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• Agnes Nijsten, Kerkrade (L († 1926)
• Anna Verwer, Alkmaar († 2014)
• Aleida Kösters, Nordhorn († 2011)
• Antonetta Jacoba Maria van den Oord, Almkerk, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Antoinette Frederica Fenna van der Feen de Lille, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Aafke Hoekstra, Kollum, Nederland († 1974)
• Anna Helena Westdijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Anna Maria Rongen, Bunde, Limburg, Nederland († 2004)
• Anna Adriana den Hartog († 2014)
• Auguste Adrianus Willem Groeneveld, Magelang, Java (Ned. Indië) († 1945)

• Antonius Van Loon (86), Valburg(GLD)
• Augusta von Fürstenberg Stammheim (43), Munster
• Andreas Adrianus Anthonius van Dongen (6), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert van Aalderen(ink) (5), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland NED
• Albert Hermannus van Aalderen (5), Hoogeveen
• Antonet van den Broek (72), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August Scheuer (69), Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Catharina Kokx (63), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Zuurbier (39), Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Stuivenberg (47), Groot-Ammers

• 1919 » Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic († 2018)
• 1920 » Clifton James, American actor († 2017)
• 1920 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1921 » Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer († 2010)
• 1922 » Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist († 2001)
• 1922 » Joe Weatherly, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1923 » Bernard Clavel, French author († 2010)
• 1923 » Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist
• 1923 » John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon († 2015)
• 1924 » Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator († 1999)

• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)

• 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 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
• July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
• July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
• September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

The temperature on May 29, 1921 was between 5.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.