List of Famous people who died in 2021

Josep Franch i Xargay

First Name Josep
Born on August 1, 1943
Died on May 19, 2021 (aged 77)
Born in Spain, Catalonia

Josep Franch Xargay was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a defender.

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José Gómez del Moral

First Name José
Last Name Moral
Born on December 4, 1931
Died on August 7, 2021 (aged 89)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

José Gómez del Moral was a Spanish road racing cyclist. He was a professional cyclist from 1955 to 1963. During this time he won the Volta a Catalunya and the Vuelta a Andalucía in 1955 and the Vuelta a Colombia in 1957. He was the second, and last, non-Colombian winner of the Vuelta a Colombia of the 20th century. He was the brother of cyclist Antonio Gómez del Moral.

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Aleksandr Nikitin

First Name Aleksandr
Born on February 4, 1961
Died on January 14, 2021 (aged 59)

Aleksandr Borisovich Nikitin was a Russian professional football coach and player.

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Robert Petersen

First Name Robert
Last Name Petersen
Born on April 18, 1928
Died on October 23, 2021 (aged 93)
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Toupta Boguena

First Name Toupta
Died on August 4, 2021 (aged 51)

Toupta Boguena was a Chadian scientist and administrator. She served as Chad's Minister of Public Health between 2010 and 2011. Since 2016, she had served as the executive secretary of the Niger Basin Authority.

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Jean "Binta" Breeze

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First Name Jean
Last Name Breeze
Died on August 4, 2021 (aged 51)

Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia, and Africa, and has been called "one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years".

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Angelo Del Boca

First Name Angelo
Last Name Boca
Born on May 23, 1925
Died on July 6, 2021 (aged 96)
Born in Italy, Piedmont

Angelo Del Boca was an Italian historian. He specialized in the study of the Italian Colonial Empire, and the involvement in Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia during the first part of 20th century. Del Boca was the first post-WWII Italian scholar to devote himself extensively to the study of Fascist Italy's expansion in Africa, and to publish information on the crimes committed by the Italian army in Ethiopia and Libya during its period of Fascism and World War II. He was editor of the Anti-Fascist newspaper Il Giorno, and professor of Contemporary History in the University of Turin's Faculty of Political Science. He took part in the Italian resistance movement. In 2002 Del Boca received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lucerne.

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Anna C. Verna

First Name Anna
Last Name Verna
Born on April 15, 1931
Died on June 15, 2021 (aged 90)

Anna Cibotti Verna was the President of the Philadelphia City Council on which she served from 1975 to 2012, as the representative of the Second District, which encompasses most of South Philadelphia as well as most of the western end of Center City. She was a Democrat.

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Ataullah Mengal

First Name Ataullah
Born on March 24, 1929
Died on September 2, 2021 (aged 92)

Sardar Ataullah Mengal was a Pakistani politician and feudal figure. He was the head of the Mengal tribe until he nominated one of his grandsons, Sardar Asad Ullah Mengal, as his tribal successor. He was also the first Chief Minister of Balochistan during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's premiership from 1 May 1972 to 13 February 1973. He died on 2 September 2021 in Karachi, Sindh.

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Donald William Cameron

First Name Donald
Last Name Cameron
Born on May 20, 1946
Died on May 3, 2021 (aged 74)

Donald William Cameron was a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Nova Scotia from February 1991 to June 1993. He represented the electoral district of Pictou East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Following his political career, he was appointed the Canadian Consul General to New England.

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