1921

1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1918 1919 1920 – 1921 – 1922 1923 1924

1921 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1921 MCMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2674
Armenian calendar	1370 ԹՎ ՌՅՀ
Assyrian calendar	6671
Bahá'í calendar	77–78
Balinese saka calendar	1842–1843
Bengali calendar	1328
Berber calendar	2871
British Regnal year	11 Geo. 5 – 12 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2465
Burmese calendar	1283
Byzantine calendar	7429–7430
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4617 or 4557     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4618 or 4558
Coptic calendar	1637–1638
Discordian calendar	3087
Ethiopian calendar	1913–1914
Hebrew calendar	5681–5682
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1977–1978
- Shaka Samvat	1842–1843
- Kali Yuga	5021–5022
Holocene calendar	11921
Igbo calendar	921–922
Iranian calendar	1299–1300
Islamic calendar	1339–1340
Japanese calendar	Taishō 10 (大正１０年)
Javanese calendar	1851–1852
Juche calendar	10
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4254
Minguo calendar	ROC 10 民國10年
Nanakshahi calendar	453
Thai solar calendar	2463–2464
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 2047 or 1666 or 894     — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2048 or 1667 or 895

Events

• Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Partition of Ireland (May 3rd)
• Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma, United States (May 31st-June 1st)
• Karl Gareis is murdered in Munich, Germany (June 9th)
• Insulin is invented in Canada by Frederick Banting and Charles Best (July 27th)
• Matthias Erzberger is murdered in Germany (August 25th)
• A hurricane devastates Tampa Bay, Florida (October 20th-October 30th)
• Anglo-Irish Treaty signed (December 6th)

Births

January

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Patricia Highsmith

Donna Reed

Carol Channing

• January 5 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
• January 17 – Antonio Prohias Cuban-American cartoonist (d. 1998)
• January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
• January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
• January 29 – Mustafa Ben Halim, 3rd Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2021)
• January 31 – Carol Channing, American actress and singer (d. 2019)

February

Betty Friedan

K. R. Narayanan

Lana Turner

Hua Guofeng

Suharto

Jean-Bédel Bokassa

• February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (d. 2006)
• February 4 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
• February 8 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
• February 16 - Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (d. 2008)
• February 20 – Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
• February 22 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)

March

Abdul Salam Arif

Vasily Smyslov

Nancy Kelly

• March 21 – Abdul Salam Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (d. 1966)
• March 24 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
• March 25 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)

April

Yitzhak Navon

Thomas Schelling

Karel Appel

• April 9 - Yitzhak Navon, 5th President of Israel (d. 2015)
• April 14 – Thomas Schelling, American economist (d. 2016)
• April 25 – Karel Appel, Belgian artist (d. 2006)

May

Satyajit Ray

Andrei Sakharov

Jack Steinberger

• May 2 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
• May 3 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
• May 21 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and activist (d. 1989)
• May 25 – Jack Steinberger, German-American physicist (d. 2020)

June

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Jane Russell

• June 10 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, member of the British royal family, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (d. 2021)
• June 21 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)

July

Nancy Reagan

Geoffrey Wilkinson

John Glenn

Giuseppe Di Stefano

• July 6 – Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
• July 14 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (d. 1996)
• July 18 – John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (d. 2016)
• July 24 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)

August

Esther Williams

• August 8 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)

September

Willem Frederik Hermans

Deborah Kerr

• September 1 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
• September 30 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
• September 30 – Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, Brazilian actress, radio personality and councillor (d. 1995)

October

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez

Gunnar Nordahl

• October 4 – Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, 112th Prime Minister and 51st President of Peru (d. 2022)
• October 19 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)

November

Alexander Dubček

• November 27 – Alexander Dubček, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)

December

Steve Allen

• December 26 – Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, composer, and writer (d. 2000)

Deaths

March

• March 1 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

June

• June 9 – Karl Gareis, German legal scholar (b.1889)

July

• July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, early proponent of Esperanto (b. 1857)

August

• August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1873)
• August 16 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• August 25 – Matthias Erzberger, former German minister of finance (b. 1875)

Sports

• Kentucky Derby winner, Behave Yourself