What Happened in 2021 — Events, Births & Deaths

Supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.

Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people.

Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.

A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.

A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule.

The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.

The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins.

Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.

A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.

Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.

Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.

A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.

Pope Francis begins a historic visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.

Twenty-eight political institutions in Myanmar establish the National Unity Consultative Council, a historic alliance of ethnic armed organizations and democratically elected leaders, in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.

Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

La Plume noire, an anarchist bookstore in Lyon, is targeted by an attack of the far-right, provoking a shock in Lyon's far-left circles.

Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.

The ship Ever Given is dislodged from the Suez Canal.

At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.

A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.

COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.

Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.

Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.

Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser.

A mass shooting occurs at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.

The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.

State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.

Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.

Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.

A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.

China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first Mars rover.

Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.

A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.

Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.

A Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee, killing all six people on board, including actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.

A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

Juneteenth National Independence Day is signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.

The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.

An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.

Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.

American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.

The International Space Station temporarily spins out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of attitude, following an engine malfunction of Russian module Nauka.

Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.

The Tampere light rail officially starts operating.

Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.

The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.

Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador.

The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a people's defensive war against the military junta during the Myanmar civil war.

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.

Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13.

The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

Windows 11 is released to the general public.

About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.

A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.

The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized

The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears.

An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62.

COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

Barbados becomes a republic.

A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.

Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 68 people.

Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.

A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.

Dutch Formula One racing driver Max Verstappen wins the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beating seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton to become the first Formula One World Champion to come from the Netherlands.

Burmese military forces commit the Mo So massacre, killing at least 44 civilians.

The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.

Three people are killed when a 14-year-old opens fire on civilians at a Texaco convenience store in Garland, Texas.

Princess Lilibet of Sussex

Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese fado singer (born 1939)

Mark Eden, English actor (born 1928)

Elmira Minita Gordon, Belizean educator and psychologist (born 1930)

Floyd Little, American football player (born 1942)

Eric Jerome Dickey, American author (born 1961)

Tanya Roberts, American actress (born 1949)

Colin Bell, English footballer (born 1946)

John Georgiadis, English violinist and composer (born 1939)

Ashli Babbitt, American participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack

Gordon Renwick, Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman (born 1935)

James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped during the 1970 October crisis in Québec (born 1921)

Michael Apted, English filmmaker (born 1941)

Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1927)

Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (born 1932)

Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (born 1922)

John Reilly, American actor (born 1934)

Joel Robert, Belgian motorcycle racer (born 1943)

Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (born 1929)

Chris Cramer, British journalist (born 1948)

Phil Spector, American record producer, songwriter (born 1939)

Rasheed Naz, Pakistani film and television actor (born 1948)

Sibusiso Moyo, Zimbabwean politician, army general (born 1960)

Mira Furlan, Croatian actress and singer (born 1955)

Hank Aaron, American baseball player (born 1934)

Hal Holbrook, American actor and director (born 1925)

Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (born 1933)

Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (born 1994)

Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)

Nunuk Nuraini, Indonesian food scientist (born 1961)

Cicely Tyson, American actress (born 1924)

Walker Boone, Canadian actor (born 1944)

Sophie, Scottish musician (born 1986)

Dustin Diamond, American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (born 1977)

Temur Tsiklauri, Georgian pop singer and actor (born 1946)

Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner (born 1920)

Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut, molecular biologist and NASA payload specialist (born 1945)

Örs Siklósi, Hungarian singer (born 1991)

Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (born 1929)

George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (born 1920)

Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (born 1943)

Mary Wilson, American singer (born 1944)

Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)

Larry Flynt, American publisher (born 1942)

Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945)

Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (born 1930)

William Meninger, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1932)

Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador (born 1937)

Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author (born 1951)

Seif Sharif Hamad, Tanzanian politician (born 1943)

Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (born 1944)

Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (born 1950)

Mireya Arboleda, Colombian classical pianist (born 1928)

Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (born 1958)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (born 1919)

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (born 1930)

Ronald Pickup, English actor (born 1940)

Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor (born 1952)

Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (born 1926)

Graham Pink, British nurse (born 1929)

James Levine, American conductor and pianist (born 1943)

Roger Mudd, American journalist (born 1928)

Ray Campi, American singer and musician (born 1934)

Takis Mousafiris, Greek composer and songwriter (born 1936)

Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American professional boxer (born 1954)

Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (born 1923)

John Magufuli, the fifth President of Tanzania (born 1959)

Glynn Lunney, American engineer (born 1936)

Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian secularist, feminist (born 1931)

George Segal, American actor (born 1934)

Julie Pomagalski, French snowboarder (born 1980)

Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (born 1941)

Beverly Cleary, American author (born 1916)

Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (born 1936)

Joseph Edward Duncan, American serial killer (born 1963)

Bashkim Fino, Albanian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (born 1962)

Sarah Onyango Obama, Kenyan educator and philanthropist (born 1921)

G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal (born 1930)

Myra Frances, British actress (born 1942)

Ken Reitz, American baseball player (born 1951)

Muhammad Wakkas, Bangladeshi teacher and parliamentarian (born 1952)

Simon Bainbridge, British composer (born 1952)

Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (born 1929)

Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)

Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author (born 1928)

Alcee Hastings, American politician (born 1936)

Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1950)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1921)

DMX, American rapper and actor (born 1970)

Nikki Grahame, British reality-TV icon (born 1982)

Ian Gibson, British scientist and Labour Party politician (born 1938)

Ramsey Clark, American lawyer (born 1927)

Mauro Viale, Argentine journalist (born 1947)

Joseph Siravo, American actor and producer (born 1955)

Bernie Madoff, American mastermind of the world's largest Ponzi scheme (born 1938)

Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (born 1939)

Helen McCrory, British actress (born 1968)

Liam Scarlett, British choreographer (born 1986)

John Dawes, Welsh rugby union player (born 1940)

Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (born 1928)

Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (born 1947)

Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (born 1952)

Monte Hellman, American film director (born 1929)

Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (born 1955)

Adrian Garrett, American professional baseball player (born 1943)

Dan Kaminsky, American internet security researcher (born 1979)

Manoj Das, Indian writer (born 1934)

Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)

El Risitas, Spanish comedian (born 1956)

Cate Haste, English author (born 1945)

Anthony Payne, English composer (born 1936)

Olympia Dukakis, American actress (born 1931)

Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (born 1925)

Lloyd Price, American R&B vocalist (born 1933)

Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (born 1962)

Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (born 1966)

Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (born 1940)

Pauline Tinsley, British soprano (born 1928)

Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (born 1914)

Oliver Gillie, British journalist and scientist (born 1937)

Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (born 1980)

Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host (born 1935)

Yolanda Tortolero, Venezuelan politician

Paul Mooney, American comedian (born 1941)

Gary Wilson, American anti-pornography activist (born 1956)

Ron Hill, English long-distance runner (born 1938)

Eric Carle, American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (born 1929)

John Warner, American attorney and politician (born 1927)

Lois Ehlert, American author and illustrator (born 1934)

Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)

Mark Eaton, American basketball player (born 1957)

Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Christian activist, and author (born 1931)

Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1957)

B. J. Thomas, American singer (born 1942)

Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal (born 1951)

Jason Dupasquier, Swiss motorcycle road racer (born 2001)

F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)

Clarence Williams III, American actor (born 1939)

T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (born 1963)

Ned Beatty, American actor (born 1937)

Frank Bonner, American actor and television director (born 1942)

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (born 1924)

John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (born 1945)

Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (born 1960)

Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of South Vietnam and army officer (born 1925)

Mike Gravel, American politician (born 1930)

Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1932)

Raj Kaushal, Indian Film Director and Producer (born 1971)

Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (born 1939)

Harmoko, Indonesian politician, former parliament speaker and government minister (born 1939)

Matīss Kivlenieks, Latvian ice hockey goaltender (born 1996)

Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (born 1943)

Richard Donner, American film director (born 1930)

Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (born 1936)

Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1922)

Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968)

Charlie Robinson, American actor (born 1945)

Renée Simonot, French actress (born 1911)

Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (born 1956)

Biz Markie, American rapper (born 1964)

Tom O'Connor, English comedian (born 1939)

Dale Snodgrass, United States Naval Aviator and air show performer (born 1949)

Rodney Alcala, American serial killer (born 1943)

Joey Jordison, American musician (born 1975)

Dusty Hill, American musician (born 1949)

Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (born 1974)

Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (born 1930)

Jerry Ziesmer, American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor (born 1939)

Markie Post, American actress (born 1950)

Trevor Moore, American comedian (born 1980)

Bill Davis, Canadian politician, 18th premier of Ontario (born 1929)

Pat Hitchcock, English actress and producer (born 1928)

Killer Kau, South African rapper, dancer and record producer (born 1998)

Zairaini Sarbini, Malaysian voice actress (born 1972)

Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1943)

Una Stubbs, English actress, TV personality, and dancer (born 1937)

Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter (born 1953)

Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (born 1946)

Gerd Müller, German footballer (born 1945)

Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (born 1963)

Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (born 1939)

Igor Vovkovinskiy, Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (born 1982)

Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1941)

Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker (born 1931)

Charlie Watts, English musician (born 1941)

Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)

Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)

Jacques Rogge, Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1942)

Mahal, Filipino comedian and actress (born 1974)

Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (born 1944)

Michael Constantine, Greek-American actor (born 1927)

Geronimo, British alpaca (born 2013)

Siddharth Shukla, Indian TV and film actor (born 1980)

Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (born 1925)

Tunch Ilkin, Turkish-American football player (born 1957)

Willard Scott, American weather presenter and television personality (born 1934)

Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981)

Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)

Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)

Luis Villafuerte, Filipino politician, former congressman and governor of Camarines Sur (born 1935)

Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian philosopher and academic (born 1934)

Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (born 1959)

Lou Angotti, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1938)

Jane Powell, American actress (born 1929)

Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (born 1940)

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (born 1937)

Jolidee Matongo, South African politician, 97th Mayor of Johannesburg (born 1975)

Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer (born 1984)

John Challis, English actor (born 1942)

Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (born 1940)

Dinky Soliman, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (born 1953)

Willie Garson, American actor (born 1964)

John Elliott, Australian businessman (born 1941)

Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (born 1933)

Madeleine Tchicaya, Ivorian politician (born 1930)

Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (born 1931)

Jack Biondolillo, American bowler (born 1940)

Todd Akin, American politician (born 1947)

Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (born 1953)

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical scientist (born 1936)

Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea

David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)

Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (born 1937)

Jack Angel, American voice actor (born 1930)

Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (born 1929)

Peter Scolari, American actor (born 1955)

James Michael Tyler, American actor (born 1962)

Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and politician, 6th President of South Korea (born 1932)

Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer (born 1945)

Peter Philpott, Australian cricketer (born 1934)

Hugo Dittfach, Canadian horse jockey (born 1936)

Neal Smith, American politician (born 1920)

Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (born 1995)

Dean Stockwell, American actor (born 1936)

Max Cleland, American politician (born 1942)

Miroslav Žbirka, Slovak singer, songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

Chung-Yun Hse, wood scientist (born 1935)

Jyrki Kasvi, Finnish journalist and politician (born 1964)

Young Dolph, American rapper (born 1985)

Lou Cutell, American actor (born 1930)

Jean-Pierre Schumacher, French Trappist monk and survivor of the Thibirine monks (born 1924)

Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (born 1930)

Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (born 1964)

Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer and entrepreneur (born 1980)

Frank Williams, British founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (born 1942)

Kinza Clodumar, Nauruan politician, 7th President of Nauru (born 1945)

Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer (born 1925)

LaMarr Hoyt, Major League Baseball player, 1983 AL Cy Young Award winner (born 1955)

Bob Dole, American politician (born 1923)

Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer (born 1953)

Speedy Duncan, American football player (born 1942)

Demaryius Thomas, American football player (born 1987)

Michael Nesmith, American musician (The Monkees), songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist (born 1942)

Anne Rice, American author (born 1941)

Vicente Fernández, Mexican actor, ranchera singer, and film producer (born 1940)

Bernie Fowler, American politician and environmental advocate (born 1924)

Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (born 1955)

Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (born 1986)

Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress (born 1930)

Johnny Isakson, American politician (born 1944)

Joan Didion, American writer (born 1934)

Wayne Thiebaud, American artist (born 1920)

Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi (born 1929)

Paul B. Kidd, Australian author, journalist, and radio show host (born 1945)

Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician, President of Greece from 2005 to 2015 (born 1929)

Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican bishop, theologian and anti-apartheid and human rights activist (born 1931)

Nell Hall Williams, American quilter (born 1933)

Edward O. Wilson, American biologist (born 1929)

Grichka Bogdanoff, French television presenter and scientific essayist (born 1949)

John Madden, American football Hall of Fame coach and commentator (born 1936)

Harry Reid, American lawyer, politician, and former Senate majority leader (born 1939)

Peter Klatzow, South African composer (born 1945)

Betty White, American actress, comedian and producer (born 1922)