About the day » Thursday December 8, 1921Calender converter

• Antje de Vries, Opeinde († 2021)
• Andre Catrines Johannes Maria Kaptein, Rotterdam († 2003)
• Arie Adrianus Oudenaarden († 1996)
• Antoinette Dat, 's-Gravenhage († 1946)
• Adriana Cornelia (Sjaan) de Groot, Udenhout († 1985)
• Sluiter, Ferdinandus Leonardus, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1922)
• Cornelia Adriana Maria van Rijn, Valkenburg,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Alexandra Ghica, Bucarest († 1977)
• van Breugel, Sint-Michielsgestel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Leonard Theodorus van Bergen, Tilburg († 1922)

• Adriaan Jongman (77), Den Helder
• Albert Lamfers (20), Nieuw Beerta, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Geertruida van Acquoij (57), waardenburg
• Agathe van Vrbna-Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg-F (61), Wenen
• Adriana Koolen (57), Ossendrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Abrahamina Emmerzaal (73), Heenvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Gosses van der Werf (76), Heeg
• Adriana Maria Köhler (92), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antje Gorter (69), Apeldoorn, Gld, Nederland
• Schoen (57), Spanbroek NH *

• 1917 » Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator († 1998)
• 1919 » Julia Bowman, American mathematician and theorist († 1985)
• 1919 » Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic († 2001)
• 1919 » Peter Tali Coleman, Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa († 1997)
• 1920 » McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player († 2013)
• 1922 » Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1922 » Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator († 2011)
• 1923 » Dewey Martin, American actor († 2018)
• 1923 » Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist
• 1924 » Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic († 2015)

• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 » J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1929 » José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)
• 1937 » Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)

• 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.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
• October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

The temperature on December 8, 1921 was between 4.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.