List of Famous people who died in 2021

Alejandro Gómez Cabral was a Spanish long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon and cross-country running.

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin was a German painter. The artist lived and worked in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen art academy in the 1940s.

Patrick Henley, known professionally as Henriette Valium, was a Canadian comic book artist and painter based in Montreal, Quebec.

Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov was a Soviet and Russian film actor.

John Naisbitt was an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. His first book Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives was published in 1982. It was the result of almost ten years of research. It was on The New York Times Best Seller List for two years, mostly as No. 1. Megatrends was published in 57 countries and sold more than 14 million copies.

David Burton Wake was an American herpetologist. He was professor of integrative biology and Director and curator of herpetology of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake is known for his work on the biology and evolution of salamanders as well as general issues of vertebrate evolutionary biology. He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and American Society of Zoologists. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Linnean Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and in 1998 was elected into the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2006 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Sir Graham Vick was an English opera director known for his experimental and revisionist stagings of traditional and modern operas. He worked in many of the world's leading opera houses and was artistic director of the Birmingham Opera Company.

Michael McKevitt was an Irish republican and paramilitary leader. He was the Provisional Irish Republican Army's Quartermaster General. After the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, he formed the Real IRA in protest. His role in the Real IRA led to him being convicted of directing terrorism as the leader of the paramilitary organisation.

Shinichiro Sawai was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Julião Manuel Tavares Sena Sarmento was a Portuguese multimedia artist and painter.