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• Bernardus Mol († 2000)
• Annechina Beuker, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde)
• Aukje Miedema, Dongjum († 2018)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Soeters, Bergen op Zoom, Gemeente Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Verhoeven, Tilburg
• Albertus Martinus Leijten, Eindhoven (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2007)
• Berend Jan Kappert, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2016)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth LABRIE († 1984)
• Arie Heijmans, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Arthur Mathis, Cook, Illinois, United States

• Anna Rijkenberg (63), Breda
• Agnes Mary Cecilia Northcote
• Agnes de Zeeuw (0), Heemskerk
• Antonius Franciscus Bogers (39), Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia van der Lans (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Hoeksema (71), Vlissingen
• Albertus van Hattem (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Geertrui Verbeek (79), Lienden
• Barbara Vermeir (76)
• Anna Elisabeth Baggen (75), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland

• 1919 » Edward Brooke, American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General († 2015)
• 1919 » Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist († 2010)
• 1919 » Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran († 1980)
• 1919 » Princess Ashraf of Iran († 2016)
• 1920 » Sarah Lee Lippincott, American astronomer and academic († 2019)
• 1921 » Joe Fulks, American basketball player († 1976)
• 1922 » Fred Wood, English actor († 2003)
• 1922 » Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama († 2008)
• 1923 » Robert Hinde, English zoologist and academic († 2016)
• 1924 » Shaw Taylor, English actor and television host († 2015)

• 1902 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1929 » Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859)
• 1932 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1867)
• 1937 » Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)

• 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 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
• March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
• October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
• December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

The temperature on October 26, 1921 was between 10.4 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.