List of Famous people who died in 2021

Brian Sidney Harper, known professionally as Brian London, was an English professional boxer who competed from 1955 to 1970. He held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout. He was one of a quartet of British boxers, with Henry Cooper, Joe Erskine, and Dick Richardson, who dominated the British boxing scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Maguito Vilela was a Brazilian politician who served as a Senator, and was mayor of Goiânia.

Carol Leon Hale was an American journalist and author. He worked as a columnist for the Houston Chronicle from 1984 until his retirement in 2014. Before that, he had a column in the Houston Post for 32 years. He was also the author of eleven books.

Dearon Thompson, known professionally as Deezer D, was an American actor, rapper, and motivational speaker. He is best known for his role as Nurse Malik McGrath in the American medical drama television series ER, and for his roles in the films CB4 and Fear of a Black Hat. Deezer D's album, Delayed, But Not Denied, was available on iTunes and from his website August 8, 2008. Previously, Thompson released Unpredictable (2002) and Living Up in a Down World (1999).

Danilo "Danny" Delapuz Lim was a retired Filipino soldier who served as Chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority from 2017 until his death in 2021. He was incarcerated at Camp Crame in Quezon City from 2006 to 2010 for rebellion charges and an attempted coup d'état. After more than 4 years in prison, Lim was granted temporary freedom by the Armed Forces of the Philippines on May 31, 2010.

Bibian Mentel-Spee was a Dutch three-fold Winter Paralympics gold-medalist, and five-times world champion para-snowboarding athlete. Bibian Mentel won the paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018, despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century. She won her 2018 medals at age 45.

Eugeniusz Faber was a Polish footballer who played as a forward for Ruch Chorzów and Lens.

Tom Hickey was an Irish actor who appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He was best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, The Riordans.

Wes Madiko, better known as Wes, was a Cameroonian musician. He is probably best known among Western audiences for "In Youpendi", a song from The Lion King II soundtrack, as well as work with Deep Forest and his own 1997 hit "Alane" produced by Michel Sanchez.

Vitaly Vasilyevich Shishov, or Vital Vasilyevich Shyshou, was a Belarusian political activist and dissident in exile, who disappeared, and was found dead in Ukraine in August of 2021. He was the head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, an organization that helps people to escape repressions following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. At the age of 26, Shishov went missing from his home in Kyiv and was found dead, hanging from a tree in a park near the place where he lived. His suspicious and unexpected death has raised public concerns about his possible assassination.