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.

Peter Scolari

Peter Scolari arrives on the red carpet at the 44th International Emmy Awards at the New York Hilton in New York City on November 21, 2016. The actor died after a two-year battle with cancer on October 22, 2021. He was 66. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

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Colin Powell

Colin Powell, founder of America's Promise Alliance, speaks to the media following an educational roundtable at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2011. The former Secretary of States and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died from complications of COVID-19 on October 18 at the age of 84. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

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Abolhassan Bani-Sadr

Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr attends a symposium in Vienna, Austria, on July 6, 2009. He died October 9 at the age of 88. File Photo by Georg Hochmuth/EPA-EFE

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Melvin Van Peebles

Cast member Melvin Van Peebles attends the premiere of "Peeples" in Los Angeles on May 8, 2013. The influential filmmaker and actor died on September 22 at the age of 89. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

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