About the day » Tuesday October 21, 2014Calender converter

• Douwe Jan Holtrop (90), Cappelle aan den IJssel
• Emma Paulina Verdoes (89), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Emma Paulina Verdoes (89), Eindhoven
• Engelina Henrietta Welsink (88), bathmen
• André Oscar Stanislas DEGRAEVE (91), Marcq-en-Baroeul... Hauts de France
• Brigitte Kübel (63), Mönchengladbach, NRW (D)
• Bastiaan de Wit (72)
• Alida Gertrud Helene Koekenbier (93), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Douwe Jan Holtrop (90), Capelle aan den IJssel
• Annie Poppenga (96), Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming

• 1990 » Bengali-Fodé Koita, French footballer
• 1991 » Geoffry Hairemans, Belgian footballer
• 1991 » Harry Pell, English footballer
• 1991 » Rob Keogh, English cricketer
• 1991 » Tom Eastman, English footballer
• 1991 » Vadaine Oliver, English footballer
• 1992 » Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player
• 1992 » Marzia Bisognin, Italian businessperson and former YouTuber
• 1995 » Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
• 1995 » Cameron Burgess, Scottish-Australian footballer

• 2013 » Bud Adams, American businessman (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Colonel Robert Morris, American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Major Owens, American librarian and politician (b. 1936)
• 2013 » Rune T. Kidde, Danish author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1957)
• 2014 » Ben Bradlee, American journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916)
• 2014 » Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric and politician, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Nelson Bunker Hunt, American businessman (b. 1926)

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
• January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
• February 11 » A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
• May 5 » Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
• May 11 » Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
• September 28 » The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
• December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.

The temperature on October 21, 2014 was between 7.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 23.9 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.