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

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

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

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

* 1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian businessman and lawyer

* March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer, car accident ( b. 1921 )

Durante's first wife was the former Jean ( Jeanne ) Olson, whom he married on June 19, 1921.

Sweeney rejected Rebay ’ s dismissal of " objective " painting and sculpture, and he soon acquired Constantin Brâncuşi's Adam and Eve ( 1921 ), followed by works of other modernist sculptors, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and David Smith.

* Jean Shepherd ( 1921 – 99 ), writer and narrator of the popular holiday film, A Christmas Story

Despite the acclaim they received, Durey did not participate in the group's 1921 collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a decision which was a source of great irritation to Jean Cocteau.

* Jean Heywood ( born 1921 ), British actress

* Quatre poèmes de Jean Lahor for voice and piano or orchestra ( 1921 )

He married Dorothy Evelyn Whittall in 1920 in Westminster and their son Donald was born in 1921, and they had a daughter Jean in 1923.

Julia Jean Turner ( February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995 ), professionally recognized as Lana Turner, was an American actress popular during the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1942 he married the pianist and violinist Jean Hermione Johnstone ( 1921 – 1993 ).

He married Hazel Ramage in 1921, and the couple remained married until her death in 1936 ; they had one daughter, Jean Roberta.

On September 29, 1921, he married Pauline Archer and the couple had five children, one of whom was Jean Vanier.

The pair had met at Ohio State College and after marrying had produced their first child, Jean Anglemyer, in 1918, followed by a second, Robert " Bob " Anglemyer, in 1921.

Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff ( 12 September 1858 in Grembergen near Dendermonde, Belgium – 12 November 1921 in Brussels ) was a Belgian symbolist painter.

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.

In 1921, Dutch breeder Leendert Saarloos started crossbreeding a German Shepherd Dog male to a female Mackenzie Valley Wolf ( Canis lupus occidentalis ).

* Shepherd Singing Ragtime: and other poems ( 1921 )

* Jean Shepherd ( born 1921 ) American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor

He had been given a German Shepherd before named " Prinz " in 1921, during his years of poverty, but he had been forced to lodge the dog elsewhere.