1921 in Romania

Incumbents

• King: Ferdinand I.
• Prime Minister:
• * Alexandru Averescu.
• * Take Ionescu.

Events

• 2 February – Nicolae Bretan's opera Luceafărul is first performed at Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca.
• February – Elena Bacaloglu signs an agreement with Benito Mussolini, founding the National Italo-Romanian Fascist Movement.
• 3 March – The Convention of Romanian–Polish Defensive Alliance is signed in Bucharest, which came into force on 25 July, cementing the Polish–Romanian alliance.
• 8 May – At the congress of the Socialist Party of Romania, the pro-Bolshevik faction affirms control of the party, which consequently joins Communist International and is renamed the Romanian Communist Party.
• 12 May – The police arrest the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party, initiating the Dealul Spirii Trial.
• 6 July – The Hungarian Union is founded with Sámuel Jósika as its first president.
• 20 July – The Victory Medal is established, a design subsequently copied by France in the 1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal.
• 13 December – 100 people die when a building is bombed in Bolhrad.

Births

• 5 January – Tissa David, animator, designer of Raggedy Ann.
• 14 February – Toma ArnăuÈ›oiu, officer who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters from 1949 to 1958, executed at Jilava Prison in 1959.
• 17 February – Vera Clejan, literary critic and translator.
• 10 March – Lisa Ferraday, model and actor.
• 21 June – Greta Deligdisch, advocate for Holocaust survivors.
• 9 August – Lola Bobesco, violinist.
• 24 October – Veronica Schwefelberg, pen name Veronica Porumbacu, poet and translator.
• 25 October – Prince Michael.

Deaths

• 13 December – Ana Conta-Kernbach, writer and women's rights activist.