List of Famous people who died in 1921

Major-General Hon. Edward Archibald Brabazon Acheson was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Fernando Primo de Rivera y Sobremonte, 1st Marquess of Estella was a Spanish politician and soldier.

Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.

Otto Friedrich von Gierke was a German legal scholar and historian. In his four-volume magnum opus entitled Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht, he pioneered the study of social groups and the importance of associations in German life, which stood between the divide of private and public law. During his career at Berlin University's law department, Gierke was a leading critic of the newly drafted German Civil Code, arguing that it had been moulded in an individualistic frame that was inconsistent with German social traditions. He helped to advance the concept of social law, over the classical division of public law and private law.

John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough, was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician.

Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL, better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised a powerful influence over the development of English music from the early 1900s up until his death in 1921 due to a railroad accident in Boston at the height of his career.

Major General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell, was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War.

Archibald Ean Campbell was an Anglican bishop.