Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 3 - George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- January 5 - Maria Schell[?], actress
- January 8 - Soupy Sales[?], comedian
- January 12 - Ray Price[?], country music singer
- January 14 - Tom Tryon[?], actor, novelist (+ 1991)
- January 14 - Maria Schell[?], Swiss actress
- January 17 - Moira Shearer[?], actress, dancer
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver[?], actor
- January 20 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
- January 21 - Steve Reeves[?], actor (+ 2000)
- January 26 - Ralph Brance[?], baseball star
- February 2 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, politican
- February 6 - Haskell Wexler[?], cinematographer
- February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
- February 11 - Paul Bocuse[?], French chef
- February 11 - Alexander Gibson[?], British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera[?]
- February 15 - Dieter Lattmann[?], writer and politician
- February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
- February 20 - Rob Richards[?], track and field athlete
- February 22 - Kenneth Williams, actor (+ 1988)
- March 1 - Pete Rozelle[?], commissioner of the National Football League (+ 1996)
- March 3 - James Merrill[?], Pulitzer Prize winning poet (+ 1995)
- March 6 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
- March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin[?], American football star
- March 16 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
- March 17 - Siegfried Lenz[?], writer
- March 18 - Peter Graves[?], actor
- March 24 - Dario Fo, author, 1997 Nobel prize for literature[?]
- April 1 - Anne McCaffrey, science fiction author
- April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut (+ 1967)
- April 6 - Gil Kane[?], cartoonist (+ 2000)
- April 6 - Ian Paisley, United Kingdom politician
- April 6 - Sergio Franchi[?], singer, actor (+ 1990)
- April 9 - Hugh Hefner - creator of Playboy, men's magazine.
- April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- April 22 - James Stirling, architect (+ 1992)
- May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
- May 15 - Peter Shaffer, playwright
- May 19 - Peter Zadek[?], film and theatre director
- May 25 - Max von der Grün[?], author
- May 26 - Miles Davis, musician
- June 1 - Andy Griffith
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
- June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
- June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
- August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
- September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- September 23 - John Coltrane, musician
- October 18 - Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll musician
- Murray Rothbard , American economist
Deaths
- March 20 - Princess Louise of Sweden[?]
- May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan.
- May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter
- July 4 - Frassati Piergiorgio[?], Member of FUCI
- June 14 - Mary Cassatt, artist
- July 12 - Gertrude Bell[?], archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
- August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, italian actor
- October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician
- December 5 - Claude Monet, painter
- Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect
Nobel Prizes
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