About the day » Sunday September 4, 1921Calender converter

• Bontje (Bonnie) van de Belt, Lutten, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 2015)
• Albertje Duursma, Zwartemeer, Emmen († 2020)
• Betty Jean LOVELL, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 2004)
• Annabelle M van Dalen, Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Alfina Vrielink, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1921)
• Aaltje HOLL, Hei-en Boeicop († 2013)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Veen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1990)
• Antonetta Johanna Vermeer, Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Carl Mosselman, Gorinchem († 1985)
• Adriana Koman, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• Beitske van der Laan (8), Jislum, gem. Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adam Philip de Jel (54), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Janssens (10), Schilde
• Chas Meyers (41)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Gurck (64), Amersfoort, Utrecht, NL
• Abraham Veefkind (80), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonia DE MORIE (72), Purmerend, Province of North Holland, Netherlands
• Carl Arvid Andersson (68), , Stockholm, Oscars fs., Stockholms stad, Uppland, Sverige
• Adolf Hantelmann (25), Poortugaal, Nederland
• Adrianus van Bemmel (86), Utrecht

• 1917 » Henry Ford II, American businessman († 1987)
• 1918 » Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer († 2014)
• 1918 » Paul Harvey, American radio host († 2009)
• 1919 » Howard Morris, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1920 » Clemar Bucci, Argentinian race car driver († 2011)
• 1920 » Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic († 2000)
• 1922 » Per Olof Sundman, Swedish author and politician († 1992)
• 1923 » Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician († 2003)
• 1924 » Joan Aiken, English author († 2004)
• 1924 » Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player († 1997)

• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)

• 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.
• June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
• 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.
• October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
• October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

The temperature on September 4, 1921 was between 2.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.