* 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter ( d. 1893 )

* 1769 – Napoleon, Corsican-French military officer and political leader ( d. 1821 )

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

* 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )

* 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi ( d. 1849 )

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

* 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U. S. state.

* 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company ( d. 1905 )

* 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

* 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton ( d. 1892 )

* 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

Men Playing Board Games – from The Sougandhika Parinaya Manuscript ( 1821 CE )

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* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer

* The Consulate of Argos ( from 26 May 1821, under the Senate of the Peloponnese ) had a single head of state, styled consul, 28 March 1821 – 26 May 1821: Stamatellos Antonopoulos

* The Consulate of East Greece ( Livadeia ) ( from 15 November 1821, under the Areopagus of East Greece ) was headed 1 April 1821 – 15 November 1821 by three Consuls: Lambros Nakos, Ioannis Logothetis & Ioannis Filon

* Frederick William Cumberland ( 1821 – 1881 ), engineer and politician

** Edward Levett Darwin ( 1821 – 1901 ), solicitor and author

In this latter instance it was apparently Jesus ’ brother James who spoke prominently in the assembly of “ the apostles and the older men ” at Jerusalem .— Adam Clarke, 1821, commentary on 5: 13, 22, 23.

An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.

* 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat ; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1904 )

Early examples of the espionage novel are the American stories of The Spy ( 1821 ) and The Bravo ( 1831 ), by James Fenimore Cooper.

* January 2 – James Longstreet, Confederate Civil War general ( b. 1821 )

Between 1821 and 1823 he re-examined, with James South, the double stars catalogued by his father.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

James Longstreet ( January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904 ) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his " Old War Horse.

* Maria White Lowell ( 1821 – 1853 ), poet, abolitionist, and wife of James Russell Lowell

* James Mansfield ( 1733 – 1821 ), a British lawyer, judge and politician

Fraunhofer also developed a diffraction grating in 1821, which occurred after James Gregory discovered the principles of diffraction grating and after American astronomer David Rittenhouse invented the first man-made diffraction grating in 1785.

* James Longstreet ( 1821 – 1904 ), Confederate General

He left nearly 9, 000 drawings, 8, 856 of which ( by both Robert and James Adam ) were subsequently purchased in 1821 for £ 200 by the architect John Soane and are now at the Soane Museum in London.

Lutcher is also where James Mather and his family established a sugar plantation, and where Mather died in 1821.

** James Emilius William Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne ( 1821 – 1865 )

James Harrison Rigg ( 16 January 1821 – 7 April 1909 ), English nonconformist divine, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne.

* James McNair Baker ( 1821 – 1892 ), American jurist and politician ; Whig from Florida ; served in Confederate Senate during the Civil War

* James Addison Baker the elder ( 1821 – 1897 ), American jurist and politician in Texas

His eldest son, James Burney, was a distinguished officer in the royal navy, who died a rear-admiral in 1821 ; his second son was the Rev.

The second volume of Jacobite Relics was published in February, 1821, and his son James Robert Hogg was born in March, 1821.

* James White ( General ) ( 1747 – 1821 ), American pioneer who founded Knoxville, Tennessee

* James Springer White ( 1821 – 1881 ), husband of Ellen G. White and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821, during the third and fourth years of James Monroe's presidency.