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• Anna Harmanna Giovanini, Nijmegen († 2006)
• ANNA CORNELIA JOSEPHA WILS, Wuustwezel († 2014)
• Aagje Heijkoop, Langerak, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Bep Meijer († 1994)
• Anna Klazina Wilderom, Wissenkerke († 1922)
• Hoving, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)
• Barendina van Harten, Hekendorp († 2015)
• Adriana Alida Schults, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1922)
• Albertus Atema, Leeuwarden († 1921)
• Aafke Meinema, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2020)

• Adriana Johanna Maria van den Berg (1), Noordwijk
• Catharina Maria Jaski (81), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonio de Jesus Apodaca (Martin) (79), Pecos, New Mexico
• Aaltje Boesenkool (77), Rouveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Casper Jonker (0), Harenkarspel, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Kiewiet (78), Wedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Ceulemans (0), Maastricht
• Aaltje Boessenkool (76), Rouveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Overhein (0), Raalte
• Charles Wesley Grant (41), Medfield Norfolk, MA

• 1917 » John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer († 2012)
• 1918 » Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist († 2012)
• 1919 » Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic († 2016)
• 1920 » Helen Thomas, American journalist and author († 2013)
• 1921 » Herb Ellis, American guitarist († 2010)
• 1921 » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2000)
• 1922 » Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal († 2012)
• 1922 » Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (d.2006)
• 1926 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer († 2000)
• 1926 » Perry Moss, American football player and coach († 2014)

• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)

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.
• 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 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
• October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.

The temperature on August 4, 1921 was between 10.2 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.