( 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 ).

* 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1921 )

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.

* Emil Maurice ( 1920 – 1921 )

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.

* Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden ( 1921 – 1984 )

These include the Platnauer Concerts, established to honour the memory of Maurice Platnauer, Principal of Brasenose ( 1956 – 1960 ); termly Heberden Concerts, recently established to honour Charles Buller Heberden ( 1849 – 1921 ), Principal of Brasenose ( 1889 – 1920 ) and to showcase talented undergraduates and graduates of Oxford University ; the Principal's Concerts, established in 2009, for junior and senior members of Brasenose and other colleges to display their talents.

" Paul Dukas ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice follows the narrative vein of symphonic poem, while Maurice Ravel's La Valse ( 1921 ) is considered by some critics a parody of Vienna in an idiom no Viennese would recognize as his own.

* Rear-Admiral Maurice Fitzmaurice, 1921 – 1924

# Maurice Richard ( 1921 –- 2000 ), ice hockey player

Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC ( 27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984 ) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament.

** Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden ( 1921 – 1984 )

Maurice Yaméogo ( December 31, 1921 – September 9, 1993 ) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso.

Maurice Nawalagmba Yaméogo was born on December 31, 1921 in an animist family of farmers at Koudougou.

* Maurice Arthur Canney ( 1921 ) stated that " Apocatastasis became a theological term denoting the doctrine ... that all men would be converted and admitted to everlasting happiness "

Both his father Maurice Macmillan ( 1921 – 1984 ) and his grandfather preceded him as Chairman of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., the publishing house long owned by the family.

* Francis Humphrey Maurice FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry ( 1921 – 2000 )

At a meeting of the Standing Committee on National Defence, which comprised the Premier, the Ministers of Defence, the Navy, the Air and Foreign Affairs and all of the top French military officials on 23 August 1939, Bonnet sought to pressure General Maurice Gamelin into stating that France could not risk a war in 1939, stating that France should find a way of renouncing the 1921 alliance with Poland.

The first store, originally named " Pep Auto Supplies ", was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1921 by Emanuel ( Manny ) Rosenfeld, Maurice L. ( Moe ) Strauss, W. Graham ( Jack ) Jackson, and Moe Radavitz.

The original " Pep Boys " were Emanuel " Manny " Rosenfeld, Maurice " Moe " Strauss, Graham " Jack " Jackson and Moe Radavitz, four friends who pooled $ 800 in 1921 to open a single auto parts store.

Great-nephew Edward Maurice Hollister, Jr .,( born 1921 ) said that Schneider was an employee of printer Franklin Cornelius Hollister ( born in Omro, Wisconsin, in 1863 ) and his wife Jessie.

A silent version of The Man with the Twisted Lip was filmed in 1921, directed by Maurice Elvey.

Maurice Vincent Buckley VC, DCM ( 13 April 1891 – 27 January 1921 ) was an Australian soldier serving under the pseudonym Gerald Sexton who was awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War.