About the day » Saturday December 17, 1921Calender converter

• Aaltje Bos, Foxhol gem. Hoogezand
• Albertje de Vries, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Andries Lorenz, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina uit de BULTEN, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1922)
• Alma Ruth Fuller († 1993)
• Aaltje van den Heuvel († 1980)
• Alida Slagter, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Maria Roex, Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland († 2000)
• Albertus antonius Petrus Klerk, Maurik (Meerboom)
• Abraham Halberstadt, Amsterdam (NL) († 1942)

• Aldert Gregorius van Dijk (67), Zeist
• Antonius Cornelis Nagtzaam (2), Standdaarbuiten
• Alida Verschut (90), Gouda
• Antje Pieters Wagenaar (66), Franeker
• Berend Winter (82), Groningen
• Albertus Roozeboom (74), Hattem
• Catharina Cohen (73), Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Abraham Machiel Diermanse (75), Haarlem
• (75), Ginneken en Bavel, Nederland
• Antje Maria HARDENBOL (0), Rotterdam

• 1916 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet († 2000)
• 1917 » Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic († 1983)
• 1920 » Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language († 2004)
• 1921 » Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator († 1943)
• 1922 » Alan Voorhees, American engineer and academic († 2005)
• 1923 » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar († 2006)
• 1926 » John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician († 2014)
• 1926 » Ray Jablonski, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1926 » Stephen Lewis, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright († 2015)
• 1927 » Richard Long, American actor and director († 1974)

• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856)

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.
• March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
• April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
• September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
• October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

The temperature on December 17, 1921 was between 6.3 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.