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• Berend De Hooge († 1994)
• Christiaan-Cornelis Jellema, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1992)
• Bastiana Kloots, de werken en sleeuwijk († 2006)
• Spaan, Heteren, Gelderland, Nederland († 1992)
• Christiaan Aukes jellema, Amersfoort († 1992)
• Annie Smulders († 2001)
• Cornelis Timmer, Oosterend (Texel), Nederland († 1998)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Linterman, Nijmegen († 1976)
• Christiaan Leonardus Koenders, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Constance Knipscheer († 1961)

• Catharina Adriana Schols (4)
• Alida Elisabeth Calf (0), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Margretha Louisa Baert (2), Boschkapelle
• Adrianus Marinus Cornelius Heesbeen (0), Rotterdam
• van der Heijden, Amersfoort
• Aaltje de Groot (26), Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Joppen de Groot (26), EaZ
• Arnoldus Pardoel (49), Eindhoven
• Carolina Jacoba Van Tol (53), Den Haag,-
• Aaltje de Groot (26), Egmond

• 1918 » Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1991)
• 1919 » Anita O'Day, American singer († 2006)
• 1919 » Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator († 2012)
• 1919 » Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada († 2000)
• 1919 » Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician († 1996)
• 1920 » Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture († 1994)
• 1921 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic († 1972)
• 1921 » Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist († 2005)
• 1921 » Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician († 2008)
• 1923 » Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2008)

• 1908 » Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)

• 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 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
• September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
• November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

The temperature on October 18, 1921 was between 4.2 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.