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• Aleida Maria Johanna (Leida) Kleinheerenbrink, Slagharen († 1996)
• Aartje van den Heuvel, De Werken en Sleeuwijk († 2000)
• André Louis Duckitt († 1986)
• Alida Catharina Reilman, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2003)
• Albert Adrianus van Toor († 2013)
• Aleida Maria Johanna (Leida) Kleinheerenbrink *, Slagharen († 1996)
• Aleida Maria Johanna Kleinheerenbrink, Slagharen († 1996)
• Albert Emiel Michel SCHIETECATTE, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove,9620,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1977)
• Anna Maria Numan, Amsterdam († 2014)
• Adrianus Cornelis Maria van Gils, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)

• Aleida Lamberdina Terwindt (74), Herwen en Aerdt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Engberts Blauw (37), ,,, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arie Matton (37), Utrecht
• Bastiaan Hendrik Vermaat (84), Rotterdam
• Catharina Jurien (65), Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Bastiaan Hendrik Vermaat (84), Rotterdam
• Frederik Bos (45), Oostwold
• de Wilde (0), Heerlen
• Annigje Dolfsdr Voerman (54), Harlingen
• Catharina Ludovica van Bijlevelt (46), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1919 » Basil Yamey, South African-English economist and academic
• 1919 » Dory Funk, American wrestler and trainer († 1973)
• 1921 » Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, sculptor, and illustrator († 2005)
• 1921 » John van Kesteren, Dutch-American tenor and actor († 2008)
• 1921 » Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic († 2015)
• 1922 » Paul-Émile Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop († 2014)
• 1923 » Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and producer († 1986)
• 1923 » Ed Cassidy, American jazz and rock drummer († 2012)
• 1923 » Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician († 2006)

• 1912 » Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (b. 1861)
• 1916 » Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (b. 1891)
• 1916 » John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
• 1922 » Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888)
• 1923 » Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
• 1924 » E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860)

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.
• February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
• 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.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• 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.
• October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
• December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

The temperature on May 4, 1921 was between -2.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.