About the day » Thursday January 6, 1921Calender converter

• Catharina Johanna Wolf, Gombong, N.I († 2008)
• Adriaan Van Zoest († 2011)
• Berend Bruijnes, Ermelo († 1945)
• Antonius Christianus Gerrit Joseph van Loghem, Keulen († 1989)
• Anna Lefevre, Ursel, Belgium († 1988)
• Aletta Maria van der Woerdt, Kwadijk († 1975)
• Carol Hengeveld
• Kentie, Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1921)
• Broer Miedema, Franeker († 2009)
• Arie Vermaat, Krimpen aan de IJssel († 1985)

• Anna Maria Briels, Leudal (Hunsel) (Limburg)
• Jan Gewald (52), Emmen
• Augusta Julia Paul (83), Cedar Valley, Muscatine, Iowa, United States
• Caroline Fitter (25), Siberia, Perry County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Marien (43), Halle
• Arie Ravenhorst (28), 's-Graveland
• Albertus Arnoldus ANNEVELD (64), Arnhem
• Antje Holtman (66), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Stut (79), Heemstede
• Andrew Lancelot Chunn** (73), Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN

• 1920 » Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1920 » John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist († 2004)
• 1920 » Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; founder of the Unification Church († 2012)
• 1921 » Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster († 1998)
• 1921 » Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic († 2013)
• 1923 » Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author († 1999)
• 1923 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1974)
• 1923 » Vladimir Kazantsev, Russian runner († 2007)
• 1924 » Earl Scruggs, American banjo player († 2012)
• 1924 » Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)

• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
• 1922 » Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » André Bessette, Canadian saint (b. 1845)

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 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
• March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.

The temperature on January 6, 1921 was between 4.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.