List of Famous people who died in 1921
Piers Bohl
Piers Bohl was a Latvian mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions.
Peter Kropotkin
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian, zoologist, political scientist, human geographer and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism. He was also an activist, essayist, researcher and writer.
Yan Fu
Yan Fu was a Chinese scholar and translator, most famous for introducing western ideas, including Darwin's "natural selection", to China in the late 19th century.
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Lipót Schulhof
Lipót Schulhof was a Hungarian-Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids.
Wilhelm II of Württemberg
William II was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the dissolution of the kingdom on 30 November 1918. He was also the last German ruler to abdicate in the wake of the November Revolution of 1918.
Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
Henry John Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie, styled Lord Moreton between 1840 and 1853, was a British courtier and Liberal Party politician. He notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1859 to 1866, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 1888 to 1908.
Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere
Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere, was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895. He served as President of the Board of Agriculture between 1892 and 1895.
Matthias Erzberger
Matthias Erzberger was a German publicist and politician, Reich Minister of Finance from 1919 to 1920.
José Miguel Gómez
José Miguel Gómez y Gómez was a Cuban who was one of the leaders of the rebel forces in the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1909 to 1913.