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• Anna Allegonda Spierings, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1989)
• Antonius Marinus van Kruijsbergen, Gilze en Rijen († 2009)
• Antonia van Egdom († 1994)
• Adriana Maria Agnes van der Drift († 2009)
• Adriana Westerveld, De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2012)
• Adriana Jacoba van Loenen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1922)
• Carlton R van Kampen, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Adelin LEROY, Éghezée, 92035, Namur, Belgique († 2010)
• Albert Cesar Willems Drenth, Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 2006)
• Antonius Lentjes, Ooij en Persingen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1922)

• Baukje Thijses Oost (36), Donkerbroek
• Aartje Windhouwer (5), Nijkerk
• Aartje Windhouwer (5), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolina Elisabeth Pijpers (23), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Albert WILLEMS (71), Assen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Baukje Oost (36), Haulerwijk (Ooststellingwerf)
• Adrianus Petrus Anthonius van der Meer (18), Delft,-
• Antoon Hendrik Bultman (2), Voorst
• Antonia Catharina van Loghem (91), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Versteegh (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1919 » Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer († 2010)
• 1920 » Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer († 1997)
• 1920 » Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer († 2006)
• 1921 » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress († 2013)
• 1921 » Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1991)
• 1921 » William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1922 » Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1922 » Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator († 1988)
• 1922 » Rory Calhoun, American actor († 1999)
• 1922 » Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini († 1985)

• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (b. 1874)
• 1934 » Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1897)

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.
• February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
• March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
• May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
• 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.
• October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

The temperature on August 8, 1921 was between 13.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.