List of Famous people who died in 2021

Joseph Ponthus was a French writer. He was best known for writing the book À la ligne, which received the Grand prix RTL-Lire and the Prix Eugène-Dabit du roman populiste.

Giannalberto Bendazzi was an Italian animation historian, author, and professor.

Françoise Nuñez was a French photographer.

Michel Le Bris was a French writer.

Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, SJ was a Peruvian Roman Catholic Bishop of Chimbote and former president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.

Joe Simon was an American soul and R&B musician. He began as a gospel artist singing with the Golden West Singers in the Bay Area in California. A consistent presence on the US charts between 1964 and 1981, Simon charted 51 U.S. Pop and R&B chart hits between 1964 and 1981, including eight times in the US top forty, thirty-eight times in the top 40 of the US R&B charts, and 13 chart hits in Canada. His biggest hits included three number one entries on the US Billboard R&B chart: "The Chokin' Kind" (1969), "Power of Love" (1972), and "Get Down, Get Down " (1975). In 2021, he was one of the 60 nominees for the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.