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• Pijnaker, Leiden
• Beatrice Jean MacGillivary *, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada († 1994)
• Apolonia Verboven, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1958)
• Anna Klein Gunnewiek, Groenlo († 1985)
• "Claire" Berthe Marguerite Marie Cormaille de Valbray, Paris († 2016)
• Abraham DIJKMAN, Deventer,Deventer,Overijssel,Nederland († 2009)
• Aagje van der Waal van Dijk, Hardinxveld († 1999)
• Adrianus Balder, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• A.J.J. Hoynck van Papendrecht, Bergeijk († 1996)
• Anna Osterkamp, Großefehn († 2008)

• Antonius Wilhelmus van Litsenburg (82), Haarlem
• Alphonsus Petrus van Tuijn (21), Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Vliet (82), Rotterdam
• Barendina Wijmans (72), Rotterdam
• Antonia de HEER (63), Iowa, United States
• Weerkamp (0), Enschede
• Augustinus Van Laer (79), Zandhoven (Pulle), Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Aaltje Boois (63), Lhee (Gem.Dwingeloo)
• Aaltje Pieters Boois (63), Dwingeloo
• Antonetta Goverdina van den Heuvel (0), Eindhoven

• 1919 » Beryl Reid, English actress († 1996)
• 1919 » John Moffat, Scottish lieutenant and pilot († 2016)
• 1919 » William Kaye Estes, American psychologist and academic († 2011)
• 1920 » François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1920 » Jacob H. Gilbert, American lawyer and politician († 1981)
• 1920 » Peter Le Cheminant, English air marshal and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey († 2018)
• 1920 » Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress († 2015)
• 1922 » John Amis, English journalist and critic († 2013)
• 1923 » Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic († 2014)
• 1923 » Elroy Hirsch, American football player († 2004)

• 1889 » Lozen, Chiracaua Apache warrior woman (b. ~1840)
• 1898 » Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (b. 1833)
• 1904 » Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)
• 1936 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (b. 1908)
• 1940 » Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)
• 1952 » Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)

• 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 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
• February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
• November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

The temperature on June 17, 1921 was between 3.5 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.