List of Famous people who died in 2021
Frithjof Bergmann
Frithjof Harold Bergmann was a German professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he taught courses on existentialism, continental philosophy, Hegel, and Marx. Furthermore, he was the founder of the New Work movement.
José Yudica
José Antonio Yudica was an Argentine football player and manager.
Manola Robles
Manola del Carmen Robles Delgado was a Chilean journalist. She wrote primarily on economics and politics and worked for Radio Cooperativa in the 1980s and 1990s.
Joël Robert
Joël Robert was a Belgian professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1960 to 1976 when the sport experienced a surge in popularity worldwide. A six-time world champion, Robert dominated the 250cc class for almost a decade when, he placed either first or second every year between 1964 and 1972 including, five consecutive world championships. He won a total of 50 Grand Prix races over his career, a record which stood for nearly 30 years.
Yitzhak Arad
Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.
Sergio Víctor Palma
Sergio Víctor Palma was an Argentine who was the World Boxing Association's world Super Bantamweight boxing champion from 1980 until 1982.
Federico Salas
Luis Federico Salas-Guevara Schultz was a Peruvian politician. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Peru in 2000, being the final prime minister of President Alberto Fujimori's decade-long rule.
Lubomír Kaválek
Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek was a Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965. He won two Czechoslovak and three U.S. championships, and was ranked as the world's no. 10 player in 1974. He was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2001. Kavalek was also a chess coach, organizer, teacher, commentator, author and award-winning columnist.
Masatomi Ikeda
Masatomi Ikeda was a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan Aikikai.
Michel Corboz
Michel Corboz was a Swiss conductor.