( 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 ).

It was formed in the year 1921 on 14 April-by dividing then Krishna and Godavari districts.

* 1921 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian scientist ( d. 2001 )

* 1882 – Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director ( d. 1992 )

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.

In December 1921, Gandhi was invested with executive authority on behalf of the Indian National Congress.

* 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist

* 1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer

** Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker ( b. 1921 )

** Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet ( d. 1921 )

* December 23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India ( b. 1921 )

It serves as the final resting place for some 6, 000 " neophytes ;" a small stone marker denotes the gravesite of José de Los Santos, the last American Indian to be buried on the grounds, at the age of 101 in February 1921.

1836 ), who called himself " the last full-blooded Piru Indian ," died on June 30, 1921.

Shastri joined the Indian independence movement in 1921.

In September 1921, the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) ( DOC ) opened the Yakima Indian Christian Mission.

It was in Madurai, in 1921, that Gandhi, pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India, adopted loin cloth for the first time as his mode of dress after seeing agricultural labourers wearing it.

In this period, Zitkala-Ša moved with her husband to Washington, D. C. and published some of her most influential writings, including American Indian Stories in 1921 with the Hayworth Publishing House.

Indian Journal of Medical Research 8, pp. 508 – 529 ( 1921 ).

In 1921, he was elected to the Congress Working Committee and served as the General Secretary of the party before making his first major breakthrough as a leader during the 1922 Indian National Congress session at Gaya when he strongly opposed collaboration with the colonial administration and participation in the diarchial legislatures established by the Government of India Act 1919.

In 1921, Lingo invited Thorpe and Pete Calac, who was a teammate of Thorpe's at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, to his plantation in LaRue to hunt for opossum.

( editor ) ( 1922 ) Speeches and Documents on Indian Policy, 1750 – 1921, London: Oxford University Press

The first troop for African American girls was founded in 1917 ; the first American Indian troop was formed in New York State in 1921 ; and the first troop for Mexican Americans was formed in Houston, Texas, in 1922.

Verghese Kurien ( 26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012 ) was an Indian engineer and renowned social entrepreneur, best known as the " Father of the White Revolution ", for his ' billion-litre idea ' or Operation Flood — the world's biggest agricultural development programme.