List of Famous people who died in 2021
Jacek Niedźwiedzki
Jacek Niedźwiedzki was a professional tennis player from Poland.
Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price was an American R&B vocalist, known as "Mr. Personality", after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Wakefield Poole
Walter Wakefield Poole III was an American dancer, choreographer, theatrical director, and pioneering film director in the gay pornography industry during the 1970s and 1980s.
Greg Noll
Greg Noll, nicknamed "Da Bull" by Phil Edwards in reference to his physique and way of "charging" down the face of a wave, was an American pioneer of big wave surfing and was also acknowledged as a prominent longboard shaper. Noll was a member of a U.S. lifeguard team that introduced malibu boards to Australia around the time of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Noll also produced a "legendary" series of 5 Search for Surf movies.
Roger Hawkins
Roger G. Hawkins was an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama.
Fanne Foxe
Annabel Battistella, known professionally as Fanne Foxe, was an Argentine-American stripper best known for being involved in a 1974 sex scandal surrounding Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills. At the time, Mills was the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and a powerful Democratic politician. The scandal was one of the most reported political sex scandals of the 1970s. Foxe was on the Time list of Top 10 Mistresses, and her affair with Mills was on the Bloomberg list of Top 10 U.S. sex scandals.
Madampu Kunjukuttan
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, was a Malayalam actor, author and screenplay writer.
Toshihiro Iijima
Toshihiro Iijima , also known by the names Kitao Senzoku , and Jōtarō Jitōin , was a Japanese film and television director, producer, and screenwriter.
Abdelmajid Chaker
Abdelmajid Chaker was a Tunisian politician and nationalist militant.
Oleg Tselkov
Oleg Nikolayevich Tselkov was a Russian nonconformist artist, celebrated for his images of faces painted in bright color, depicting inner psychological patterns of violence in contemporary culture.