Year (''' MCMXXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
- January 5
- --- Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer (d. 1990 )
- --- Jean, Grand Duke Of Luxembourg
- January 9
- --- William 'Billy Batts' Devino (d. 1970 )
- --- Lister Sinclair , Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006 )
- 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 27 - Donna Reed , American actress (d. 1986 )
- January 31
- --- Carol Channing , American actress
- --- Mario Lanza , American tenor and actor (d. 1959 )
- February 4
- --- Betty Friedan , American feminist (d. 2006 )
- --- K. R. Narayanan , President Of India (d. 2005 )
- February 5 - John Pritchard , English conductor (d. 1989 )
- February 7 - Nexhmije Hoxha , the widow of Enver Hoxha
- February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen , American politician (d. 2006 )
- February 14 - Hugh Downs , American game show host and journalist
- 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
- February 25 - Pierre Laporte , Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970 )
- February 26 - Betty Hutton , American actress (d. 2007 )
- February 28 - Pierre Clostermann , French World War II pilot (d. 2006 )
- March 1
- --- Jack Clayton , British film director (d. 1995 )
- --- Terence Cardinal Cooke , American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983 )
- --- Richard Wilbur , American poet
- March 2 - Robert Simpson , English composer (d. 1997 )
- March 3 - Paul Guimard , French writer (d. 2004 )
- March 4
- --- Halim El-Dabh , Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator
- --- Joan Greenwood , British actress and director (d. 1987 )
- --- Wilson Harris , Guyanese writer
- March 5 - Elmer Valo , Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998 )
- March 8
- --- Cyd Charisse , American actress and dancer
- --- Alan Hale, Jr. , American actor (d. 1990 )
- March 11 - Frank Harary , American mathematician (d. 2005 )
- March 12
- --- Gianni Agnelli , Italian auto executive (d. 2003 )
- --- Gordon MacRae , American singer and actor (d. 1986 )
- March 13
- --- Al Jaffee , American cartoonist
- --- 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 1 - Beau Jack , American boxer (d. 2000 )
- April 8 - Franco Corelli , Italian opera singer (d. 2003 )
- April 10 - Sheb Wooley , American actor and singer (d. 2003 )
- 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 , Actress
- 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 )
- --- Mona Van Duyn , American poet (d. 2004 )
- May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician
- May 12
- --- Joseph Beuys , German artist (d. 1986 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Hal Newhouser , baseball player (d. 1998 )
- May 21
- --- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar , Indian philosopher author of socio-economical theory "Progressive Utilization Theory" (d. 1990 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Humphrey Lyttelton , British jazz musician and radio personality
- May 25
- --- Jack Steinberger , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- James C. Quayle , American newspaper publisher (d. 2000 )
- 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 15 - Errol Garner , American jazz musician (d. 1977 )
- 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 )
- July 4
- --- Gerard Debreu , French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Geoffrey Wilkinson , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006 )
- July 17
- --- František Zvarík , Slovakian actor
- --- Hannah Szenes , Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- July 18
- --- John Glenn , American astronaut
- --- Aaron T. Beck , American psychiatrist
- 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 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr. , Polish art historian
- August 19 - Gene Roddenberry , American television producer (d. 1991 )
- August 23 - Kenneth Arrow , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 25
- --- Monty Hall , Canadian actor and game show host
- --- Brian Moore , Northern Irish-born writer (d. 1999 )
- September 3 - Thurston Dart , English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971 )
- September 8 - Harry Secombe , Welsh entertainer (d. 2001 )
- September 12 - Stanisław Lem , Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006 )
- September 14 - Dario Vittori , Argentinean actor (d. 2001 )
- September 15 - Norma Macmillan , voice actress (d. 2001 )
- September 30 - Deborah Kerr , Scottish actress
- October 2 - Robert Runcie , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 2000 )
- October 5 - Bill Willis , American football player
- 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
- October 19 - Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish footballer (d. 1995 )
- October 21 - Malcolm Arnold , 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 )
- November 3 - Charles Bronson , American actor (d. 2003 )
- November 5 - Princess Fawzia Of Egypt
- November 6 - James Jones , American writer (d. 1977 )
- November 11 - Ron Greenwood , English football manager (d. 2006 )
- November 14 - Brian Keith , American actor (d. 1997 )
- November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield , American actor and comedian (d. 2004 )
- November 23 - Fred Buscaglione , Italian singer and actor (d. 1960 )
- November 27 - Alexander Dubček , 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 - Steve Allen , American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000 )
- December 28 - Stan Lee Writer and Comic Book creator.
- January 1 - Theobald Von Bethmann Hollweg , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1856 )
- February 8
- --- Peter Kropotkin , Russian anarchist (b. 1842 )
- --- George Formby (Senior) , English entertainer (b. 1876 )
- 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 )
- April 21 - Tom O'Brien , 19th century 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 )
- June 5 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright (b. 1862 )
- June 29 - Otto Seeck , German classical historian (b. 1850 )
- 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 7 - Alfred William Rich , English watercolour painter (b. 1856 )
- September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy , Tamil poet (b. 1882 )
- September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck , German composer (b. 1854 )
- October 25 - Bat Masterson , American gunfighter (b. 1853 )
- November 4 - Hara Takashi , 19th Prime Minister Of Japan (b. 1856 )
- November 20 - Christina Nilsson , Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843 )
- 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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