( 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 – 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 ).

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

* March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer ( b. 1921 )

He was a brother of poet Ernest Myers ( 1844 – 1921 ) and of Dr. Arthur Thomas Myers ( 1851 – 1894 ).

In 1921, Ballot premiered its 2LS, with a remarkable DOHC two liter, designed by Ernest Henry ( formerly of Peugeot's Grand Prix program ), capable of 150 km / h ( 90 mph ); at most, one hundred were built in four years.

* Sir Ernest Cassel ( 1852 – 1921 ), merchant banker

* Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer ( 1844 – 1921 )

In 1921, Ernest De Witt Burton stated that in, " nomou is here evidently used ... in its legalistic sense, denoting divine law viewed as a purely legalistic system made up of statutes, on the basis of obedience or disobedience to which individuals are approved or condemned as a matter of debt without grace.

* Ernest Newton ( 1856 – 1921 ), architect.

In 1921 Stratton went into partnership with Ernest Instone and they took charge of the Daimler showrooms at 39 Pall Mall naming the business Stratton-Instone.

Soon after, in 1921, the airport was renamed Wold-Chamberlain Field for the World War I pilots Ernest Groves Wold and Cyrus Foss Chamberlain.

* 1921: Introduction to the Science of Sociology ( with Ernest Burgess ) Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Author and poet Ernest William Hornung ( 1866 – 1921 ) used the term in " The Gift of the Emperor " to describe his woeful state as a freelancer in those days, " I warmed to my woes.

In 1921, Moore went to Cleveland as Director of Music at the Cleveland Museum of Art, during which he studied with Ernest Bloch at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and performed in plays at The Cleveland Play House.

* Ernest McIntyre ( 19 April 1921 – 10 April 2003 )-Australian rules footballer ( birthplace ).

Le nez de Chanel: The perfumer Ernest Beaux ( 1881 – 1961 ) created No. 5 de Chanel in 1921.

When Mackenzie King led the Liberals back to power in the 1921 election, he chose Ernest Lapointe as his Quebec lieutenant rather than Lemieux.

* Ernest C. Marriner, Acting Principal Jan. – June 1921

In 1921 he was a part of Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition.

* Ernest William Hornung, born 1866 in Middlesbrough ( UK ) died in 1921 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a British writer ;

Ernest William Hornung ( 7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921 ), known professionally as E. W. Hornung ( nickname Willie ), was a poet and English author, most famous for writing the A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London.

* Bernard Oppenheimer ( 1866 – 1921 ), South African and British diamond merchant and philanthropist, brother of Ernest

Sir Ernest Satow mentioned Duncan Boyes in his memoirs entitled A Diplomat in Japan ( London, 1921 ) in the following terms: " Lieutenant Edwards and Crowdy of the Engineers were ahead with a middy named D. G.

In 1921, a visit by Niels Bohr to Cambridge inspired Douglas to apply his numerical skills to Bohr ’ s theory of the atom, for which he obtained his Ph. D. in 1926-his advisor was Ernest Rutherford.