About the day » Wednesday February 16, 1921Calender converter

• Aaltje Lugtmeijer, Steenwijk († 2004)
• Antonia Catharina van Dijk, Westerhoven (gemeente Bergeijk) († 1922)
• Adriana Johanna Benders, Gorinchem
• Alfred Clayton Baker, Ohio († 1989)
• Andrea CASTELEIN, Wervik († 2001)
• Antonius van Oosterhout, Hoeven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Alida Steenhuis, Onstwedde († 2002)
• Bryce Eugene Royalty, El Dara, Pike, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Adriaan Andreas Nicolaas Kester, Naaldwijk (Z-H), Nederland († 1975)
• Alida Lucia Stam, Wognum († 2010)

• Arendje van Noord (63), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonij Hendriks (84), Chaam, Nederland
• Aaftje Pouwiel (57)
• Antonie de Jager (76), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria BEX (62), Neuwerf (D) Lived Monchen-Gladbach (D)
• Albertus Laurens Siekman (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Wiel (41), Vlijmen
• Arend Jan ter Heide (63), Meppel
• Agatha De Wolf (2), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij HENDRICKX (84), Chaam, Alphen-Chaam, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1916 » Bill Doggett, African-American pianist and composer († 1996)
• 1919 » Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer († 1989)
• 1920 » Anna Mae Hays, American general († 2018)
• 1921 » Jean Behra, French race car driver († 1959)
• 1921 » John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic († 2013)
• 1921 » Vera-Ellen, German-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1981)
• 1922 » Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot († 1950)
• 1923 » Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter († 2016)
• 1926 » John Schlesinger, English actor and director († 2003)
• 1926 » Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim († 1945)

• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1944 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)

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 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on February 16, 1921 was between 1.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.