Vilém Holáň (23 September 1938 – 5 March 2021) was a Czech politician. He was Minister of Defense for KDU-ČSL from 1994 to 1996. He was an observer to the European Parliament in 2003 and 2004. Holáň was born in Ostrava.
Holáň died on 5 March 2021, aged 82.
Boris Komnenić
Boris Komnenić (; 29 March 1957 – 6 March 2021) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than sixty movies from 1980 until 2011.
He was known for his roles in "Days of Dreams", "Taiwan Canasta", "Dancing in Water", "The Misfit Brigade", "The Belgrade Phantom", "When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo", "Loving Glances" and "Novogodišnje venčanje".
Komnenić died on 6 March 2021 in Belgrade, aged 63.
Valentin Kurbatov
Valentin Yakovlevich Kurbatov () (29 September 1939 – 6 March 2021) was a Russian literary critic and writer. He was a member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was also member of the Public Chamber of Russia from 2010 to 2014 and member of the Presidential Council for Culture.
Allan J. McDonald
Allan James McDonald (July 9, 1937 – March 6, 2021) was an American engineer, aerospace consultant and author. He was the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol.
In January 1986, he refused to sign off on a launch of the Space Shuttle "Challenger" which broke apart 73 seconds into flight.
McDonald died in Ogden, Utah at the age of 83 on March 6, 2021. The cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a fall.
Thongak Lairembi
"Thongak Lairembi" (), also known as "Langol Lairemma" (), is a primordial goddess in Meitei mythology and religion. She is the divine female personification of the death, who guards the door of the entrance to the underworld, which is the land of the death, ruled by her consort, Thongalel.
Legend says she gets departed from her husband when Thongalel was lost in the battle between the gods of the underworld and those of the upper world, in the hands of Salailen Sidaba. The winner asked the goddess, who is the wife of the loser, to be the gatekeeper of the entrance gate to the underworld, and for Thongalel, he gave him Khamnung Kikoi Louonbi, in return.
Nikki van der Zyl
Monica "Nikki" van der Zyl (27 April 1935 – 6 March 2021) was a German voice-over artist. She was known for her dubbing work on the "James Bond" movie series.
Van der Zyl died on 6 March 2021 in London from problems caused by a stroke, aged 85.
Shasta Lake, California
The City of Shasta Lake, formerly known as Central Valley or CV, is a city in Shasta County, California, United States. It is the closest town to Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake, which are popular travel destinations.
Agustín Balbuena
Agustín Alberto Balbuena (1 September 1945 – 9 March 2021) was an Argentine football striker. He won four Copa Libertadores and the Copa Intercontinental with Club Atlético Independiente. He also played for the national team in the 1970s.
Balbuena died on 9 March 2021, aged 75.
Club Atlético Colón
Club Atlético Colón () is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the first division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera División.
Hans-Christian Gabrielsen
Hans-Christian Gabrielsen (27 July 1967 – 9 March 2021) was a Norwegian industrial worker, politician, and trade unionist. He was elected leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in May 2017.
Gabrielsen died suddenly in his sleep on 9 March 2021 from heart failure, aged 53.
Rafet Husović
Rafet Husović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Рафет Хусовић, 2 April 19649 March 2021) was a Montenegrin politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2012 until 2020. He was the founder and long-time president of the Bosniak Party (BS). Husović was born in Rožaje, SR Montenegro.
Husović died on 9 March 2021, at the age of 56, after a long-illness.
Jhon Jarrín
Jhon Jarrín (21 December 1961 — 9 March 2021) was an Ecuadorian track cyclist. He competed in the individual and team pursuit events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Jarrín killed after being hit by a car in Cuenca, Ecuador on 9 March 2021, aged 59.
Erling Lorentzen
Erling Sven Lorentzen (28 January 1923 – 9 March 2021) was a Norwegian-Brazilian shipowner and businessman. He founded Aracruz Celulose in 1968. He was the widower of Princess Ragnhild, the eldest child of King Olav V of Norway.
Skirret
Skirret ("Sium sisarum") is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae. Sometimes people grow it as a root vegetable. The English name skirret comes from the Dutch word "suikerwortel," meaning "sugar root." In Scotland, it is called "crummock."
Steven Spurrier (wine merchant)
Steven Spurrier (5 October 1941 – 9 March 2021) was a British wine expert and merchant. He was known as a "champion of French wine". Spurrier created the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He was also the founder of the "Academie du Vin" and Christie's Wine Course.
Gamification
Gamification is making an activity that isn't a game (a playful or competitive activity) more like a game. The word comes from "game" and "-ification", a suffix meaning "The process of becoming". It is done by applying game principles and design to make that activity more engaging (interesting or fun). If an activity is already a game, it can't become a game.
Josy Stoffel
Josy Stoffel (27 June 1928 – 9 March 2021) was a Luxembourgian gymnast. He was born in Differdange. He participated in five Summer Olympic Games (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964), but never won a medal. He won the Luxembourgian national gymnastics championships for sixteen straight years, from 1949 until 1964.
In 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Tommy Troelsen
Tommy Brian Troelsen (10 July 1940 – 9 March 2021) was a Danish football player and manager, and television presenter. He played his entire club career with Vejle Boldklub, winning one Danish championship and two Danish Cup trophies.
Troelsen played 16 matches and scored five goals for the Danish national team, and won a silver medal for Denmark at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was television host on Danmarks Radio and dk4.
Troelsen died aged 80 on 9 March 2021 after a long illness.
Jiří Ventruba
Jiří Ventruba (February 2, 1950 – March 9, 2021) was a Czech neurosurgeon and politician. He was born in Brno. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic ​from 2017 until his death.
Ventruba died on March 9, 2021 in Prague from COVID-19, aged 71.
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf ( '; 30 July 1940 – ) also known as Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali, is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He became well known during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Media and Foreign Affairs Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government.
Kate Lehrer
Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer. She was a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio.
She was married to writer and journalist Jim Lehrer from 1960 until his death in 2020.
John Porter (Illinois politician)
Brad Schneider
Bradley Scott Schneider (born August 20, 1961) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district since 2017. He held this office before from 2013 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Donald Sumpter
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. In seasons 1 and 2, he played Maester Luwin in the HBO series "Game of Thrones".
Valery Legasov
Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is known for his work as the chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster.
Legasov hung himself at his Moscow apartment on 27 April 1988, aged 51.
Boris Shcherbina