About the day » Wednesday August 24, 1921Calender converter

• Antonia Fonteijn († 2013)
• Berendina (Dien) Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2002)
• Aleida Elisabeth (Alie) ten Have., Azewijn († 1992)
• Adrienne CASTELAIN, Wattrelos (FRA) († 2014)
• * Cornelis Blokland, Noordeloos († 2004)
• Abraham Broekman, Amsterdam (NL) († 1942)
• Abraham Hakker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Antonius Marinus Kamphorst, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Arie Johannes Kamans, Borculo († 1984)
• Bernard (Barney) Louis Maciejewski, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1944)

• Anna Maria Catharina Leever (91), Nieuwveen
• Anna Hendrika van Oirschot (0), Boxtel
• Antonetta de Bruijn (79), Alphen en Riel
• Anna Maria Leer in 't Veld (81), Maarssen
• Polfliet (0), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abigail Tennessee Mcclellan (90), Williamson, Tennessee, United States
• Anna Catharina Koning (73), Wageningen
• Allie (= Ella ) Oolbekkink (37), Nrwkirk, Iowa
• Antje Kornelis Osinga (85), Ezinge, Groningen, Nederland
• Barbara Trum (85), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1918 » Sikander Bakht, Indian field hockey player and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs († 2004)
• 1919 » Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler († 2004)
• 1919 » J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate († 2004)
• 1919 » Tosia Altman, member of the Polish resistance in World War II († 1943)
• 1920 » Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic († 2013)
• 1921 » Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist († 2009)
• 1921 » Sam Tingle, English-Zimbabwean race car driver († 2008)
• 1922 » Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist († 2010)
• 1922 » René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec († 1987)
• 1923 » Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic († 2012)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

• 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.
• May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
• 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.
• September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
• October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.

The temperature on August 24, 1921 was between 7.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.