About the day » Wednesday May 25, 1921Calender converter

• Antonius Cornelis de Groot, Voorhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Alida Muilwijk, Zegwaart, Nederland († 2008)
• Arie Boendermaker, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Adriana Catharina (Jana) Goeijenbier († 2014)
• Albertina M. G. Schmaltz, Port Hope, Huron Co., MI († 1970)
• Arend Lubach, Zuilen, Utrecht (NL) († 2008)
• Antonette Joanna Lammers, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1996)
• Anna Maria Weinmann († 1994)
• Agatha Gezina FELLINGER († 2002)
• Adrienne CASTELEIN, Les Mars (FRA) († 1981)

• Antonius van Geel (76), Rotterdam
• Aafke Rintjes Hofman (100), Hallum
• Catharina Johanna van Hugten (66), Alkmaar
• Antje Boon (21), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Maria van Heugten (65), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Adrianus Oostveen (82), Utrecht
• Antje van Weperen (65), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia de Klerck (56), Bergen op Zoom
• Antje Frankes van Weperen (65)
• Arnoldina Maria Denesen (34), Vierlingsbeek

• 1917 » Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor († 1965)
• 1917 » Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic († 2015)
• 1920 » Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat († 1992)
• 1921 » Hal David, American songwriter and composer († 2012)
• 1921 » Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 » Kitty Kallen, American singer († 2016)
• 1922 » Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician († 1984)
• 1924 » István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer († 2005)
• 1925 » Jeanne Crain, American actress († 2003)
• 1925 » Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author († 1974)

• 1912 » Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1926 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)
• 1930 » Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859)

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. Grietje
12. Jacoba
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 » 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 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
• July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
• September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

The temperature on May 25, 1921 was between 10.8 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.