List of Famous people who born in 1921

George David Weiss was an American songwriter and arranger, who had been a president of the Songwriters Guild of America.

The Most Reverend George Hamilton Pearce, SM, DD was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apia, Samoa, and the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji.

Gerald Hirschfeld, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.

Hans Asplund was a Swedish architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Richard Leacock was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of direct cinema and cinéma vérité.

Seydi Dinçtürk was a Turkish sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Brother Max Thurian was the subprior of the Taizé community, an ecumenical monastic community in France. He was the subprior at Taizé from the time of its inception in the 1940s. During the Second Vatican Council, he was invited by Pope Paul VI to participate in the liturgical reform of the Catholic Mass. In 1969 he expressed that he was satisfied with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, under the belief that Protestants could receive Holy Communion along with Roman Catholics. This is false, however, as the Roman Catholic Church forbids non-Catholics from reception of Holy Communion at the Mass. On May 12, 1988, Thurian converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest. In a complete turn of events, on July 24, 1996, Thurian published an article in L'Osservatore Romano that he was actually dissatisfied with conciliar reformation, in that the Mass "has lost its character of mystery."