About the day » Friday July 29, 1921Calender converter

• Albert de Vries, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1921)
• agnes engelen, steyl († 2005)
• Alfred ROBERTS, San Jose,CA († 1988)
• Anje Van der Schaaf, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)
• Bernardus Christianus Johannes Lohnstein, Rheden († 1921)
• Alida Reinalda Kroese, Amsterdam
• Alice H. Velkeneers, Mechelen-Bovelingen, België († 1988)
• Albertus Arnoldus Tiemes, Loil, Gelderland, Nederland († 1983)
• Antonetta Johanna Cornelia Panen, Rotterdam († 1982)
• Arnoldus Cornelis Cornelissen, Gilze en Rijen († 1921)

• Anna Maria Coleta Mermans (0), Dessel (België)
• Aaltje Zomermaand (0), Steenwijk
• Alexander James (68), Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Otto Ferdinand KORTÜM (76)
• Antje Broekema (67), Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Roodenrijs (42), Delft
• Abraham Kwak (64), Oostvoorne
• Boukje Jilts Zijlstra (42), Surhuizum
• Annigje de Bres (46), Den Haag
• Anna Maria BRONS (12), Amsterdam

• 1918 » Don Ingalls, American writer and producer († 2014)
• 1918 » Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author († 1968)
• 1918 » Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist († 2005)
• 1920 » Neville Jeffress, Australian businessman († 2007)
• 1921 » Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist († 2012)
• 1921 » Richard Egan, American actor († 1987)
• 1923 » Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer († 2014)
• 1923 » George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer († 2013)
• 1923 » Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor († 2003)
• 1923 » Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification († 2012)

• 1895 » Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
• 1900 » Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1908 » Marie Adam-Doerrer (b. 1838)
• 1913 » Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1918 » Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (b. 1863)
• 1924 » Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
• 1934 » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 » Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)

• 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 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
• 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 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
• June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
• 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.
• November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

The temperature on July 29, 1921 was between 14.5 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.