Important 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
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Charles Bronson
Roy Campanella
Steve Allen
Suharto
Vera-EllenWorld Leaders in 1921
David Lloyd George
British Prime Minister- Vladimir Lenin
Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader - Warren G. Harding
29th US President
David Lloyd George
Vladimir Lenin
Warren G. HardingFamous People in 1921
- Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Claude MonetWould You Believe?
Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
On March 6, 1921
Famous 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)
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