List of Famous people who died in 2021

Traude Dierdorf was an Austrian politician.

José Félix Pedrozo Bogarín was a Paraguayan footballer who played as a defender.

Richard Lowell Rubenstein was an educator in religion and a writer in the American Jewish community, noted particularly for his contributions to Holocaust theology. A Connecticut resident, he was married to art historian Betty Rogers Rubenstein.

Haziq Kamaruddin was a Malaysian sport archer. He studied at the University of Malaya.

Roger Fauroux was a French politician, who served as Minister of Industry and Regional Planning from 1988 to 1991.

Abel Gabuza was a South African prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Durban from 9 December 2018 and until his death in 2021. He was Bishop of Kimberley from 2010 to 2018.

Sylvie Feit was a French actress and artistic director.

Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru, OBE was a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu. He was married to actress Micaela Caracaș and had three sons: Ștefan, Andrei, and Matei Caramitru.

Alberto Viller Bica Alonso was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a right winger. He played in nine matches for the Uruguay national team from 1979 to 1981. He was also part of Uruguay's squad for the 1979 Copa América tournament.

Jean Barthélémy Richard was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921. Richard died in January 2021, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.