About the day » Tuesday December 6, 1921Calender converter

• Anna Maria Debruijne († 2008)
• Adrianus Balten Doornheim, Kruiningen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1954)
• Antje Blok, Zwanenburg († 1982)
• Arendina Zeevat, Nieuw-Dordrecht, Emmen († 1926)
• Adriana van Helden, capelle aan den ijssel (zuid holland) († 1923)
• Anna Maria Kesting, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Agnes Lucile Alvey, Union County, Kentucky († 1985)
• Alida Johanna GROENIGEN, van, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Maren, Alem († 1960)
• Adrianus Cornelis de Kort, Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1921)

• Adrianus Snoek (73), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van Berkel (0), Tilburg
• Arie Toen (73), Gouda, Nederland
• Annigje Meijering (81), Dalen, Nederland
• Adriana Steevens (65), Breda
• Aafje Lammerts van den Berg (73), Kampen
• Alberdina Tonia Leestemaker (26), Lemele
• Annegje van der Giesen (78), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham de Bruine (84), Oosterland
• Wijnand Spannenmaker (94), Woerden

• 1918 » Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor († 2019)
• 1919 » Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist († 1983)
• 1919 » Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure skater and coach († 2012)
• 1920 » Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer († 2012)
• 1920 » George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1920 » Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer († 2015)
• 1921 » Otto Graham, American football player and coach († 2003)
• 1921 » Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer († 2004)
• 1922 » Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician († 2016)
• 1922 » John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient († 1944)

• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)

• 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 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
• March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
• April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.

The temperature on December 6, 1921 was between -2.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.