List of Famous people who died in 2021

Roger Quemener was a French racewalker, who was a legend of the Ultramarathon race Paris-Colmar winning seven times. He thus had the record number of wins, until Polish racewalker Grzegorz Adam Urbanowski brought it to ten wins.

Vasilii Belous was a Moldovan boxer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's welterweight, but was defeated in the second round.

Květa Eretová was a Czech chess player, who was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1986. She was ten times Czechoslovak women's chess champion.

Henri Courtine was a French judoka.

Iván Noel was a French-Argentine film director and producer, known for They Returned (2015), En tu Ausencia (2008) and ¡Primaria! (2010). In their July, 2009 journal, Camilo José Cela University compared his works to those of Truffaut and Comencini. He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions.

Andréa Guiot was a French operatic soprano. A long-term member of the Paris opera houses, she was known internationally for leading roles especially in the French repertoire, such as Gounod's Mireille and Marguerite, Massenet's Manon and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen. She appeared as Micaëla when Carmen was first performed at the Opéra de Paris in 1959, and as Mireille in the 1000th performance of the opera at the Opéra-Comique. She performed in the world premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1965. Among her many recordings, the 1964 Carmen conducted by Georges Prêtre, with Maria Callas in the title role and Nicolai Gedda as her lover, brought her lasting fame. She appeared at major opera house in France, Europe, and the Americas. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, succeeding Janine Micheau, her own former instructor.

Arturo Tizón Ibáñez was a Spanish motorcycle racer. He was born in La Vall d'Uixó, Valencian Community. From 2005 to 2007, he competed in the 250cc Motorcycle World championship. He was the CEV Supersport champion in 2005.

Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev was a Russian theoretical physicist, nuclear engineer and Emeritus Professor of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. He worked on the RDS-37, the RDS-220 and many other nuclear charges.

Claude Guichard was a French politician and academic.

Francis Hardy was a French politician.