Deaths in 2021
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- Gene Youngblood, 78, American media theorist and writer (Expanded Cinema), cardiac arrest.
- 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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