( 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 ).

From the only daughter of Camille, Jeanne Pissarro, other painters include Henri Bonin-Pissarro also known as BOPI ( 1918 – 2003 ) and Claude Bonin-Pissarro ( born 1921 ), who is the father of Abstract artist Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro ( born 1964 ).

Prokofiev as drawn by Henri Matisse for the premiere of Chout ( 1921 )

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

Born August 4, 1921, Maurice Richard was the eldest of eight children ( five sons: Maurice, Henri, Claude, René and Jacques ; three daughters: Rollande, Marguerite and Georgette ) of Onesime and Alice Richard.

* Henri Rollan, in Les trois mousquetaires ( 1921 )

Hamburg: Verlag von Henri Grand, 1921.

De Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being Count Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Baron Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of La Société Générale de Belgique.

edited by Camille Jordan, Henri Poincaré, Charles Émile Picard with assistance from Ernest Vessiot, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1924, Gauthier-Villars

The first was made in 1921 and directed by Henri Fescourt.

Illustration by Joseph Hémard from Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, Paris, 1921. The first of these stories was published in March 1845, carrying the byline " Henri Mu .. ez ".

* Intuition und Intellekt bei Henri Bergson, Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1921

* Les Trois Mousquetaires ( 1933 film ), a French talkie remake of the 1921 French film, with the same director ( Henri Diamant-Berger ) and much of the same cast

Between 1921 and 1924, Leiris met a number of important figures such as Max Jacob, Georges Henri Rivière, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille and the artist André Masson, who soon became his mentor.

This had caused a fight between the Pélissier brothers and tour organiser Henri Desgrange, and because of this fight, the Pélissier brother had been absent in the 1921 and 1922 Tours de France.

In 1921, Henri Desgrange wrote in his newspaper: " Pélissier doesn't know how to suffer.

* 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist

* 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor ( d. 2001 )

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

Location of the first Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921, in Xintiandi, former French Concession, Shanghai.

* 1862 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( d. 1921 )

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

* 1921: The French Academy of the Sciences recommends using Esperanto for international scientific communication.

* 1921 – Jeanne Demessieux, French organist, pianist, composer ( d. 1968 )

* 1921 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver ( d. 1959 )

* 1921 – Eddie Barclay, French producer ( Barclay Records ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent ( d. 1945 )

* 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( b. 1862 )

* 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2004 )

Jean Richards ( April 18, 1921 — December 12, 2001 ) was a French actor.

Location of the first Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921, in Xintiandi, former French Concession, Shanghai.

The Communist Party of China was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in the French concession of Shanghai in 1921 as a study society and an informal network.

* 1921 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer ( d. 1985 )

* 1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress ( d. 1985 )

* 1852 – Léon Moreaux, French sports shooter ( d. 1921 )

* 2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot ( b. 1921 )

* 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA ( b. 1921 )