Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Roger Hunt

Great Britain

1938 – 2021 (83 years old)

Legendary Liverpool FC and England striker who scored three goals in England's victorious 1966 FIFA World Cup campaign and remains Liverpool's all-time record league goalscorer with 244 league goals, affectionately dubbed "Sir Roger" by the Kop.

Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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William Garson Paszamant

Willie Garson

United States

1964 – 2021 (57 years old)

Beloved American character actor renowned worldwide for his heartwarming and stylish portrayal of Carrie Bradshaw's best friend Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City, and con-man Mozzie on White Collar.

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Sports & Athletics

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

James Peter Greaves

Jimmy Greaves

Great Britain

1940 – 2021 (81 years old)

Prolific English goalscoring genius who remains Tottenham Hotspur's all-time league scorer (220 goals) and the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football (357 goals), a 1966 World Cup winner, and beloved co-host of television's Saint and Greavsie.

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika

عبد العزيز بوتفليقة

Morocco

1937 – 2021 (84 years old)

Longest-serving President of Algeria (1999–2019) and veteran diplomat who presided over the end of the devastating Algerian Civil War through national reconciliation policies before stepping down amid mass Hirak protests.

Algiers, Algeria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

Clive Sinclair

Great Britain

1940 – 2021 (81 years old)

Visionary British inventor and entrepreneur whose affordable home microcomputers, particularly the ZX Spectrum in 1982, democratized personal computing and sparked the British video game industry.

London, United Kingdom

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Resistance & Human Rights

Norman Gene Macdonald

Norm Macdonald

Canada

1959 – 2021 (61 years old)

Brilliant Canadian stand-up comedian and writer celebrated for his deadpan, fearless comedy style, his legendary tenure as anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, and starring in the cult classic Dirty Work.

Pasadena, California, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Saadi Yacef

ياسف سعدي

Algeria

1928 – 2021 (93 years old)

Commander of the FLN Autonomous Zone of Algiers during the historic 1957 Battle of Algiers, who later co-produced and starred in Gillo Pontecorvo's Oscar-nominated masterpiece The Battle of Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria

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Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio

Jorge Sampaio

Portugal

1939 – 2021 (81 years old)

18th President of Portugal (1996–2006) and Mayor of Lisbon who unified Portuguese democracy, championed East Timor's independence from Indonesian occupation, and later served as the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations.

Lisbon, Portugal

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Michael Kenneth Williams

Michael K. Williams

United States

1966 – 2021 (54 years old)

Acclaimed American actor who delivered one of television's most profound and indelible performances as Omar Little in HBO's The Wire, alongside celebrated roles in Boardwalk Empire, The Night Of, and Lovecraft Country.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

France

1933 – 2021 (88 years old)

Giant of French cinema affectionately nicknamed "Bébel", who shot to international fame as the face of the New Wave in Godard's Breathless and Pierrot le Fou, before becoming France's undisputed box-office king performng all his own perilous stunts.

Paris, France

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Michael Theodorakis

Μίκης Θεοδωράκης

Greece

1925 – 2021 (96 years old)

Revered Greek composer, statesman, and anti-fascist icon world-renowned for scoring Zorba the Greek, Serpico, and the Mauthausen Trilogy, who became the musical voice of Greek democracy and resistance against dictatorship.

Chania, Crete, Greece

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Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge

Jacques Rogge

Belgium

1942 – 2021 (79 years old)

Belgian orthopedic surgeon, three-time Olympic yachtsman, and 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (2001–2013) who restored Olympic integrity following scandals, founded the Youth Olympic Games, and fiercely combated doping.

De Pinte, East Flanders, Belgium

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Rainford Hugh Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Jamaica

1936 – 2021 (85 years old)

Visionary Jamaican producer, sound engineer, and father of dub reggae whose sonic alchemy at his Black Ark studio transformed early Bob Marley & The Wailers, invented modern studio remixing, and influenced hip-hop and punk rock.

Kendal, Hanover, Jamaica

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Sciences & Discovery

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Edmond Henri Fischer

Edmond H. Fischer

China

1920 – 2021 (101 years old)

Swiss-American centenarian biochemist awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation, the universal biological "on-off switch" regulating cell growth, metabolism, and targeted cancer therapies.

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Hissène Habré

حسين حبري

Chad

1942 – 2021 (79 years old)

President of Chad (1982–1990) backed by France and the US who defeated Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan forces in the Toyota War, but presided over brutal mass political atrocities that made him the first former head of state convicted of crimes against humanity by an African court.

Dakar, Senegal

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Charles Robert Watts

Charlie Watts

Great Britain

1941 – 2021 (80 years old)

Incomparable English drummer who provided the unshakeable rhythmic backbone and swinging jazz-inflected groove for The Rolling Stones for fifty-eight continuous years (1963–2021), universally revered for quiet dignity and impeccable tailoring.

Devon, United Kingdom

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