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• adriana de zwart, den haag († 2007)
• Antje van Oosten, Naaldwijk († 1999)
• Antonius van Diejen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Bernardiena Cornelia Cuijpers, Waalre († 1994)
• Carolus SAS, Lille, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2001)
• Anthonia Dorothea Massen, Zelhem
• Aaltje Snijder, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1996)
• Baukje Sytses Elzenga, Blija († 1998)
• Baukje Sytses Elzenga, Blija, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1998)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Gelder, Waalwijk († 2011)

• Atje Willems Smits (32), Stavoren, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Michael Rodermans (72), Culemborg
• Albert Lolkes Terpstra (77)
• Albert Bossink (78), Magele
• (57), Utrecht
• Anna Maria de Lange (57), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anneke Smaling (0), Renkum
• Adrianus Barel (77), Zevenbergen (NB-NLD)
• Aaltje Lammertse (57), Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Bernarda Maria KLOOSTERHUIS (96), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1917 » Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer († 1996)
• 1917 » Tadd Dameron, American pianist and composer († 1965)
• 1921 » John Rawls, American philosopher and academic († 2002)
• 1921 » Richard T. Whitcomb, American aeronautical engineer († 2009)
• 1924 » Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst († 1980)
• 1924 » Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe († 2019)
• 1924 » Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer († 2014)
• 1925 » Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster († 2014)
• 1925 » Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1927 » Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author († 1996)

• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)

• 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.
• February 27 » A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
• February 28 » The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• September 13 » The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
• November 1 » Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
• November 14 » The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• November 24 » Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

The temperature on February 21, 1922 was between 0.5 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.