List of Famous people who died in 2021

Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera was an Italian opera director. He directed the Opéra Royal de Wallonie from 2007 to 2021.

Francisco Haghenbeck was a Mexican writer and comics screenwriter.

John L. Vautour was a Canadian fisherman, born in Claire-Fontaine, New Brunswick, best known for his fight against the expropriation of 250 families in the early 1970s to create Kouchibouguac National Park on land formerly occupied by eight villages.

Klaus Emmerich was the former editor-in-chief of ORF News in Austria. He achieved notoriety in the United States for his racist remarks following Barack Obama's win of the 2008 US presidential election. David F. Girard-diCarlo, U.S. ambassador to Austria, officially protested against Emmerich’s remarks on November 14, 2008.

Darío Pedro Alessandro was an Argentine sociologist, politician, and diplomat.

Vahur Afanasjev was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel Serafima and Bogdan a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition.

José Juan Bautista Pampuro was an Argentine politician. He was a member of the Justicialist Party, a Defense Minister and a senator for Buenos Aires Province. From 2006 to 2011 he served as the Provisional President of the Senate.

Elisabeth Cornelia "Els" Vader was a track and field sprinter from the Netherlands. She competed at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay, but failed to reach the finals in any event.

Ahmet Vefik Alp was a Turkish architect and urbanist.

Victor Ambrus was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series Time Team, on which he visualised how sites under excavation may have once looked. Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. He was also a patron of the Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors up until its merger with the Institute for Archaeologists in 2011.