( 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 ).

* 1921 Thomas Winston Churchill

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

In 1921 Thomas Holt enrolled his sons at Wesley College in Melbourne, where the future Prime Minister Robert Menzies had been a star pupil.

Thomas Riley Marshall ( March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ) under Woodrow Wilson.

Libertarian historian Thomas Woods contends that the tax cuts ended the Depression of 1920 – 1921 — even though economic growth had begun before the cuts — and were responsible for creating a decade-long expansion.

Left to right, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Harding, and Harvey Firestone, 1921

Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 ) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.

He was a brother of poet Ernest Myers ( 1844 – 1921 ) and of Dr. Arthur Thomas Myers ( 1851 – 1894 ).

Thomas Frederick " Tommy " Cooper ( 19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984 ) was a British prop comedian and magician.

* Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. p. 397-398

* Thomas R. Marshall ( 1854 – 1925 ), Governor of Indiana ( 1909 – 1913 ) and Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ), born in North Manchester

* Thomas R. Marshall ( 1854 – 1925 ), Governor of Indiana ( 1909 – 1913 ) and Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ), practiced law in Columbia City before becoming governor.

* Thomas J. Scully ( 1864 – 1921 ) represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1911 to 1921 and served as mayor of South Amboy in 1909 and 1910, and again in 1921.

Viola Tree's production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre in 1921, interspersed incidental music by Thomas Arne and Arthur Sullivan, with new music by Bliss for an ensemble of male voices, piano, trumpet, trombone, gongs and five percussionists dispersed through the theatre.

" Albert Ammons and Meade ' Lux ' Lewis claim that ' The Fives ,' in 1921 and published in 1922 the Thomas brothers ' musical composition, deserves much credit for the development of modern boogie-woogie.

* Thomas Noonan ( 1921 – 1968 ), actor

* Thomas P. Brown, Jr. ( born 1921 ), American amateur tennis player

* John Weston Thomas ( 1921 – 1992 ), Welsh harpmaker

After the 1921 federal election, Progressive Party of Canada leader Thomas Crerar was considering a merger of his party with the Liberal Party of Canada and asked Greenfield to join him as Alberta's representative in the federal cabinet upon completion of this merger.

Though he brought him into his cabinet in 1921 in part at the urging of Progressive leader Thomas Crerar, King found Stewart to be an inadequate protector of western interests — especially in his advocacy of tariff reduction, which King found lacklustre — and did not trust his political advice on the west.

In 1921, Thomas moved to secular journalism, when he was employed as associate editor of The Nation magazine.

The last occupant was the widow of Thomas Jones, town clerk of Wednesbury 1897 – 1921.