About the day » Tuesday May 24, 1921Calender converter

• Anton Joseph Voss, Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland († 1963)
• Anna Geertruida Maria Schaap († 1987)
• Albert Huizing, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1978)
• Anna Maria Oosterling, groningen (groningen) († 2005)
• Albertus Benjamin Hoos, Den Haag
• Adrianus Franciscus Voesenek, Princenhage († 2008)
• Adrianus Stoop, Zevenbergen († 1922)
• Albertje, Opperdoes († 1995)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria van Oudheusden, Veur († 2008)
• "Ghislaine" Marie Colmet Daâge, Paris († 2015)

• Albertha Anna Bratt (6), Platte, Charles Mix County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Jansen (49), Zutphen
• Anna Maria Elisabeth ten Hoope (17), Amsterdam
• Alphonsus Josephus Gilis (28), Geel, België
• Aartje Dasselaar (64), Amersfoort
• Aaltien Eitens (45), Groningen
• Barendina Isabella Lengton (39), Rotterdam
• Berend Lip (67), Hoogeveen,Drenthe, Netherlands
• Alma Bastian (19), Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Erkom, van (60)

• 1914 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress († 1986)
• 1916 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales († 2002)
• 1917 » Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1918 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit († 1997)
• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 » William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer († 2016)

• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)

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 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
• May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
• July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
• 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.
• October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

The temperature on May 24, 1921 was between 9.4 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.