1921 in Iran

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See also:	Other events of 1921 Years in Iran

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.