2021

**2021** (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

## People

### Deaths

* June 29:
	+ Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense)

## Television

* January 21:
	+ *The First Lady* was announced as the new title of the series previously known as *First Ladies*.
	+ Michelle Pfeiffer was announced to portray Betty Ford in Season 1.
	+ Susanne Bier was announced as a director for the series.
* January 26:
	+ Kristine Froseth was announced to portray a younger Betty Ford in Season 1.
	+ Jayme Lawson was announced to portray a younger Michelle Obama in Season 1.
* January 27:
	+ Pamela Adlon was announced to portray Nancy Howe in Season 1.
	+ Rhys Wakefield was announced to portray Dick Cheney in Season 1.
* February 16:
	+ Aaron Eckhart was announced to portray Gerald Ford in Season 1.
* February 19:
	+ Judy Greer was announced to portray Nancy Howe in Season 1, replacing Pamela Adlon due to a scheduling conflict.
* February 22:
	+ Gillian Anderson was announced to portray Eleanor Roosevelt in Season 1.
* February 25:
	+ Filming began for Season 1 in Covington, Georgia, United States of America.
	+ O. T. Fagbenle was announced to portray Barack Obama in Season 1.
* March 2:
	+ Dakota Fanning was announced to portray Susan Ford in Season 1.
* March 9:
	+ Lexi Underwood was announced to portray Malia Obama in Season 1.
* March 10:
	+ Cayden Boyd was announced to portray Michael Ford in Season 1.
	+ Aya Cash was announced to portray Esther Liebowitz in Season 1.
	+ Derek Cecil was announced to portray Donald Rumsfeld in Season 1.
	+ Patrice Johnson Chevannes was announced to portray Clara Powell in Season 1.
	+ Ben Cook was announced to portray Steven Ford in Season 1.
	+ Marc Hills was announced to portray Jack Ford in Season 1.
	+ Leslie Kritzer was announced to portray Martha Graham in Season 1.
	+ Jake Picking was announced to portray a younger Gerald Ford in Season 1.
	+ Thomas E. Sullivan was announced to portray Bill Warren in Season 1.
* April 13:
	+ Julian De Niro was announced to portray a younger Barack Obama in Season 1.
	+ Evan Parke was announced to portray Allen Taylor in Season 1.
	+ Saniyya Sidney was announced to portray Sasha Obama in Season 1.
	+ Regina Taylor was announced to portray Marian Shields Robinson in Season 1.
* June 4:
	+ Gloria Reuben was announced to portray Valerie Jarrett in Season 1.
* June 8:
	+ Kate Mulgrew was announced to portray Susan Sher in Season 1.
	+ Cathy Schulman was announced as a director for the series.
* June 14:
	+ Donna Lynne Champlin was announced to portray Melissa Winter in Season 1.
	+ Rosalind Chao was announced to portray Tina Tchen in Season 1.
	+ Michael Potts was announced to portray Fraser C. Robinson III in Season 1.
* July 8:
	+ Kiefer Sutherland was announced to portray Franklin D. Roosevelt in Season 1.
* July 23:
	+ Ellen Burstyn was announced to portray Sara Roosevelt in Season 1.
	+ Eliza Scanlen was announced to portray a younger Eleanor Roosevelt in Season 1.
	+ Cailee Spaeny was announced to portray Anna Roosevelt Halsted in Season 1.
* July 27:
	+ Lily Rabe was announced to portray Lorena Hickok in Season 1.
* July 30:
	+ Charlie Plummer was announced to portray a younger Franklin D. Roosevelt in Season 1.
	+ Clea DuVall was announced to portray Malvina Thompson in Season 1.
* August 9:
	+ Jeremy Bobb was announced to portray Theodore Roosevelt in Season 1.
	+ Maria Dizzia was announced to portray Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in Season 1.
	+ Jackie Earle Haley was announced to portray Louis Howe in Season 1.
* August 24:
	+ 2022 was announced as the premiere year for *The First Lady* Season 1.
* November 8:
	+ Entertainment Weekly released a first look at *The First Lady* Season 1.
	+ Kathleen Garrett was announced to portray Laura Bush in Season 1.

## Wiki

* January 22:
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* was founded.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - George Washington page created.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - Template:Sidebar/person page created.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - Template:Sidebar/person page created.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - Template:Wikipedia-link page created.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - Template:US Presidents page created.
	+ *The First Lady Wiki* - Template:Tnavbar page created.

## Links and references

### External links

* 2021 at Wikipedia

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