List of Famous people who died in 2021

Serafima Kholina was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1949. She made her film debut in the 1950 film Dream of a Cossack. She is most known as host of the fashion show in the film The Diamond Arm. Kholina received several awards.

Cristopher Javier Mansilla Almonacid was a Chilean track and road cyclist.

U Kyaw Hla Aung was a Burmese lawyer and civil rights activist and member of the Rohingya community.

Marye Anne Payne Fox was an American physical organic chemist and university administrator. She was the first female chief executive of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In April 2004, Fox was named chancellor of the University of California San Diego. In 2010 Fox received the National Medal of Science.

Juan Carlos Copes was an Argentine tango dancer, choreographer, and performer. He started dancing with Maria Nieves when he was 17 and she 14, and the pair later married. Copes and Nieves played a leading role in the renaissance in Tango dancing from the 1970s and, particularly, in Argentine Tango following the 1983 restoration of democracy in that country. Copes was the first to create choreographed tango stage shows and also worked on seven films. Later in his career he partnered with his daughter, Johana, from his second marriage.

Melor Sturua was a Russian journalist who wrote for Izvestia since 1950. He was the longest serving journalist at the newspaper.

Vassilis Alexakis was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.

Lynn Arlen Stalmaster was an American casting director. He was noted as the first casting director to be conferred an Academy Award, having received an Honorary Oscar in 2016.

Annie Steiner was an Algerian activist of the National Liberation Front. She was arrested on 15 October 1956 and sentenced in March 1957 by the Algerian Armed Forces Tribunal to five years' imprisonment for helping the National Liberation Front, and imprisoned in Serkadji Prison. She was released in 1961.