( 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 ).

* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

The territories in the east won by 1921 would form the basis for a swap arranged and carried out by the Soviets in 1943-1945, who at that time compensated the reemerging Polish state for its eastern lands lost to the Soviet Union with conquered areas of eastern Germany.

* 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer ( b. 1921 )

The expulsion concerned the territories " under Polish administration ", i. e. southern East Prussia ( Masuria ), Farther Pomerania, the New March region of the former Province of Brandenburg, the districts of the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, Lower Silesia and those parts of Upper Silesia that had remained with Germany after the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite.

* 1921 – Stanisław Lem, Polish author ( d. 2006 )

Following the third Silesian Uprising ( 1921 ), however, the easternmost portion of Upper Silesia ( including Katowice ), with a majority ethnic Polish population, was awarded to Poland, where it was formed into the Silesian Voivodeship.

The Polish – Soviet War was particularly bitter and ended by the Treaty of Riga in 1921.

After First World War the Polish community starting having masses in Polish in Churches of Saint Ann and since 1921 in St. Martin church ; a Polish consulate was opened on the Main Square, and a Polish School was formed by Helena Adamczewska.

* Zbigniew Czajkowski (" Father of the Polish School of fencing ") b. 1921

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

In May 1921 the Third Silesian Uprising broke out and Hindenburg was captured by Polish insurgents, who held it until the end of the uprising.

For a short period between 1918 and 1921 Tychy was just inside the border of the newly formed Weimar Republic and still a part of the German Province of Silesia, only securing its place within the Second Polish Republic after the armed Silesian Uprisings ( 1919 to 1921 ).

After the defeat of Imperial Germany in World War I, a plebiscite was held on 20 March 1921 in Oppeln to determine if the city would be in the Weimar Republic or become part of the Second Polish Republic.

Herschel Feibel Grynszpan ( March 28, 1921 — declared dead 1960 ) was a German-born Jewish refugee of Polish parents, and convicted political assassin.

On 11 June 1921, he wrote to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again for peaceful coexistence with neighbouring peoples, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations .” He sent nuncio Ratti to Silesia to act against potential political agitations of the Catholic clergy.

On 11 June 1921, Benedict XV asked Ratti to deliver his message to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again peaceful coexistence with neighbouring people, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations ”

The city changed hands twice during the Polish-Soviet War and eventually stayed inside Polish borders, a development that was formally recognized by the Treaty of Riga in 1921.

The most important include the land reforms in the Second Polish Republic ( 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1928 ) and in the People's Republic of Poland ( 1944 ).

The area of the Voblast was part of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 until 1939 largely as the Polesie Voivodeship, when it was joined to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

* 1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Estonian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian ( b. 1921 )

* Antoon Vergote, also known as Antoine Vergote ( 1921 -), Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, psychologist and psychoanalyst.

* John Lucas ( priest ) ( 1921 – 1992 ), Archdeacon of Totnes

* John Galbraith Graham ( born 1921 ), British crossword compiler under the name " Araucaria " and Anglican priest

* 1970: In 1970 Ludmila Javorova attempted ordination as a Catholic priest in Czechoslovakia by a friend of her family, Bishop Felix Davidek ( 1921 – 88 ), himself clandestinely consecrated, due to the shortage of priests caused by communist persecution ; however, an official Vatican statement in February 2000 declared the ordinations invalid while recognizing the severe circumstances under which they occurred.

Daniel J. Berrigan, SJ, ( born May 9, 1921 ) is a Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet.

Alexander Schmemann ( 13 September 1921, Tallinn-13 December 1983, New York ) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer.

Originally a priest and bishop in the Diocese of St. Augustine, he served as the tenth Archbishop of Baltimore ( 1921 – 1947 ) as well as the first Archbishop of Washington ( 1939 – 1947 ).

His parents were Cyril Gardner, a London-born Anglican priest who had been ordained in Wallsend in 1921, and Lena Henderson, a local Geordie girl ; the couple were married in 1925.

Malachi Brendan Martin ( July 23, 1921 – July 27, 1999 ) was an Irish Catholic priest, theologian, writer on the Catholic Church, and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute.

The Mendoza College of Business was founded in 1921 by Holy Cross priest, John Francis O ' Hara.

* Ignazio Panzavecchia ( 1855 – 1925 ), priest and politician who declined the position of Prime Minister of Malta in 1921 after his party won a majority.

* James Coyle ( 1873 – 1921 ), American Roman Catholic priest

* 27 July – Malachi Martin, Roman Catholic priest and author ( b. 1921 ).

James Aloysius Cullen, born the 23 October 1841 at New Ross ( Ireland ) and dead the 6 December 1921 at Dublin, was an Irish Jesuit priest.

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

Father John Augustine Zahm, CSC ( June 11, 1851 – November 10, 1921 ) was a Holy Cross priest, author, scientist, and South American explorer.

On May 26, 1921, Cushing was ordained a priest by Cardinal William Henry O ' Connell at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.

It was only in 1921 that the priest of Lila had a residential parish.

He was ordained a Catholic priest on March 19, 1921, and shortly afterwards received a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the University of Innsbruck.

The family soon moved to Kiev in 1921, where they continued to live in poverty as the elder Nikolay Bogolyubov only found a position as a priest in 1923.

O ' Boyle was ordained a priest by Archbishop Patrick Joseph Hayes on May 21, 1921.