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• Grietje (Rita) Prins, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 2014)
• Bouwe van Duijn, Noordwijk aan Zee († 1985)
• Geertruida Johanna (Siny) Kokkeler, Denekamp, 7591, Nederland († 2017)
• Cornelia Adriana Voois († 1994)
• Jeanne Dankers († 1999)
• Antoine J Schlundt-Bodien, Jakarta, Nederlands Indië († 1989)
• Albert Eising, Wachtum, Nederland († 2004)
• Anne de Vlieg, Groningen († 2007)
• Gerardus Adrianus Pardoel, Nijmegen († 1944)
• Cornelis Albertus (Cor) Kuijs, Venlo († 2017)

• Andries Teunis Bloem (59), IJmuiden
• Catharina Olsthoorn (90), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Bok (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Teunisz Bloem (59), IJmuiden
• Andries Bloem (59), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jochums van der Wielen (78), ,,, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonio da Rocha Gonçalves (56)
• Catharina Torfs (66), Lier, België
• Cornelia Anna Wolfs (68), Vught
• Atze Dijkstra (11), Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1939 » Clarence Williams III, American actor
• 1939 » Festus Mogae, Botswana economist and politician, 3rd President of Botswana
• 1939 » James Burton, American Hall of Fame guitarist
• 1940 » Dominick Harrod, English journalist, historian, and author († 2013)
• 1940 » Endre Szemerédi, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1941 » Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter
• 1943 » Hugh Wilson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2018)
• 1943 » Jonathan Schell, American journalist and author († 2014)
• 1943 » Lucius Shepard, American author and critic († 2014)
• 1943 » Patrick Demarchelier, French photographer

• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)

• 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 25 » The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
• April 13 » A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
• May 22 » During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
• June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
• August 31 » World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.

The temperature on August 21, 1941 was between 10.2 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.