List of Famous people who died in 2021

John Gerard Ruggie was the Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He was an influential scholar in the field of international relations, as well as an influential policy-maker in the United Nations.

Emma Roca Rodríguez was a Spanish Catalan ski mountaineer.

Sir Brian Edward Urquhart was a British international civil servant, author and World War II veteran. He played a significant role in the founding of the United Nations. He went on to serve as its Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs.

Ann Russell Miller was an American socialite who left her wealth behind to become a nun known as Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity.

Alistair John Dawson was a Scottish professional football defender who spent most of his career at Rangers.

Vladislav Yuryevich Lemish was a Russian and Azerbaijani professional footballer who played as a forward.

Robert William Brown was an American professional baseball third baseman and executive who was the president of the American League (AL) from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who studied for his medical degree during his eight-year playing career with the New York Yankees, where he was a member of four World Series championship teams.

Jagmohan Malhotra, known by the mononym Jagmohan, was a former Indian civil servant and politician. After working with the Indian National Congress party, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and Goa, as the 5th Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, and for three terms as Member of Parliament for New Delhi. In the cabinet, he served as Union Minister for Urban Development and Tourism.

Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a US Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication.

Ian Harshman, better known by his stage name Ian Carey, was an American house DJ, musician, and record producer based in Miami, Florida.