( 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 ).

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, as the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins ( 1894 – 1972 ) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett ( 1888 – 1987 ).

Kenneth Joseph Arrow ( born August 23, 1921 ) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972.

The first titles to appear were Williams ' Collected Poems 1921 – 31 ( 1934 ), with an introduction by Wallace Stevens, Oppen's Discrete Series, followed by Reznikoff's Jerusalem the Golden, ( 1934, poetry ), his Testimony, ( 1934, prose ), with an introduction by Kenneth Burke and his In Memoriam: 1933 ( 1934, poetry ).

* 1921: Old World Traits Transplanted: the Early Sociology of Culture with Herbert A Miller, & Kenneth Thompson, New York: Harper & Brothers

* Kenneth Bent Suenson-Taylor, 2nd Baron Grantchester ( 1921 – 1995 )

# Elizabeth, now Betty Suenson-Taylor, Lady Grantchester, or The Dowager Lady Grantchester ( b. June 1925 ) who married on 12 April 1947 Kenneth Bent Suenson-Taylor, 2nd Baron Grantchester ( 1921 – 1995 ), and had issue including the present Lord Grantchester.

James Kenneth McManus ( September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008 ), better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.

* Kenneth Arrow ( born 1921 ), American economist, joint winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics

Anne Truitt ( March 16, 1921 – December 23, 2004 ) was a major American artist of the mid-20th century ; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.

* Kenneth Malcolm Murray, Wings Over Poland: The Story of the 7th ( Kosciuszko ) Squadron of the Polish Air Service, 1919, 1920, 1921, D. Appleton and Co., 1932.

Kenneth Joseph " Kenny " Reardon ( April 1, 1921 – March 15, 2008 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

Kenneth Griffith ( 12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006 ) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

Arrow was born on August 23, 1921, in New York City to parents of Romanian Jewish origins.

The 1921 and 1931 National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meetings were held at Philadelphia, the 1922 and 1927 National Lodge Meetings were held at Reading, Pennsylvania, and the 1940 National Lodge Meeting was held at Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Key models in the company's history include Jointless ( 1899 ), Jack Knife Safety ( 1909 ), Duofold ( 1921 ), Vacumatic ( 1932 ), " 51 " ( 1941 ), Jotter ( 1954 ), 61 ( 1956 ), 45, 75 ( 1964 ), Classic ( 1967 ), 25 ( 1975 ), Arrow ( 1982 ), Vector ( 1986 ), Duofold International ( 1987 ), 95 ( 1988 ), Sonnet ( 1993 ), and the Parker 100 ( 2004 ).

In October 1921, he convened the first national meeting of what was then called the National Lodge of the Order of the Arrow in Philadelphia, and Goodman was elected Grand Chieftain.

Peter Roland Cope ( 7 December 1921 – 4 April 2005 ) was the last surviving test pilot from the Avro Arrow program.

* The Avenging Arrow ( 1921 )

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1991 )

* 1921 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer

* 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer ( d. 1991 )

* Ajax Records ( Quebec ) ( 1921 – 1926 ), a North American record company

* 1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate

* 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian ( d. 1992 )

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist ( d. 2010 )

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

In 1920 the Advertiser was merged with The Boston Record, initially the combined newspaper was called the Boston Advertiser however when the combined newspaper became an illustrated tabloid in 1921 it was renamed The Boston American.

*" Piracy Suspected In Disappearance Of 3 American Ships ", The New York Times, June 21, 1921.

* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.