Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2021

Pierce Collins Fulton fue un DJ, músico, multiinstrumentista y productor discográfico estadounidense. En 2014, su canción "Runaway" encabezó el Billboard Emerging Artists chart. Más tarde ese mismo año, su canción "Kuaga " fue incluido en el número 38 en la tabla de Dance/Mix Mostrar Airplay de Billboard y se utilizó en una campaña publicitaria de Smirnoff.

Gary Halpin was an Irish rugby union international player. He played as a prop for Wanderers F.C., Leinster, London Irish, Harlequins and the Irish national rugby union team. He was noted for scoring a try against New Zealand at the 1995 Rugby World Cup and celebrating with an obscene gesture directed at the All Blacks.

Sydney Devine was a Scottish singer.

Paul Lokech was a senior military officer at the rank of Major General, in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), who was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police of the Uganda Police Force on 16 December 2020. Between November 2017 and December 2019, he served on special assignment "to monitor on behalf of the guarantors of the South Sudan peace process, the assembling, screening, demobilization and integration of the armed forces of South Sudan".

Charles Connor was an American drummer, best known as a member of Little Richard's band. Richard's shout of "a-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop bam-boom" at the beginning of "Tutti Frutti" is said to be a reference to Connor's drum rhythms. James Brown described Little Richard and his band, with Connor as the drummer, as "the first to put funk into the rhythm."

Harohalli Srinivasaiah Doreswamy fue un activista y periodista indio. Fue miembro del movimiento de independencia de la India, y llegó a ser centenario en abril de 2018. Dirigió la editorial de publicación Sahitya Mandira y el diario nacionalista indio Pauravani durante el Raj británico y el periodo después. El historiador Ramachandra Guha lo describió como la "conciencia del estado (Karnataka)" debido a su activismo.

René Paul Robert was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, and Colorado Rockies from 1970 to 1982. He made two All-Star appearances and was selected as the Second NHL All-Star Team right wing in 1974–75. He also played in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals with the Sabres, in which he scored the game-winning goal in Game 3.

Günter Wienhold was a German footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He died on 21 September 2021, at the age of 73.

Sir Michael John Cullen was a New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, also Minister of Finance, Minister of Tertiary Education, and Attorney-General. He was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1996 until November 2008, when he resigned following a defeat in the general election. He resigned from Parliament in April 2009, to become the deputy chairman of New Zealand Post from 1 November 2009 and chairman from 1 November 2010 until leaving the role in 2016. On 6 March 2020 he announced that he had resigned from the Lakes and Bay of Plenty district health boards, respectively. At the same time he also announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 small-cell lung cancer, which had also spread to his liver.

Milford Graves fue un baterista estadounidense, reconocido por su asociación con artistas como Paul Bley, Albert Ayler y The New York Art Quartet. Era considerado un pionero del jazz y grabó cinco álbumes en calidad de líder de banda, además de registrar una gran cantidad de colaboraciones en álbumes de otros músicos. Se desempeñó además como profesor de música, artista visual y escultor.