Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2021
Brian London
Brian Sidney Harper, known professionally as Brian London, was an English professional boxer who competed from 1955 to 1970. He held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout. He was one of a quartet of British boxers, with Henry Cooper, Joe Erskine, and Dick Richardson, who dominated the British boxing scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Maguito Vilela
Luiz Alberto Maguito Vilela fue un político y abogado brasileño.
Leon Hale
Carol Leon Hale was an American journalist and author. He worked as a columnist for the Houston Chronicle from 1984 until his retirement in 2014. Before that, he had a column in the Houston Post for 32 years. He was also the author of eleven books.
Deezer D
Dearon Thompson, conocido profesionalmente como Deezer D, fue un actor, rapero y orador motivacional estadounidense. Fue mejor conocido por su papel del enfermero Malik McGrath en la serie de televisión estadounidense ER, y por sus papeles en las películas CB4 y Fear of a Black Hat. El álbum de Deezer D, Delayed, But Not Denied, estaba disponible en iTunes y en su sitio web el 8 de agosto de 2008. Anteriormente, Thompson lanzó Unpredictable (2002) y Living Up in a Down World (1999).
Danilo Lim
Danilo "Danny" Delapuz Lim was a retired Filipino soldier who served as Chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority from 2017 until his death in 2021. He was incarcerated at Camp Crame in Quezon City from 2006 to 2010 for rebellion charges and an attempted coup d'état. After more than 4 years in prison, Lim was granted temporary freedom by the Armed Forces of the Philippines on May 31, 2010.
Bibian Mentel
Bibian Mentel-Spee was a Dutch three-fold Winter Paralympics gold-medalist, and five-times world champion para-snowboarding athlete. Bibian Mentel won the paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018, despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century. She won her 2018 medals at age 45.
Eugeniusz Faber
Eugeniusz Faber was a Polish footballer who played as a forward for Ruch Chorzów and Lens.
Tom Hickey
Tom Hickey was an Irish actor who appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He was best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, The Riordans.
Wes Madiko
Wes Madiko, más conocido como Wes, fue un músico camerunés. Famoso por interpretar la canción que pertenece a la banda sonora de la película El Rey León II, «In Youpendi», también trabajó con la exitosa banda llamada, Deep Forest y en 1997 lanzó su sencillo más conocido, «Alane».
Vitaly Shishov
Vitaly Vasilyevich Shishov, o Vital Vasilyevich Shyshou era un activista bielorruso. Fue el jefe de la Casa Bielorrusa en Ucrania, una organización que ayuda a las personas a escapar de la represión en Bielorrusia tras las protestas en Bielorrusia de 2020-2021. A la edad de 26 años, Shishov desapareció de su casa en Kiev y fue encontrado muerto, colgado de un árbol en un parque cerca de donde vivía. Se sospecha que pudo haber sido asesinado por agentes del gobierno bielorruso.