( 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 ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey ( b. 1921 )

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

The new play, now entitled Anna Christie received its premiere on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 2 November 1921 for 177 performances before closing in April 1923.

Samuel Silas Curry and Anna Baright Curry ran the school until their respective deaths in 1921 and 1924.

In 1921 Matthews and his wife Anna Howard founded the Cosmopolitan School of Music, a music school for African Americans, where Matthews taught until his death.

Anna Lee Aldred ( 1921 – 2006 ) was given a license at age 18 in 1939 at Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico when officials were unable to find a rule that would bar women jockeys and she finished second by a nose in her first professional race.

The tower was constructed between 1917 and 1921 as part of the Memorial Quadrangle donated to Yale by Anna M. Harkness in honor of her recently deceased son, Charles William Harkness, Yale class of 1883, and the second son of Stephen V. Harkness, an early investor in the company that became Standard Oil.

Karl Lennart Oesch married Anna Niskanen and they had two children: son Karl Christian ( born 1921 ) and daughter Ann-Mari ( born 1922 ).

Paul Harvey was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Harry Harrison Aurandt ( 1873 – 1921 ) and Anna Dagmar ( née Christensen ) Aurandt ( 1883 – 1960 ).

Concurrently, from 1921 to 1923 he served as the Minister for the Interior in the cabinet of Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics.

He and his wife Anna, whom he married in 1920, had three children: Feliza ( 1920 ), Leo ( 1921 ), and Hilda ( 1929 ).

Anna and Gerald had three children: Marjorie ( born 1917 ), Robert ( born 1921 ), and James ( born 1923 ).

****** Markwart Gf Stauffenberg ( born 07. Mar. 1921 ) ∞ Anna Edle v. Rauscher auf Weeg ( born 13. Dec. 1923 )

Anna de Noailles was the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, the first woman to be received in the Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature, and she was honored with the " Grand Prix " of the Académie Française in 1921.

Apart from the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Service Order, he also received the Russian Order of St. Anna, 3rd Class with Swords on 5 June 1917, French Legion of Honour on 23 May 1919, Japanese Order of the Rising Sun 4th Class in August 1921, 1914 / 15 Star ( MID ), British War Medal and Victory Medal.

In 1921, locals discovered the body of 25-year-old Anna Brown.

Films of special note for Anna were Regeneration ( 1915 ) Seven Keys to Baldpate ( 1917 ), Soldiers of Fortune ( 1919 ), The Toll Gate and The Luck of the Irish ( both 1920 ), and The Lotus Eater ( 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

Anna Gordy Gaye ( born 1921 or 1922 ), born Anna Ruby Gordy, is an American businesswoman, composer and songwriter.

Macartney married Anna Bruce, a schoolteacher, at Chatswood Presbyterian Church in December 1921.

1967 ); Andrei Bely ( 1880-1934 ): Petersburg ( 1913 ); Guillaume Apollinaire ( 1880-1918 ): Alcools ( 1913 ); Georg Trakl ( 1887-1914 ): Poems ( 1913 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ), Sonnets to Orpheus ( 1922 ), Duino Elegies ( 1922 ); Gottfried Benn ( 1886-1956 ): Morgue and other Poems ( 1912 ); Luigi Pirandello ( 1867-1936 ): Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1921 ); D. H. Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ): Sons and Lovers ( 1913 ), The Rainbow ( 1915 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ): Tarr ( 1918 ); W. B. Yeats ( 1865-1939 ): The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), Wild Swans at Coole ( 1917 ); Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888-1953 ): Anna Christie ( 1920 ), The Emperor Jones ( 1920 ); Karel Čapek ( 1890-1938 ): R. U. R.

Mary Anne Eliza Pinhey ( 1848 – 1929 ), Constance Anna Pinhey ( 1849 – 1932 ), Arabella Lucy Pinhey ( 1851 – 1905 ), Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey ( 1853 – 1941 ), Horace Pinhey ( 1857 – 1921 ), Kate Pinhey ( 1861 – 1937 ), Godfrey Greene Pinhey ( 1859 – 1910 ), Charles Townley Pinhey ( 1863 – 1879 )