List of Famous people who died in 2021

Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva of one of the branches of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel, attended by select young Talmudists, mainly from the United States.

Ivan Klajn was a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the editor-in-chief of the Matica srpska's journal Jezik danas. Through his paternal family, which lived in Vukovar for generations, he was of Croatian-Jewish descent.

Leslie Galen Young was an American professional basketball player. He played two years of Division I college basketball for the Charlotte 49ers, where he earned first-team All-Conference USA honors in 1999. He played professionally in the United States and abroad for 13 years, winning a Continental Basketball Association championship in 2007 with the Yakima Sun Kings and an Australian National Basketball League championship in 2010 with the Perth Wildcats.

Constantin Brodzki was a Belgian architect. He is mostly known for his Brutalist architecture and prefabricated modules using concrete in fluid and organic shapes. He was awarded the quinquennial Baron Horta Prize in 2007.

Redha Hamiani was the Algerian minister for small business in the 1995 government of Mokdad Sifi.

Joseph Pokossy Doumbe was a Nigerian-born Cameroonian politician and pharmacist.

John Davis was an American singer. He was one of the real vocalists for Milli Vanilli and The Real Milli Vanilli who, along with Brad Howell and backup vocalists Linda Rocco & Jodie Rocco, provided the real vocals for Milli Vanilli.

Gamal Salama was an Egyptian songwriter and melodist. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1976 and returned to Egypt to write music for television.

Yitzhak "Vicky" Peretz was an Israeli football manager and player who played for the Israel national team.

Steve Carver was an American film director, producer, and photographer.