Famous People Who Died in 2021

• Aaron, Hank

  The baseball star who beat Babe Ruth's home run record

• Adelson, Sheldon

   The billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation

• Asner, Ed

  Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Beatty, Ned

  The one who gets raped in Deliverance

• Bly, Robert

  The poet who wrote the man book Iron John

• Bo the Dog

  The family dog of President Barack Obama

• Carle, Eric

  Author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• Cleary, Beverly

  The author of the Ramona books for children

• Collins, Michael

  The pilot of Columbia, the Apollo 11 command module

• Didion, Joan

   The author of Slouching Toward Bethlehem

• DMX

  Rapper of "Get At Me Dog"

• Dole, Bob

  The 1996 Republican candidate for president

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

  Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books

• Grodin, Charles

  Robert DeNiro's co-star in 'Midnight Run' and the dad in 'Beethoven'

• hooks, bell

  Black feminist critic of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy"

• King, Larry

  Suspender-clad chat show host on CNN

• Kotto, Yaphet

  Parker in the movie 'Aliens' and Idi Amin in 'Raid on Entebbe'

• Leachman, Cloris

  The egotistical landlady Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Liddy, G. Gordon

  The nutty leader of the Watergate burglars

• Limbaugh, Rush

  The host of radio's Rush Limbaugh Show

• Macdonald, Norm

  Sneering, Canadian cast member of SNL, 1994-96

• Madden, John

  The namesake of the "Madden" football video games

• Madoff, Bernard

  The Wall Street money manager who swindled $50 billion

• McMurtry, Larry

  The author of Lonesome Dove

• Mondale, Walter "Fritz"

  Vice President of the United States, 1977-81

• Nesmith, Michael

  The tall Monkee in the wool watch cap

• Plummer, Christopher

  Captain von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music

• Powell, Colin

  U.S. Secretary of State, 2001-2004

• Prince Philip

  The husband of Queen Elizabeth II

• Rice, Anne

  Author of Interview With The Vampire

• Rumsfeld, Donald

  U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2001-2006

• Shultz, George

  United States Secretary of State, 1982-89

• Sondheim, Stephen

  West Side Story lyricist and superstar Broadway composer

• Stockwell, Dean

  Admiral Al Calavicci on the TV series 'Quantum Leap'

• Tutu, Desmond

  The bishop who won a Nobel prize for opposing apartheid

• Tyson, Cicely

  The star of 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'

• Watts, Charlie

  The drummer for The Rolling Stones

   

• Wertmüller, Lina

  The Italian filmmaker who made 'Seven Beauties' and 'Swept Away'

• White, Betty

  Rose Nyland on The Golden Girls

• Wilson, E.O.

  The ant expert who wrote 1978's On Human Nature

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