( 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 ).

* The USS Chester ( CL-1 ), a light cruiser in service from 1908 to 1921

* Chester Kallman ( 1921 – 1975 ), American writer

Chester Pike was a toll road from the 1850¹s until 1921 when the state bought the Road.

In 1921, the current double-tiered white marble fountain replaced the statue, which was moved to Rockford Park in Wilmington, Delaware. Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, the co &# 8209 ; creators of the Lincoln Memorial, designed the fountain, which features carvings of three classical figures symbolizing the sea, the stars and the wind on the fountain's shaft.

* Russell Alger Memorial Fountain, ( 1921 ), Daniel Chester French, sculptor, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan

* Dupont Circle fountain, ( 1921 ), Daniel Chester French sculptor, Dupont Circle, Washington, D. C.

Competing within the British Isles, he was first at Glasgow 1911, Cheltenham 1913, Chester 1914, Malvern 1921, Edinburgh 1926 and Tunbridge Wells 1927.

Smith was created Viscount Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in the County of Chester, in the 1921 Birthday Honours, and then Viscount Furneaux, of Charlton in the County of Northampton, and Earl of Birkenhead in 1922.

Though the circle still bears his name, the statue was moved to Wilmington, Delaware, by the du Pont family in 1920, and replaced by a fountain designed by Daniel Chester French, dedicated in 1921.

Chester Simon Kallman ( January 7, 1921 – January 18, 1975 ) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for his collaborations with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky.

Smith had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1918, Baron Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in the County of Chester, in 1919, Viscount Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in the County of Chester, in 1921, and was made Viscount Furneaux, of Charlton in the County of Northampton, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

In 1921, Chester formally became an affiliated college of the University of Liverpool, which meant that the University of Liverpool awarded Chester's qualifications and Chester's students were able to use Liverpool's facilities.

A memorial fountain in Grand Circus Park, where it intersects East Adams and Woodward in downtown Detroit by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon was dedicated in Detroit in 1921.

He graduated in 1921 and began work for advertising agencies in New York City and Chicago until 1929, after which he co-founded Benton & Bowles with Chester Bowles in New York.

The first section paved as a state road was between Centreville and Queenstown by 1919 ; there were also short pieces of state road paved in Chester and east of Grasonville by 1921.

Hal E. " Hally " Chester ( born Harold Ribotsky, 6 March 1921, Brooklyn, New York – 25 March 2012 ) was an American film producer and former child actor.

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1991 )

* 1921 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer

* 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer ( d. 1991 )

* Ajax Records ( Quebec ) ( 1921 – 1926 ), a North American record company

* 1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate

* 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian ( d. 1992 )

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist ( d. 2010 )

* 2002 – John Agar, American actor ( b. 1921 )

In 1920 the Advertiser was merged with The Boston Record, initially the combined newspaper was called the Boston Advertiser however when the combined newspaper became an illustrated tabloid in 1921 it was renamed The Boston American.

*" Piracy Suspected In Disappearance Of 3 American Ships ", The New York Times, June 21, 1921.

* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.