2021

From left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 Sudanese coup d'état; Crowd shortly after the January 6 United States Capitol attack; The container ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking international shipping for six days; A scene from; the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan; The Ingenuity helicopter after deployment on the Martian surface by the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover; Taliban fighters in Kabul on a captured Humvee following the 2021 fall of Kabul at the end of the War in Afghanistan.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2018 2019 2020 – 2021 – 2022 2023 2024

2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.

Events

January

On 6 January, protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

On 9 January, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes in the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia

On 13 January, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump a second time over the storming of the U.S. Capitol

On 20 January, former Vice President Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States

On 26 January, Kaja Kallas becomes the first woman to be Prime Minister of Estonia, following the resignation of Jüri Ratas

• January 1
  • The African Continental Free Trade Area comes into effect.
  • Cuba formally unifies its dual currency system after 27 years, with Cuban convertible peso (CUC) leaving and making the Cuban peso (CUP) the only national currency.
  • Munster Technological University is opened in Cork, and Tralee, Ireland.
• January 4
  • A British judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States and Mexico offers him political asylum.
  • Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is re-elected to a second term, winning 54% of the vote.
  • The border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopens.
• January 6
  • Protesters supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump storm inside the United States Capitol while congress was certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Democratic Party officially gains control of the United States Senate, now controlling both chambers of the United States Congress.
  • 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong police arrest over 50 democracy activists under the national security law.
• January 7 – 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis: Iraq issues an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump over the drone strike killing of Qasem Soleimani.
• January 9 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 is declared missing after the plane dropped 10,000 ft within a minute north of Jakarta, Indonesia. The plane crashed, carrying over 60 passengers. A search and rescue team were deployed.
• January 10 – Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, taking the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
• January 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 90 million worldwide.
• January 13
  • In Lyon, France, the first transplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.
  • U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time following the storming of the United States Capitol. He is the only president of the United States to be impeached twice.
  • Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas resigns following a criminal investigation into the Estonian Centre Party.
• January 14 – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is re-elected winning 58.64% of the vote, defeating Bobi Wine.
• January 15
  • An earthquake occurs in Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing over 100 people.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from the virus passes two million.
  • Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his government resign as a result of a child welfare scandal.
• January 17 – LauncherOne becomes the first liquid-fueled aircraft launched rocket to reach orbit.
• January 20 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States with Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States.
• January 21 – Governor General of Canada Julie Payette announced her resignation following allegations of a "toxic workplace" environment.
• January 23 – In Russia, police arrest more than 3,000 people who were protesting in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was also arrested.
• January 24 – President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is re-elected in a landslide victory winning 60.7% of the vote.
• January 25 – Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte resigned following a loss of confidence from the coalition government that originally backed him in 2018.
• January 26
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 100 million worldwide.
  • Kaja Kallas becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Estonia following a coalition government, becoming Estonia's first female prime minister.
• January 27
  • The Polish Constitutional Tribunal rules that abortion for fetal defects is unconstitutional and resulting in a near-total ban of the practice in Poland.
  • GameStop short squeeze: Investment funds report major losses after GME stock prices raised 900 times their record low.
• January 28 – GameStop short squeeze: American financial services company Robinhood restricts the trade of stocks of several companies, including GameStop, causing outrage online.
• January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for a third five-year term of top leader in Vietnam.

February

On 1 February, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) is removed from power in a military coup d'état led by Min Aung Hlaing (right)

On 7 February, a glacial burst in Uttarakhand, India kills at least 36 people

On 13 February, former U.S. President Donald Trump is found not guilty in his second impeachment trial for inciting the storming of the U.S. Capitol

From 13 to 17 February, a deadly winter storm hits North America killing 70 people and cutting off water, power and heating for millions

• February 1
  • A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule with Min Aung Hlaing as state leader.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: Over 100 million vaccinations have been given to people worldwide.
• February 2 – Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon and names AWS CEO Andy Jassy as his replacement.
• February 3 – Canada becomes the first country to name the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization.
• February 4 – U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will stop providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for use in the Yemeni Civil War.
• February 7
  • A glacial burst in Uttarakhand, India kills at least 36 people and over 200 people are missing.
  • In American football, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs with a 31 to 9 point margin at Super Bowl LV.
• February 9
  • COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO-China investigation into the source of the outbreak is concluded with experts saying a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.
  • The United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission to successfully enter orbit around Mars.
• February 10 – China's Tianwen-1 is launched to Mars to learn about the planet's environmental quality.
• February 11 – In Fort Worth, Texas, United States, at least nine people were killed in an accident involving 133 vehicles on a highway; affected by the weather conditions left by a snowstorm system.
• February 12 – Former Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori, who was picked in 2014 to be in charge of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, resigned from the Olympic committee after sexist comments he made.
• February 13
  • A winter storm in North America begins which would cause 70 deaths and several million others without clean water or power.
  • Former U.S. President Donald Trump is found not-guilty by the United States Senate for causing the storming of the United States Capitol during his second impeachment trial.
  • Mario Draghi is appointed as the Prime Minister of Italy, a month after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte due to a failed coalition government.
• February 14 – Former President of Argentina Carlos Menem, who supported Peronist ideas, dies at aged 90.
• February 15 – Nigerian-American economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is picked as the first woman and first African to be Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
• February 17 – 27 students and staff members at a school in Nigeria's Niger State are kidnapped by armed gunmen, killing one student. After government negotiations, all 27 were released on February 27.
• February 18 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission lands on Mars after seven months of travel.
• February 19
  • Porfirije becomes the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, replacing Irinej who died of COVID-19 in November 2020.
  • The United States officially rejoins the Paris Agreement, 107 days after leaving.
• February 20
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide pass 200 million.
  • 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak: 7 people test positive for H5N8 bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Russia, making them the first human cases.
• February 21 – Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic win the Women's and Men's Singles respectively at the Australian Open.
• February 22 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass half a million deaths from the virus.
• February 24 – COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
• February 25
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 2.5 million.
  • The Armenian military calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign and Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.
• February 26 – More than 300 schoolgirls are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria's Zamfara State.

March

On 1 March, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison

On 17 March, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is re-elected to a fourth term with his VVD party winning the elections

On 18 March, a series of massive floods occur in New South Wales, Australia with over 18,000 people being evacuated and three people killed

On 23 March, the Ever Given blocks the Suez Canal after a sandstorm forcibly moves the container ship

• March 1 – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison.
• March 2 – Microsoft acknowledges a series of data breaches and cyberattacks, affecting about 250,000 servers globally.
• March 3 – The Russo-Ukrainian crisis begins as Russia supported rebel groups near Ukraine to "destruct" the country.
• March 5 – Moldova becomes the first country in Europe to receive coronavirus vaccines through COVAX.
• March 6 – Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq making it the first meeting between a pope and a grand ayatollah.
• March 7
  • A series of explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea kills over 100 people and injures more than 600.
  • In a referendum, Switzerland approved a nationwide ban on the burqa.
• March 8
  • Prime Minister of Ivory Coast Hamed Bakayoko dies from cancer after being hospitalized with COVID-19, aged 56. Patrick Achi is nominated to replace him.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations passed 300 million worldwide.
  • In the United States, the murder trial of the four police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd begins in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• March 11 – 30 students and several staff members are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
• March 13 – Former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez is arrested on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy over her actions during the 2019 coup of then-President Evo Morales.
• March 16 – A mass shooting kills eight people in Atlanta, Georgia, with most of the victims being Asian American women. The attack is being called a hate crime against Asian-Americans mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• March 17
  • Mathematicians Avi Wigderson of Hungary and László Lovász of Israel both win the Abel Prize for their work in complexity theory and graph theory.
  • Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) wins the general elections, with liberal parties gaining seats.
  • President of Tanzania John Magufuli dies in office from heart failure, aged 61. Vice President Samia Suluhu replaces him the following day, becoming the country's first female president.
• March 18
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide are 400 million.
  • In Australia, floods in New South Wales cause the evacuation of over 18,000 people and three killed.
• March 20 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a presidential decree, becoming the first country to withdraw from it.
• March 22
  • A mass shooting kills ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States. The suspect is shot and arrested by police.
  • A fire breaks out at a Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, killing 15 people and injuring over 500 people.
• March 23
  • The Israeli general elections take place, the fourth Knesset election in two years, with Likud winning the most seats.
  • Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, loses control and causes a major blockage in the Suez Canal causing a large disruption of global trade.
• March 24 – Over twenty people are killed and 35,000 flee when Islamist rebels take the city of Palma in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack.
• March 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administrated worldwide exceeds 500 million.
• March 28 – Former President of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka dies of problems caused by influenza in Antananarivo, aged 84.
• March 30 – A series of riots break out in loyalist areas of Derry in Northern Ireland.
• March 31 – Alfred Aho of Canada and Jeffrey Ullman of the United States win the Turing Award for their work in programming language compilers.

April

On 9 April, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at Windsor Castle (flag at half-staff pictured) at aged 99

On 10 April, conservative banker Guillermo Lasso is elected the 47th President of Ecuador

On 13 April, Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years

On 20 April, President of Chad Idriss Déby is shot and killed during a military conflict in the Tibesti Region

On 22 April, the United States hosts a global summit on climate change where many countries promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions

• April 2
  • At least 51 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck fell onto the track.
  • Russia warns NATO against sending any troops to aid Ukraine, amid reports of a large Russian military build-up on its borders.
• April 4
  • In Bulgaria, the conservative-populist GERB party led by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov wins the majority of seats in the parliamentary elections.
  • Vjosa Osmani is elected the fifth President of Kosovo by the Assembly of Kosovo, becoming the second woman to hold this position.
• April 6 – Cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Indonesia and East Timor, killing at least 160 people.
• April 9
  • Naomi Mataʻafa is elected the 7th and first female Prime Minister of Samoa, after defeating the incumbent Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi.
  • La Soufrière, a Caribbean volcano in Saint Vincent, erupts which forced over 20,000 people to evacuate.
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at Windsor Castle at aged 99.
• April 10 – Banker and former Governor of Guayas Guillermo Lasso is elected the 47th President of Ecuador, defeating socialist candidate Andrés Arauz.
• April 11 – Iran accuses Israel of "nuclear terrorism" and vows revenge, after a large explosion destroys the internal power system of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, a nuclear power plant.
• April 13 – Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• April 15 – Scientists announce they successfully injected human stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating chimera-embryos.
• April 17 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 3 million.
• April 18
  • Twelve football clubs, including the "big six" from the Premier League and leading clubs from the Serie A and La Liga, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, despite condemnation from UEFA, FIFA and politicians including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
  • Ulisses Correia e Silva is re-elected Prime Minister of Cape Verde.
• April 19
  • NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, part of the Mars 2020 mission, performs the first powered flight on another planet in history.
  • Raúl Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, ending more than 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba. President Miguel Díaz-Canel is picked as his replacement.
• April 20
  • President Idriss Déby is killed during a rebel attack in North Chad, aged 68.
  • The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment on the Perseverance rover creates oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere.
• April 21 – COVID-19 pandemic: With global case numbers approaching a second peak, India reports 315,000 infections within 24 hours, the highest one-day tally recorded anywhere in the world to date.
• April 22 – World leaders mark Earth Day by hosting a virtual summit on climate change hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, during which more targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions are proposed, including a 50% cut by 2030 for the United States.
• April 24
  • Following an international search and rescue effort, the Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since 2003.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide passes 1 billion. Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries.
  • A hospital fire in Baghdad, where COVID-19 patients were being treated during the pandemic in Iraq, kills 82 people with 110 people injured.
• April 25
  • Edi Rama is re-elected Prime Minister of Albania with his Socialist Party winning a narrow majority of 74 seats.
  • Nomadland wins the Academy Award for Best Picture with its director (Chloé Zhao) and leading actress (Frances McDormand) winning Best Director and Best Actress respectively. Youn Yuh-jung, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya also won the awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
• April 28
  • The European Union approves of a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom following their exit from the European Union.
  • After members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) issue a motion of no confidence, DUP Leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster announced her resignation effective the following month.
  • American astronaut Michael Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, dies at the age of 90.
  • Clashes on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border leave at least 46 people dead and 30,000 civilians displaced.
• April 29 – China launches the Tianhe space station module, the first module in the upcoming Tiangong space station.
• April 30 – In Israel, at least 45 people are crushed to death with over 150 injured at a religious festival on Mount Meron.

May

On 2 May, many protests break out in Colombia against a tax increase policy. The protests would result in the deaths on six civilians

On 3 May, a section of the Mexico City Metro overpass collapses, killing 26 people

On 11 May, a crisis between Israel and Palestine began after Hamas launched rockets onto Israeli cities while Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes

On 14 May, CNSA's Zhurong rover lands on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet

On 24 May, Naomi Mataʻafa becomes Samoa's first female Prime Minister, however her leadership is disputed as her predecessor Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to leave office

• May 1
  • In horse racing, Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby, the record seventh victory for trainer Bob Baffert.
  • A ceasefire is declared following a border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
• May 2
  • The SpaceX Crew-1 mission ends, returning four crewmembers of Expedition 64 and 65 to Earth from the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Resilience.
  • Nationwide protests in Colombia against proposed tax increases to fund a basic income program result in at least six dead. President Iván Duque announced his withdrawal of the tax increase.
• May 3
  • An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro overpass collapses, killing 26 people and injuring 70.
  • Mark Selby wins the World Snooker Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy.
• May 5 – SpaceX successfully flies, lands, and recovers a Starship prototype for the first time, after four unsuccessful previous attempts.
• May 6
  • Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is injured in a car bombing which has been described as an attempted assassination.
  • In Brazil, at least twenty-five people are killed in a police raid shootout in Rio de Janeiro.
  • In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party win the majority of local elections, gaining some seats from the Labour Party.
• May 8
  • Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party is re-elected Mayor of London winning 55% of the vote against Conservative Shaun Bailey.
  • In Afghanistan, a bombing near a school in Kabul kills at least 85 people and injures 147 more.
• May 11
  • Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes as Hamas increases rocket fire.
  • Seven students and two adults are killed, and at least 21 more people are wounded, in a mass shooting at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
• May 14
  • The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.
  • In India, Cyclone Tauktae makes landfall, leaving 87 people dead and over 80 people are missing. On the same day, the country also reported that 4,329 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of COVID-related deaths in a single-day.
• May 15
  • Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150. A high-rise office in Gaza occupied by Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media outlets is destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
  • Leicester City wins the FA Cup and Manchester City wins the Premier League.
• May 17 – Darwin's Arch, a rock formation in the Galápagos Islands, collapses because of natural erosion.
• May 18–22 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 contest is won by Italian entrants Måneskin with the song "Zitti e buoni".
• May 20 – After international pressure and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees a ceasefire deal to end the conflict with Gaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 AM local time.
• May 22 – In Samoa, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to acknowledge his defeat and locks Naomi Mataʻafa from the Legislative Assembly causing a constitutional crisis.
• May 23
  • Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Championship, becoming the oldest major championship winner in golf history at aged 50.
  • In Peru, a militant communist group kills 18 people as protest against the presidential candidacy of conservative Keiko Fujimori just two weeks before the general election run-off.
  • 14 people are killed in the cable car crash near Lake Maggiore in Italy.
  • In Belarus, journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevich is arrested after his Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land at Minsk National Airport under the orders of President Alexander Lukashenko.
• May 24 – Members of the Malian Armed Forces captured and arrest President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane in a coup d'état. Military leader Assimi Goïta becomes the interim president shortly afterwards.
• May 26
  • Bashar al-Assad is re-elected President of Syria, winning 95% of the vote even though the votes cast for Assad was higher than the total population of Syria.
  • The second-shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs, with totality lasting for 14 minutes. The eclipse was visible over the Pacific Ocean, Oceania, Antarctica and parts of Asia and the Americas.
  • Shell becomes the first company to be legally mandated to cut its carbon emissions and follow the Paris climate accord, following a landmark court ruling in the Netherlands.
• May 27 – Poul Schlüter, Denmark's Prime Minister for over a decade and introduced the krone to the European Union, dies at aged 92.
• May 29
  • In Canada, a mass grave with the remains of 215 children are found on the grounds of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia.
  • Chelsea defeats Manchester City in the final of the UEFA Champions League.
• May 30 – Brazilian driver Hélio Castroneves wins the Indy 500 for the fourth time.

June

On 2 June, former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog is elected the 11th President of Israel

On 9 June, El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make Bitcoin a legal tender in the country

On 11 June, teacher Pedro Castillo is elected the 63rd President of Peru

On 13 June, Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve-year tenure

On 19 June, Ebrahim Raisi is elected the 8th President of Iran

On 24 June, in the United States a condominium in Miami, Florida collapses, killing 97 people

On 29 June, former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison

• June 2
  • The Iranian oil fleet IRIS Kharg catches fire and sinks near the Gulf of Oman. No deaths were reported.
  • Former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog is elected as the 11th President of Israel defeating educator Miriam Peretz.
  • The X-Press Pearl sinks near Colombo, Sri Lanka leaking many tons of nitric acid and oil into the Indian Ocean, causing the country's worst marine ecological disaster. The ship had been on fire for the past two weeks.
  • The first daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is born in the United States in Santa Barbara, California. Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.
  • French writer David Diop wins the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood Is Black.
• June 3 – Sir Anerood Jugnauth, who was Mauritius's Prime Minister for a total of twenty-years and its President for a decade, dies at aged 91.
• June 4
  • Twitter's operations in Nigeria would be "suspended" permanently, with Nigeria arguing that the company causes activities that "are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence. This comes after the company deleted tweets by President Muhammadu Buhari who was sending messages threatening violence.
  • At least 152 people are killed in attacks on two villages in Burkina Faso. The attack lasted until the early hours of June 5.
• June 5 – The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% meant to stop world's richest people from not paying taxes.
• June 6
  • In Canada, four Muslims are killed after being attacked by a truck in London, Ontario in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as a "terrorist attack" caused by Islamophobia.
  • The United States wins the first edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, defeating Mexico in the final by a scoreline of 3–2 after overtime.
• June 7
  • Two trains crash in Ghotki District in Sindh, Pakistan, killing 65 people and injuring another 150.
  • The Juno spacecraft performed its only flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. It was the first flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over twenty years.
• June 9
  • Former Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh is elected the 6th President of Mongolia, winning 72% of the vote.
  • El Salvador becomes the first country to make Bitcoin as legal tender.
• June 10 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from parts of the Northeast United States, Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.
• June 11
  • Rural farmer and teacher Pedro Castillo is elected the 63rd President of Peru, defeating conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.
  • The New York Times wins the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation.
  • The UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2021 Copa América begins, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• June 13 – Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel following a coalition agreement, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve-year tenure as prime minister.
• June 14
  • Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua's president pushed for radical conservative policies, dies at aged 93.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: Novavax announces 90.4% overall efficacy in its Phase 3 United States and Mexico trial.
• June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: CureVac announces an overall efficacy of just 47% of their vaccine based on an analysis of Phase III clinical trial.
• June 17
  • Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president and nation's founding father, dies at aged 97.
  • China's Shenzhou 12 launches the first crew for the Tiangong space station.
• June 19 – Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi is elected the 8th President of Iran in a landslide victory.
• June 20
  • Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is re-elected after his party, Civil Contract, wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
  • Jon Rahm of Spain wins the 121st U.S. Open.
• June 23
  • In cricket, New Zealand defeats India in the first ICC World Test Championship.
  • Hours after Spain approved of his extradition to the United States for tax crimes, computer programming entrepreneur John McAfee commits suicide in his prison cell.
• June 24
  • Former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III, who improved the country's economy, dies at aged 61.
  • In the United States, a condominium in Miami, Florida collapses killing 97 people with 8 people reported missing.
  • Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper, is forced to shutdown for violating a national security law in Hong Kong.
  • Former Prime Minister of South Vietnam General Trần Thiện Khiêm, who helped plan and execute coup that led to the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, dies at aged 95.
• June 25
  • 751 unmarked graves are found near the former site of an indigenous peoples residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls on Pope Francis to apologize for the Catholic church run boarding schools.
  • Former police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to over 22 years for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• June 28 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital Mekele shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire.
• June 29
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide passes 3 billion.
  • Former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
• June 30 – An extreme heat wave kills 600 people in the Pacific Northwest of North America.

July

On 7 July, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated

On 11 July, massive anti-government protests erupt in Cuba

On 12 July, severe floods in Europe kill over 120 people

On 15 July, Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries is shot and killed while leaving a studio set in Amsterdam

On 17 July, floods and landslides in Henan, China kill over 50 people and leave over 2 million evacuated or homeless

On 22 July, a flood in Maharashtra, India kills over 250 people

On 23 July, the 2020 Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo, Japan

• July 3
  • The United Nations announce that recent fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has resulted in a famine that is now affecting more than 400,000 people.
  • Over 130 wildfires, caused by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave in North America.
• July 4 – In the Philippines, a plane crashes in Sulu, killing at least 53 people.
• July 5
  • More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighboring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants.
  • Gunmen kidnap 140 schoolchildren in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
• July 6
  • Mary Simon is nominated to be the 30th Governor General of Canada.
  • In Russia, a plane crashes in Kamchatka Krai, killing 28 people.
• July 7
  • President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse is assassinated at aged 53. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph becomes acting president.
  • Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup Finals.
• July 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million.
• July 10
  • Argentina beats Brazil with 1–0 in the final of the 2021 Copa América.
  • The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup is held in the United States.
• July 11
  • Euro 2020: Italy defeats England to win the UEFA European Championship final at Wembley Stadium.
  • Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed is re-elected Prime Minister of Ethiopia in a landslide victory.
  • Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 mission launches with six people, including Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.
  • Ashleigh Barty and Novak Djokovic win the respective women's and men's singles tournaments at Wimbledon.
  • In Cuba, a large anti-government protests break-out because of food and medicine shortages caused by the government's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • In Moldova, the Party of Action and Solidarity wins the majority of seats in the parliament.
  • In Bulgaria, the There Is Such a People party wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
• July 12 – Severe floods across Western Europe leave at least 90 people dead and 1,300 others missing.
• July 13
  • Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes the 43th Prime Minister of Nepal after court order found that KP Sharma Oli tenure as prime minister was against the law.
  • Over 70 people are killed during riots in South Africa following the arrest of former South African president Jacob Zuma in connection to a corrupt arms deal.
• July 14 – Former President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, who led the country's polio eradication program dies at aged 80.
• July 15 – Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries dies after being shot multiple times in Amsterdam, aged 64.
• July 17
  • Serial killer Michael Gargiulo, also known as the "Hollywood Ripper", is sentenced to death for two murders.
  • Floods and landslides caused 56 deaths in Henan, China and leaving over 2 million evacuated or homeless.
• July 18 – A report found that human rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with a phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm.
• July 19 – Blue Origin successfully conducts its first human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space – founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (the youngest person to ever go into space), and 82-year-old Wally Funk (the oldest person to go into space).
• July 20
  • Ariel Henry becomes the 23rd Prime Minister of Haiti and soon after becomes acting president following the resignation of acting Prime Minister and President Claude Joseph and the assassination of Jovenel Moïse.
  • The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Phoenix Suns to win the 2021 NBA Finals, their first championship win in fifty years.
  • Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (mehrem) provided they go in a trustworthy group during the Day of Haji.
• July 21
  • Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is removed from its UNESCO World Heritage Site status because of modern developments.
  • The International Olympic Committee awards Brisbane the right to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
• July 22 – A flood in Maharashtra, India kills over 250 people.
• July 23 – The 2020 Summer Olympics began in Tokyo, Japan, a year after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• July 25 – Tunisian President Kais Saied fires Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and freezes the Assembly of Representatives, causing a political crisis in Tunisia.
• July 28
  • Wildfires in Turkey have killed at least six people and injured more than 400.
  • Philip Pierre is elected the 8th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
  • The first direct observation of light from behind a black hole is reported, confirming Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
• July 29
  • The International Space Station temporarily spun out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of altitude, following an engine malfunction.
  • Oil tanker Mercer Street is attacked off coast of Oman, killing two crew members.

August

On 4 August, sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya takes asylum in Poland after criticizing Belarus at the 2020 Summer Olympics

On 14 August, a 7.2 earthquake hits Haiti, killing over 300 people

On 15 August, the Taliban takes control of Kabul and the Afghan government collapses with President Ashraf Ghani going into exile

On 26 August, two suicide bombings caused by ISIS kills over 180 people at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul

On 30 August, the evacuations in Afghanistan end, officially ending the War in Afghanistan

• August 1 – Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing forms a caretaker government, making himself the 13th Prime Minister of Myanmar, six months after the coup d'état against Aung San Suu Kyi.
• August 3
  • Wildfires in Greece begin, killing three people.
  • Lithuania sees an increase in illegal immigrants (mostly Iraqis) via Belarus as part of the 2021 Lithuanian migrant crisis.
  • Oil tanker Asphalt Princess is attacked off the coast of Oman.
• August 4
  • Two trains crash into each other in the Czech Republic killing three people and injuring over 60 people.
  • Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya travels to Poland to look for refuge after saying Belarus was forcing her to be part of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases passes 200 million worldwide.
• August 5 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces take control of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lalibela.
• August 6 – Natalia Gavrilița is elected the 15th Prime Minister of Moldova.
• August 8
  • The 2020 Summer Olympics ended in Tokyo, Japan with the United States winning the most gold medals and medals in total overall.
  • Taliban members capture the Afghan city of Kunduz, Sar-e Pol and Taloqan as part of the 2021 Taliban offensive.
• August 9 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first part of its report, which says that the effects of human-caused climate change are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying".
• August 10 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Farah, Faizabad and Puli Khumri.
• August 12
  • 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Ghazni, Herat, Qala e Naw and Kandahar.
  • Businessman Hakainde Hichilema is elected the 7th President of Zambia, beating incumbent President Edgar Lungu.
  • A man kills five people in a mass shooting in Plymouth, Devon, England. He then kills himself.
• August 13 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Chaghcharan and Lashkar Gah.
• August 14 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Haiti, killing more than 300 people.
• August 15 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban captures Kabul causing the Afghan government to collapse with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani going into exile and leaving the country.
• August 16 – Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin resigns after losing support from coalition parties.
• August 21
  • Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Ismail Sabri Yaakob becomes the 9th Prime Minister after a coalition government fails to support Muhyiddin Yassin.
  • In the United States, flash floods caused by heavy rain in Tennessee killed over 22 people with over 20 missing.
• August 24
  • The 2020 Summer Paralympics are held in Tokyo, Japan after being postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Former President and Prime Minister of Chad Hissène Habré, who was convicted of war crimes in 2016, dies of COVID-19 at aged 79.
• August 26
  • During evacuations, a suicide bombing occurs at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing over 180 people and injuring over 150. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the explosion.
  • The World Food Programme says that the food crisis in Madagascar is the first famine caused by climate change and not an armed conflict.
• August 27 – The United States Air Force launches an airstrike, killing the Islamic State member who is believed to have planned the Kabul airport bombing.
• August 29 – Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico as a 150 mph Category 4 hurricane, making it the 17th tropical cyclone of the decade to make landfall in the United States.
• August 30
  • The United Nations announces that leaded petrol in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction.
  • Evacuations in Afghanistan end amid the Taliban taking control of the country, ending the War in Afghanistan.

September

On 3 September, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces his resignation, effective at the end of the month

On 5 September, President of Guinea Alpha Condé is arrested and removed from power

On 13 September, Norway's Opposition Leader Jonas Gahr Støre is elected Prime Minister

On 20 September, Justin Trudeau is re-elected as Canadian Prime Minister

On 26 September, the Social Democratic Party led by Olaf Scholz win the most seats in the Bundestag

• September 3 – Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga announces his resignation as Liberal Democratic Party leader.
• September 5
  • Guinean President Alpha Condé is detained and removed from power by an elite military unit led by Mamady Doumbouya, who claimed to have taken power.
  • The 2020 Summer Paralympics ends in Tokyo with China winning the most gold medals and medals overall.
• September 6 – Carlos Vila Nova is elected the 5th President of São Tomé and Príncipe.
• September 7
  • El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency.
  • The Mexican Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in Mexico.
• September 8 – A prison fire in Tangerang, Indonesia kills 44 prisoners and injures 77 others.
• September 10
  • Aziz Akhannouch is elected the Prime Minister of Morocco, beating incumbent Saadeddine Othmani.
  • A new government is formed in Lebanon with Najib Mikati chosen as the new Prime Minister, replacing Hassan Diab.
• September 11 – Tennis players Emma Raducanu of the United Kingdom and Daniil Medvedev of Russia win the US Open.
• September 13
  • In Norway, the Labour Party led by Opposition Leader Jonas Gahr Støre wins the most seats in the Storting, beating the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
  • Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim sign a confidence and supply agreement ending a 18-month political crisis that has caused the fall of two governments in Malaysia.
• September 14
  • North Korea shoots two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea fires its first submarine-launched ballistic missile.
  • The first season of the Europa Conference League begins.
• September 15
  • A trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States is formed, to fight against China, allowing Australia to build its first nuclear-powered submarine.
  • Several ministers of the Argentine President Alberto Fernández's cabinet resigns after the government's defeat in the primary elections, causing a political crisis in the country.
• September 16 – SpaceX launches Inspiration4, making it the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight.
• September 17
  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was the 8th President of Algeria for twenty years and resigned after mass protests against his presidency in 2019, dies at aged 84.
  • Philip "Brave" Davis is elected Prime Minister of the Bahamas after his party wins the most seats in the parliament, beating incumbent Hubert Minnis.
• September 19 – The Cumbre Vieja located in the La Palma island of the Canary Islands erupts.
• September 20
  • The Liberal Party of Canada won 155 seats in the federal election, re-electing Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and allowing the party to form a minority government again.
  • In Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina is convicted on terrorism charges for the actions of his political party PDR-Ihumure.
  • At least six people are killed when a gunman shot students at Perm State University in Russia.
• September 21
  • The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
  • Egyptian general Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who led the country as Supreme Council of the Armed Forces after President Hosni Mubarak resigned, dies at aged 85.
• September 23 – Scientists discover human footprints which are about 23,000 years old at White Sands National Park in the United States, making the idea that humans arrived in North America at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
• September 24 – Two Canadian citizens are released from detention in China after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is released from house arrest in Canada.
• September 25 – The Independence Party of Iceland led by Bjarni Benediktsson win the most seats in the Althing; however Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is expected to govern a coalition.
• September 26 – The Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Olaf Scholz win the most seats in the Bundestag.
• September 29
  • Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida is elected to replace Yoshihide Suga as the 100th Prime Minister of Japan.
  • Najla Bouden Romdhane is selected to become the Prime Minister of Tunisia by President Kais Saied; making her the first female prime minister in Tunisia and the Arab world.
  • 116 inmates are killed during a prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the deadliest prison violence in the country's history.

October

On 4 October, Fumio Kishida becomes the 100th Prime Minister of Japan

On 4 October, a massive outage affects the social media sites Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for seven hours

On 8 October, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa is awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Russian editor Dmitry Muratov

On 9 October, Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation following the creation of a corruption investigation against him

On 14 October, a building fire in Taiwan kills 46 people

On 25 October, Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok is removed from office and arrested during a military coup

• October 1
  • Coup military leader Mamady Doumbouya is sworn-in as the interim President of Guinea after removing Alpha Condé from power last month.
  • The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins, as it was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• October 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media outlets publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the Pandora Papers, revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders.
• October 4
  • Armenian-American molecular biologist Ardem Patapoutian and American physiologist David Julius are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on human receptors and molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat.
  • Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is officially voted by the National Diet as the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Yoshihide Suga.
  • Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have become inaccessible because of a major outage.
• October 5
  • Roscosmos launches the Soyuz MS-19 mission, carrying two Channel One Russia crewmembers to the International Space Station to make a movie.
  • Japanese-American meteorologist Syukuro Manabe, German oceanographer Klaus Hasselmann and Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their works on modeling climate change patterns and its effects.
• October 6
  • German chemist Benjamin List and Scottish-born chemist David MacMillan win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the development of organocatalysis.
  • The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy as they were originally scheduled for June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling of UEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Children across most of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria, the first vaccine approved by the World Health Organization.
• October 7
  • A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 20 people and injures over 300 others in Balochistan, Pakistan.
  • Tanzanian-British novelist and refugee Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels about colonialism and its impacts on refugees.
• October 8
  • Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov win the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on freedom of expression.
  • A suicide bombing carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at a Shia mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills over 100 people while injuring over 140 others.
• October 9
  • Abolhassan Banisadr, the first democratically elected President of Iran following the Islamic Revolution, dies in Paris, France at aged 88.
  • Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš wins 72 seats against his main opponent Petr Fiala's 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
  • Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation as Chancellor of Austria after a corruption investigation is opened against him. Alexander Schallenberg replaced Kurtz as chancellor on two days later.
• October 11 – Canadian-American labour economist David Card, Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American economist Guido Imbens win the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
• October 13
  • Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board a Blue Origin spacecraft.
  • Five people are killed and two others are injured inside a supermarket after being attacked by bow and arrows in Kongsberg, Norway.
• October 14 – A building fire in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, kills at least 46 people and injures 41 others.
• October 15
  • A suicide bombing by the Islamic State at a Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan kills 65 people and injures over 70 others.
  • British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess is stabbed to death in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, aged 69.
• October 16 – The Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids.
• October 17 – Former Prime Minister José Maria Neves is elected the 5th President of Cape Verde, beating former Prime Minister Carlos Veiga.
• October 20 – Dame Sandra Mason is elected the 1st President of Barbados.
• October 21 – Dame Cindy Kiro becomes the 22nd Governor-General of New Zealand, the first Māori woman to hold the position.
• October 24 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev is re-elected President of Uzbekistan in a landslide victory, winning 80% of the vote.
• October 25 – The Sudanese military launches a coup against the government with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok placed under house arrest and President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan taking power as head of state, declaring a state of emergency and dissolution of the government.
• October 26 – Roh Tae-woo, South Korea's 6th President, first to be democratically elected in a post-military rule and was found guilty for treason, mutiny and corruption for his role in two coups, dies at aged 88.
• October 31
  • In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won the most seats in the House of Representatives.
  • The COP26 Summit is held in Glasgow, Scotland where world leaders attempt to limit global warming temperatures to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).

November

On 3 November, the World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine

On 7 November, Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survives an assassination attempt

On 26 November, the World Health Organization officially names the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

On 29 November, Magdalena Andersson is elected the first female Prime Minister of Sweden

On 29 November, Barbados officially became a republic with Sandra Mason becoming the country's first president

• November 1 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 passes 5 million.
• November 2
  • Tennis player Peng Shuai accuses Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli of sexual harassment. She later is censored by the Chinese government and disappears.
  • The Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros to win the World Series.
• November 3 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine, the third non–Western vaccine to be authorized.
• November 4 – South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker Prize.
• November 5
  • At least 99 people are killed and over 100 others injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  • In the United States, nine people are crowd crushed to death with over 300 injured at a music festival in Houston, Texas.
• November 7
  • Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survives an assassination attempt in Baghdad when an explosive drone attacks his private home.
  • Daniel Ortega is re-elected to a fourth term as President of Nicaragua, winning almost 76% of the vote.
• November 10 – Cristina Peri Rossi of Uruguay wins the 2021 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
• November 11
  • F. W. de Klerk, the last apartheid-era President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at the age of 85.
  • SpaceX launches a third mission, which carried four crewmembers to the International Space Station.
• November 14
  • A car bombing using a taxi outside a women's hospital in Liverpool, England, kills the bomber and injures the driver.
  • Rumen Radev is re-elected President of Bulgaria after winning 49% of the vote.
• November 16 – Russia is criticized after doing an anti-satellite weapon test that creates a cloud of space debris, threatening the International Space Station.
• November 19 – The longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years occurs, visible in northern and western Europe, parts of Asia and the westernmost parts of Africa.
• November 21
  • Abdalla Hamdok becomes Prime Minister of Sudan again after an agreement is made following a coup d'état that occurred the last month which removed Hamdok from office.
  • In the United States, during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin an SUV broke through barricades and killed six people with over 40 others injured.
• November 23
  • Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea's 5th President and military strongman for almost eight years, dies at aged 90.
  • 45 North Macedonians are killed in a bus crash in Pernik Province, Bulgaria.
• November 24
  • NASA successfully launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test as a defense system against Near-Earth objects.
  • 27 illegal immigrants are killed in the English Channel when an inflatable boat flips over.
• November 25
  • Nicolae Ciucă is elected the 70th Prime Minister of Romania.
  • Over 50 people are killed in a mining accident in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.
• November 26 – The World Health Organization officially recognizes the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
• November 28
  • Former First Lady Xiomara Castro is elected the 62nd President of Honduras, becoming the country's first female president.
  • Political scientist Petr Fiala becomes the 13th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic after defeating then-current Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
• November 29
  • Magdalena Andersson is elected Sweden's first female Prime Minister by the Riksdag.
  • Barbados officially becomes a republic with Sandra Mason becoming the country's first president.

December

On 4 December, Mount Semeru erupts killing 46 people in Indonesia

On 8 December, Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany

On 10 December, a tornado outbreak in southern parts of the United States kills 88 people

On 25 December, the James Webb Space Telescope is launched into space, replacing the Hubble Space Telescope

• December 1 – The farm protests in India end when the country repeal a controversial agricultural act.
• December 4
  • Mount Semeru erupts in East Java, Indonesia killing 46 people and injuring 104 others.
  • Adama Barrow is re-elected President of the Gambia winning 53% of the vote.
  • Fourteen civilians are killed by Indian Special Forces officials in a failed ambush in Nagaland, India.
• December 6
  • The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China's human rights record.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass 50 million COVID-19 cases.
  • Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to prison on charges of causing dissent.
  • Karl Nehammer is sworn-in as the Chancellor of Austria after Alexander Schallenberg resigned from the position on 2 December.
• December 7 – A prison fire kills at least 38 inmates and injures over 69 others in Burundi.
• December 8
  • Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany.
  • Fourteen people are killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, India, including General Bipin Rawat.
• December 9 – At least 54 illegal immigrants are killed when the truck in which they are being smuggled crashes in Chiapas, Mexico.
• December 10 – In the United States, a tornado outbreak in the country's Southern States and Ohio Valley regions kills at least 88 people.
• December 12
  • COVID-19 pandemic: Russia becomes the fifth country to pass 10 million COVID-19 cases after the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
  • New Caledonia rejects independence from France in a referendum vote by 96.5%.
• December 13 – Kiril Petkov is elected the 56th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• December 14
  • A fuel tanker explosion kills over 60 people and injured over 100 others in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.
  • Floods in Malaysia kills at least 37 people.
• December 15 – Siaosi Sovaleni is elected the 18th Prime Minister of Tonga, replacing Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa.
• December 17
  • A building fire caused by a suspected arsonist in Osaka, Japan kills 25 people and injures three others.
  • Typhoon Rai kills at least 200 people in the southern part of the Philippines and one person near Vietnam.
• December 19 – Gabriel Boric is elected the 36th President of Chile, defeating José Antonio Kast in the run-off general election with a 55.87% to 44.13% margin.
• December 20 – At least 64 people are killed and 24 others are missing in a shipwreck off the northeast coast of Madagascar.
• December 24 – At least 39 people are killed and over 70 others injured in a ferry fire in Jhalokati, Bangladesh.
• December 25 – The James Webb Space Telescope, a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
• December 26 – Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu dies at aged 90.
• December 28 – In cricket, Australia wins The Ashes after winning the first three Tests against England.
• December 29
  • The Supreme Court of Russia orders the closure of Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group, for violations of the country's foreign agent law.
  • Jeffrey Epstein's former associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is found guilty of sex trafficking of a child and three counts of conspiracy for transporting minors for sexual activities.
  • Pro-democratic news website Stand News closes down after its staff are arrested by Hong Kong police officials for sedition.
• December 31 – American actress and comedian Betty White dies at aged 99.

Births

• March 26 – Prince Julian, Duke of Halland
• June 4 – Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor

Deaths

See also: List of deaths due to COVID-19

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2021

Modibo Keita

Martinus J. G. Veltman

Colin Bell

Michael Apted

Phil Spector

Mira Furlan

Hank Aaron

Hal Holbrook

Larry King

Lars Norén

Cloris Leachman

Paul J. Crutzen

Cicely Tyson

• January 1
  • Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese singer (b. 1939)
  • Elmira Minita Gordon, 1st Governor-General of Belize (b. 1930)
  • Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Iranian Islamic cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
• January 2
  • Cléber Eduardo Arado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1972)
  • Modibo Keita, 8th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1942)
  • Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
• January 3
  • Roger Hassenforder, French racing cyclist (b. 1930)
  • Gerry Marsden, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1942)
• January 4
  • Alexi Laiho, Finnish death metal singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1979)
  • Tanya Roberts, American actress (b. 1955)
  • Gregory Sierra, American actor (b. 1937)
  • Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1931)
• January 5
  • Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946)
  • C. George Boeree, Dutch-born American psychologist (b. 1952)
  • Ed Bruce, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1939)
  • John Richardson, English actor (b. 1934)
• January 7
  • Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
  • Vladimir Kiselyov, Ukrainian athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1957)
  • Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
  • Marion Ramsey, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
  • Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932)
• January 8
  • Steve Carver, American movie director (b. 1945)
  • Květa Eretová, Czech chess player (b. 1926)
• January 9 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1919)
• January 10
  • Hubert Auriol, French rally driver (b. 1952)
  • Julie Strain, American actress and model (b. 1962)
  • Walter Taibo, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1931)
• January 11
  • Sheldon Adelson, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
  • Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-born French writer and translator (b. 1943)
  • Kathleen Heddle, Canadian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1965)
  • David Khakhaleishvili, Georgian judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1971)
  • William E. Thornton, American astronaut (b. 1929)
• January 12
  • Mona Malm, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
  • Philaret, Russian-born Belarusian Orthodox prelate (b. 1935)
• January 13
  • Tim Bogert, American rock singer-songwriter and bassist (b. 1944)
  • Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician and entertainer (b. 1939)
  • Bernd Kannenberg, German race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
  • Joël Robert, Belgian motorcross racer (b. 1943)
  • Marielle de Sarnez, French politician (b. 1951)
  • Eusébio Scheid, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1932)
  • Sylvain Sylvain, American punk rock musician and songwriter (b. 1951)
• January 14
  • Gimax, Italian racing driver (b. 1938)
  • Peter Mark Richman, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Joanne Rogers, American pianist and puppeteer (b. 1928)
  • Jan de Vries, Dutch motorcycle racer (b. 1944)
• January 15 – Vicente Cantatore, Argentine-Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• January 16 – Phil Spector, American record producer and convicted murderer (b. 1939)
• January 17 – Sammy Nestico, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
• January 18
  • Jean-Pierre Bacri, Algerian-born French actor and screenwriter (b. 1951)
  • Lubomir Kavalek, Czech-American chess player (b. 1943)
  • Dani Shmulevich-Rom, Israeli footballer (b. 1940)
  • Don Sutton, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1945)
  • Juan Carlos Tabío, Cuban movie director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• January 19
  • Cesare Maestri, Italian mountaineer and writer (b. 1929)
  • Gustavo Peña, Mexican footballer and manager (b. 1942)
  • Felipe Quispe, Bolivian historian, indigenous leader and politician (b. 1942)
  • Giovanni Zucchi, Italian rower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
• January 20
  • Mira Furlan, Croatian-American actress (b. 1955)
  • Justin Lekhanya, Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (b. 1938)
  • Peter Swan, English footballer (b. 1936)
• January 21 – Nathalie Delon, French actress and movie director (b. 1941)
• January 22
  • Hank Aaron, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  • Luton Shelton, Jamaican footballer (b. 1985)
• January 23
  • Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1919)
  • Alberto Grimaldi, Italian movie producer (b. 1925)
  • Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Larry King, American talk show host (b. 1933)
• January 24
  • George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
  • Arik Brauer, Austrian artist and writer (b. 1929)
  • Nikolay Chebotko, Kazakhstani Olympic cross country skier (b. 1982)
  • Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, Icelandic footballer (b. 1950)
• January 26
  • Margitta Gummel, German shot putter and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • Hana Maciuchová, Czech actress (b. 1945)
  • Lars Norén, Swedish playwright (b. 1944)
  • Jozef Vengloš, Slovak footballer and manager (b. 1936)
• January 27
  • Gert Blomé, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
  • Adrián Campos, Spanish racing driver and team owner (b. 1960)
  • Cloris Leachman, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Mehrdad Minavand, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1975)
• January 28
  • Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
  • Vasily Lanovoy, Soviet-Russian actor (b. 1934)
  • Cicely Tyson, American actress (b. 1924)
  • Lewis Wolpert, South African-born British biologist (b. 1929)
• January 29
  • Yvon Douis, French footballer (b. 1935)
  • Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (b. 1943)
• January 30
  • József Csatári, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
  • Sophie, Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1986)
• January 31
  • Justo Tejada, Spanish footballer (b. 1933)
  • Abraham J. Twerski, American-born Israeli rabbi and psychiatrist (b. 1930)

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2021

Captain Sir Tom Moore

Haya Harareet

Christopher Plummer

George P. Shultz

Mary Wilson

Chick Corea

Larry Flynt

Carlos Menem

Rush Limbaugh

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sir Michael Somare

• February 1
  • Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (b. 1977)
  • Ryszard Szurkowski, Polish road cyclist racer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1946)
  • Tamara Rylova, Russian speed skater and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
• February 2
  • Edward Babiuch, 5th Prime Ministers of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1927)
  • Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut and molecular biologist (b. 1945)
  • Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner (b. 1920)
  • Fausta Morganti, Captains Regent of San Marino (b. 1944)
• February 3
  • Haya Harareet, Israeli actress (b. 1933)
  • Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (b. 1930)
  • Albán Vermes, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1957)
• February 5
  • Joseph Benz, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
  • Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929)
  • Leon Spinks, American professional boxer (b. 1953)
• February 6
  • Krzysztof Kowalewski, Polish actor (b. 1937)
  • George Shultz, American politician (b. 1920)
• February 7
  • Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
  • Leslie Laing, Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1925)
  • J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic (b. 1928)
  • Mario Osbén, Chilean footballer (b. 1950)
  • René Victor Pilhes, French writer (b. 1934)
  • Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian cinematographer (b. 1923)
  • Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian movie director and politician (b. 1947)
  • Ron Wright, American politician (b. 1953)
• February 8
  • Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Shlomo Hillel, Iraqi-born Israeli politician (b. 1923)
  • Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944)
• February 9
  • Chick Corea, American jazz keyboardist (b. 1941)
  • Rajiv Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1962)
  • Franco Marini, Italian politician (b. 1933)
• February 10
  • Larry Flynt, American publisher (b. 1942)
  • Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Georgian linguist (b. 1929)
  • Pachín, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• February 11 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician and Abel Prize winner (b. 1924)
• February 13
  • Kadir Topbaş, Turkish businessman and politician (b. 1945)
  • Yury Vlasov, Russian politician and Olympic weightlifting champion (b. 1935)
• February 14
  • Carlos Menem, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1930)
  • Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian intelligence officer and defector (b. 1928)
• February 15
  • Leopoldo Luque, Argentine footballer (b. 1949)
  • Johnny Pacheco, Dominican musician and label executive (b. 1935)
• February 16
  • Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1921)
  • Joan Margarit i Consarnau, Spanish poet and Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1938)
  • Gustavo Noboa, 42nd President of Ecuador (b. 1937)
  • Jan Sokol, Czech philosopher, politician and translator (b. 1936)
• February 17
  • Özcan Arkoç, Turkish footballer (b. 1939)
  • Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality and political commentator (b. 1951)
  • Gianluigi Saccaro, Italian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
  • Martí Vergés, Spanish footballer (b. 1934)
• February 18 – Andrey Myagkov, Russian actor (b. 1938)
• February 19
  • Đorđe Balašević, Serbian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1953)
  • Arturo Di Modica, Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1941)
• February 20
  • Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (b. 1950)
  • Chris Craft, British racing driver (b. 1939)
• February 21
  • André Dufraisse, French racing cyclist (b. 1926)
  • Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player, manager and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
• February 22 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet (b. 1919)
• February 23
  • Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1961)
  • Tormod Knutsen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and Olympic champion (b. 1932)
  • Juan Carlos Masnik, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1943)
  • Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1930)
• February 24
  • Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (b. 1925)
  • Ronald Pickup, English actor (b. 1940)
• February 26
  • Aleksandr Klepikov, Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1950)
  • Hannu Mikkola, Finnish rally driver (b. 1942)
  • Sir Michael Somare, 1st Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1936)
• February 27 – Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor (b. 1951)
• February 28
  • Milan Bandić, 50th and 52nd Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1955)
  • Glenn Roeder, English footballer (b. 1955)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2021

Bunny Wailer

Lou Ottens

Hamed Bakayoko

Murray Walker

John Magufuli

Nawal El Saadawi

Jessica Walter

Bertrand Tavernier

Beverly Cleary

Didier Ratsiraka

• March 1
  • Bernard Guyot, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1945)
  • Zlatko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1956)
  • Ian St John, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
  • Mikhail Studenetsky, Russian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
  • Anatoliy Zlenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1938)
• March 2
  • Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist and songwriter (b. 1930)
  • George Bass, American archaeologist (b. 1932)
  • Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• March 3
  • Medea Abrahamyan, Armenian cellist (b. 1932)
  • Nicola Pagett, British actress (b. 1945)
• March 5 – Mark Pavelich, American ice hockey player (b. 1958)
• March 6
  • Franco Acosta, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1996)
  • Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (b. 1926)
• March 7
  • Keith Greene, British racing driver (b. 1938)
  • Sanja Ilić, Serbian composer and folk keyboardist (b. 1951)
  • Lars Göran Petrov, Swedish heavy metal singer and drummer (b. 1972)
• March 8 – Rasim Öztekin, Turkish actor (b. 1959)
• March 9
  • Agustín Balbuena, Argentine footballer (b. 1945)
  • James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
  • Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian-Brazilian businessman (b. 1923)
  • Roger Mudd, American broadcast journalist (b. 1928)
  • John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (b. 1930)
  • Cliff Simon, South African actor (b. 1962)
• March 10
  • Hamed Bakayoko, 11th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (b. 1965)
  • Ali Mahdi Muhammad, 4th President of Somalia (b. 1939)
  • Manuel Saturnino da Costa, 6th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1942)
• March 11 – Isidore Mankofsky, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
• March 12
  • Ivo Trumbić, Croatian water polo player and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
  • Goodwill Zwelithini, South African royal (b. 1948)
• March 13
  • Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer (b. 1954)
  • Kiyoko Ono, Japanese Olympic bronze medalist and politician (b. 1936)
  • Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (b. 1923)
• March 14 – Henry Darrow, American actor (b. 1933)
• March 15 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor (b. 1939)
• March 16
  • Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1940)
  • Sabine Schmitz, German motor racer and television presenter (b. 1969)
• March 17
  • Antón García Abril, Spanish composer (b. 1933)
  • Dick Hoyt, American marathon and triathlon runner (b. 1940)
  • John Magufuli, 5th President of Tanzania (b. 1959)
• March 20
  • Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
  • Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian operatic singer (b. 1938)
• March 21
  • Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer (b. 1931)
  • Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist (b. 1945)
• March 22
  • Elgin Baylor, American professional basketball player, coach, and executive (b. 1934)
  • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racecar driver and peer (b. 1958)
• March 23
  • Hana Hegerová, Slovak singer and actress (b. 1931)
  • George Segal, American actor (b. 1934)
• March 24
  • Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1967)
  • Ezra T. Newman, American physicist (b. 1929)
  • Jessica Walter, American actress (b. 1941)
• March 25
  • Bill Brock, American politician (b. 1930)
  • Beverly Cleary, American children's writer (b. 1916)
  • Larry McMurtry, American novelist (b. 1936)
  • Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian, academic, and writer (b. 1927)
  • Bertrand Tavernier, French filmmaker and actor (b. 1941)
• March 27 – Petr Kellner, Czech businessman and billionaire (b. 1964)
• March 28 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1936)
• March 29 – Bashkim Fino, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1962)
• March 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American FBI agent and criminal (b. 1930)
• March 31
  • Kamal Ganzouri, 46th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1933)
  • Ursula Happe, German swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1926)
  • Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Armenian major general (b. 1939)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2021

Isamu Akasaki

Gloria Henry

Robert Mundell

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Helen McCrory

Walter Mondale

Idriss Déby

Christa Ludwig

Michael Collins

• April 1
  • Patrick Juvet, Swiss disco singer-songwriter and model (b. 1950)
  • Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1929)
• April 2
  • Arthur Kopit, American playwright (b. 1937)
  • Christian Tumi, Cameroonian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1930)
• April 3
  • Guram Dochanashvili, Georgian writer (b. 1939)
  • Gloria Henry, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Stan Stephens, Canadian-born American politician (b. 1929)
• April 4
  • Dame Cheryl Gillan, British politician (b. 1952)
  • Sugako Hashida, Japanese screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • Zygmunt Malanowicz, Polish actor (b. 1938)
  • Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1932)
  • Roland Thöni, Italian alpine ski racer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1951)
• April 5
  • Philip K. Chapman, Australian-born American astronaut (b. 1935)
  • Paul Ritter, English actor (b. 1966)
  • Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (b. 1930)
• April 6
  • Alcee Hastings, American politician and judge (b. 1936)
  • Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author (b. 1928)
  • Julen Madariaga, Spanish Basque nationalist militant and lawyer (b. 1932)
• April 8
  • Jovan Divjak, Bosnian general (b. 1937)
  • Conn Findlay, American sailor, rower and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
• April 9
  • Ramsey Clark, American politician and lawyer (b. 1927)
  • DMX, American rapper, songwriter and actor (b. 1970)
  • Ekkehard Fasser, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1952)
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
  • Judith Reisman, American writer (b. 1935)
• April 10 – Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1924)
• April 13 – Bobby Leonard, American basketball player and coach (b. 1932)
• April 14
  • Yıldırım Akbulut, 20th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1935)
  • Bernie Madoff, American market maker, investment advisor, financier and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
• April 16
  • Charles Geschke, American businessman and computer scientist (b. 1939)
  • Helen McCrory, English actress (b. 1968)
  • Andrew Peacock, 22nd Opposition Leader of Australia (b. 1939)
  • Felix Silla, Italian-American actor (b. 1937)
• April 17 – Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Lesothian cardinal (b. 1929)
• April 19
  • Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928)
  • Jim Steinman, American lyricist, record producer and composer (b. 1947)
  • Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and scout (b. 1946)
• April 20 – Idriss Déby, 6th President of Chad (b. 1952)
• April 21
  • Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1927)
  • Marc Ferro, French historian (b. 1924)
• April 23 – Milva, Italian singer and actress (b. 1939)
• April 24
  • Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (b. 1931)
  • Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (b. 1928)
• April 26
  • Vassos Lyssarides, Cypriot politician and businessman (b. 1920)
  • Tamara Press, Ukrainian athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1937)
• April 27
  • Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez, 10th Vice President of Uruguay (b. 1940)
  • Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, South Korean Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)
  • Aristóbulo Istúriz, 27th Vice President of Venezuela (b. 1946)
• April 28
  • Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930)
  • El Risitas, Spanish comedian and actor (b. 1956)
  • Federico Salas, 136th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1950)
• April 29
  • Hans van Baalen, Dutch politician (b. 1960)
  • Anne Buydens, German-born American philanthropist (b. 1919)
  • Johnny Crawford, American actor and singer (b. 1946)
  • Zhang Enhua, Chinese footballer (b. 1973)
  • Frank McRae, American actor (b. 1941)
• April 30 – Eli Broad, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2021

Olympia Dukakis

Humberto Maturana

José Manuel Caballero

Norman Lloyd

Franco Battiato

Charles Grodin

Lee Evans

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Max Mosley

Poul Schlüter

Gavin MacLeod

B. J. Thomas

• May 1
  • Olympia Dukakis, American actress (b. 1931)
  • Helen Murray Free, American chemist (b. 1923)
• May 2
  • Jacques d'Amboise, American ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b. 1934)
  • Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican politician and activist (b. 1932)
  • Bobby Unser, American racing driver (b. 1934)
• May 3
  • Jagmohan, Indian politician (b. 1927)
  • Lloyd Price, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• May 4
  • Simon Achidi Achu, 5th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1934)
  • Nick Kamen, English pop singer-songwriter, musician and model (b. 1962)
  • Leslie Marr, British racing driver and landscape artist (b. 1922)
  • Alan McLoughlin, Irish footballer (b. 1967)
• May 5
  • Bertil Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1935)
  • George Jung, American drug trafficker and smuggler (b. 1942)
  • Georgy Prokopenko, Ukrainian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
• May 6
  • Yitzhak Arad, Israeli brigadier general and historian (b. 1926)
  • Humberto Maturana, Chilean philosopher and biologist (b. 1928)
  • Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966)
• May 7
  • Hubert Hughes, 5th and 7th Premier of Anguilla (b. 1933)
  • Tawny Kitaen, American actress (b. 1961)
  • Yegor Ligachyov, Russian politician (b. 1920)
  • Martín Pando, Argentine footballer (b. 1934)
• May 8
  • Bo, First Dog of the United States (b. 2008)
  • Pete du Pont, American politician (b. 1935)
  • Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist (b. 1934)
  • Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (b. 1940)
  • Ronald Inglehart, American political scientist (b. 1934)
  • Theodore Katsanevas, Greek academic and politician (b. 1947)
  • Lee Han-dong, 33rd Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1934)
  • Spencer Silver, American chemist and inventor (b. 1941)
• May 9 – José Manuel Caballero, Spanish poet and novelist, Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1926)
• May 10
  • Michel Fourniret, French serial killer (b. 1942)
  • Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (b. 1937)
• May 11
  • Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (b. 1914)
  • Buddy Van Horn, American stunt performer and movie director (b. 1928)
  • Lester L. Wolff, American politician (b. 1919)
• May 13 – Christa Stubnick, German sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
• May 15
  • R. L. Bhatia, Indian politician (b. 1921)
  • Đorđe Marjanović, Serbian pop rock singer (b. 1931)
  • Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress (b. 1933)
• May 16
  • Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
  • Bruno Covas, Brazilian politician (b. 1980)
  • M. S. Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (b. 1932)
• May 17 – Buddy Roemer, American politician (b. 1943)
• May 18
  • Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and filmmaker (b. 1945)
  • Charles Grodin, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
• May 19
  • Lee Evans, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1947)
  • Paul Mooney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1941)
  • Aleksandr Privalov, Russian biathlete and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
  • Guillermo Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
• May 20
  • Francisco Brines, Spanish poet and academic, Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1932)
  • Abubakar Shekau, 2nd Leader of Boko Haram (b. 1965, 1969 or 1975)
• May 21 – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman (b. 1928)
• May 22
  • Francesc Arnau, Spanish footballer (b. 1975)
  • Jorge Larrañaga, Uruguayan politician (b. 1956)
  • Robert Marchand, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
  • Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (b. 1930)
• May 23
  • Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1929)
  • Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish classical composer and conductor (b. 1930)
  • Ron Hill, English Olympic marathon runner (b. 1938)
  • Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (b. 1928)
  • Max Mosley, British racing driver and lawyer (b. 1940)
  • Victoria Manton, Actress and main character in the 1936 live-action programme 'The Victorian Show' (b. 1894)
• May 25
  • Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
  • Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Syrian-born Lebanese Armenian Catholic hierarch (b. 1934)
  • John Warner, American politician (b. 1927)
• May 26 – Jerome Hellman, American movie producer (b. 1926)
• May 27
  • Carla Fracci, Italian ballet dancer and actress (b. 1936)
  • Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
  • Jaime Lerner, Brazilian architect, urban planner and politician (b. 1937)
  • Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)
• May 28 – Mark Eaton, American basketball player (b. 1957)
• May 29
  • Marcell Jankovics, Hungarian animator and movie director (b. 1941)
  • Gavin MacLeod, American actor and writer (b. 1931)
  • Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal (b. 1951)
  • B. J. Thomas, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• May 30 – Rick Mitchell, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1955)
• May 31 – Arlene Golonka, American actress (b. 1936)

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2021

Anerood Jugnauth

Richard R. Ernst

Ei-ichi Negishi

Gottfried Böhm

Edward de Bono

Kenneth Kaunda

John McAfee

Benigno Aquino III

Donald Rumsfeld

• June 1 – Price Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943)
• June 2 – Ottorino Sartor, Peruvian footballer (b. 1945)
• June 3
  • F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (b. 1933)
  • Lakshmi Nandan Bora, Indian writer (b. 1931)
  • Anerood Jugnauth, 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritius and 4th President (b. 1930)
  • Ernie Lively, American actor (b. 1947)
• June 4
  • Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
  • Vadim Kapranov, Soviet-born Russian basketball player, coach and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1940)
  • Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet (b. 1924)
  • John Malcolm Patterson, American politician (b. 1921)
  • Clarence Williams III, American actor (b. 1939)
• June 5 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (b. 1963)
• June 6
  • Revaz Gabriadze, Georgian filmmaker, painter and playwright (b. 1936)
  • Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, Indonesian politician (b. 1929)
  • Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1935)
  • Mansour Ojjeh, French-Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1952)
• June 7
  • Guglielmo Epifani, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1950)
  • Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer (b. 1971)
• June 9
  • Gottfried Böhm, German architect and sculptor (b. 1920)
  • Edward de Bono, Maltese philosopher and writer (b. 1933)
  • Diogo Correa de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
  • Libuše Šafránková, Czech actress (b. 1953)
  • Valentina Sidorova, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1954)
• June 10
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Indian filmmaker and poet (b. 1944)
  • Neno, Portuguese footballer (b. 1962)
  • Dingko Singh, Indian Olympic boxer (b. 1979)
• June 12
  • Anatoly Chukanov, Russian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1954)
  • Marco Maciel, 22nd Vice President of Brazil (b. 1940)
  • Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater and Olympic silver and bronze medalist (b. 1963)
• June 13 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937)
• June 14
  • Lisa Banes, American actress (b. 1955)
  • Enrique Bolaños, 29th President of Nicaragua (b. 1928)
  • Markis Kido, Indonesian badminton player and Olympic champion (b. 1984)
  • Adam Smelczyński, Polish trap shooter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1930)
• June 15 – Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
• June 17
  • Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (b. 1924)
  • Tubilandu Ndimbi, Congolese footballer (b. 1948)
• June 18
  • Jeannette Altwegg, Indian-born British figure skater and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
  • Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician (b. 1928)
  • Milkha Singh, Indian Olympic athlete and writer (b. 1929)
• June 19 – Champ, First Dog of the United States (b. 2008)
• June 20
  • Joanne Linville, American actress (b. 1928)
  • Luis del Sol, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1935)
• June 23
  • John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman (b. 1945)
  • Brian London, English professional boxer (b. 1934)
• June 24
  • Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (b. 1960)
  • Stephen Dunn, American poet and academic (b. 1939)
  • Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1925)
• June 25 – Jack Ingram, American racing driver (b. 1936)
• June 26
  • Mike Gravel, American politician (b. 1930)
  • Abdalelah Haroun, Sudanese-born Qatari sprinter (b. 1997)
  • Jon Hassell, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1937)
  • Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1929)
  • Frederic Rzewski, American composer and pianist (b. 1938)
• June 27 – Steven Horwitz, American economist (b. 1964)
• June 28 – Burton Greene, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
• June 29
  • Delia Fiallo, Cuban writer (b. 1924)
  • John Lawton, British singer (b. 1946)
  • Onsi Sawiris, Egyptian businessman (b. 1930)
  • Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (b. 1932)
• June 30
  • Bonfoh Abass, Acting President of Togo (b. 1948)
  • Janet Moreau, American athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1927)

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2021

Raffaella Carrà

Richard Donner

Dilip Kumar

Jovenel Moïse

Carlos Reutemann

Jehan Sadat

Mamnoon Hussain

Peter R. de Vries

Toshihide Maskawa

Steven Weinberg

Albert Bandura

Joey Jordison

• July 1
  • Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939)
  • Josh Culbreath, American athlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1932)
  • Yury Dokhoian, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
  • Kartal Tibet, Turkish actor and movie director (b. 1938)
• July 2 – Nikolai Slichenko, Soviet-Russian singer and actor (b. 1934)
• July 4
  • Maidarjavyn Ganzorig, Mongolian cosmonaut (b. 1949)
  • Luminița Gheorghiu, Romanian actress (b. 1949)
  • Rick Laird, Irish jazz fusion bassist (b. 1941)
  • Richard Lewontin, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1929)
• July 5
  • Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer and actress (b. 1943)
  • Richard Donner, American movie director (b. 1930)
  • Roberto Hernández, Cuban sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1967)
  • Vladimir Menshov, Soviet-Russian actor and movie director (b. 1939)
  • William Smith, American actor (b. 1933)
  • Stan Swamy, Indian Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and human rights activist (b. 1937)
• July 6
  • Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1928)
  • Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1938)
• July 7
  • Robert Downey Sr., American actor and filmmaker (b. 1936)
  • Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1925)
  • Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, movie producer and philanthropist (b. 1922)
  • Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (b. 1968)
  • Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician (b. 1942)
• July 8
  • Adrian Metcalfe, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1942)
  • Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician (b. 1934)
• July 9
  • Frank Lui, 3rd Premier of Niue (b. 1935)
  • Geoff Makhubo, South African politician (b. 1968)
  • Paul Mariner, English footballer and manager (b. 1953)
  • Jehan Sadat, First Lady of Egypt (b. 1933)
• July 10
  • Esther Béjarano, German singer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1924)
  • Carmel Budiardjo, British-Indonesian human rights activist (b. 1925)
• July 11
  • Charlie Gallagher, Scottish-Irish footballer (b. 1940)
  • Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1939)
  • Renée Simonot, French actress (b. 1911)
• July 12
  • Edwin Edwards, American politician (b. 1927)
  • Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
  • Charles Robinson, American actor (b. 1945)
• July 13
  • Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (b. 1927)
  • Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1954)
• July 14
  • Christian Boltanski, French sculptor, photographer and painter (b. 1944)
  • Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
  • Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (b. 1935)
• July 15
  • Jerry Lewis, American politician (b. 1934)
  • Pyotr Mamonov, Russian rock guitarist (b. 1951)
  • William F. Nolan, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  • Danish Siddiqui, Indian photojournalist (b. 1983)
  • Hugo F. Sonnenschein, American economist (b. 1940)
  • Peter R. de Vries, Dutch journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956)
• July 16
  • Biz Markie, American rapper and actor (b. 1964)
  • Surekha Sikri, Indian actress (b. 1945)
• July 17 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress and activist (b. 1939)
• July 18 – Nenad Stekić, Serbian Olympic long jumper (b. 1951)
• July 19 – Arturo Armando Molina, 36th President of El Salvador (b. 1927)
• July 20 – Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-born French actress (b. 1931)
• July 21
  • Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French racecar driver (b. 1937)
  • Desmond O'Malley, Irish politician (b. 1939)
• July 22 – Boris Chochiev, Acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia (b. 1957)
• July 23
  • Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1940)
  • Tuomo Ylipulli, Finnish ski jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1965)
  • Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
• July 24
  • Rodney Alcala, American serial killer and rapist (b. 1943)
  • Jackie Mason, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1928)
• July 25 – Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese military official and politician (b. 1936)
• July 26
  • Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist (b. 1925)
  • Mike Enzi, American politician (b. 1944)
  • Joey Jordison, American heavy metal musician (b. 1975)
  • Ivan Toplak, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• July 27
  • Saginaw Grant, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Mo Hayder, British writer (b. 1962)
  • Jean-François Stévenin, French actor (b. 1944)
• July 28
  • Oleg Baklanov, Russian politician (b. 1932)
  • Porfirio Armando Betancourt, Honduran footballer (b. 1957)
  • Roberto Calasso, Italian writer and publisher (b. 1941)
  • István Csom, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1940)
  • Satsuki Eda, Japanese politician (b. 1941)
  • Pete George, American weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
  • Dusty Hill, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• July 29
  • Carl Levin, American politician (b. 1934)
  • Albert Vanhoye, French Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1923)
• July 31 – Terry Cooper, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2021

Jaan Kaplinski

Sir Lester Bird

Una Stubbs

Nanci Griffith

Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Gerd Müller

Sonny Chiba

Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein

Hissène Habré

Charlie Watts

Edmond H. Fischer

Ed Asner

Jacques Rogge

Francesco Morini

• August 1 – Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (b. 1930)
• August 2
  • Angela Bailey, English-born Canadian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1962)
  • Antonio de la Torre Villalpando, Mexican footballer (b. 1951)
• August 3
  • Arthur Dion Hanna, 7th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1928)
  • Jean Hale, American actress (b. 1938)
  • Miroslav Lazanski, Serbian politician (b. 1950)
  • Antonio Pennacchi, Italian writer (b. 1950)
• August 4
  • Bobby Eaton, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
  • Graham McRae, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1940)
  • Padma Sachdev, Indian poet and novelist (b. 1940)
• August 5
  • Yevhen Marchuk, 4th Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1941)
  • Gábor Novák, Hungarian sprint canoer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
• August 6
  • Donald Kagan, Lithuanian-born American historian (b. 1932)
  • Trevor Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1980)
• August 7
  • Brad Allan, Australian choreographer, stuntman and actor (b. 1973)
  • Markie Post, American actress (b. 1950)
  • Jane Withers, American actress (b. 1926)
• August 8
  • Paul Hellyer, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
  • Stefan Kapłaniak, Polish sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1933)
  • Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, translator, and philosopher (b. 1941)
  • Cesare Salvadori, Italian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
• August 9
  • Sir Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1938)
  • Alex Cord, American actor (b. 1933)
  • Pat Hitchcock, English-born American actress (b. 1928)
  • Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist and politician (b. 1930)
  • Olivia Podmore, New Zealand Olympic cyclist (b. 1997)
• August 10
  • Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1943)
  • Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1927)
  • Victoria Paris, American pornographic actress and model (b. 1960)
• August 11
  • Peter Fleischmann, German movie director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • Gianluigi Gelmetti, Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer (b. 1945)
• August 12
  • Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician (b. 1930)
  • Karl-Friedrich Haas, German sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1931)
  • Tarcísio Meira, Brazilian actor (b. 1935)
  • Igael Tumarkin, German-born Israeli painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
• August 13
  • Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
  • Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1929)
  • Gino Strada, Italian physician and activist (b. 1948)
• August 14
  • Carlos Correia, 5th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
  • Piera Degli Esposti, Italian actress (b. 1939)
  • R. Murray Schafer, Canadian composer and writer (b. 1933)
• August 15
  • Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1936)
  • Paul Mitchell, American politician and businessman (b. 1956)
  • Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945)
• August 16
  • Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet-born Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
  • Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (b. 1963)
• August 18 – Evgeny Sveshnikov, Russian chess player and writer (b. 1950)
• August 19
  • Raoul Cauvin, Belgian comics writer (b. 1938)
  • Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (b. 1939)
  • Chuck Close, American painter (b. 1940)
  • Sir Michael Cullen, 16th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1945)
• August 20
  • Ian Carey, American DJ and record producer (b. 1976)
  • Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1936)
• August 21
  • Don Everly, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
  • Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (b. 1940)
  • Nicoletta Orsomando, Italian radio announcer and television personality (b. 1929)
  • Kalyan Singh, Indian politician (b. 1932)
• August 22 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
• August 23
  • Michael Nader, American actor (b. 1945)
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher (b. 1940)
  • José Yudica, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1936)
  • Rosita Quintana, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• August 24
  • Hissène Habré, 1st Prime Minister and 5th President of Chad (b. 1942)
  • Harry Kent, New Zealand cyclist (b. 1947)
  • Jan Suchý, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
  • Wilfried Van Moer, Belgian footballer (b. 1945)
  • Charlie Watts, English drummer (b. 1941)
• August 25
  • Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini, 11th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
  • Gerry Ashmore, English racing driver (b. 1936)
  • Gunilla Bergström, Swedish writer and illustrator (b. 1942)
  • Metin Çekmez, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
  • Aldo Eminente, French swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
  • Mario Guilloti, Argentine boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
  • Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Romanian fencer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
• August 26 – Vladimir Shadrin, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player, coach and Olympic champion (b. 1948)
• August 27
  • Edmond H. Fischer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
  • Siegfried Matthus, German composer and conductor (b. 1934)
  • Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Greek politician and convicted criminal (b. 1939)
• August 28
  • Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek academic and historian (b. 1935)
  • Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish operatic soprano (b. 1930)
• August 29
  • Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929)
  • Ron Bushy, American rock drummer (b. 1941)
  • Jacques Rogge, 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican record producer and singer (b. 1936)
• August 31
  • Vasile Belous, Moldovan boxer (b. 1988)
  • Michael Constantine, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Julie Ditty, American tennis player (b. 1979)
  • Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (b. 1944)

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2021

Mikis Theodorakis

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jorge Sampaio

Borisav Jović

Norm Macdonald

Jane Powell

Sir Clive Sinclair

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Jimmy Greaves

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Abdelkader Bensalah

José Freire Falcão

Roger Hunt

Koichi Sugiyama

• September 1
  • Jean-Denis Bredin, French lawyer (b. 1929)
  • Daffney, American professional wrestler (b. 1975)
  • Leopoldo Serantes, Filipino boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
  • Juan Rodríguez Vega, Chilean footballer (b. 1944)
• September 2
  • Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor (b. 1934)
  • Aydin Ibrahimov, Azerbaijani wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1938)
  • Sidharth Shukla, Indian actor and reality show contestant (b. 1980)
  • Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and politician (b. 1925)
• September 4
  • Albert Giger, Swiss cross country skier and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
  • Jörg Schlaich, German structural engineer (b. 1934)
  • Willard Scott, American weatherman (b. 1934)
• September 5
  • Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and politician (b. 1942)
  • Sarah Harding, English singer and actress (b. 1981)
  • Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian sprint canoeist, canoe racing coach and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
  • Živko Radišić, 2nd Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1937)
• September 6
  • Jean-Pierre Adams, Senegalese-born French footballer (b. 1948)
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (b. 1933)
  • Nino Castelnuovo, Italian actor (b. 1936)
  • Michael K. Williams, American actor (b. 1966)
• September 7 – Jahangir Butt, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1943)
• September 8
  • Dietmar Lorenz, German judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1950)
  • Art Metrano, American actor and comedian (b. 1936)
  • Yevgeny Zinichev, Russian politician and general (b. 1966)
• September 9
  • Gene Littles, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
  • Danilo Popivoda, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
• September 10
  • Charles Konan Banny, 6th Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1942)
  • Jorge Sampaio, 18th President of Portugal (b. 1939)
• September 11
  • Minna Aaltonen, Finnish actress and television host (b. 1966)
  • Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian Maoist leader and convicted terrorist (b. 1934)
  • Phùng Quang Thanh, Vietnamese politician and general (b. 1949)
• September 12
  • Fran Bennett, American actress and teacher (b. 1937)
  • John Shelby Spong, American Episcopal bishop (b. 1931)
  • Fabio Taborre, Italian cyclist (b. 1985)
  • Gunnar Utterberg, Swedish sprint canoer and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
• September 13
  • Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1924)
  • Borisav Jović, 12th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1928)
  • Andrey Makeyev, Russian basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1952)
  • George Wein, American pianist and festival promoter (b. 1925)
• September 14
  • David Yonggi Cho, South Korean Christian minister and convicted embezzler (b. 1936)
  • Ladislav Lubina, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1967)
  • Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1959)
  • Yuriy Sedykh, Russian track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1955)
• September 15
  • Žana Lelas, Croatian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1970)
  • Gavan O'Herlihy, Irish-born American actor (b. 1951)
• September 16
  • Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, Moroccan Islamic militant (b. 1973)
  • Dušan Ivković, Serbian basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
  • George Mraz, Czech-American musician (b. 1944)
  • Casimir Oyé-Mba, 3rd Prime Minister of Gabon (b. 1942)
  • Jane Powell, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1929)
  • Sir Clive Sinclair, English businessman and inventor (b. 1940)
• September 17
  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (b. 1937)
  • Thanu Padmanabhan, Indian physicist and cosmologist (b. 1957)
  • Alfonso Sastre, Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic (b. 1926)
• September 18
  • Mario Camus, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
  • Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road racing cyclist (b. 1984)
• September 19
  • Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer, poet and theatre director (b. 1931)
  • John Challis, English actor and comedian (b. 1942)
  • Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (b. 1940)
• September 20
  • Sherwood Boehlert, American politician (b. 1936)
  • Jan Jindra, Czech rower and Olympic champion (b. 1932)
  • Aloys Jousten, Belgian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1937)
  • Claude Lombard, Belgian singer (b. 1945)
  • Helmut Oberlander, Ukrainian-born Canadian Nazi soldier (b. 1924)
• September 21
  • Aharon Abuhatzira, Moroccan-born Israeli politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
  • Romano Fogli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1938)
  • Willie Garson, American actor (b. 1964)
  • Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (b. 1935)
• September 22
  • Abdelkader Bensalah, Acting Head of State of Algeria (b. 1941)
  • Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
  • Roger Michell, South African-born British movie director (b. 1956)
  • Jüri Tamm, Estonian politician, hammer thrower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1957)
  • Melvin Van Peebles, American movie director, actor and playwright (b. 1932)
• September 23
  • Kjell Askildsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1929)
  • Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1942)
  • Nino Vaccarella, Italian racecar driver (b. 1933)
• September 24
  • Pee Wee Ellis, American saxophonist, composer and arranger (b. 1941)
  • Takao Saito, Japanese manga artist (b. 1936)
  • Paul Quilès, French politician (b. 1942)
• September 25
  • Patricio Manns, Chilean singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
  • Mehdi Yaghoubi, Iranian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1930)
• September 26
  • José Freire Falcão, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1925)
  • Alan Lancaster, English rock bassist (b. 1949)
• September 27
  • Roger Hunt, English footballer (b. 1938)
  • Cecilia Lindqvist, Swedish Sinologist and academic (b. 1932)
• September 28
  • Tommy Kirk, American actor (b. 1941)
  • Eberhard Jüngel, German theologian (b. 1934)
  • Barry Ryan, British pop singer and photographer (b. 1948)
  • Lonnie Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1942)
• September 29
  • Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1924)
  • Hayko, Armenian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1973)
  • Bronius Kutavičius, Lithuanian composer (b. 1932)
• September 30
  • Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (b. 1926)
  • Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (b. 1931)

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2021

Jorge Medina

Budge Patty

Lars Vilks

Abolhassan Banisadr

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Lee Wan-koo

Sir David Amess

Colin Powell

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Bernard Haitink

Fofi Gennimata

Roh Tae-woo

Clément Mouamba

Dame Catherine Tizard

• October 1 – Earle Wells, New Zealand sailor, rower and Olympic champion (b. 1933)
• October 2
  • Anthony Downs, American economist and politologist (b. 1930)
  • Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Greek politician (b. 1934)
• October 3
  • Todd Akin, American politician (b. 1947)
  • Blanka Bohdanová, Czech actress (b. 1930)
  • Josep Maria Forn, Spanish actor and movie director (b. 1928)
  • Cynthia Harris, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Jorge Medina, Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
  • Budge Patty, American tennis player (b. 1924)
  • Bernard Tapie, French businessman, politician and actor (b. 1943)
  • Lars Vilks, Swedish visual artist (b. 1946)
• October 4
  • Sergey Danilin, Russian luger and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1960)
  • Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Ukrainian long jumper and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1952)
• October 5
  • Jürgen Goslar, German movie director and actor (b. 1927)
  • Robert Hosp, Swiss footballer (b. 1939)
• October 6 – Tomoyasu Asaoka, Japanese footballer (b. 1962)
• October 7
  • James Brokenshire, British politician (b. 1968)
  • Eva Rönström, Swedish gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1932)
  • Jerry Shipp, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
• October 8
  • Raymond T. Odierno, American general (b. 1954)
  • Sanpei Shirato, Japanese manga artist (b. 1932)
• October 9 – Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (b. 1933)
• October 10
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist (b. 1936)
  • Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer (b. 1930)
• October 11
  • Tony DeMarco, American boxer (b. 1932)
  • Paddy Moloney, Irish musician, composer and producer (b. 1938)
  • Olav Nilsen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
  • Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor (b. 1948)
• October 12 – Dragutin Čermak, Serbian basketball player, coach and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
• October 13
  • Viktor Bryukhanov, Uzbek engineer (b. 1935)
  • Dale Kildee, American politician (b. 1929)
  • Agnes Tirop, Kenyan long-distance runner (b. 1995)
• October 14 – Lee Wan-koo, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1950)
• October 15
  • Sir David Amess, British politician (b. 1952)
  • Dan Benishek, American physician and politician (b. 1952)
  • Ruthie Tompson, American animator and supercentenarian (b. 1910)
• October 16
  • Leo Boivin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
  • Felipe Cazals, Mexican movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • Betty Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• October 17
  • Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1944)
  • Anders Bodelsen, Danish writer (b. 1937)
• October 18
  • Val Bisoglio, American actor (b. 1926)
  • Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist (b. 1926)
  • Edita Gruberová, Slovak operatic soprano (b. 1946)
  • Willy Kemp, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer (b. 1925)
  • János Kornai, Hungarian economist and academic (b. 1928)
  • Colin Powell, American general and politician (b. 1937)
• October 19
  • Jack Angel, American actor (b. 1930)
  • Leslie Bricusse, British composer, lyricist and playwright (b. 1931)
  • Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
  • Branko Mamula, Serbian politician and admiral (b. 1921)
• October 20
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1934)
  • Dragan Pantelić, Serbian footballer (b. 1951)
• October 21
  • Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (b. 1929)
  • Halyna Hutchins, Ukrainian-born American cinematographer and journalist (b. 1979)
• October 22
  • Álex Quiñónez, Ecuadorian Olympic sprinter (b. 1989)
  • Peter Scolari, American actor (b. 1955)
  • Vyacheslav Vedenin, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • Udo Zimmermann, German composer, opera director and conductor (b. 1943)
• October 23
  • Marcel Bluwal, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1949)
  • Sirkka Turkka, Finnish poet (b. 1939)
• October 24
  • Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Polish actor (b. 1950)
  • James Michael Tyler, American actor (b. 1962)
• October 25
  • Fofi Gennimata, Greek politician (b. 1964)
  • Aleksandar Shalamanov, Bulgarian footballer and Olympic alpine skier (b. 1941)
• October 26
  • Umberto Colombo, Italian footballer (b. 1933)
  • Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1932)
  • Mort Sahl, Canadian-born American comedian, television personality and actor (b. 1927)
  • Walter Smith, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• October 27
  • Bob Ferry, American basketball player and general manager (b. 1937)
  • Bernd Nickel, German footballer (b. 1949)
• October 28 – Linwood Holton, American politician (b. 1923)
• October 29
  • Mehdi Cerbah, Algerian footballer (b. 1953)
  • Aleksandr Martyshkin, Russian rower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
  • Clément Mouamba, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1943)
  • Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1975)
• October 30
  • Pepi Bader, German bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1941)
  • Vyacheslav Khrynin, Russian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
  • Igor Kirillov, Russian news anchor (b. 1932)
  • Basílio do Nascimento, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1950)
  • Bert Newton, Australian television presenter (b. 1938)
  • Bernardo Tengarrinha, Portuguese footballer (b. 1989)
• October 31
  • Doğan Akhanlı, Turkish-German writer (b. 1957)
  • Dean Shek, Hong Kong actor and producer (b. 1950)
  • Dame Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1931)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2021

Dorothy Manley

Marília Mendonça

Yukhym Zvyahilsky

Dean Stockwell

F. W. de Klerk

Winter

Matthew Festing

Wilbur Smith

Chun Doo-hwan

James Fitz-Allen Mitchell

Stephen Sondheim

Almudena Grandes

Virgil Abloh

Justo Gallego Martínez

Norodom Ranariddh

Arlene Dahl

Marie-Claire Blais

• November 1
  • Gulraiz Akhtar, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1943)
  • Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist (b. 1921)
  • Emmett Chapman, American jazz guitarist and composer (b. 1936)
  • Nelson Freire, Brazilian pianist (b. 1944)
  • Pat Martino, American guitarist and composer (b. 1944)
• November 2
  • Sabah Fakhri, Syrian tenor singer (b. 1933)
  • Dennis Moore, American politician and lawyer (b. 1945)
  • Viktor Putyatin, Ukrainian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1941)
  • Neal Edward Smith, American politician (b. 1920)
• November 3
  • Joanna Bruzdowicz, Polish composer (b. 1943)
  • Helga Lindner, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1951)
  • Dorothy Manley, British sprint runner and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1927)
• November 4
  • Mario Lavista, Mexican composer and writer (b. 1943)
  • Ruth Ann Minner, American politician (b. 1935)
• November 5 – Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1995)
• November 6
  • Pavol Molnár, Slovak footballer (b. 1936)
  • Shawn Rhoden, Jamaican-American professional bodybuilder (b. 1975)
  • Raúl Rivero, Cuban poet and journalist (b. 1945)
  • Luíz Antônio dos Santos, Brazilian Olympic long-distance runner (b. 1964)
  • Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 12th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1948)
  • Muamer Zukorlić, Serbian politician and Islamic cleric (b. 1970)
  • Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1933)
• November 7
  • Liudmila Belavenets, Russian chess player (b. 1940)
  • Sir James Gobbo, Australian politician, lawyer and judge (b. 1931)
  • Igor Nikulin, Russian hammer thrower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1960)
  • Enrique Rocha, Mexican actor (b. 1940)
  • Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Bas van der Vlies, 6th Leader of the Reformed Political Party (b. 1942)
• November 8
  • Medina Dixon, American basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
  • Mike Harris, South African racing driver (b. 1939)
  • Wilhelm Schraml, German Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1935)
• November 9
  • Max Cleland, American politician (b. 1942)
  • Erika Fisch, German athlete (b. 1934)
  • Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese Buddhist nun and writer (b. 1922)
• November 10 – Jun Hong Lu, Chinese-born Australian religious leader (b. 1959)
• November 11
  • Per Aage Brandt, Danish poet, linguist and musician (b. 1944)
  • F. W. de Klerk, 7th State President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1936)
  • Graeme Edge, English drummer, songwriter and poet (b. 1941)
  • Carl von Essen, Swedish fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1940)
  • Winter, American Bottlenose dolphin (b. 2005)
• November 12
  • Bob Bondurant, American racing driver (b. 1933)
  • Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician and politician (b. 1929)
  • Lothar Claesges, German cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
  • Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1949)
  • Ron Flowers, English footballer (b. 1934)
  • Aleksandr Lenyov, Russian footballer (b. 1944)
• November 13
  • Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, Syrian politician (b. 1958)
  • Ivo Georgiev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1972)
  • Gilbert Harman, American philosopher (b. 1938)
  • Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born British-South African writer (b. 1933)
  • Emi Wada, Japanese costume designer (b. 1937)
• November 14
  • Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American writer and visual artist (b. 1925)
  • Bertie Auld, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
  • Virginio Pizzali, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1934)
  • Satya Vrat Shastri, Indian scholar (b. 1930)
• November 15
  • László Z. Bitó, Hungarian physiologist and writer (b. 1934)
  • Valeriy Dolinin, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1953)
  • Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player (b. 1975)
  • Osman Öcalan, Turkish militant and political activist (b. 1958)
• November 16 – Nadrian Seeman, American nanotechnologist and crystallographer (b. 1945)
• November 17
  • Leonid Bartenyev, Ukrainian sprinter, coach and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
  • Theuns Jordaan, South African singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1971)
  • Art LaFleur, American actor (b. 1943)
  • Young Dolph, American rapper (b. 1985)
• November 18
  • Slide Hampton, American jazz trombonist (b. 1932)
  • Mick Rock, British photographer (b. 1948)
  • Dzyanis Kowba, Belarusian footballer (b. 1979)
  • Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian politician (b. 1928)
• November 19
  • Hank von Hell, Norwegian punk rock singer and actor (b. 1972)
  • Don Kojis, American basketball player (b. 1939)
  • Will Ryan, American actor and singer (b. 1949)
  • György Schöpflin, Hungarian politician (b. 1939)
• November 21
  • Robert Bly, American poet (b. 1926)
  • Marietta Chudakova, Russian literary critic, historian, and writer (b. 1937)
  • Nina Ruslanova, Russian actress (b. 1945)
• November 22
  • Noah Gordon, American writer (b. 1926)
  • Volker Lechtenbrink, German actor and singer (b. 1944)
  • Paolo Pietrangeli, Italian singer-songwriter, movie director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
  • Marie Versini, French actress (b. 1940)
• November 23
  • Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea (b. 1931)
  • Sir James Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1932)
• November 24
  • Ennio Doris, Italian banker (b. 1940)
  • Wiesław Hartman, Polish show jumping equestrian and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1950)
• November 25 – Oleksandr Omelchenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1938)
• November 26
  • Doug Cowie, Scottish footballer (b. 1926)
  • Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (b. 1930)
  • Aleksandr Timoshinin, Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1948)
  • German Zonin, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• November 27
  • Almudena Grandes, Spanish writer (b. 1960)
  • Matti Keinonen, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1941)
  • Ruy Ohtake, Brazilian architect (b. 1938)
• November 28
  • Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer (b. 1980)
  • Justo Gallego Martínez, Spanish monk and builder (b. 1925)
  • Alexander Gradsky, Russian rock singer, musician, and composer (b. 1949)
  • Laila Halme, Finnish singer (b. 1934)
  • C. J. Hunter, American Olympic shot putter and coach (b. 1968)
  • Emmit King, American Olympic sprinter (b. 1959)
  • Carrie Meek, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Norodom Ranariddh, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1944)
  • Prince Andrew Romanoff, Disputed Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1923)
  • Jolene Unsoeld, American politician (b. 1931)
  • Sir Frank Williams, British motor racing team owner and constructor (b. 1942)
• November 29
  • Kinza Clodumar, 7th President of Nauru (b. 1945)
  • Arlene Dahl, American actress (b. 1925)
  • David Gulpilil, Australian actor (b. 1953)
  • Vladimir Naumov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
  • Alexander Zaitsev, Russian astronomer (b. 1945)
• November 30
  • Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian writer and poet (b. 1939)
  • Oriol Bohigas, Spanish architect and urban planner (b. 1925)
  • Albert Bustamante, American politician and lawyer (b. 1935)
  • Ray Kennedy, English footballer (b. 1951)
  • Jonathan Penrose, English chess player (b. 1933)
  • Erwin Wilczek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1940)

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2021

Horst Eckel

Bob Dole

Kåre Willoch

Bipin Rawat

Manuel Santana

Vicente Fernández

Richard Rogers

Robert H. Grubbs

Joan Didion

Karolos Papoulias

Desmond Tutu

E. O. Wilson

John Madden

Betty White

• December 1
  • Alvin Lucier, American composer (b. 1931)
  • Miroslav Zikmund, Czech writer and explorer (b. 1919)
• December 2
  • Aldo Giordano, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1954)
  • Darlene Hard, American tennis player (b. 1936)
  • Richard Lerner, American chemist (b. 1938)
  • Sir Antony Sher, South African-born British actor (b. 1949)
  • Lawrence Weiner, American conceptual artist (b. 1942)
• December 3
  • Lamine Diack, Senegalese businessman, sports administrator, and athlete (b. 1933)
  • Horst Eckel, German footballer (b. 1932)
  • Nina Urgant, Russian actress (b. 1929)
  • Momčilo Vukotić, Serbian footballer (b. 1950)
  • Jōji Yanami, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
• December 4
  • Paul Lannoye, Belgian politician (b. 1939)
  • Pierre Rabhi, Algerian-born French environmentalist (b. 1938)
• December 5
  • Bob Dole, American politician (b. 1923)
  • Aurelio Galfetti, Swiss architect (b. 1936)
  • Stevan Jelovac, Serbian basketball player (b. 1989)
  • John Miles, British singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1949)
  • Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician (b. 1930)
• December 6
  • Emma Gapchenko, Russian archer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1938)
  • Masayuki Uemura, Japanese video game engineer (b. 1943)
  • Kåre Willoch, 30th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1928)
• December 7 – Mustafa Ben Halim, 3rd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1921)
• December 8
  • Barry Harris, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
  • Susana Higuchi, Peruvian politician and engineer (b. 1950)
  • Lars Høgh, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1959)
  • Blackjack Lanza, American professional wrestler (b. 1935)
  • Alfredo Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1980)
  • Bipin Rawat, Indian military officer (b. 1958)
  • Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bassist and record producer (b. 1953)
  • Andrzej Zieliński, Polish sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1936)
  • Jacques Zimako, French footballer (b. 1951)
• December 9
  • Robert Jervis, American politologist (b. 1940)
  • Otar Patsatsia, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1929)
  • Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress, comedian and politician (b. 1939)
  • Al Unser, American racing driver (b. 1939)
  • Lina Wertmüller, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  • Cara Williams, American actress (b. 1925)
  • Maryse Wolinski, French writer and journalist (b. 1943)
• December 10 – Michael Nesmith, American musician and songwriter (b. 1942)
• December 11
  • Jack Hedley, British actor (b. 1929)
  • Anne Rice, American writer (b. 1941)
  • Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
• December 12
  • Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940)
  • Sir Paulias Matane, 8th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1931)
  • Yury Sharov, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1939)
• December 13
  • Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (b. 1955)
  • Sergei Solovyov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1944)
• December 14 – Rosita Sokou, Greek writer (b. 1923)
• December 15
  • Ernst Fivian, Swiss gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1931)
  • bell hooks, American feminist writer (b. 1952)
  • Marilee Stepan, American swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1935)
  • Fayez Tarawneh, 31st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1949)
• December 16 – Lucía Hiriart, 38th First Lady of Chile (b. 1922)
• December 17 – Árpád Pusztai, Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist (b. 1930)
• December 18
  • Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1986)
  • Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Italian-born British architect (b. 1933)
• December 19
  • Boško Abramović, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
  • Antoine Faivre, French scholar and occultist (b. 1934)
  • Carie Graves, American rower and Olympic champion (b. 1953)
  • Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1942)
  • Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer (b. 1931)
  • Johnny Isakson, American politician (b. 1944)
  • Carlos Marín, German-born Spanish singer (b. 1968)
• December 20
  • Norberto Boggio, Argentine footballer (b. 1931)
  • Jiří Čadek, Czech footballer (b. 1935)
  • Giuseppe Galante, Italian rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
• December 21 – Sir Carlyle Glean, 5th Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1932)
• December 23
  • Chris Dickerson, American bodybuilder (b. 1939)
  • Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934)
• December 24 – José Villegas, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
• December 25
  • Richard Marcinko, American military commander (b. 1940)
  • Jonathan Spence, English-born American historian and sinologist (b. 1936)
  • Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (b. 1920)
• December 26
  • Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1929)
  • Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (b. 1929)
  • Dorval Rodrigues, Brazilian footballer (b. 1935)
  • Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican prelate, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1931)
  • Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director (b. 1963)
  • E. O. Wilson, American biologist and writer (b. 1929)
• December 27
  • April Ashley, English model, actress and writer (b. 1935)
  • Andreas Behm, German weightlifter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
  • Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist and poet (b. 1947)
  • Andrew Vachss, American writer and lawyer (b. 1942)
• December 28
  • Michael R. Clifford, American astronaut (b. 1952)
  • John Madden, American football coach and sportscaster (b. 1936)
  • Hugo Maradona, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1969)
  • Harry Reid, American politician (b. 1939)
  • Sabine Weiss, Swiss-French photographer (b. 1924)
• December 29
  • Antoine Bonifaci, French footballer (b. 1931)
  • Christian Gyan, Ghanaian-Dutch footballer (b. 1978)
• December 30
  • Sam Jones, American basketball player (b. 1933)
  • Karel Loprais, Czech rally raid driver (b. 1949)
• December 31 – Betty White, American actress and comedian (b. 1922)

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – David MacMillan and Benjamin List
• Economics – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
• Literature – Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Peace – Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
• Physiology or Medicine – Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius
• Physics – Klaus Hasselmann, Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi

Related pages

• 2021 in association football