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.

Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers the key-note speech at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela held at The Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 9, 2013. Tutu, the theologian and human rights activist who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died December 26 in Cape Town. He was 90. Photo by Charlie Shoemaker/UPI

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City. Didion died December 23 following complications from Parkinson's disease. She was 87. Photo by David Shankbone/Wikicommons

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Carlos Marin

Carlos Marin with Il Divo performs in concert at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, Fla., on June 14, 2006. The singer died following complications from COVID-19 on December 20 at the age of 53. Photo by Michael Bush/UPI

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Johnny Isakson

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., walks to the weekly Republican caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on December 19, 2017. The senator, who served in the Senate for over 20 years, died on December 19 at the age of 76. Photo by Erin Schaff/UPI

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