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• Alexandra Augusta Sophia Knappert, Salatiga († 2010)
• Anna Josephina Wolters, Echt, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• Aaltje Jansen, Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1977)
• Anthony Edwin Jacobsma, South Holland-Illinois (USA) († 2006)
• Alida Theodora Rosina Schakel, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Albertha Margaretha (Bertha) Kamans *, Weststellingwerf († 2008)
• Adrianus Koster, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Adeline Raepers, Sint-Truiden, België († 1997)
• Adriana den Otter, Oud Beijerland († 2007)
• Albertha Margaretha (Bertha) Kamans, Weststellingwerf († 2008)

• Agatha Johanna van der Aar (74), Haarlem, NH, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Johanna Roos (31), Bloemendaal
• Andrew Jones Gill (80), Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Lelievelt (51), Huissen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Caroline Jones (76), Ritchies, Clarendon, Jamaica
• Agatha Johanna van der Aar (74), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van der Drift (80), Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Johanna Friend (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Hurk (72), Eindhoven
• Berend Jan Hans (1), Holtheme

• 1918 » Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter († 2015)
• 1918 » Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 2008)
• 1918 » Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor († 2009)
• 1920 » Michel Audiard, French director and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1922 » Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese nun and author
• 1922 » Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer († 2013)
• 1923 » John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor († 2003)
• 1923 » Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer († 2004)
• 1924 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist († 1971)
• 1925 » Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer († 2015)

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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.
• February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
• March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
• March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
• 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.
• October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

The temperature on May 15, 1921 was between 10.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.