What Happened In August 1921 In History

Historical Events for August, 1921

• 3rd » Commissioner of Baseball named Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Black Sox Scandal called Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• 23rd » British R38 class airship e.g airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Kingston upon Hull or Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
• 25th » The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
• 27th » The British install the son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as Faisal I of Iraq King Faisal I of Kingdom of Iraq Iraq.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1921

• 1st » Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 2nd » Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Richard Adler, American composer and producer (d. 2012)
• 3rd » Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (d. 2008)
• 3rd » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress and singer (d. 1972)
• 4th » Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
• 4th » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
• 7th » Manitas de Plata, French guitarist
• 8th » William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 8th » Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
• 8th » Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian pathologist and academic (d. 2001)
• 8th » Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress, and singer (d. 2013)
• 9th » Ernest Angley, American evangelist and author
• 9th » J. James Exon, American soldier and politician, 33rd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2005)
• 11th » Alex Haley, American historian and author (d. 1992)
• 12th » Matt Jefferies, American set designer (d. 2003)
• 13th » Louis Frémaux, French conductor
• 13th » Jimmy McCracklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012)
• 15th » August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (d. 2012)
• 17th » Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
• 18th » Lydia Litvyak, Russian pilot and lieutenant (d. 1943)
• 18th » Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish historian and academic
• 19th » Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
• 20th » Jack Wilson (cricketer) known as Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
• 21st » Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 21st » Jaymala Shiledar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2013)
• 22nd » Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (d. 1997)
• 22nd » Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 22nd » Tony Pawson (cricketer) called Tony Pawson, English cricketer, footballer, and journalist (d. 2012)
• 23rd » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences named Nobel Prize laureate
• 23rd » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996)
• 24th » Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2008)
• 24th » Eric Simms (ornithologist) e.g Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009)
• 25th » Monty Hall, Canadian-American actor, singer, and game show host
• 25th » Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
• 25th » Brian Moore (novelist) or Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 26th » Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)
• 26th » Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and publisher
• 27th » Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1996)
• 27th » Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 28th » John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
• 28th » Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007)
• 28th » Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
• 31st » Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (d. 2014)
• 31st » Raymond Williams, Welsh academic and author (d. 1988)

Famous Deaths for August 1921

• 2nd » Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 5th » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek politician, 78th List of Prime Ministers of Greece called Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 8th » Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (b. 1861)
• 12th » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 16th » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• 25th » Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 26th » Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)

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