About the day » Monday May 21, 1923Calender converter

• Arend Gerritsen († 1998)
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Tuinenburg, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1923)
• Antonius Maria ten Have, Lettele († 2020)
• Alice Irene Vansimpsen, Rijkel, België († 1999)
• Arie Prins, Sliedrecht
• Antoinetta (Netty) Janssen Daalen, Hatert († 1993)
• van Graas
• Christina Carolina Alleman († 1964)
• Cornelis van gent, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Christina Cornelia Neuteboom, Rotterdam († 2017)

• AALBERT VAN RUITENBEEK (81), AMERSFOORT
• Adriana Geenen (0), Sprang-Capelle
• Anthonie Jacobs (Antoon) Bijsterbosch (82), Oosterzee, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Verdooner (0), Amsterdam
• Arnolda Johanna Geertruida van Gulik (5), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Geerts (86), Alphen en Riel, NL
• Angela Lauermann Linnemann (90), Sherburne, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert van Ruitenbeek (81), Amersfoort
• Antoonius Christiaan Hubertus Reijnen (72), Echt, Lim, Nederland
• Otterloo (0), Apeldoorn

• 1920 » Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator († 2007)
• 1920 » Forrest White, American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company († 1994)
• 1921 » Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1921 » Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO († 2010)
• 1923 » Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach († 2017)
• 1923 » Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic († 2003)
• 1923 » Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright († 2002)
• 1923 » Evelyn Ward, American actress († 2012)
• 1923 » Vernon Biever, American photographer († 2010)
• 1924 » Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist († 1999)

• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Aaltje

• 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 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 7.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
• May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
• June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
• September 13 » Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
• October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
• November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

The temperature on May 21, 1923 was between 7.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.