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• Adrianus Josephus Maria van Iersel, Udenhout († 1943)
• Hendrik Van De Riet, enter
• Donald Lee Vessels, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 1941)
• Hendrik Post, Urk († 1941)
• NN Brunekreef, Veenendaal,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1941)
• Arie Marie van der Plaat, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 2015)
• Desiree Dawkins, Jamaica, British West Indies († 2020)
• Francisca Adolphine Smith, Bandoeng († 2017)
• CHAREL KUYPERS († 1961)
• Jacob Appel, Waddinxveen († 2014)

• Antonius Petronella Johannes van den Brekel (66), Rotterdam
• Arend van Dam (64), rotterdam, Nederland
• Annetje Sanders (73), Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Cornelis REINDERS (69), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Aaltje Buurman (68), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Leopoldina VERBAENEN (34), Duffel
• Adriana Johanna Duister (79), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Wilhelmina Dufifier (79), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, NL
• Apolonia Wildenburg (69), Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Mueller (88), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten

• 1937 » Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
• 1937 » Gary Peters, American baseball player
• 1939 » John McCabe, English pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1939 » Reni Santoni, American actor
• 1939 » Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author
• 1940 » Jacques Caron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1940 » Souleymane Cissé, Malian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 » David L. Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma
• 1942 » Geoffrey Palmer, New Zealand politician, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1945 » Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Indian cricketer and umpire

• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
• 1956 » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)

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

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

• 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• March 2 » World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
• July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
• September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
• November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
• November 12 » World War II: The Soviet cruiserChervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
• December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.

The temperature on April 21, 1941 was between 3.8 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.