About the day » Sunday January 9, 1921Calender converter

• Anna Margaretha Overberg, Schoonebeek
• Barney Zeno Baudendistel, Scott County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Albertus Jacobus van Es, Woerden († 2004)
• Bastiaantje DEUNHOUWER, Puttershoek († 1942)
• Arendina de Wijs, Haarlem († 2000)
• Alegonda Johanna Maria de Goeij, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Antje Elisabeth Pijl († 1997)
• Antje Rinses Miedema, Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1991)
• Aria Adrianus Kleijwegt, Rotterdam († 2003)
• Andries Mol, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2005)

• Bartlameus Tonk (0), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernard Wijers (73), Haarlem
• Berendina Wevers (56), Oldenzaal, 7570, Nederland
• Bianca Christine LUISE von Niederstetter (82), Ballenstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Barley LeRoy Hicks [K] (0), Providence, White County, Arkansas
• Antonius Abeelen, van (42), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Caspers (5), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie de Waard (21), Zwijndrecht
• Catherine Virginia Boush (71), Virginia, United States
• Antonius Abeelen (42), Tilburg (Noord-Brabant)

• 1918 » Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer († 2005)
• 1919 » William Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic († 2007)
• 1920 » Clive Dunn, English actor († 2012)
• 1920 » Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh († 1998)
• 1921 » Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1922 » Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea († 1984)
• 1922 » Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate († 2011)
• 1924 » Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian director and screenwriter († 1990)
• 1925 » Lee Van Cleef, American actor († 1989)
• 1925 » Len Quested, English footballer defender and manager († 2012)

• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (b. 1853)
• 1927 » Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (b. 1855)
• 1930 » Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Wayne Munn, American football player and wrestler (b. 1896)

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.
• January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
• March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
• July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
• October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
• 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 9, 1921 was between 4.5 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.