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• Charlotte Henriette Jonckheer, Amsterdam († 2017)
• Asseltje van der Weide, Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1926)
• Alfons Thuy († 1986)
• Cornelia WESSELS († 1994)
• Antoinette DESCHUYMER, Oeselgem, 37008, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Bertha Bergmeijer, Dordrecht, Dordrecht, South Holland, The Netherlands († 2009)
• Cornelis Bos († 2017)
• Aaltje Wilhelmina van de Wetering, Doorn, Utrecht, NL († 2002)
• Asseltje van der Weide, Emmer-erfscheidenveen, gem. Emmen († 1926)
• Cornelia Johanna van Bijnen, 's-Gravenhage († 2007)

• Antonius Hosewol (0), Eindhoven
• Adrianus Pieter Knapp (73), Amsterdam
• Abrahamina Louise Wilhelmina Copes van Hasselt (61), Epe,Gemeente Epe,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Bernardina Petronella de Groot (43), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Antoinette Wieschowski (8), Posen
• Alida Catharina Salari (32), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend de Boer (34), Lyon County, Iowa
• Agatha Cornelia Westerman (47), Haarlem
• Abrahamina Louise Wilhelmina Copes van Hasselt (61), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Suzanne van Wartensleben (77)

• 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)
• 1926 » Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet († 2005)
• 1927 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian († 1959)
• 1927 » Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat († 2012)
• 1928 » Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer († 1975)

• 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. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Antonius
16. Dirk

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
• January 21 » Albania declares itself a republic.
• March 21 » The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• May 1 » The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134million members.
• May 25 » Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
• November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on May 21, 1925 was between 7.6 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.