( 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 ).

The estate remained in the Temple-Grenville family until 1921, when it was sold by the Reverend Luis C. F. T. Morgan-Grenville ( 1889-1944 ).

Native Heredian football players such as José Joaquín " Toquita " Gutiérrez, Eladio Rosabal Cordero, Víctor Manuel Ruiz, Gilberto & Claudio Arguedas, and Luis Valerio ( who all played in various clubs such as La Libertad and Gimnástica Española ) united to sign the official constitution of Club Sport Herediano in June 1921.

In 1921, José Luis Boffi became the first player of the club to represent the Argentine national team, playing against Chile in Valparaíso, a game which Argentina won 4 – 1.

During the early 20th Century many new football leagues were started in cities across Argentina as the popularity of the game spread out from Greater Buenos Aires, these include Rosario ( 1905 ), Córdoba ( 1912 ), Santa Fe ( 1913 ), San Miguel de Tucumán ( 1919 ) San Luis ( 1920 ) and Salta ( 1921 ).

Luis García Berlanga Martí ( 12 June 1921 Valencia, Spain – 13 November 2010 ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.

García Lorca's first book of poems was published in 1921, collecting work written from 1918 and selected with the help of his brother Francisco.

Prof. Carlos Marcelo Shäferstein in his work Cien años de subversión en Argentina, Alejandro García and Antonius C. G. M. Robben have said that the Dirty War has some of its roots in the violence witnessed in Buenos Aires during the Tragic Week of 1919 and the fighting that took place in Patagonia in 1921 and 1922, between anarchists and elements of the Argentine government forces popularly known today as the Patagonia rebelde.

* Carlos García Portela ( 1921 – 2011 ), Puerto Rican politician and senator

# Juan M. García, 1921

* 1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright ( d. 2007 )

Mistreatment of the indigenous population in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of this North African possession except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.

* 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

In 1921 the Berbers under the leadership of Abd el Krim inflicted a grave defeat on the Spanish ( see Battle of Annual ), and were not pacified until 1926, when the Spanish Protectorate finally managed to control the area again.

* July 16 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat ( assassinated by the Chilean DINA ) ( b. 1921 )

* Spanish — Carmona, Fernando Briones: Melancholy Pierrot ( 1945 ); Dalí, Salvador: Pierrot with Guitar ( 1924 ), Pierrot Playing the Guitar ( 1925 ); Gris, Juan ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1919 ), Pierrot ( 1921 ), Pierrot Playing Guitar ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Book ( 1924 )— see images at right of page ; Picasso, Pablo ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot ( 1918 ), Pierrot and Harlequin ( 1920 ), Three Musicians ( 1921 ; two versions ), Portrait of Adolescent as Pierrot ( 1922 ), Paul as Pierrot ( 1925 ); Valle, Evaristo: Pierrot ( 1909 ).

* The Spanish Borderlands ( Herbert E. Bolton, 1921 ) ' The Spanish Borderlands '

In 1921, he participated in a design competition to develop a bomber for the Spanish military.

File: SpanishDance c1884-DegasPC20080120-8849A. jpg | The Spanish Dance, c. 1885 ( bronze cast 1921 ), bronze, 46. 3 x 14. 3 cm, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Telmo Zarraonandia Montoya ( 20 January 1921 – 23 February 2006 ), popularly known as Zarra (, ), was a Spanish Basque football forward.

Streets north of the railroad tracks have Spanish names, and streets south of the railroad tracks have English ones as a consequence of a 1921 municipal ordinance which declared that land north of the tracks be reserved for Hispanic residences and businesses, and land south of the tracks be reserved for Anglo residences and businesses.

* Anthologie nègre-( 1921, Éditions de la Sirène ) / African Folk Tales / Spanish ( 1930 ); English ( 1972 )

In 1921, as a byproduct of their efforts to destroy the power of a local brigand, Raisuli, Spanish troops approached the unoccupied areas of the Rif.

In June 1921 a sizable Riffian force attacked this post killing 179 Spanish troops of the estimated 250.

* Spanish Communist Workers ' Party ( 1921 )

In 1921, the Spanish army suffered a stunning defeat in Morocco at the Battle of Annual, which discredited the military's North African policies.

* Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period ( New York: The MacMillan Co., 1921 ), 50-51.

Carmen Laforet ( Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004 ) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War.

After an urgent request by the Spanish government following serious defeats against Berber rebels in the Rif War, six were sold to Spain on 16 September 1921 within the context of a joint French-Spanish effort to subdue the newly independent Rif Republic.

Moreover, when the maternal surname begins with an i vowel sound, written with either the vowel I ( Ibarra ), the vowel Y ( Ybarra archaic spelling ) or the combination Hi + consonant ( Higueras ), Spanish euphony substitutes e in place of y, thus the example of the Spanish statesman Eduardo Dato e Iradier ( 1856 – 1921 ).