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| ya2=1923
| ya3=1924
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1921 (''' MCMXXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
unknown dates
Fictitious Events
1921 is a song on the album Tommy by The Who .
Births
Date unknown
January
February
- February 4 - Betty Friedan , American feminist (d. 2006 )
- February 4 - K. R. Narayanan , President Of India (d. 2005 )
- February 5 - John Pritchard , English conductor (d. 1989 )
- February 11 - Eva Gabor , Hungarian actress (d. 1996 )
- February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen , American politician
- February 14 - Hugh Downs , American game show host and journalist
- February 20 - Buddy Rogers , American professional wrestler (d. 1992 )
- February 22 - Wayne Booth , American literary critic (d. 2005 )
- February 25 - Pierre Laporte , Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970 )
- February 28 - Pierre Clostermann , French World War II pilot (d. 2006 )
March
- March 1 - Jack Clayton , British film director
- March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke , American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983 )
- March 1 - Richard Wilbur , American poet
- March 2 - Robert Simpson , English composer (d. 1997 )
- March 3 - Paul Guimard , French writer (d. 2004 )
- March 4 - Joan Greenwood , English actress and director (d. 1987 )
- March 4 - Halim El-Dabh , Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator
- March 5 - Elmer Valo , Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998 )
- March 8 - Cyd Charisse , American actress and dancer
- March 11 - Frank Harary , American mathematician (d. 2005 )
- March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli , Italian auto executive (d. 2003 )
- March 12 - Gordon MacRae , American singer and actor (d. 1986 )
- March 13 - Al Jaffee , American cartoonist
- March 13 - Cyril Poole , English cricketer (d. 1996 )
- 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
May
- 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 - Sophie Scholl , resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943 )
- May 9 - Mona Van Duyn , American poet (d. 2004 )
- May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician
- May 12 - Joseph Beuys , German artist (d. 1986 )
- May 12 - Farley Mowat , Canadian writer and naturalist
- 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 - Wolfgang Borchert , German writer (d. 1947 )
- May 20 - Hal Newhouser , baseball player (d. 1998 )
- May 21 - Andrei Sakharov , Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (d. 1989 )
- May 23 - James Blish , American science fiction author (d. 1975 )
- May 25 - Jack Steinberger , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 25 - James C. Quayle , American newspaper publisher
- May 26 - Stan Mortensen , English footballer (d. 1991 )
- May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik , German author (d. 1999 )
June
July
- July 4 - Gerard Debreu , French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- July 4 - Tibor Varga , Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003 )
- July 6 - Nancy Davis Reagan , wife of U.S President Ronald Reagan
- July 10 - Harvey Ball , American designer (d. 2001 )
- July 11 - Ilse Werner , German actress (d. 2005 )
- July 13 - Friedrich Peter , Austrian poltitician (d. 2005 )
- July 14 - Leon Garfield , English children's author (d. 1996 )
- July 14 - Geoffrey Wilkinson , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 17 - František Zvarík , Slovakian actor
- July 17 - Hannah Szenes , Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- July 18 - John Glenn , American astronaut
- 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
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- January 1 - Theobald Von Bethmann-Hollweg , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1856 )
- February 8 - Peter Kropotkin , Russian anarchist (b. 1842 )
- February 26 - Carl Menger , Austrian economist (b. 1840 )
- February 27 - Schofield Haigh , English cricketer (b. 1871 )
- March 2 - King Nicholas I Of Montenegro (b. 1841 )
- 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 )
- June 5 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright (b. 1862 )
- August 2 - Enrico Caruso , Italian tenor (b. 1873 )
- August 19 - Georges Darien , French writer (b. 1862 )
- September 2 - Henry Austin Dobson , English poet (b. 1840 )
- September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy , Tamil poet (b. 1882 )
- September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck , German composer (b. 1854 )
- October 25 - Bat Masterson , American gunfighter
- 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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