List of Famous people who died in 2021

César Isella was an Argentinian singer and songwriter of folk music. He joined Los Fronterizos from 1956 to 1966, was one of the main figures of the "Movement of the New Songbook", and in the 1990s he discovered and sponsored the singer Soledad Pastorutti. He has written the music for "Canción con todos", regarded as the Latin American anthem.

Thione Ballago Seck was a Senegalese singer and songwriter in the mbalakh genre. Seck came from a family of griot singers from the Wolof people of Senegal. He first performed with Orchestre Baobab, but he later formed his own band, Raam Daan, of which he was a member until his death in 2021.

Sir Timothy James Alan Colman was a British businessman and a Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.

Ida Yakovlevna Nudel was a Soviet-born Israeli refusenik and activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to help the "Prisoners of Zion" in the Soviet Union.

Kurt Clemens was a German footballer who played for the Saarland national football team. He turned 95 in November 2020 and died in July 2021.

Bertrand Herz was a French engineer and university teacher of Jewish origin. He performed forced labor as a teenager at the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. Since 2001, he has been general secretary of the French Association française Buchenwald Dora et Kommandos and he was president of the international committee Buchenwald-Dora and Kommandos between 2001 and 2016.

Norman Stanley Bailey was a British operatic bass-baritone who appeared in leading roles in major opera venues. After an early career in Austria and Germany, he settled in England and was associated with the English National Opera. One of his signature roles was Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he performed at La Scala in Milan in 1968 and at the Bayreuth Festival the following year. Later that year he was called upon at the last minute to play the part at the Royal Opera House in London when Hubert Hoffman had to pull out with a sore throat. He also played this part in his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1976.

Winfried Bölke was a German cyclist. In 1963 he won the national championships and a bronze medal at the world championships in the road race for amateurs. Next year he turned professional and won the Tour de Picardie and one stage at the Volta a Catalunya. In 1965–1967 he won all national road race championships, as well as one madison title in 1967. In the following three years he won the road races of Maaslandse Pijl (1968), Saint-Raphael (1969), Kaistenberg (1970) and Porz (1970). He continued competing professionally until 1973.

Margarita Anatolyevna Ponomaryova, also known as Margarita Khromova, was a hurdler from Russia, best known for setting the world record in the women's 400 metres hurdles in 1984 with 53.58 secs.

Tarcisio Burgnich was an Italian football manager and player, who played as a defender.