( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.

* 1921 – Tove Maës, Danish actress ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )

* 1921 – Ernest Angley, American evangelist and broadcaster

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 2012 – N. K. P. Salve, Indian politician ( b. 1921 )

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player ( d. 2009 )

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

* 1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

" What's the Matter With Kansas " and " Mary White " — a beautiful tribute to his 16-year-old daughter on her death in 1921, portraying her as an anti-flapper — were his best-known writings.

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

Following the writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and others, Margaret Murray, in her 1921 book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, proposed the theory that the witches of the early-modern period were remnants of a pagan cult and that the Christian Church had declared the god of the witches was in fact the Devil.

As close friend Margaret Mead explained, " Anthropology made the first ‘ sense ’ that any ordered approach to life had ever made to Ruth Benedict " After working with Goldenweiser for a year, he sent her to work as a graduate student with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1921.

The word coven remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea, now much disputed, that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called " covens ".

Margaret Thaler Singer ( 1921 – 2003 ) was a clinical psychologist and a part-time Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U. S.

Margaret Gorman was the first Miss America Pageant winner in 1921.

Calwell's first marriage was to Margaret Mary Murphy in 1921.

Margaret Young, 1921

They had two children, Hal, Jr. ( June 15, 1918 – March 29, 1972 ) and Margaret M. Roach ( March 15, 1921 – November 22, 1964 ).

* Once Upon a Time ; A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Margaret Evans Price, Rand, McNally ( Chicago, IL ), 1921.

Margaret Wintringham succeeded her dead husband at the Louth by-election in September 1921, to become the Liberals ' first female MP, and Britain's third female MP.

* Peggy Cripps, born Enid Margaret Cripps ( 1921 – 2006 ), children's author, philanthropist and socialite.

Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan ( later known by her married name, Janet Shardlow ) ( 1921 – 1990 ) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s.

* Margaret ( 1847 – 1921 ), married ( 1875 ), Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Bt, ( aka Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel Cowell-Stepney ) ( 1834 – 1909 ), of Llanelli.

Margaret, Lady Stepney-Cowell ( d. 1921 ), by Richard Buckner.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

Their daughters Margaret ( Pegeen ), Cathleen and Isabel were born in 1921, 1923 and 1930 respectively.

* Henrietta Jex-Blake, niece, principal of Lady Margaret Hall from 1909 to 1921

List of Delta Sigma Theta National Conventions | Members at 1921 national convention, hosted by Gamma Chapter ( l to r ): front, Virginia Margaret Alexander, Julia Mae Polk, Sadie Tanner Mossell ; row 2, Anna R. Johnson, Nellie Rathbone Bright, Pauline Alice Young

Lawrence P. Fisher ( December 14, 1852 in Peru, Ohio – March 21, 1921, Norwalk, Ohio ) and his wife Margaret Theisen ( January 8, 1857 in Baden, Germany – October 13, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan ) had a large family of eleven children ; seven were sons who would become part of the Fisher Body Company in Detroit.

Margaret Anne " Peggy " Kirk Bell ( born October 28, 1921 ) is a former American professional golfer and golf instructor and is a strong advocate of women's golf.

Margaret Ray Ringenberg ( June 17, 1921, Fort Wayne, Indiana – July 28, 2008, Oshkosh, Wisconsin ) was an American aviator, who had logged more than 40, 000 hours of flying time during her career.

The house was last sold in 1921, and last lived in by Margaret Alexander, granddaughter of Wigg.

The American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921 at the First American Birth Control Conference in New York City.