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• Anna Cornelia Adriana van Gennip († 2009)
• Antonius Christianus Josephus Maria van Horrik, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2002)
• van Dooremalen, Boxtel (NB, NLD) († 1921)
• Berend Jan Mensen, schoonebeek
• Anthonaius Acda, Kruiningen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1985)
• Gerard Jan Tjalsma, Enschede († 1921)
• Anne Pol, Zwartemeer, Emmen († 2020)
• Adriana van Loon, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Alphonsus Hubertus Jacobus Verhoeven, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant) († 1921)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina van Rijn, 's-Gravenzande († 1999)

• Aaltje van STEENBEEK (70), Ede (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Antonia Rejmann (Reimann) (50), Gablonz an der Neiße (Jablonec nad Nisou), Tschechoslowakei (jetzt: Tschechien)
• Anna Julia BOLLANSÉE (47), Zandhoven, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Aaltje van Steenbeek (70), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Franciscus Gruter (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Hendriks Zwaan (32), Enkhuizen
• Anna Blaauw (38), Groningen
• Adriana Cornelia van der Bijl (0), Made
• Apolonia Borsboom (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Antonetta Batenburg (0), Rotterdam

• 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)
• 1918 » C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator († 1985)
• 1918 » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author († 2007)
• 1921 » Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor († 2016)
• 1921 » Manitas de Plata, French guitarist († 2014)
• 1924 » Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor († 2012)
• 1925 » Felice Bryant, American songwriter († 2003)
• 1926 » Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer († 2015)
• 1927 » Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
• 1927 » Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach († 2015)

• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)

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. Jacoba
12. Grietje
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.
• January 16 » The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
• February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
• April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
• June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

The temperature on August 7, 1921 was between 12.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.