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• Aagje Terpstra, Eksmoarre († 2006)
• Alfred William (Infant)(Twin?) BIDDLE, Barracks, Whittington. Vol 6B P 880 († 1921)
• Anthonius Rozier († 1946)
• Lauchlan, Maryhill Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland († 2002)
• Anthonius (Antoon) Ouwerkerk, Leiden, Zuid Holland († 1946)
• Agatha Gezina Koedijk, Heemskerk († 2003)
• Anna Maria (Annie) Sandkuijl, Den Helder († 2007)
• * Gerardus Johannes van den Broeck, Tilburg († 2005)
• Anna Josephina Maria Bemelmans, Wijnandsrade († 2011)
• Aafke Braam († 2001)

• Anthonia Gertrudis Berbée (60), Lisse
• ? ? (92)
• Antonia Gertrudis Berbée (60), Lisse, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• (51), Den Haag
• Albertus Cornelis van Wijk (69), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Geertruida Berbée (60), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jansen (78), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Aarts (72), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Jacobs (Anna) Sterk (39), Iron City/Bellefontaine, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Elizabeth Dronkers (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1916 » Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author († 2002)
• 1917 » James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent († 1987)
• 1917 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1918 » Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress († 2012)
• 1919 » V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1919 » William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1920 » Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver († 2007)
• 1920 » Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy († 2016)
• 1922 » Redd Foxx, American actor († 1991)
• 1925 » Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach († 2013)

• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

• 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.
• May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
• June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
• September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
• October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
• November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

The temperature on December 9, 1921 was between 0.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.