( 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 ).

* June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress ( b. 1921 )

* Alexis Irénée du Pont, III ( 1869 – 1921 )

Alexis Smith ( June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993 ) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress.

* 1921 – Liz Smith, British actress

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

* 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Smith also had a daughter, Catherine H. Smith of Los Angeles, by his March 1942 marriage to the former Benedicte " Bennie " Traberg ( September 25, 1921 — October 29, 2008 ), then a 20-year-old journalist originally from Denmark, whom Smith called the most impressive person he had ever known " far above presidents and generals ".

( If Her Daddy Don't Come Home )" for blues and jazz singer Mamie Smith and her Jazz Band in 1921, which were released on the Okeh label.

In his 2012 book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama music historian and musician Elijah Wald says the term was first defined in a 1921 pop song-" Don't Slip Me in the Dozens, Please ", recorded by the black vaudeville comic Henry Troy, composed by Chris Smith, who accompanied Troy on the piano.

* Paul Smith ( artist ) ( 1921 – 2007 ), father of ASCII art

Although Earhart and Putnam had no children, he had two sons by his previous marriage to Dorothy Binney ( 1888 – 1982 ), a chemical heiress whose father's company, Binney & Smith, invented Crayola crayons: the explorer and writer David Binney Putnam ( 1913 – 1992 ) and George Palmer Putnam, Jr. ( born 1921 ).

( Rasmussen, 1921, p. 113 ) myth is from the Inughuit | Polar Eskimo, of Smith Sound ( in northern Greenland ).

* William Laird Smith ( 1869 – 1942 ), Australian representative for Denison, 1910 – 1922 and Minister for the Navy, 1920 – 1921

* William John Smith ( 1921 – 2003 ), American baseball player

Sweeney rejected Rebay ’ s dismissal of " objective " painting and sculpture, and he soon acquired Constantin Brâncuşi's Adam and Eve ( 1921 ), followed by works of other modernist sculptors, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and David Smith.

He married Beulah Smith ( 1881 – 1945 ) in 1919, and they had two sons-Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne ( 1921 – 2001 ) and John Bennett Cockayne ( 1923 – 1996 ).

* George Weissinger Smith ( 1864 – 1931 ), mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, 1917 – 1921

* George Smith ( footballer born 1921 ), football inside forward who played for Manchester City and Chesterfield in the 1940s and 1950s

Sugar Ray Robinson ( born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989 ) was an American professional boxer.

During 1921, Wiggin and her sister Nora Archibald Smith edited an edition of Jane Porter's 1809 novel of William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, for the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series, which was illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

In 1921, the quality of Firpo's challengers improved, when he defeated fringe contender Gunboat Smith twice, the first by decision in 12 and the second by knockout, also in 12.

Later Kingsford Smith worked as a barnstormer in the United States before returning to Australia in 1921.