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• Alida Johanna van Vliet, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Arno van Daal († 1996)
• Agatha Alida van Rossum, Kamerik († 1983)
• Anna Cornelia Snepvangers, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Agnes Taphorn, Saint Gregor, Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada († 1987)
• Alida Maria Geertruida Lansbergen, Schipluiden († 2004)
• Albrecht Adolf Steinheil, Kochendorf, Duitsland († 1944)
• Arie de Vreugd, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Antonius Petrus Goossens, Den Dungen, NL († 2000)
• Adeline Hilda Saijers, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie

• Adrianus van Ieperen (0), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annechien Pera (62), Usquert
• Albertt CARBAAT (45)
• Anna Maria Ziethe (52), Lingen, Duitsland
• Antonetta Johanna van den Boom, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Hogerhorst (69), Arnhem
• Alice Marcum (61), Baccus, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States
• Adriana Kers (31), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Starink (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernadus (Bernardus) Reinerus Eikelkamp (=Eijkelkamp) (55), Linde-Vorden (Bronckhorst)

• 1919 » Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
• 1920 » Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author († 2010)
• 1920 » Montgomery Clift, American actor († 1966)
• 1920 » Zully Moreno, Argentine actress († 1999)
• 1921 » George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright († 1996)
• 1921 » Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast († 2001)
• 1921 » Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author († 2012)
• 1921 » Tom Poston, American actor and comedian († 2007)
• 1922 » Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer († 2001)
• 1922 » Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival († 2012)

• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1948 » Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)

• 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 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
• March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.

The temperature on October 17, 1921 was between 0.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.