( 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 ).

Esther Jane Williams ( born August 8, 1921 ; some sources cite 1922 ) is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.

Born in Kolozsvár ( then Austria-Hungary, now Romania: Cluj-Napoca ), he was the son of Esther ( b. 1891 ) and Leo Gold ( b. 1890 ), and had a brother, William Gold ( born 1921 ).

He married Vreda Esther Mary Lascelles, granddaughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, on 21 April 1921.

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ) academic, critic and writer was born and brought up locally.

* 1999 – Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge ( b. 1921 )

* Avon Williams ( 1921 – 1993 ), Tennessee State Senator, 1972 – 1992

Another novelist of the post-Second-World-War era was Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 88 ).

* William Appleman Williams ( 1921 – 1990 ), American historian

* William E. Williams ( 1857 – 1921 ), U. S. Representative from Illinois

* William M. Williams, IS Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1920 – 1921

Among English composers of the early-20th century there was some vogue for the use of a " bass oboe ", for example in Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets ( 1916 ), as well as in several works of Frederick Delius ( A Mass of Life, 1904-1905 ; Dance Rhapsody No. 1, 1908 ), Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 1 ( 1921 ), Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony ( 1919-1927 ) and Symphony No. 4 ( Das Siegeslied ), and supposedly in the original instrumentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' A London Symphony ( 1912-1913 ).

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ), Welsh academic, novelist and critic

The first titles to appear were Williams ' Collected Poems 1921 – 31 ( 1934 ), with an introduction by Wallace Stevens, Oppen's Discrete Series, followed by Reznikoff's Jerusalem the Golden, ( 1934, poetry ), his Testimony, ( 1934, prose ), with an introduction by Kenneth Burke and his In Memoriam: 1933 ( 1934, poetry ).

In 1921, Georgia farmer John S. Williams and his black overseer Clyde Manning were convicted in the deaths of 11 blacks working as peons in Williams ' farm .< ref >

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 ).

The arena was remodeled in the 1950s, and renamed Williams Arena after Dr. Henry L. Williams, the football coach from 1900 to 1921.

Today Aircraft station is nearby, named from the Williams RAAF base, opened in 1921, seven years after a base was established at Point Cook.

" The judges were Benjamin Franklin Field ( 1868-1960 ), chairman of the federation and chairman of the committee of judges, Grace Atherton Dennen ( 1874-1927 ), editor and publisher of The Lyric West ,< ref >< u > The Lyric West </ u > ( a poetry magazine, published monthly, in existence from 1921 to 1927 ), Los Angeles & San Francisco </ ref > and Blanche Robinson ( Mrs. Martin Hennion Robinson ) ( née Williams ; 1883-1969 ), composer.

New York: Printed for the Department of political science of Williams college, by Moffat, Yard and Co, 1921

The AAF was duly formed on 31 March 1921 ; Williams deliberately chose this day rather than 1 April, the founding date of the RAF three years earlier, " to prevent nasty people referring to us as ' April Fools '".

Williams proposed an ensign for the AAF in July 1921, based on the Royal Air Force flag but featuring the five stars of the Southern Cross within the RAF roundel and the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter.

Shortly after the AAF's establishment, land was purchased for an air base at Laverton, eight kilometres inland of Point Cook, and in July 1921, Williams made the initial proposal to develop a base at Richmond, New South Wales, the first outside Victoria.

For his stewardship of the Air Force prior to World War II, as well as his part in its establishment in 1921, Williams is considered the " father " of the RAAF.

* Edward Williams ( Queensland judge ) ( 1921 – 1999 ), judge from Queensland, Australia