( 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 ).

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

* 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 2002 – John Agar, American actor ( b. 1921 )

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

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

* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – John Pritchard, British conductor ( d. 1989 )

Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.

* 2006 – John Money, New Zealand-American sexologist and author ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – John Glenn, American astronaut and politician

* John Brown, Jr. ( Navajo ) ( 1921 – 2009 ), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II

* John Herschel Glenn, Jr., USMC ( born 1921 ); first American to orbit the Earth, 20 February 1962

* 1921 – John W. Peterson, American songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – John Lindsay, American politician ( d. 2000 )

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* John Money ( 1921 – 2006 )

* 1921 – John McHale, American baseball player ( d. 2008 )

He served in the Senate from 1915 until his inauguration as President in 1921, making him the first sitting senator to be elected President of the United States ; John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama followed in this pattern.

The American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the term wormhole in 1957 ; however, in 1921, the German mathematician Hermann Weyl already had proposed the wormhole theory, in connection with mass analysis of electromagnetic field energy.

* September 28 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( b. 1921 )

* December 5 – John Pritchard, English conductor ( b. 1921 )

** Edward John Bevan, English chemist, and partner of Charles Frederick Cross ( d. 1921 )

* November 24 – John Rawls, American political theorist ( b. 1921 )