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• Antonius Cornelis Wilhelmus van Laarhoven, Goirle († 1921)
• Anna Maria Klinge, Avereest († 1963)
• Antoineta Maria Baltussen, Maastricht († 1989)
• Arie den Daas, Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1977)
• Adrianus Johannes Maria van Wichen, Dreumel († 1988)
• Antonius Franciscus van Bakel, Langenboom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1972)
• Arie den Daas, Woerden († 1977)
• Alfred Willard Burch († 2009)
• Albertus Versteege, noordink
• Anna Maria Theodora Willemse, Engelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2009)

• Addremina Urserlane Haskell (73), Noblesville, IN
• Anthonius Petrus van Meel (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allert Hopman (77), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Petrus van Meel (54), Rotterdam
• Ada M Fries (79), Richland Center, Richland, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van Dijk (61), Soest
• Anna Maria Jacoba Velthuisen (56), Delft
• Alfred Henry BRIGGS (53), Longford, Tasmania, Australia
• Adriana Rijken (1), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Kolstein (71), Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland

• 1916 » Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player († 1988)
• 1916 » W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic († 1989)
• 1920 » Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor († 1992)
• 1921 » Chester Kallman, American poet and translator († 1975)
• 1921 » Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician († 1997)
• 1922 » Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager († 2014)
• 1922 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player († 2000)
• 1923 » Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic († 2003)
• 1925 » Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park († 1995)
• 1926 » Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea († 2018)

• 1892 » Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
• 1893 » Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
• 1920 » Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 » Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1931 » Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
• 1932 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877)
• 1936 » Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
• 1941 » Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)

• 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 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• 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.
• October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.

The temperature on January 7, 1921 was between 6.1 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.