Significant Events
- Jan 20 Republic of Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire
- Mar 3 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
- Jul 1 The Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader
- Jul 20 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives
- Jul 27 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
- Jul 29 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
- Dec 6 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1921 in Film & TV
- Feb 6 "The Kid", silent film starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
- Oct 30 "The Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles
World Leaders in 1921
David Lloyd George
British Prime Minister
Vladimir Lenin
Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader
Warren G. Harding
29th US President
Famous People in 1921
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Alex Haley
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Charles Bronson
Maurice Richard
Roy Campanella
Steve AllenFamous Weddings
- Jan 16 Politician Elpidio Quirino (30) weds girlfriend Alicia Syquia
- Feb 25 Actor Jack Haley (22) weds Florence McFadden
- Mar 24 Comedian Oliver Hardy (29) marries actress Myrtle Reeves (24)
- Apr 7 French president Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20)
- Sep 3 American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 2 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of the German Empire (1909-17), dies at 64
- Jan 7 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
- Jan 8 Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- Jan 18 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73