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• Carlos Haussler, Santurce (Puerto Rico) († 2008)
• Antoon Lodewijk George Vos, Laren († 1945)
• * Jacoba Bronk, Amsterdam († 1977)
• Berendina Kwant, Oosterhesselen († 2008)
• Arnoldus Petrus Stevens, Heteren,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)
• Andries Keereweer, Leiden († 2018)
• Anna Elizabeth McGrew, Brilliant, Jefferson County, Ohio († 2005)
• Anna Elisabeth Bloemers, Herpen
• Antoon Lodewijk George Vos, Laren († 1945)
• Adriana van Oorschot, Schijf († 2002)

• Antonius Fleuren (0), Oeffelt, Nederland
• Aafke Rietstra (82), Gem. Leeuwarderadeel
• Adriana van der Voort (89), Tilburg
• Ana Francisca de Camargo (72), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Catharina Borremans (75)
• Abraham Schaap (81)
• Achiel VERNIERS
• Adrianus Romein (37), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Agie Levering (62), Bakkum
• Arend Nijdam (78), Paterswolde, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1915 » Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma († 2015)
• 1917 » Charles Drake, American actor († 1994)
• 1917 » Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Jan Flinterman, Dutch race car driver and pilot († 1992)
• 1919 » John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer († 2004)
• 1921 » Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer († 2006)
• 1921 » Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer († 1978)
• 1921 » Robert Runcie, English archbishop († 2000)
• 1925 » Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2013)
• 1926 » Jan Morris, English-Welsh historian and author

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
• July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
• September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
• November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
• December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

The temperature on October 2, 1921 was between 2.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.