List of Famous people who died in 2021

María del Carmen "Menchu" Álvarez del Valle was a Spanish radio journalist and paternal grandmother of the queen consort of Spain, Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano.

Elias Hanna Rahbani was a Lebanese musician, composer, songwriter, orchestra conductor and reality television personality sitting as judge on a number of talent shows. He composed more than 2500 songs including 2000 in Arabic. He wrote the soundtrack for more than 25 films, a number of TV series, and also composed musical scores for the piano. He composed songs for a great number of artists including Fairuz and Sabah.

Juan Forn was an Argentine writer, translator, and editor. He wrote four novels, a compilation of short stories and essays.

Jackie De Caluwé was a footballer who played most of his career for Cercle Brugge.

Wang Kuang-hui was a Taiwanese professional baseball player and coach. He spent his entire playing and coaching career in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Brother Elephants franchise.

Leroy Sherrier Lewis was a Costa Rican association football player and coach.

Jovan Divjak was a Bosnian army general who served as the Deputy Commander of the Bosnian army's main staff until 1994, during the Bosnian War.

Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre, a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.

Pieter Aspe was a Belgian writer of a series of detective stories starring inspector Pieter Van In. These were adapted for the long-running TV series Aspe (2004–14) starring Herbert Flack. He died at the age of 68 years.

Romano Fogli was an Italian football player and manager who played as a midfielder.