( 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 ).

* Spanish — Carmona, Fernando Briones: Melancholy Pierrot ( 1945 ); Dalí, Salvador: Pierrot with Guitar ( 1924 ), Pierrot Playing the Guitar ( 1925 ); Gris, Juan ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1919 ), Pierrot ( 1921 ), Pierrot Playing Guitar ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Book ( 1924 )— see images at right of page ; Picasso, Pablo ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1918 ), Pierrot and Harlequin ( 1920 ), Three Musicians ( 1921 ; two versions ), Portrait of Adolescent as Pierrot ( 1922 ), Paul as Pierrot ( 1925 ); Valle, Evaristo: Pierrot ( 1909 ).

On October 21, 1921 he married Marta Ide, and together they had three sons: Juan, Carlos, and Fernando.

* Fernando Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician and soldier, 1831 – 1921

* C. T. Fernando ( 1921 – 1977 ), Sri Lankan musician

Fernando Fernán-Gómez ( August 29, 1921 – November 21, 2007 ) was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy for seven years.

1921 – 2010 ) was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California.

He also started avant-garde woodcuts and, after Leal's invitation, participated in the founding of Mexican muralism with his fresco " The Massacre of the Templo Mayor " ( 1921 – 1922 ), in front of Fernando Leal's " The Dancers of Chalma " ( 1921 – 23 ).

* Enrique Gómez Briceño 1921

José Miguel Gómez y Gómez ( July 6, 1858 – June 13, 1921 ) was a Cuban General in the Cuban War of Independence who went on to become President of Cuba.

*( 1920 – 1921 ): Abundio Gómez

*( 1921 – 1925 ): Abundio Gómez

Mistreatment of the indigenous population in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of this North African possession except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.

* 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter ( d. 2010 )

* 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

In 1921 the Berbers under the leadership of Abd el Krim inflicted a grave defeat on the Spanish ( see Battle of Annual ), and were not pacified until 1926, when the Spanish Protectorate finally managed to control the area again.

* July 16 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat ( assassinated by the Chilean DINA ) ( b. 1921 )

* The Spanish Borderlands ( Herbert E. Bolton, 1921 ) ' The Spanish Borderlands '

In 1921, he participated in a design competition to develop a bomber for the Spanish military.

File: SpanishDance c1884-DegasPC20080120-8849A. jpg | The Spanish Dance, c. 1885 ( bronze cast 1921 ), bronze, 46. 3 x 14. 3 cm, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Telmo Zarraonandia Montoya ( 20 January 1921 – 23 February 2006 ), popularly known as Zarra (, ), was a Spanish Basque football forward.

Streets north of the railroad tracks have Spanish names, and streets south of the railroad tracks have English ones as a consequence of a 1921 municipal ordinance which declared that land north of the tracks be reserved for Hispanic residences and businesses, and land south of the tracks be reserved for Anglo residences and businesses.

* Anthologie nègre-( 1921, Éditions de la Sirène ) / African Folk Tales / Spanish ( 1930 ); English ( 1972 )

In 1921, as a byproduct of their efforts to destroy the power of a local brigand, Raisuli, Spanish troops approached the unoccupied areas of the Rif.

In June 1921 a sizable Riffian force attacked this post killing 179 Spanish troops of the estimated 250.

* Spanish Communist Workers ' Party ( 1921 )

In 1921, the Spanish army suffered a stunning defeat in Morocco at the Battle of Annual, which discredited the military's North African policies.

* Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period ( New York: The MacMillan Co., 1921 ), 50-51.

Carmen Laforet ( Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004 ) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War.

After an urgent request by the Spanish government following serious defeats against Berber rebels in the Rif War, six were sold to Spain on 16 September 1921 within the context of a joint French-Spanish effort to subdue the newly independent Rif Republic.

Moreover, when the maternal surname begins with an i vowel sound, written with either the vowel I ( Ibarra ), the vowel Y ( Ybarra archaic spelling ) or the combination Hi + consonant ( Higueras ), Spanish euphony substitutes e in place of y, thus the example of the Spanish statesman Eduardo Dato e Iradier ( 1856 – 1921 ).