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• Alida Carolina Maria VAN TIGGELEN, Lille, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1973)
• Aart Jens, 's-Gravenhage († 2006)
• Adriana Cornelia van der Hoorn, Ter Aar (Papenveer) († 2021)
• Alberdiena Hendrikje Roskam, Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Arend Hindrik Meerman († 2001)
• anna gertruda (tru) smolenaars, meijel († 1993)
• Arthur Leverette Owens, Judson (Parke County) (Indiana) († 1953)
• anoniem Dekkers, Waalwijk, Nederland († 1921)
• Arend Meerman († 2001)
• Albertus Velthuizen († 2002)

• Adrianus Cornelis Kolen (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Mary Towneley (84)
• Albert Pieter de Jonge (55), Winschoten (Groningen)
• Ann Elizabeth Searle (87), Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States of America
• Agatha de Wit (54), Heemskerk
• Andries Pietersz Smit (89), Wieringerwaard
• Anthonij van der Horst (84), Fijnaart
• Adrianus Primus (73), Arnhem
• Anna van Munster (88), Ie (Ee), Noardeast-Fryslân, Nederland
• antonie van der horst (84), fijnaart

• 1918 » Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator († 1986)
• 1918 » Dora Ratjen, German high jumper († 2008)
• 1919 » Alan Brown, English race car driver († 2004)
• 1919 » Phyllis Thaxter, American actress († 2012)
• 1920 » Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist († 2015)
• 1921 » Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge († 1992)
• 1923 » Danny Dayton, American actor and director († 1999)
• 1923 » Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer († 2006)
• 1923 » Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2014)
• 1923 » Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer († 2005)

• 1908 » Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1908 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 1910 » Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1918 » John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (b.1882)
• 1923 » Allen Holubar, American actor and director
• 1924 » Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Alexandra of Denmark, queen of England (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Augustine Birrell, British politician (b. 1815)
• 1934 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)

• 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 16 » The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
• March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
• July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.

The temperature on November 20, 1921 was between -0.4 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.