About the day » Monday December 5, 1921Calender converter

• Apolonia Maria Bakker, Lisse († 2016)
• Arnold Styf, Holland (Ottawa), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Anna Cornelia Gouda, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Berend Boertje, Krakeel, Hoogeveen († 2020)
• Adriana Petronella Maria Hoevenaars, Gilze en Rijen († 2010)
• Berend Jan Leemhuis, Sibculo († 1923)
• Antonius Johannes Nouws, Zundert († 2008)
• Antonia Petronella Schuijffel, Cuijk en Sint Agatha († 1989)
• Annechien Minkes († 1995)
• (Levenloos geboren) van der Els, Helmond, Nederland († 1921)

• Anna Maria Abelen (0), Kopstukken Onstwedde
• Aagje Jans Spijker (88), Apeldoorn
• Aaltjen Knol (70), Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonie Van Der Beek (2), Dussen
• Anna Maria de Graauw (72), Princenhage
• Adrianus Gerardus Mijnsbergen (54), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Alida Rijper (26), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie van den Dungen (78), Schijndel
• Aart Colijn (64), Moordrecht
• Adrianus Hermse (0), Rotterdam, Z-H, NL

• 1916 » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine († 2013)
• 1916 » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1917 » Ken Downing, English race car driver († 2004)
• 1918 » Charity Adams Earley, Black American Army officer († 2002)
• 1919 » Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician († 2020)
• 1921 » Alvy Moore, American actor and producer († 1997)
• 1922 » Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist († 2011)
• 1922 » Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist († 2015)
• 1924 » Robert Sobukwe, South African banker and politician († 1978)
• 1925 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua († 1980)

• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)

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 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.
• May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
• July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
• August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

The temperature on December 5, 1921 was between -16.2 °C and -2.9 °C and averaged -8.7 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.