* 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 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter ( d. 2010 )

* 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 )

* 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 ).

There was no shortage of recruits, many of them unemployed First World War army veterans, and by November 1921 about 9, 500 men had joined.

In April 1921, the IRA was again reorganised, in line with the Dáil's endorsement of its actions, along the lines of a regular army.

Between 1918 and 1921, the Austrian semi-regular army was called Volkswehr (" People's Defence "), and fought against Yugoslavian army units occupying parts of Carinthia.

Queen Victoria decreed over a hundred years ago that soldiers from Ireland should wear a sprig of shamrock in recognition of fellow Irish soldiers who had fought bravely in the Boer War, a tradition continued by British army soldiers from both the north and the south of Ireland following partition in 1921.

The 1921 mobilization planning that created the six field army headquarters did not envision a need for active field army-level commands in peacetime and thus the headquarters were constituted in the Organized Reserve rather than the Regular Army.

General Douglas MacArthur, the Army ’ s Chief of Staff, believed that the 1921 mobilization plan was based on unsound assumptions and that the Army required active field army headquarters before the start of any mobilization to manage the integration and training of subordinate units as they mobilized.

Without facing opposition Abdullah and his army had effectively occupied most of Tranjordan by March 1921.

In 1921 Grosz was accused of insulting the army, which resulted in a 300 German Mark fine and the destruction of the collection Gott mit uns (" God with us "), a satire on German society.

His brother-in-law Nuri al-Sa ’ id became Chief of the General Staff of the army in February 1921.

From 1919 to 1921 the Irish Volunteers ( now renamed as the Irish Republican Army, being deemed by the Dáil to be the army of the new Irish Republic ) engaged in guerrilla warfare against the British army, the RIC and paramilitary police units known as the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries.

Post-war, Badoglio was named as a Senator, but also remained in the army with special assignments to Romania and the U. S. in 1920 and 1921.

Reza Khan's first role in the new government was as commander of the army, which, in April 1921, he combined with the post of Minister of War.

He was imprisoned several times but became director of the army in 1921.

In August 1921, an exhausted Makhno was finally driven by Mikhail Frunze's Ukrainian Red forces into exile with the remainder of his anarchist army, fleeing to Romania, then Poland, Danzig, Berlin and finally to Paris.

In January 1921 Emir Abdullah Hussein began assembling an army in Ma ' an and announced his intention to attack the French in Syria.

The congress's decisions would eventually lead a few months later to the Vlora War and as a result to the total withdrawal of the Italian army from Albania and the final affirmation of the country's territorial integrity in 1921.

* José Manuel Hernández ( 1853 – 1921 ), Venezuelan caudillo, army general and politician

The army eventually comprised two corps and remained in place until 1921.

Since the end of the Irish War of Independence in July 1921, the IRA were acting as the de facto army of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State.

However, Minsk was occupied by the Polish army at the time, and the university was actually established in 1921 in Minsk.

In 1921, the Tambov Republic was established, but it was soon sacked by the army of Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

In November 1921, the Austrian army occupied the village.