* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer ( d. 2004 )

* 1921 – Jeanne Demessieux, French organist, pianist, composer ( d. 1968 )

* 1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer, and bandleader ( d. 1985 )

* 1921 – Arno Babajanian, Armenian composer and pianist ( d. 1983 )

* 1921 – Jack Beeson, American composer ( d. 2010 )

* 1921 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer ( d. 1992 )

* 1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician, composer, and broadcaster ( d. 2008 )

* 1921 – Douglas Townsend, American composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer ( d. 1921 )

* 1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer ( d. 1998 )

* 2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer and trumpeter ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – Gene Roland, American composer and musician ( d. 1982 )

* March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer ( b. 1921 )

* September 1 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer ( d. 1921 )

* October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer ( d. 1921 )

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla ( March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992 ) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player.

Ravel's house in Montfort-l ' Amaury, where the composer lived from 1921 until his death

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921 ) was a French late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

* Robert Simpson ( composer ) ( 1921 – 1997 ), English composer

The area inspired Douglas Furber ( lyricist ) and Philip Braham ( composer ) in 1921 to write the popular jazz standard Limehouse Blues, which was introduced by Jack Buchanan and Gertrude Lawrence in the musical revue " A to Z ".

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

* 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( d. 1979 )

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

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

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

* 1921 – John Rawls, American philosopher ( d. 2002 )

* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor ( d. 1921 )

* 1921 – John Pritchard, British conductor ( d. 1989 )

Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.

* 2006 – John Money, New Zealand-American sexologist and author ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – John Glenn, American astronaut and politician

* John Brown, Jr. ( Navajo ) ( 1921 – 2009 ), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II

* John Herschel Glenn, Jr., USMC ( born 1921 ); first American to orbit the Earth, 20 February 1962

* 1921 – John W. Peterson, American songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – John Lindsay, American politician ( d. 2000 )

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* John Money ( 1921 – 2006 )

* 1921 – John McHale, American baseball player ( d. 2008 )

He served in the Senate from 1915 until his inauguration as President in 1921, making him the first sitting senator to be elected President of the United States ; John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama followed in this pattern.

The American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the term wormhole in 1957 ; however, in 1921, the German mathematician Hermann Weyl already had proposed the wormhole theory, in connection with mass analysis of electromagnetic field energy.

* September 28 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( b. 1921 )

* December 5 – John Pritchard, English conductor ( b. 1921 )

** Edward John Bevan, English chemist, and partner of Charles Frederick Cross ( d. 1921 )

* November 24 – John Rawls, American political theorist ( b. 1921 )