 2007)

• 1888 » John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)

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. Grietje
12. Jacoba
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 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.
• April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• 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.
• October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
• October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

The temperature on January 31, 1921 was between 2.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.