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• Anthonij Kalkman, velsen (IJmuiden)
• Adriana Elisabeth van Stokkum († 1955)
• Apollonia Gerarda Hulspas, Naaldwijk († 1993)
• Abraham Van Berkel, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Allard Van Vollenhoven, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Aagje Willems Ras, Urk († 2010)
• Alida Petronella Chardet, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Albin Martin Rust, Polk, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Albert Govaerts, Wortel († 1997)
• Antonia Maria van den Berg, Den Haag († 1993)

• Arthur ``david`` Olson (3), Elk, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Wallenburg (72), Oudenrijn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Christina Maria de Bovy (72), Weltevreden Batavia
• Bernardus Gijsbertus Josephus van Bladel (9), Tilburg
• Betje Loonstijn (29), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Verheij (21)
• Arie Romein (61), dordrecht (zuid holland)
• Aleida van Vliet (24), Braamt
• Albertle Dortch (16), STEWART COUNTY
• Arthur Franciscus van Hoorne (55), Oostende

• 1916 » Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver († 1984)
• 1916 » Marcel Cerdan, French boxer († 1949)
• 1921 » William Roth, American lawyer and politician († 2003)
• 1923 » Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1923 » César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1924 » Margaret Whiting, American singer († 2011)
• 1925 » Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic († 2013)
• 1925 » Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer († 2014)
• 1926 » Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1926 » Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist († 2007)

• 1908 » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 » William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
• 1922 » Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1932 » Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1932 » J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 1932 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)

• 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 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

The temperature on July 22, 1921 was between 7.1 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.