Notable deaths of 2021 (110 images)

Archibishop Desmond Tutu, Ranchera music legend Vicente Fernandez, best-selling author Anne Rice, Monkee Michael Nesmith, Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, former Senator Bob Dole, former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, fashion designer Virgil Abloh, rapper DMX, Britain's Prince Philip, authors Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry, actors Willie Garson, Jessica Walter, Christopher Plummer, Michael K. Williams, Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, broadcaster Larry King and baseball legend Hank Aaron are among the famous people who have died in 2021.

Edwin Edwards

Edwin Edwards answers questions before the Jefferson Jackson dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans on August 9, 2014. The former four-term governor of Louisiana died from respiratory failure on July 12 at the age of 93. Photo by A.J. Sisco/UPI

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Jehan El Sadat

Jehan El Sadat, wife of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, arrives at a social function in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2000. The former first lady died on July 9 at the age of 87. Photo by Lili Iravani/UPI

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Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld signs his book "Known and Unknown: A Memoir" at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on February 22, 2011. The former defense secretary, who served under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, died from multiple myeloma on June 30 at the age of 88. Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI

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Sen. Mike Gravel

Sen. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Presidential Forum in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2007. The two-term senator was most known for reading the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. He died June 27 at 91. Photo by Alexis C. Glenn/UPI

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