Deaths in 2021
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| - | *[[Richard Rogers|Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside]], 88, Italian-born British architect ([[Centre Pompidou]]). | + | *[[Richard Rogers]], 88, Italian-born British architect ([[Centre Pompidou]]). |
| *[[Eve Babitz]], 78, American artist and author (''[[Fiorucci: The Book]]''). | *[[Eve Babitz]], 78, American artist and author (''[[Fiorucci: The Book]]''). | ||
| *[[bell hooks]], 69, American feminist author (''[[Ain't I a Woman? (book)|Ain't I a Woman?]]''). | *[[bell hooks]], 69, American feminist author (''[[Ain't I a Woman? (book)|Ain't I a Woman?]]''). | ||
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- Richard Rogers, 88, Italian-born British architect (Centre Pompidou).
- Eve Babitz, 78, American artist and author (Fiorucci: The Book).
- bell hooks, 69, American feminist author (Ain't I a Woman?).
- Joe Simon, 85, American soul and R&B singer ("The Chokin' Kind", "Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)", "Power of Love").
- Michael Nesmith, 78, American musician ("Mary, Mary").
- Anne Rice, 80, American author (The Vampire Chronicles), complications from a stroke.
- Steve Bronski, 61, Scottish keyboardist (Bronski Beat).
- Robbie Shakespeare, 68, Jamaican bassist (Sly and Robbie, Black Uhuru) and record producer, complications from kidney surgery.
- Lina Wertmüller, 93, Italian film director (Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy, Swept Away) and screenwriter.
- Greg Tate, 64, American music critic (The Village Voice) and musician (Burnt Sugar), co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition.
- John Miles, 72, British singer-songwriter and musician ("Music").
- Lawrence Weiner, 79, American conceptual artist.
- Alvin Lucier, 90, American composer (I Am Sitting in a Room).
- Peter Weiermair, 77, German art historian and curator (The Nude. Ideal and Reality).
- Vladimir Naumov, 93, Russian film director (Legend of Thiele), screenwriter and producer.
- David Gulpilil, 67–68, Australian actor (Walkabout).
- Almudena Grandes, 61, Spanish writer (The Ages of Lulu).
- Marilyn McLeod, 82, American singer-songwriter ("Love Hangover").
- Stephen Sondheim, 91, American composer and lyricist ("Send In the Clowns").
- Antonio Escohotado, 80, Spanish philosopher and writer (A Brief History of Drugs).
- Mick Rock, 72, British photographer.
- Jimmie Durham, 81, American sculptor and poet.
- John Goodsall, 68, American-British rock guitarist (Atomic Rooster, Brand X).
- Graeme Edge, 80, English drummer (The Moody Blues) and songwriter.
- Margo Guryan, 84, American singer-songwriter ("Sunday Mornin'").
- Dean Stockwell, 85, American actor (Blue Velvet).
- Evette Benton, 68, American soul ("Space Bass") and disco singer.
- Bob Baker, 82, British screenwriter (Wallace & Gromit).
- Ernest Wilson, 69, Jamaican reggae singer (The Clarendonians).
- Ronnie Wilson, 73, American R&B musician (The Gap Band).
- William Shelby, 65, American funk musician (Dynasty, Lakeside).
- George Butler, 78, British-American filmmaker (Pumping Iron, Pumping Iron II: The Women).
- Colin Powell, 84, American general and politician.
- Alan Hawkshaw, 84, British composer ("Here Comes That Sound Again") and keyboard player.
- Paddy Moloney, 83, Irish musician (The Chieftains) and producer.
- Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Olivier Libaux, 57, French record producer and musician (Nouvelle Vague).
- Alan Lancaster, 72, English rock bassist (Status Quo).
- Pee Wee Ellis, 80, American saxophonist, composer and arranger ("Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud").
- Melvin Van Peebles, 89, American film director, actor and playwright (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Classified X).
- Richard H. Kirk, 65, English electronic musician (Cabaret Voltaire, Sweet Exorcist) and songwriter ("Yashar").
- Sylvano Bussotti, 89, Italian composer and poet (Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor ).
- Sir Clive Sinclair, 81, English entrepreneur and inventor (Sinclair C5).
- Carl Bean, 77, American singer ("I Was Born This Way") and LGBT activist.
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, 88, French actor (Breathless, That Man from Rio, Pierrot le Fou).
- Nino Castelnuovo, 84, Italian actor (Rocco and His Brothers, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Camille 2000).
- Alemayehu Eshete, 79–80, Ethiopian singer.
- Mikis Theodorakis, 96, Greek composer ("Mauthausen Trilogy", Zorba the Greek, Z).
- Lee "Scratch" Perry, 85, Jamaican composer, musician and record producer ("Chase the Devil", "Police and Thieves", "Bucky Skank").
- Brian Travers, 62, British saxophonist and songwriter (UB40).
- Jean-Luc Nancy, 81, French philosopher.
- Charlie Watts, 80, English Hall of Fame drummer (The Rolling Stones, Blues Incorporated).
- Sonny Chiba, 82, Japanese actor (Karate Kiba, Kill Bill: Volume 1) and martial artist.
- Chuck Close, 81, American painter (Big Self-Portrait).
- K. Schippers, 84, Dutch poet.
- Nanci Griffith, 68, American singer-songwriter ("It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go").
- Gianfranco D'Angelo, 84, Italian actor (Biancaneve & Co., Mondo candido).
- Piera Degli Esposti, 83, Italian actress (Il divo).
- R. Murray Schafer, 88, Canadian composer and writer.
- Dennis Thomas, 70, American saxophonist (founding member of Kool & the Gang).
- Jean "Binta" Breeze, 65, Jamaican dub poet.
- Paul Johnson, 50, American DJ ("Get Get Down") and record producer.
- Roberto Calasso, 80, Italian writer and publisher (Adelphi Edizioni).
- Jean-François Stévenin, 77, French actor (La philosophie dans le boudoir).
- Albert Bandura, 95, Canadian-American psychologist (Bobo doll experiment).
- Henri Vernes, 102, Belgian author (Bob Morane).
- Eddy Posthuma de Boer, 90, Dutch photographer.
- Françoise Arnoul, 90, French actress (Post Coitum, Animal Triste).
- Biz Markie, 57, American rapper ("Just a Friend").
- Kurt Westergaard, 86, Danish cartoonist (Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy).
- William F. Nolan, 93, American author (Logan's Run).
- Christian Boltanski, 76, French artist (People (Personnes)).
- Robert Downey Sr., 85, American film director (Putney Swope) and actor.
- Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz fusion bassist (Mahavishnu Orchestra).
- Djivan Gasparyan, 92, Armenian musician and composer.
- Richard Lewontin, 92, American evolutionary biologist.
- Richard Donner, 91, American film director (Superman, The Goonies) and producer.
- Raffaella Carrà, 78, Italian singer ("A far l'amore comincia tu").
- Vladimir Menshov, 81, Soviet and Russian actor and film director.
- Donald Rumsfeld, 88, American politician, subject of the The Unknown Known.
- Louis Andriessen, 82, Dutch composer (De Staat).
- Frederic Rzewski, 83, American composer (The People United Will Never Be Defeated!) and pianist.
- Jon Hassell, 84, American trumpeter and composer.
- Ellen McIlwaine, 75, American-born Canadian guitarist and blues singer, cancer.
- John McAfee, 75, British-American computer programmer and businessman (antivirus software).
- Clare Peploe, 79, British-Italian film director and screenwriter (Zabriskie Point).
- Antonio Salines, 84, Italian actor (Monella, The Gamecock, Senso '45) and director.
- Gottfried Böhm, 101, German architect (Maria, Königin des Friedens) and sculptor.
- Ned Beatty, 83, American actor (Network, Deliverance).
- A.L. Snijders, 83, Dutch writer.
- Dani Karavan, 90, Israeli sculptor (Passages; Homage to Walter Benjamin).
- Benoît Sokal, 66, Belgian comics artist (Inspector Canardo).
- Eric Carle, 91, American writer and illustrator (The Very Hungry Caterpillar).
- Anna Halprin, 100, American choreographer.
- Roger Hawkins, 75, American drummer ("Love Sensation").
- Franco Battiato, 76, Italian singer-songwriter (Fetus, Pollution).
- Curtis Fuller, 86, American jazz trombonist.
- Karl Wirsum, 81, American artist.
- Jean-Claude Romer, 88, French actor, film critic and film historian.
- Ronald Inglehart, 86, American political scientist (Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world).
- Tawny Kitaen, 59, American actress (The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak).
- Willy Kurant, 87, Belgian cinematographer (Man on Horseback).
- George Jung, 78, American drug trafficker and smuggler, subject of Blow.
- Hafid Bouazza, 51, Moroccan-Dutch writer, cirrhosis.
- Anita Lane, 62, Australian singer-songwriter ("From Her to Eternity" and "Stranger Than Kindness").
- Tempest Storm, 93, American burlesque star (Teaserama).
- Monte Hellman, 91, American film director (Two-Lane Blacktop, Beast from Haunted Cave, The Shooting).
- Jim Steinman, 73, American musician, composer and lyricist ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "Total Eclipse of the Heart").
- Gene Youngblood, 78, American media theorist and writer (Expanded Cinema).
- Marshall Sahlins, 90, American anthropologist (Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate).
- Patrick Juvet, 70, Swiss model and singer-songwriter.
- Malcolm Cecil, 84, British musician (Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Blues Incorporated) and record producer (Talking Book).
- George Segal, 87, American actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
- Jessica Walter, 80, American actress (Play Misty for Me).
- Bertrand Tavernier, 79, French film director (Coup de Torchon, Life and Nothing But) and screenwriter.
- Nawal El Saadawi, 89, Egyptian feminist and writer.
- Paul Jackson, 73, American jazz bassist (The Headhunters, Azteca, Santana).
- Antón García Abril, 87, Spanish composer (Tombs of the Blind Dead, Pancho Villa, Return of the Blind Dead).
- Norman J. Warren, 78, English film director (Satan's Slave, Prey, Terror).
- Barbara Ess, 73, American photographer and musician.
- Bunny Wailer, 73, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (Bob Marley and the Wailers), complications from a stroke.
- Chris Barber, 90, English jazz bandleader and trombonist ("Petite Fleur").
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 101, American poet (A Coney Island of the Mind).
- Françoise Cactus, 56, French musician (Stereo Total) and author.
- Tonton David, 53, French reggae singer.
- U-Roy, 78, Jamaican reggae singer.
- Johnny Pacheco, 85, Dominican musician (Fania All-Stars) and label executive (Fania Records), complications from pneumonia.
- Chick Corea, 79, American jazz keyboardist (Return to Forever) and songwriter ("Spain", "500 Miles High").
- Larry Flynt, 78, American publisher (Hustler).
- Ghédalia Tazartès, 73, French musician known for his guttural singing.
- Jean-Claude Carrière, 89, French novelist and screenwriter (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
- Giuseppe Rotunno, 97, Italian cinematographer (All That Jazz, Amarcord, The Stendhal Syndrome).
- Christopher Plummer, 91, Canadian actor (The Sound of Music, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus).
- Sophie, 34, Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer.
- Hilton Valentine, 77, English Hall of Fame guitarist (The Animals).
- Cloris Leachman, 94, American actress (The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein).
- James Purify, 76, American soul singer ("I'm Your Puppet").
- Alberto Grimaldi, 95, Italian film producer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Last Tango in Paris).
- Guem, 73, Algerian musician, composer and dancer.
- Larry King, 87, American broadcaster.
- Phil Spector, 81, American musician, record producer (Wall of Sound).
- Howard Johnson, 79, American jazz musician.
- Michael Apted, 79, English filmmaker (Up).
- Jim Haynes, 87, American-British underground and avant-garde theatre producer, co-founder of the Traverse Theatre and International Times.
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