List of Famous people who died in 2021

Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli was a Libyan general, commander in al-Saiqa, an elite unit of the Libyan National Army, one of the warring factions in Libya's civil war since 2014. Al-Werfalli was indicted in 2017 in the International Criminal Court for the war crimes of murder and ordering the murder of non-combatants under article 8(2)(c)(i) of the Rome Statute. As of 6 April 2019, the ICC had two outstanding warrants for al-Werfalli's arrest. He was assassinated on 24 March 2021 in Benghazi.

Antonio Calpe Hernández was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a defender.

André Dufraisse was a cyclo-cross racer from France, a professional from 1950 to 1964.

Yuri Alekseyevich Pudyshev was a Soviet and Belarusian football player and coach.

Libuše Domanínská was a Czech classical soprano who had a career in concert and opera from the 1940s through the 1970s. She was a leading member of the Brno National Theatre and later the Prague National Theatre where she sang a repertoire of 50 roles, especially as Janáček's Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen. She was instrumental in making the composer's operas known internationally, both in recordings and guest appearances.

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer, which ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. Her books include Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961).

Justo Tejada Martínez was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. He was capped by Spain on 8 occasions, scoring 4 goals. He died on 31 January 2021.

Norman John Warren was an English film director best known for such 1970s horror films as Satan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977) and Terror (1978). Warren is also known for sex comedies such as Outer Touch.

Masao Kawai was a Japanese primatologist, who forwarded the concept of kyokan as a means of studying primates in his book Life of Japanese Monkeys (1969).

Marek Trončinský was a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who played his last games with CS Progym Gheorgheni in the Erste Liga. Before that he was with UK EIHL side Sheffield Steelers. Trončinský also previously represented HC Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech Extraliga.