About the day » Friday February 4, 1921Calender converter

• Bruce Franklin Styer († 1986)
• Hermsen, Nijmegen
• Arnoldus DE BOEF, Deventer († 2003)
• Camiel Jozef VANOPPEN, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 2003)
• Albert Pool, Ruinen, Nederland († 2004)
• Angenita Jacoba Gaasendam, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1997)
• André de Vlaming, Rotterdam († 1998)
• Bauke Wester, Oppenhuizen,Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 2004)
• Anne Tjeerds de Jong († 1998)
• Berdina Cornelia Boss († 2003)

• Antje van Diepen (59), Harenkarspel, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Dekkers (71), Almelo
• Anna Cornelia van den Eijnden (79), Ossendrecht, Nederland
• (Stillborn) Spanhaak (0), Heerde, Nederland
• Andrieske Gaatzes Struiksma (80), Burum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonie Wilhelm Christiaan Maijer (69), Utrecht, Utr, NL
• Antje MOL (95), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hoogenbos (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holand, Nederland
• Andrieske Gaatzes Struiksma (80), Burum
• Baby Boy Rabior (0)

• 1917 » Yahya Khan, Pakistan general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan († 1980)
• 1918 » Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director († 1995)
• 1918 » Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher and author († 1991)
• 1920 » Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist († 2016)
• 1921 » Betty Friedan, American author and feminist († 2006)
• 1921 » Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic († 2017)
• 1923 » Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor († 2013)
• 1925 » Christopher Zeeman, English mathematician and academic († 2016)
• 1925 » Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator († 2011)
• 1925 » Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian († 2013)

• 1891 » Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)

• 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.
• January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
• February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
• March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.

The temperature on February 4, 1921 was between -1.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.