( 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 ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* 1921 – Frank Harary, American mathematician ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – Frank Searle, British Loch Ness Monster hoaxer ( d. 2005 )

* The Circle ( 1925 ) Directed by Frank Borzage, based on the 1921 play of the same name.

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

BSA then bought Aircraft Transport and Travel's aircraft from the liquidator and, in early 1921, established Daimler Airway and Daimler Air Hire under Daimler Hire Limited's Frank Searle.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

** 1921 The O ' Brien Girl ( music Friml, lyrics Frank Mandel, and book Harbach and Mandel )

In his seminal work Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit University of Chicago economist Frank Knight ( 1921 ) established the important distinction between risk and uncertainty:

* Nelson Riddle ( 1921 – 1985 ), musician and arranger for various artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

By 1921, Luciano had met many future Mafia leaders, including Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, his longtime friend and future business partner through the Five Points Gang.

Joyce noted in a 1921 letter to Frank Budgen that " he last word ( human, all too human ) is left to Penelope.

The first screen adaptation appears to have been a silent 1921 Dutch-UK co-production directed by Maurits Binger and Frank Richardson.

This sharing agreement lasted into 1921 when Miller formed the new Union Quakers of Philadelphia, but All-Americans owner Frank McNeil put a halt to the agreement halfway through the 1921 season after the Quakers played the Canton Bulldogs and wore out the All-Americans players.

Frank Hall ( February 1921 – 21 September 1995 ) was an Irish broadcaster, journalist, satirist and film censor.

Herbert Frank York ( 24 November 1921 – 19 May 2009 ) was an American nuclear physicist.

* Frank Sheed ( 1921 – ca. 1970 )

* Thomas Frank Marshall ( 1854 – 1921 ), U. S. Representative from North Dakota, 1901-1909

Francis ( Frank ) C. Buckley, ( born April 8, 1921 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada ) is the current President and spokesperson for the Buckley's company, founded by his Father W. K.

Nonetheless, some leading players, such as Emanuel Lasker ( World Champion from 1894 to 1921 ), Frank Marshall, Savielly Tartakower, and Aron Nimzowitsch, and later Max Euwe ( World Champion from 1935 to 1937 ) played the Sicilian.

* Bud and Susie ( 1920 – 1921 ): directed by Frank Moser

Glackens ( 1915 – 1919 ), Leighton Budd ( 1916 – 1919 ), Leslie Elton ( 1916 – 1919 ), Wallace A. Carlson ( 1917 – 1920 ), Milt Gross ( 1919 – 1920, 1922 – 1923 ), Frank Moser ( 1916, 1920 – 1921 ), Ashley Miller ( 1916, 1922 – 1923 ), Gregory La Cava ( 1919 – 1921 ), F. Lyle Goldman ( 1920, 1922 – 1923 ), W. C. Morris ( 1915 – 1916 ), Paul Terry ( 1915 – 1916 ), Clarence Rigby ( 1916 – 1917 ), E. Dean Parmelee ( 1918 – 1919 ), Dave Fleischer ( 1920 – 1921 ), Jean Gic ( 1920 – 1921 ), Burt Gillett ( 1920 – 1921 ), Grim Natwick ( 1920 – 1921 ), Bill Nolan ( 1920 – 21 ), J.