( 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 ).

* Edwin H. Simmons ( 1921 – 2007 ), highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer.

Chivian arranged for Burke to be signed to Singular Records, a Philadelphia-based label that was owned by WPEN disc jockey Edwin L. " Larry " Brown ( born September 10, 1921 in New York City ; died March 24, 2005 ), and vocal coach Arthur " Artie " Singer ( born February 1, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario ; died May 2, 2008 in Pennsylvania ), who had a distribution deal with Chess Records.

Edwin B. Edwards, c. 1921.

( with Edwin R. A. Seligman ) New York: The Fine Arts Guild, 1921.

* Stella ( 1921 film ), directed by Edwin J. Collins

Edwin Denby ( February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924.

On June 7, 1921, the Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby approved then-Commandant John A. Lejeune's request for a medal denoting the holder of a brevet promotion to be issued.

The idea for building it originally came from the Queen's cousin, Princess Marie Louise, who discussed her idea with one of the top architects of the time, Sir Edwin Lutyens at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1921.

* Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill ( London, 17 December 1921 – 2000 ); baptised 17 January 1922 at St Margaret's Westminster ; married 14 May 1943 in Westminster Edwin Fariman Russell ( born 15 July 1914 ) and had four children: Serena Mary Churchill Russell ( born 1944 ), Consuelo Sarah Russell ( born 1946 ), Alexandra Brenda Russell ( born 1949 ), and Jacqueline Russell ( born 1958 ); divorced 7 October 1966 in Reno, United States ; married secondly 11 November 1966 Guy Burgos with no issue ; divorced in 1967 in Mexico ; married thirdly 1967 in Philadelphia Theo Roubanis with no issue

* Edwin Austin Abbey, Royal Academician, The Record of His Life and Work ( 1921 ), biography

* 1892 – 1921 Edwin Bailey Elliott

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 ).

James Edwin Coyle ( March 23, 1873 – August 11, 1921 ) was a Roman Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama.

70 ( January – June 1921 ) Richard Aldington, Sherwood Anderson, Johan Bojer, Jean Cocteau, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Kahlil Gibran, Remy de Gourmont, Ford Maddox Ford, Gaston Lachaise, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Vachel Lindsay, Mina Loy, Thomas Mann, Henry McBride, George Moore, Marianne Moore, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Rosenfeld, Gilbert Seldes

The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921.

* Edwin Evans ( 1849 – 1921 ), Australian cricketer

* Charles Edwin Bennett ( 1858 – 1921 ), scholar of classics

His music was performed by the bands of John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman and his march " The Governor's Own " ( 1921 ) appears as the first selection on the bicentennial album Pride of America, released by New World Records.

Edwin Evans ( 26 March 1849 – 2 July 1921 ) was an Australian cricketer who played in six Tests between 1881 and 1886.

* 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

* 1921 – Christopher Derrick, English writer ( d. 2007 )

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 )

* 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 )