This article is about the year 1921. For the Who song, see 1921 (song). 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1921 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 5
- January 9
- January 10 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- January 14 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
- January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- January 21 – Howard Unruh, American spree killer (d. 2009)
- January 27 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
- January 31
- February 1 Peter Sallis, English actor
- February 4
- February 5 – John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
- February 7 – Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Enver Hoxha
- February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
- February 14 – Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist (20-20)
- February 16 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
- February 20 – Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
- February 22 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
- February 24 – Abe Vigoda, American actor (Fish)
- February 25 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
- February 26 – Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
- February 28 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
[edit] March–April - March 1
- March 2 – Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
- March 3 – Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
- March 4
- March 5 – Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
- March 8 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 1990)
- March 11 – Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
- March 12
- March 13
- March 14 – Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d. 2009)
- March 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general (d. 2009)
- March 20 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
- March 21 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
- March 25 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
- March 28 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
- April 1 – Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
- April 8 – Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)
- April 10
- Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (Flying Purple People Eater) (d. 2003)
- Chuck Connors, American actor, basketball and baseball player (The Rifleman) (d. 1992)
- April 14 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 15 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
- April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (d. 2004)
- April 23
- April 21 – Vivian Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1991)
- April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
[edit] May–June - May 2 – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
- May 5 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
- May 9
- May 11 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
- May 12
- May 16 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor
- May 17 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
- May 18 – Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher
- May 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
- May 20
- May 21
- May 23
- May 25
- May 26 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
- May 28 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
- June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
- June 3 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
- June 8 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- June 10 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- June 12 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
- June 15 – Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
- June 21- Jane Russell , American actress
- June 22 – Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)
- June 25 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
- June 26 – Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
- June 28 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
[edit] July–August - July 4
- July 6 – Nancy Davis Reagan, wife of U.S President Ronald Reagan
- July 10
- July 11 – Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)
- July 13 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
- July 14
- July 15 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- July 22 – William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
- July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
- August 3 – Richard Adler, American Broadway composer
- August 4 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
- August 8 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
- August 9 – J. James Exon, Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
- August 13 – Barney Liddell, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 2003)
- August 18 – Zdzislaw Zygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
- August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)
- August 23 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 25
- August 27 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
- August 28 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia
[edit] September–October - September 3 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
- September 8 – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
- September 12 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)
- September 13 – Sergey Nepobedimiy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer
- September 14 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (d. 2001)
- September 15 – Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)
- September 24 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) (d. 2008)
- September 30 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
- October 2 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
- October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player
- October 7 – Tommy Farrell, American supporting actor and comedian (d. 2004)
- October 8 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- October 13 – Yves Montand, French singer and actor (d. 1991)
- October 17 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
- October 18 – Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 2008)
- October 19 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
- October 21 – Malcolm Arnold, British music composer (d. 2006)
- October 22 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- October 25 – King Michael of Romania
- October 26 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre (d. 1986)
[edit] November–December - November 3 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
- November 5 – Princess Fawzia of Egypt
- November 6 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
- November 8 – Gene Saks, American actor and film director
- November 11 – Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
- November 14 – Brian Keith, American actor (Family Affair) (d. 1997)
- November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist
- November 22 – Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
- November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
- November 27 – Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
- November 29 – Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone
- December 3 – Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
- December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
- December 26 – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist (d. 1993)
- December 26 – Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 1 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
- February 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, maritime artist (b. 1850)
- February 8
- February 26 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
- February 27 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
- March 1 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
- March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist (b. 1837)
- April 11 – Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Last German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II (b. 1858)
- April 17 – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
- April 21 – Tom O'Brien, American major league baseball player (b. 1860)
- April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
- May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
- May 19 – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1845)
- May 19 – Michael Llewelyn-Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1900)
- June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
- June 9 – Lady Randolph Churchill, Mother of Winston Churchill (b. 1854)
- June 28 – Gjorche Petrov, Macedonian and Bulgarian revolutionary
- June 29 – Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)
[edit] July–December - August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
- August 7 – Aleksandr Blok, Russian poet (b. 1880)
- August 16 – Peter I of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, King of Yugoslavia (b. 1844)
- August 19 – Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)
- September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b. 1856)
- September 9 – Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (b. 1895)
- September 11 – Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
- September 27 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
- October 12 – Philander C. Knox, American politician (b. 1853)
- October 18 – Ludwig III of Bavaria, last king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- October 25 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
- November 4 – Hara Takashi, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
- November 14 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1846)
- November 20 – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)
- November 27 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
- November 28 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
- December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
- December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
- December 31 – Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)
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