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• Albertus Johannes van der Steen, Poppel (België) († 1930)
• Albertina De Blaer, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Antonio Alaide Kalbusch, Lomba Alta, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2004)
• André Joseph François Parmentier, Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2012)
• van Helden, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda Wilhelmina Sikkel, Zwolle († 2009)
• Anna Zilverberg, Tietjerksteradeel († 1942)
• Abraham van der Windt, Schipluiden († 1923)
• Aaldert Ebeltjes, Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2020)
• "Nicolaas" Johannes Maria van Uden, Venlo, Pays-Bas († 1991)

• Anna Maria Hes (45), Noord Scharwoude
• Schinkel (0), Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• (1) Anna Maria Hes (45), Zuid Scharwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Albertus Verstappen (48), Geldrop, Geldrop-Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ange Albert Soenen (75), Staden, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albertus Verstappen (48), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Anna Heukensfeldt Jansen (0), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Anje BOLHUIS (90)
• Adriana MUSELAERS (63), Erp,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Christina Hof van 't (77), Stavenisse Zl

• 1918 » Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2017)
• 1920 » José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist († 2009)
• 1920 » Rachel Gurney, English actress († 2001)
• 1920 » Virginia Christine, American actress († 1996)
• 1920 » Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer († 1997)
• 1921 » Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach († 1998)
• 1922 » James Noble, American actor († 2016)
• 1922 » Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1975)
• 1923 » Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic († 2014)
• 1923 » Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation († 2003)

• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b. 1900)

• 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 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
• March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
• May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
• 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.

The temperature on March 5, 1921 was between 6.3 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.