1921

1921 was the 50th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• 1921 Fashion-Industrial Exposition was held at Capitol Park
• Wilsonville Lodge No. 510 was founded.

Works

Buildings

• Hueytown High School
• Jasper First United Methodist Church
• Jones Valley High School
• Long-Lewis Ford showroom
• Model Poultry Farm at Avondale Park
• Norwood Methodist Church
• Thompson High School
• United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse on 5th Avenue North
• Walker Memorial United Methodist Church in Elyton
• Wilsonville Lodge No. 510

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.
  • See also: List of homicides in 1921 and List of Birmingham homicides in 1921

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