The following lists events that happened during 1921 in Qajar era.

Incumbents Monarch: Ahmad Shah Qajar Prime Minister: Fathollah Khan Akbar (until February 22), Zia ol Din Tabatabaee (February 24 – June 4), Ahmad Qavam (starting June 4)

Events 1921 Persian legislative election. Battle of Miandoab.

Births February 4 – Lotfi A. Zadeh, American electrical engineer and computer scientist. February 21 – Arman (actor), Iranian actor and film director. February 25 – Farrokh Ghaffari, Film director, screenwriter and actor. February 25 – Mariam Behnam, Iranian-Emirati writer and activist. February 26 – Shapoor Reporter, British spy. March 1 – Hemin Mukriyani, Kurdish poet and scholar. March 21 – Shaban Jafari, Iranian politician. April 28 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian writer. April 29 – Adib Taherzadeh, prominent Iranian Baha'i. May 22 – Jalil Shahnaz, Persian classical musician. June 4 – Nasser Yeganeh, Iranian politician. June 24 – Nasser Moghaddam, Last chief of the SAVAK. June 25 – Hossein Ali Mallah, Iranian musician, painter, author. July 4 – Nasser Sharifi, Iranian sports shooter. July 28 – Sigrid Lotfi, German-born Iranian translator. November 1 – Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani, Iranian grand ayatollah. November 29 – Hesen Zîrek, Iranian Kurdish songwriter-singer. December 6 – Mostafa Mokri, Footballer. December 23 – Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, Nobility, pioneering social worker, author. ? – Abbas Sahab, Iranian cartographer & geographer. ? – Abolfazl Qassemi, Iranian politician. ? – Ahmad Samii Gilani, Iranian writer and translator. ? – Ali Hojjat Kashani, Iranian military leader. ? – Alireza Danesh Sokhanvar, shia missionary and social movement leader. ? – Fawzia of Egypt, queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948. ? – Hossein Wahid Khorasani, Iranian Grand Ayatollah. ? – Jahangir Tafazzoli, Iranian journalist and politician. ? – Jaleh Esfahani, Iranian poet. ? – Khosrow Qashqai, Iranian politician. ? – Mahvash, Iranian singer, dancer, movie actress and stage performer in the 1950s and 1960s. ? – Mansour Rouhani, Iranian politician. ? – Mehdi Rahimi, Iranian general. ? – Mohammad Bahmanbeigi, Iranian writer and founder of education for nomadic communities in Iran. ? – Mohammad Mokri, Iranian scholar and writer. ? – Morteza Keyvan, Iranian politician. ? – Naser Kamalian, Iranian pathologist. ? – Pervez Amini Afshar, Iranian military leader. ? – Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei, Persian politician. ? – Shokouh Riazi, Iranian painter. ? – Taher Ahmadzadeh, Iranian politician.

Deaths November 28 – ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith. December 2 – Mirza Kuchik Khan, Iranian revolutionary. ? – Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran.. ? – Haydar Khan Amo-oghli, Iranian revolutionary. ? – Mohammad Taqi Pessian, Iranian politician.

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