List of Famous people who died in 2021

Leandro Prates de Oliveira was a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialised in the 1500 metres. He won gold medals in the event at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics and the 2011 Pan American Games.

Roger Machin was a French international football referee.

Cornelius Sim was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Vicar of Brunei from 2004 until his death. He had previously served as the apostolic prefect of Brunei from 1997 to 2004.

Franklin Jacobs was an American author of satires, known primarily for his work in Mad, to which he contributed from 1957 to 2014. Jacobs wrote a wide variety of lampoons and spoof, but was best known as a versifier who contributed parodies of famous song lyrics and poems. In 2009, Jacobs described himself as "the least-known writer of hysterical light verse in the United States."

Firmanzah was an Indonesian academic.

Michel Rabreau was a French politician.

Jean Roulland was a French sculptor.

Bolat Atabaev was a Kazakhstani theater director who in 2012 was charged with "inciting social discord" for his role in the 2011 Mangystau riots. Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. He was released on 3 July 2012.

Raul Danda was an Angolan politician. From 2016 to 2021, he was Vice-President of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

Sherwin Siy was an American attorney and activist who served as the lead public policy manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. He was also a member and previously served as vice-president of legal affairs at the Washington, D.C.-based digital rights group Public Knowledge and as a special counsel for the Federal Communications Commission.