List of Famous people who died in 2021

Ion Mihai Pacepa was a two-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc. At the time of his defection, Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceauşescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service and a state secretary of Romania's Ministry of Interior.

Richard Buckley was an American fashion journalist and editor. Buckley wrote for Vogue Italia and New York magazine, and worked as an editor for Women's Wear Daily, Vanity Fair, and Vogue Hommes, the latter of which he was editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2005.

Carlos Carneiro Antunes was a Portuguese terrorist and politician. He was, together with Isabel do Carmo, co-founder of the Brigadas Revolucionárias a Portuguese far-left terrorist organization that acted in Portugal between 1970 and 1980.

Aleś Razanaŭ was a Belarusian writer, poet and translator.

Jacques Rougeot was a French literary critic and political activist.

Gladys Yolanda del Río Uribe was a Chilean actress and comedian.