List of Famous people who died in 2021

Neal Joseph Conan III was an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent. He worked for National Public Radio for over 36 years and was the senior host of its talk show Talk of the Nation. Conan hosted Talk of the Nation from 2001 to June 27, 2013, when the program was discontinued. NPR announced that Conan would depart the network.

Shahram Kashani was an Iranian pop singer. He had released eight albums with notable hits before his death in Istanbul due to COVID-19 and liver problems.

Valeriano Martínez was a Spanish politician. A member of the People's Party of Galicia, he served as Minister of Finance of Galicia from 2015 until 2021 and was a member of the Parliament of Galicia from 2016 to 2017.

Giovanni Gastel was an Italian photographer.

Sivanathan Shanmugavelan Ramamoorthy, better known by his stage name Nellai Siva, was a comedian and a supporting actor, who predominantly worked in Tamil cinema. He worked mostly in comedy scenes. His first film was Aan Paavam released in 1985. He appeared in popular movies like Mahaprabhu, Vetri Kodi Kattu, Kannum Kannum. His way of speaking in the movies is completely of Nellai slang, which shows him unique from other supporting actors. He acted in over 500 films in his career.

John Gabriel was an American actor, singer-lyricist, and producer who is best known for his role as Seneca Beaulac in Ryan's Hope, and for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 1980. Gabriel, who played the Professor in the original, unaired Gilligan's Island pilot, was the father of actress Andrea Gabriel. He appeared on Broadway in The Happy Time in 1968, and produced the shortlived eponymous television series Charles Grodin starring Charles Grodin in 1995.

Joseph Lee Galloway was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998, for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.. From 2013 until his death, he worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.

Walter Olkewicz was an American character actor. He played Marko in the short-lived TV series Wizards and Warriors and Coach Wordman in the feature film Making the Grade.

Zinaida Antonovna Korneva, née Blokhina was a Soviet and Russian military veteran of the Second World War and a charity fundraiser.

Swatilekha Sengupta was a Bengali actress. She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.