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* [[February 17]]: [[Elyton Land Company]] engineer [[Willis Milner]] died. | |||
* [[February 23]]: Legislator, judge and [[Birmingham Barons]] owner [[John McQueen]] died. | |||
* [[May 10]]: Rail car coupler inventor [[Andrew Beard]] died at the [[Jefferson County Alms House]]. | |||
* [[June 6]]: Former [[Lieutenant Governor of Alabama]] [[Russell Cunningham]] died in [[Birmingham]]. | |||
* [[July 21]]: Superintendent of [[Birmingham City Schools]] [[John Phillips]] died. | |||
* [[August 11]]: Father [[James Coyle]] was murdered at the rectory adjoining [[St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Catholic Church]]. | |||
* [[December 22]]: Judge [[Oscar Hundley]] died after a long illness. | |||
* Bookseller [[John B. Roden]] died. | |||
** See also: [[List of homicides in 1921]] and [[List of Birmingham homicides in 1921]] | |||
===Graduations=== | ===Graduations=== | ||
Revision as of 10:19, 22 September 2017
1921 was the 50th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
Business
Sports
Works
Buildings
Individuals
Births
- January 6: Gladys Gillem, professional wrestler
- January 11: Jim Beckham, Alabama Power Company executive
- January 27: Marvin Engel, insurance and real estate executive
- January 29: Frank Samford Jr, president of Liberty National Life Insurance Company
- February 10: Big Joe Duskin, blues and boogie-woogie pianist
- February 25: Buck Falkner, Eagle Department Store owner and Mayor of Columbiana
- March 10: James Atkins, Major League baseball player
- April 10: Maxine Sykes, cofounder of Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q
- May 11: Joe Shannon, military and commercial pilot
- June 1: Caldwell Marks, cofounder of Motion Industries
- June 5: Mae Rosenberger, CEO of Rosenberger's Birmingham Trunk
- June 11: George Gulyanics, professional football player
- June 19: Howell Heflin, U.S. Senator
- July 3: Roland Frye, theologian and literary scholar
- July 4: Frank Wagner, director of the Birmingham Parks & Recreation Board
- July 13: Frank Moore Cross, Presbyterian pastor and religious scholar
- July 19: John Harbert III, construction magnate
- August 9: James Hatcher, theater director and performer
- August 12: Elliott Dent, fighter pilot and advertising executive
- August 16: Frances Moore, lifelong Bromberg's employee
- August 18: Alexander Lacy, attorney and Alagasco executive
- August 21: Julius Ellsberry, US Navy seaman
- September 7: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, journalist, educator and historian
- September 27: John Patterson, Governor of Alabama
- October 3: Shorty Price, attorney
- October 6: Joseph Lowery, Methodist minister and Civil Rights leader
- October 7: Vaughn Mancha, Florida State University athletic director
- October 26: Paul Bailey, geneticist and Mayor of Baileyton
- October 26: Frederick Brown Jr, federal official and Mayor of Peachtree City, Georgia
- November 2: Sam Mitchell, Samford University English professor
- November 20: Charles Kleibacker, fashion designer and curator
- November 26: Jon Crow, Presbyterian pastor and missionary
- December 5: Harold Wilson, U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- December 16: Frank Evans, Negro Leagues baseball player
- Robert Adams, Birmingham News photographer
- Norman Albright, attorney and founder of Albright Business College
- Del Chambordon, bookkeeper and "Twinkles the elf" portrayer
- Mary Helen Foster, military pilot and librarian
- Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee airman
- Rosemary Morse, bookkeeper and trustee of Hargis Retreat
- Emmet O'Neal II, chairman of O'Neal Steel
- Virginia Simpson, socialite
- Arthur Stewart, portrait painter
- H. B. Thompson, Gardendale Youth Baseball founder
- Thomas Tolbert, Bessemer City Council member
- Evan Zeiger Sr, Samford University athletic director
Deaths
- February 17: Elyton Land Company engineer Willis Milner died.
- February 23: Legislator, judge and Birmingham Barons owner John McQueen died.
- May 10: Rail car coupler inventor Andrew Beard died at the Jefferson County Alms House.
- June 6: Former Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Russell Cunningham died in Birmingham.
- July 21: Superintendent of Birmingham City Schools John Phillips died.
- August 11: Father James Coyle was murdered at the rectory adjoining St Paul's Catholic Church.
- December 22: Judge Oscar Hundley died after a long illness.
- Bookseller John B. Roden died.
Graduations
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People born in 1921
1921 deaths
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