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• Andries PRINS, Sijbrandahuis (Dantumadiel) Friesland Netherlands († 1991)
• Aarnoud de Landmeter, Vlissingen († 1981)
• Aarnoud de Landmeter († 1981)
• Arie Koek, Haaften († 2005)
• Antonius Maria Vermeij, Amsterdam († 1924)
• Aukje Alkema, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1922)
• Anastatia (Petronella Louisa) Verhaert, Huijbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Elfering, Eierland († 1922)
• Alida Wiebering, Zwaag († 1946)
• Antonia Cornelia Maria Wartenberg, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)

• Adrianus Johannes Wouters (0), Baarle-Nassau
• Alida Maria Breij (77), Nederhorst den Berg
• Adrianus den Breejen (84), Hardinxveld
• Anna Elizabeth Kloeth (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Antonie Hessing (88), Den Haag, Nederland
• Maria Jacoba Zijlmans (63), Delftshaven
• Reijnen (3), Geleen
• Andreas Hubertus Geerlings (74), Arnhem, Nederland
• Adriana Duijndam (75), Monster
• Andries Beernink (71), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)
• 1920 » Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados († 1987)
• 1921 » Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Labour († 2012)
• 1922 » Paul Scofield, English actor († 2008)
• 1922 » Predrag Vranicki, Croatian Marxist Humanist, and member of the Praxis school in the 1960s in Yugoslavia († 2002)
• 1922 » Telly Savalas, American actor († 1994)
• 1923 » Alberto de Mendoza, Argentine actor († 2011)
• 1923 » Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress († 1995)
• 1923 » Pahiño, Spanish footballer († 2012)
• 1924 » Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1992)

• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Antonius
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Margaretha
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
• March 26 » The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
• April 16 » The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
• April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• July 24 » The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
• September 11 » The Sun News-Pictorial is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
• December 7 » The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

The temperature on January 21, 1922 was between -0.4 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.