About the day » Thursday August 18, 1921Calender converter

• Cornelia Angela van der Meis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Antonius Arnoldus de Jong († 1991)
• Antonia Sloot, Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland († 1945)
• Dina Johanna Seesink, Lintelo (gemeente Aalten) († 1994)
• Catrina Marie Achterkamp, Brummen
• Aaltje (Alie) de Jonge, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Aafke Houweling
• Cornelis Adelbertus Maria de Waard, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1921)
• Annechien de Vries, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1922)
• Alexander Heldens, Mierlo († 1970)

• Aaltje Baarda (24)
• bartel van DAM (89), oud-beijerland
• Adriana Bijl (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend van Bommel (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Berendina Kempers (28), Almelo
• Anna Cornelia (Anna) BECX (38), Hurwenen (NL/GE)
• Anna Sara van Krieken (83), Boxtel
• Arnoldus van Ree (81), Waalwijk
• Anna Maria Bex (0), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• de Vries (0), Emmen

• 1917 » Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense († 2006)
• 1918 » Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1961)
• 1919 » Wally Hickel, American businessman and politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska († 2010)
• 1920 » Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1920 » Godfrey Evans, English cricketer († 1999)
• 1920 » Shelley Winters, American actress († 2006)
• 1921 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot († 1943)
• 1921 » Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian and academic († 2015)
• 1922 » Alain Robbe-Grillet, French director, screenwriter, and novelist († 2008)
• 1923 » Katherine Victor, American actress († 2004)

• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

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 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
• 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.
• July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
• 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.
• August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.

The temperature on August 18, 1921 was between 9.5 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.