( 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 ).

Famous Cattle Baron Christopher C. Slaughter died in 1919 and in 1921 his heirs dissolved his cattle company.

Christopher Ewart-Biggs, CMG, OBE ( 1921 – 21 July 1976 ) was the British Ambassador to Ireland, an author and senior Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6.

John and Faith were married in 1921 ; John Junior was their first-born son in 1922, followed by David, Christopher and Hugh.

Previous winners of the Harrison-Meldola Prize ( known as the Meldola Medal and Prize prior to its merger in 2008 with the Edward Harrison prize ) include Christopher Kelk Ingold ( 1921, 1922 ), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ( 1923 ), R. H. Stokes ( 1946 ), D. H. Williams ( 1966 ) and J. Evans ( 1978 ).

Christopher Michael Hewett ( 5 April 1921 – 3 August 2001 ) was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

Her elder daughter Margot Elinor, Lady Davson OBE died 10 September 1966 in Rome ; she married Sir Edward Davson, 1st Baronet ( 14 September 1875 – 9 August 1937 ) in 1921 and had two sons: Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson, who inherited his father's baronetcy ( created 1927 ) but changed his name to Anthony Glyn ( 13 March 1922 – 20 January 1998 ), and Christopher Davson.

Field Marshal Sir Roland Christopher Gibbs GCB, CBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, DL ( 22 June 1921 – 31 October 2004 ) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1976 to 1979, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1989 to 1996.

* Field Marshal Roland Christopher Gibbs GCB, CBE, DSO, MC, KStJ ( 1921 – 2004 ) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army.

B. Valentine in 1920, and in 1921 with Basil Murray and Christopher Hollis also.

Prince Christopher did, however, have a stepson, William Bateman Leeds Jr ( 1902 – 1971 ), who married, in 1921, Princess Xenia Georgievna Romanova of Russia.

Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole ( 1921 – after 1990 ) was a Governor-general and President of Sierra Leone.

* Derrick Warner William Westenra, 5th Baron Rossmore ( 1853 – 1921 )

* 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1921 – Sam Cook, English cricketer ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( b. 1863 )

The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.

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

On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the Institute to pursue scientific research of the greatest importance and at the same time " to continue to conduct thorough courses in engineering and pure science, basing the work of these courses on exceptionally strong instruction in the fundamental sciences of mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; broadening and enriching the curriculum by a liberal amount of instruction in such subjects as English, history, and economics ; and vitalizing all the work of the Institute by the infusion in generous measure of the spirit of research.

Consider roim ‘ crime ’ versus English crime or taunima ‘ to condemn, disapprove ’ versus Finnish tuomita ‘ to condemn, to judge ’ ( these Aavikisms appear in Aavik ’ s 1921 dictionary ).

* 1921 – Frank Thornton, English actor

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.

* 1921 – Richard Leacock, English director ( d. 2011 )

* 1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician, composer, and broadcaster ( d. 2008 )

* 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer ( b. 1921 )

The term is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek (), meaning " imitator, pretender ", and was used in 1904, by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon, best known for his development of the engram theory of memory, in his work Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

* 1844 – Ernest Myers, English poet, Classicist and author ( d. 1921 )

Jung's seminal 1921 book on the subject is available in English as Psychological Types.

* 2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer and trumpeter ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – Edwin Richfield, English actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1855 – William Friese-Greene, English photographer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Thurston Dart, English pianist and conductor ( d. 1971 )

* 1921 – Richard Gordon, English author

The word transition was first used to describe the elements now known as the d-block by the English chemist Charles Bury in 1921, who referred to a transition series of elements during the change of an inner layer of electrons ( for example n = 3 in the 4th row of the periodic table ) from a stable group of 8 to one of 18, or from 18 to 32.

Violette Szabo was born Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell in Paris, France, on 26 June 1921, the second child of a French mother and an English taxi-driver father, who had met during World War I.

** Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor ( b. 1921 )