1921 births

Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second and longest-serving president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime from 1967 until his resignation in 1998 following nationwide unrest. His 31-year dictatorship is considered one of the most brutal and corrupt of the 20th century: he was central to the perpetration of mass killings against alleged communists and subsequent persecution of ethnic Chinese, Islamists, irrelig

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)

American actor (1921–2003)

first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (1921-1992)

British actor, writer and director (1921–2004)

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

Swiss author and dramatist (1921-1990)

American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)

American political philosopher (1921–2002)

2nd president (1966–76) and emperor (r. 1976–79) of the Central African Republic

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

French actress (1921-1985)

American economist (1921–2017)

French-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)

American physicist

British actress (1921–2007)

American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)

2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)

last king of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)

Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)

American actress (1921–1995)

American economist (1921-2016)

Lithuanian-American archaeologist

German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)

Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)

Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)

President of India from 1997 to 2002

American television screenwriter and producer (1921–1991)

Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger

American actress (1921–2011)

American actress, comedian and singer (1921-1965)

Donna Reed was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years and included appearances in over 40 films. She is best known for playing Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and for her Academy Award–winning performance as Lorene in Fred Zinnemann's war drama From Here to Eternity (1953).

German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921–1986)

American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)

French singer-songwriter and poet (1921–1981)

First President of Botswana (1921–1980)

Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (1921–1986)

French economist and mathematician (1921–2004)

British Nobel laureate in Chemistry

American boxer (1921–1989)

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)

queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948

American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)

Japanese businessman (1921-1999)

Italian actress (1921–1994)

5th President of Israel (1978–1983), Israeli Cabinet minister, Member of the Knesset, author, playwright, and educator (born 1921–2015)

Iraqi politician (1921-1966)

American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)

Monarch of Luxembourg (1964-2000)

Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921-2006)

American actress (1921–2019)

American stand-up comedian (1921–2004)

American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)

British actor (1921–1999)

American tenor and actor (1921-1959)

English human rights activist (1921-2005)