the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
Detsl, Russian musician (b. 1983)
Matti Nykänen Finnish ski jumping (b. 1963)
Leonie Ossowski, German writer (b. 1925)
Izzy Young, American-Swedish folklorist and author (b. 1928)
Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927)
Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (b. 1924)
John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926)
Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936)
Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1930)
Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1935)
February 8 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer (b. 1917)
Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b. 1968)
Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (b. 1988)
Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator (b. 1931)
Patricia Nell Warren, American novelist, poet, and journalist (b. 1936)
February 10 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1945)
February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghan politician (b. 1925)
Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1939)
Betty Ballantine, British-born American book publisher (b. 1919)
Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922)
February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian and dissident (b. 1917)
February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian folk singer (b. 1951)
Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist (b. 1931)
Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
Bob Van Der Veken, Belgian actor (b. 1928)
Peter Wells, New Zealand writer and filmmaker (b. 1950)
February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
February 20 – Dominick Argento, American composer (b. 1927)
Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)
Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (b. 1917)
Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925)
February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b. 1922)
February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
February 27 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1929)
Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1930)
Kumar Bhattacharyya, British-Indian engineer, educator, and government advisor (b. 1940)
Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (b. 1922)
Yannis Behrakis, Greek photojournalist (b. 1960)
Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (b. 1969)
Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
Sidney Verba, American political scientist, librarian, and library administrator (b. 1932)
March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish politician and diplomat (b. 1940)
Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1949)
Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b. 1916)
Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1922)
İrsen Küçük, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972)
Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952)
March 11 – Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
Birch Bayh, American politician (b. 1928)
Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 3rd Head of State of Mauritania (b. 1943)
Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b. 1937)
Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (b. 1939)
Alan Krueger, American economist (b. 1960)
Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
Tunku Puan Zanariah, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong (b. 1940)
March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker (b. 1925)
Donald Kalpokas, 2nd Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1943)
Mary Warnock, British philosopher (b. 1924)
Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
Scott Walker, American-born British singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (b. 1926)
Nancy Gates, American actress (b. 1926)
Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French filmmaker (b. 1928)
March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985)
Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)
Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (b. 1940)
Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (b. 1926)
Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician and First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
Tony Buzan, English author and educator (b. 1942)
Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b. 1929)
Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
April 16 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
April 17 – Alan García, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
April 21 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
Lê Đức Anh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b. 1939)
April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
April 27 – Negasso Gidada, Ethiopian politician, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1968)
April 29 – Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)
Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
May 5 – Norma Miller, American dancer, actress and author (b. 1919)
John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1933)
May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher (b. 1928)
Sprent Dabwido, 13th President of Nauru (b. 1972)
Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian film composer (b. 1934)
May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b. 1920)
Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
Grumpy Cat, American Internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)
Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (b. 1979)
I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (b. 1936)
May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
May 21 – Glauco Sansovini, Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1938)
Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator (b. 1923)
Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science popularizer (b. 1936)
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (b. 1930)
May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer (b. 1990)
Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1940)
Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1930)
May 30 – Leon Redbone, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1949)
May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
Ani Yudhoyono, 6th First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1952)
June 2 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (b. 1934)
June 3 – Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1977)
Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official (b. 1929)
Nechama Rivlin, Israeli socialite, 10th First Lady of Israel (b. 1945)
June 5 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
June 6 – Dr. John, American musician (b. 1941)
June 8 – André Matos,  Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer (b. 1971)
June 9 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1938)
Lee Hee-ho, South Korean peace activist, 15th First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922)
June 12 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (b. 1924)
June 13 – Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (b. 1923)
June 16 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)
Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1924)
June 19 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
June 20 – Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (b. 1929)
June 21 – Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus (b. 1946)
June 22 – Miguel Ángel Falasca, Argentine-born Spanish volleyball player and coach (b. 1973)
Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer (b. 1918)
George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b. 1916)
June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
Édith Scob, French film and theatre actress (b. 1937)
Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1932)
Momir Bulatović, 1st President of the Republic of Montenegro (b. 1956)
Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (b. 1944)
July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (b. 1924)
July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (b. 1929)
Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (b. 1930)
July 6 – João Gilberto, Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
July 7 – Artur Brauner, German film director (b. 1918)
Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
July 10 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
Johnny Clegg, South African musician and anthropologist (b. 1953)
John Paul Stevens, American judge and lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1920)
July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (b. 1944)
Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
César Pelli, Argentine architect (b. 1926)
Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
Ilaria Occhini, Italian actress (b. 1934)
July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)
Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (b. 1943)
Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (b. 1932)
Thomas Remengesau Sr.,
Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
August 5 – Toni Morrison, American Nobel writer (b. 1931)
Alejandro Serrano, Ecuadorian politician, 46th Vice President of Ecuador (b. 1933)
Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
August 7 – Kary Mullis, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1944)
Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
August 9 – Paul Findley, American politician (b. 1921)
August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1931)
August 13 – Cecilia Caballero Blanco, Colombian socialite, 24th First Lady of Colombia (b. 1913)
Princess Christina of the Netherlands (b. 1947)
Peter Fonda, American actor (b. 1940)
Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1942)
José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (b. 1933)
August 17 – Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
Tim Fischer, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1946)
David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (b. 1940)
Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (b. 1939)
Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney (b. 1952)
Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine ski racer (b. 1963)
August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
Jessi Combs, American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator (b. 1980)
Dawda Jawara, 2nd Prime Minister of Gambia and 1st President of Gambia (b. 1924)
Michel Aumont, French actor (b. 1936)
Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (b. 1947)
August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1941)
Valerie Harper, American actress (b. 1939)
Anthoine Hubert, French racing driver (b. 1996)
Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (b. 1930)
Halvard Hanevold, Norwegian biathlete (b. 1969)
Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (b. 1944)
Carol Lynley, American actress (b. 1942)
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian cardinal (b. 1919)
September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (b. 1922)
September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican Zapotec painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (b. 1946)
September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (b. 1924)
B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (b. 1936)
Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and visual artist (b. 1961)
September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (b. 1934)
György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and political dissident (b. 1933)
Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1949)
Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1944)
September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress (b. 1979)
Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1943)
September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 14th Prime Minister and 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (b. 1927)
September 20 – Su Beng, Taiwanese dissident, political activist and historian (b. 1918)
Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut (b. 1937)
September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (b. 1941)
September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (b. 1927)
Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (b. 1932)
William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
Gennadi Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (b. 1949)
Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian director and playwright (b. 1933)
September 30 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist (b. 1945)
Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (b. 1939)
Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
Giya Kancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (b. 1935)
Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
Martin Lauer, German athlete (b. 1937)
Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (b. 1962)
Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (b. 1984)
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (b. 1936)
October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (b. 1994)
October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1920)
Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
Bill Macy, American actor (b. 1922)
Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (b. 1924)
October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1930)
Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor (b. 1927)
Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer (b. 1979)
Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (b. 1948)
Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (b. 1930)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIL (b. 1971)
Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (b. 1942)
John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
October 28 – Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive, and politician (b. 1953)
October 29 – John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (b. 1943)
Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (b. 1940)
Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
November 4 – Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1928)
November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
November 6 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1940)
Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (b. 1927)
Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
Raymond Poulidor, French professional racing cyclist (b. 1936)
November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (b. 1923)
November 16 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat, Acting Prime Minister (b. 1923)
November 18 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina (b. 1943)
November 19 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1931)
November 20 – Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (b. 1940)
Jean Douchet, French film director, historian, and film critic (b. 1929)
Michael J. Pollard, American actor (b. 1938)
Eugène Camara, 7th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1942)
Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (b. 1926)
November 23 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991)
Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1943)
Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (b. 1934)
November 28 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1956)
November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
November 30 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
December 1 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
D. C. Fontana, American television writer (b. 1939)
Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (b. 1941)
Bob Willis, English cricketer (b. 1949)
December 5 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
Ron Leibman, American actor (b. 1937)
Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (b. 1922)
Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1940)
Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1965)
René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (b. 1933)
Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (b. 1943)
Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer, and songwriter (b. 1998)
Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1923)
Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (b. 1922)
Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (b. 1936)
December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (b. 1933)
Danny Aiello, American actor (b. 1933)
Peter Snell, New Zealand middle-distance runner (b. 1938)
December 14 – Anna Karina, Danish-French film actress, director, writer, and singer (b. 1940)
December 15 – Chuck Peddle, American engineer (b. 1937)
December 17 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (b. 1938)
December 18 – Claudine Auger, French actress (b. 1941)
Roland Matthes, German swimmer (b. 1950)
Marko Orlandić, 10th President of Montenegro (b. 1930)
December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (b. 1943)
Tony Britton, English actor (b. 1924)
Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (b. 1931)
Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1954)
Ari Behn, Norwegian author (b. 1972)
Peter Schreier, German operatic tenor and conductor (b. 1935)
Jerry Herman, American composer (b. 1931)
Sue Lyon, American actress (b. 1946)
Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1933)
December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b. 1940)
Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934)
Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944)
Manfred Stolpe, German politician (b. 1936)
Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (b. 1925)
Syd Mead, American concept artist (b. 1933)
Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh politician and economist (b. 1937)
Djimrangar Dadnadji, 16th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1954)
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Blade Runner (1982), in November
The New Barbarians aka.
Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
Akira (1988)
The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July
Daybreakers (2010)
Dark Angel (2000–2002): The main events of the series begin.
Futurama ("The Honking", 2000): An automotive research lab creates Project Satan from the most evil parts of the most evil cars of all-time.
Project Satan's first victim was the great robot actor Calculon (back when he was a robot arm), which got infected with a computer virus that turned him into a murderous automobile similar to a werewolf.
Dollhouse ("Epitaph One", 2009): The events of this episode take place in a post-apocalyptic version of 2019.
2021 (MMXXI)  was .
2021 hosted most major events that were originally scheduled for 2020, including UEFA Euro 2020, 2020 Summer Olympics and other events that were postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The African Continental Free Trade Area comes into effect.
Cuba formally unifies its dual currency system after 27 years, with Cuban convertible peso (CUC) leaving and making the Cuban peso (CUP) the only national currency.
Munster Technological University is opened in Cork, and Tralee, Ireland.
A British judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States and Mexico offers him political asylum.
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is re-elected to a second term, winning 54% of the vote.
The border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopens.
Protesters supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump storm inside the United States Capitol while congress was certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Democratic Party officially gains control of the United States Senate, now controlling both chambers of the United States Congress.
2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong police arrest over 50 democracy activists under the national security law.
January 7 – 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis: Iraq issues an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump over the drone strike killing of Qasem Soleimani.
January 9 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 is declared missing after the plane dropped 10,000 ft within a minute north of Jakarta, Indonesia.
The plane crashed, carrying over 60 passengers.
A search and rescue team were deployed.
January 10 – Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, taking the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
January 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 90 million worldwide.
In Lyon, France, the first transplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.
U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time following the storming of the United States Capitol.
He is the only president of the United States to be impeached twice.
Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas resigns following a criminal investigation into the Estonian Centre Party.
January 14 – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is re-elected winning 58.64% of the vote, defeating Bobi Wine.
An earthquake occurs in Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing over 100 people.
COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from the virus passes two million.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his government resign as a result of a child welfare scandal.
January 17 – LauncherOne becomes the first liquid-fueled aircraft launched rocket to reach orbit.
January 20 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States with Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States.
January 21 – Governor General of Canada Julie Payette announced her resignation following allegations of a "toxic workplace" environment.
January 23 – In Russia, police arrest more than 3,000 people who were protesting in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was also arrested.
January 24 – President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is re-elected in a landslide victory winning 60.7% of the vote.
January 25 – Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte resigned following a loss of confidence from the coalition government that originally backed him in 2018.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 100 million worldwide.
Kaja Kallas becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Estonia following a coalition government, becoming Estonia's first female prime minister.
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal rules that abortion for fetal defects is unconstitutional and resulting in a near-total ban of the practice in Poland.
GameStop short squeeze: Investment funds report major losses after GME stock prices raised 900 times their record low.
January 28 – GameStop short squeeze: American financial services company Robinhood restricts the trade of stocks of several companies, including GameStop, causing outrage online.
January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for a third five-year term of top leader in Vietnam.
A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule with Min Aung Hlaing as state leader.
COVID-19 pandemic: Over 100 million vaccinations have been given to people worldwide.
February 2 – Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon and names AWS CEO Andy Jassy as his replacement.
February 3 – Canada becomes the first country to name the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization.
February 4 – U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will stop providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for use in the Yemeni Civil War.
A glacial burst in Uttarakhand, India kills at least 36 people and over 200 people are missing.
In American football, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs with a 31 to 9 point margin at Super Bowl LV.
COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO-China investigation into the source of the outbreak is concluded with experts saying a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.
The United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission to successfully enter orbit around Mars.
February 10 – China's Tianwen-1 is launched to Mars to learn about the planet's environmental quality.
February 11 – In Fort Worth, Texas, United States, at least nine people were killed in an accident involving 133 vehicles on a highway; affected by the weather conditions left by a snowstorm system.
February 12 – Former Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori, who was picked in 2014 to be in charge of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, resigned from the Olympic committee after sexist comments he made.
A winter storm in North America begins which would cause 70 deaths and several million others without clean water or power.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is found not-guilty by the United States Senate for causing the storming of the United States Capitol during his second impeachment trial.
Mario Draghi is appointed as the Prime Minister of Italy, a month after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte due to a failed coalition government.
February 14 – Former President of Argentina Carlos Menem, who supported Peronist ideas, dies at aged 90.
February 15 – Nigerian-American economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is picked as the first woman and first African to be Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
February 17 – 27 students and staff members at a school in Nigeria's Niger State are kidnapped by armed gunmen, killing one student.
After government negotiations, all 27 were released on February 27.
February 18 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission lands on Mars after seven months of travel.
Porfirije becomes the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, replacing Irinej who died of COVID-19 in November 2020.
The United States officially rejoins the Paris Agreement, 107 days after leaving.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide pass 200 million.
2020–21 H5N8 outbreak: 7 people test positive for H5N8 bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Russia, making them the first human cases.
February 21 – Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic win the Women's and Men's Singles respectively at the Australian Open.
February 22 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass half a million deaths from the virus.
February 24 – COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 2.5 million.
The Armenian military calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign and Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.
February 26 – More than 300 schoolgirls are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria's Zamfara State.
March 1 – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison.
March 2 – Microsoft acknowledges a series of data breaches and cyberattacks, affecting about 250,000 servers globally.
March 3 – The Russo-Ukrainian crisis begins as Russia supported rebel groups near Ukraine to "destruct" the country.
March 5 – Moldova becomes the first country in Europe to receive coronavirus vaccines through COVAX.
March 6 – Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq making it the first meeting between a pope and a grand ayatollah.
A series of explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea kills over 100 people and injures more than 600.
In a referendum, Switzerland approved a nationwide ban on the burqa.
Prime Minister of Ivory Coast Hamed Bakayoko dies from cancer after being hospitalized with COVID-19, aged 56.
Patrick Achi is nominated to replace him.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations passed 300 million worldwide.
In the United States, the murder trial of the four police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd begins in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
March 11 – 30 students and several staff members are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
March 13 – Former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez is arrested on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy over her actions during the 2019 coup of then-President Evo Morales.
March 16 – A mass shooting kills eight people in Atlanta, Georgia, with most of the victims being Asian American women.
The attack is being called a hate crime against Asian-Americans mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mathematicians Avi Wigderson of Hungary and László Lovász of Israel both win the Abel Prize for their work in complexity theory and graph theory.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) wins the general elections, with liberal parties gaining seats.
President of Tanzania John Magufuli dies in office from heart failure, aged 61.
Vice President Samia Suluhu replaces him the following day, becoming the country's first female president.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide are 400 million.
In Australia, floods in New South Wales cause the evacuation of over 18,000 people and three killed.
March 20 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a presidential decree, becoming the first country to withdraw from it.
A mass shooting kills ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
The suspect is shot and arrested by police.
A fire breaks out at a Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, killing 15 people and injuring over 500 people.
The Israeli general elections take place, the fourth Knesset election in two years, with Likud winning the most seats.
Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, loses control and causes a major blockage in the Suez Canal causing a large disruption of global trade.
March 24 – Over twenty people are killed and 35,000 flee when Islamist rebels take the city of Palma in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack.
March 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administrated worldwide exceeds 500 million.
March 28 – Former President of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka dies of problems caused by influenza in Antananarivo, aged 84.
March 30 – A series of riots break out in loyalist areas of Derry in Northern Ireland.
March 31 – Alfred Aho of Canada and Jeffrey Ullman of the United States win the Turing Award for their work in programming language compilers.
At least 51 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck fell onto the track.
Russia warns NATO against sending any troops to aid Ukraine, amid reports of a large Russian military build-up on its borders.
In Bulgaria, the conservative-populist GERB party led by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov wins the majority of seats in the parliamentary elections.
Vjosa Osmani is elected the fifth President of Kosovo by the Assembly of Kosovo, becoming the second woman to hold this position.
April 6 – Cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Indonesia and East Timor, killing at least 160 people.
Naomi Mataʻafa is elected the 7th and first female Prime Minister of Samoa, after defeating the incumbent Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi.
La Soufrière, a Caribbean volcano in Saint Vincent, erupts which forced over 20,000 people to evacuate.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at Windsor Castle at aged 99.
April 10 – Banker and former Governor of Guayas Guillermo Lasso is elected the 47th President of Ecuador, defeating socialist candidate Andrés Arauz.
April 11 – Iran accuses Israel of "nuclear terrorism" and vows revenge, after a large explosion destroys the internal power system of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, a nuclear power plant.
April 13 – Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
April 15 – Scientists announce they successfully injected human stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating chimera-embryos.
April 17 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 3 million.
Twelve football clubs, including the "big six" from the Premier League and leading clubs from the Serie A and La Liga, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, despite condemnation from UEFA, FIFA and politicians including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Ulisses Correia e Silva is re-elected Prime Minister of Cape Verde.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, part of the Mars 2020 mission, performs the first powered flight on another planet in history.
Raúl Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, ending more than 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel is picked as his replacement.
President Idriss Déby is killed during a rebel attack in North Chad, aged 68.
The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment on the Perseverance rover creates oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere.
April 21 – COVID-19 pandemic: With global case numbers approaching a second peak, India reports 315,000 infections within 24 hours, the highest one-day tally recorded anywhere in the world to date.
April 22 – World leaders mark Earth Day by hosting a virtual summit on climate change hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, during which more targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions are proposed, including a 50% cut by 2030 for the United States.
Following an international search and rescue effort, the Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since 2003.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide passes 1 billion.
Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries.
A hospital fire in Baghdad, where COVID-19 patients were being treated during the pandemic in Iraq, kills 82 people with 110 people injured.
Edi Rama is re-elected Prime Minister of Albania with his Socialist Party winning a narrow majority of 74 seats.
Nomadland wins the Academy Award for Best Picture with its director (Chloé Zhao) and leading actress (Frances McDormand) winning Best Director and Best Actress respectively.
Youn Yuh-jung, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya also won the awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
The European Union approves of a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom following their exit from the European Union.
After members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) issue a motion of no confidence, DUP Leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster announced her resignation effective the following month.
American astronaut Michael Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, dies at the age of 90.
Clashes on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border leave at least 46 people dead and 30,000 civilians displaced.
April 29 – China launches the Tianhe space station module, the first module in the upcoming Tiangong space station.
April 30 – In Israel, at least 45 people are crushed to death with over 150 injured at a religious festival on Mount Meron.
In horse racing, Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby, the record seventh victory for trainer Bob Baffert.
A ceasefire is declared following a border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The SpaceX Crew-1 mission ends, returning four crewmembers of Expedition 64 and 65 to Earth from the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Resilience.
Nationwide protests in Colombia against proposed tax increases to fund a basic income program result in at least six dead.
President Iván Duque announced his withdrawal of the tax increase.
An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro overpass collapses, killing 26 people and injuring 70.
Mark Selby wins the World Snooker Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy.
May 5 – SpaceX successfully flies, lands, and recovers a Starship prototype for the first time, after four unsuccessful previous attempts.
Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is injured in a car bombing which has been described as an attempted assassination.
In Brazil, at least twenty-five people are killed in a police raid shootout in Rio de Janeiro.
In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party win the majority of local elections, gaining some seats from the Labour Party.
Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party is re-elected Mayor of London winning 55% of the vote against Conservative Shaun Bailey.
In Afghanistan, a bombing near a school in Kabul kills at least 85 people and injures 147 more.
Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes as Hamas increases rocket fire.
Seven students and two adults are killed, and at least 21 more people are wounded, in a mass shooting at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.
In India, Cyclone Tauktae makes landfall, leaving 87 people dead and over 80 people are missing.
On the same day, the country also reported that 4,329 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of COVID-related deaths in a single-day.
Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150.
A high-rise office in Gaza occupied by Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media outlets is destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
Leicester City wins the FA Cup and Manchester City wins the Premier League.
May 17 – Darwin's Arch, a rock formation in the Galápagos Islands, collapses because of natural erosion.
May 18–22 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 contest is won by Italian entrants Måneskin with the song "Zitti e buoni".
May 20 – After international pressure and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees a ceasefire deal to end the conflict with Gaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 AM local time.
May 22 – In Samoa, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to acknowledge his defeat and locks Naomi Mataʻafa from the Legislative Assembly causing a constitutional crisis.
Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Championship, becoming the oldest major championship winner in golf history at aged 50.
In Peru, a militant communist group kills 18 people as protest against the presidential candidacy of conservative Keiko Fujimori just two weeks before the general election run-off.
14 people are killed in the cable car crash near Lake Maggiore in Italy.
In Belarus, journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevich is arrested after his Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land at Minsk National Airport under the orders of President Alexander Lukashenko.
May 24 – Members of the Malian Armed Forces captured and arrest President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane in a coup d'état.
Military leader Assimi Goïta becomes the interim president shortly afterwards.
Bashar al-Assad is re-elected President of Syria, winning 95% of the vote even though the votes cast for Assad was higher than the total population of Syria.
The second-shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs, with totality lasting for 14 minutes.
The eclipse was visible over the Pacific Ocean, Oceania, Antarctica and parts of Asia and the Americas.
Shell becomes the first company to be legally mandated to cut its carbon emissions and follow the Paris climate accord, following a landmark court ruling in the Netherlands.
May 27 – Poul Schlüter, Denmark's Prime Minister for over a decade and introduced the krone to the European Union, dies at aged 92.
In Canada, a mass grave with the remains of 215 children are found on the grounds of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia.
Chelsea defeats Manchester City in the final of the UEFA Champions League.
May 30 – Brazilian driver Hélio Castroneves wins the Indy 500 for the fourth time.
The Iranian oil fleet IRIS Kharg catches fire and sinks near the Gulf of Oman.
Former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog is elected as the 11th President of Israel defeating educator Miriam Peretz.
The X-Press Pearl sinks near Colombo, Sri Lanka leaking many tons of nitric acid and oil into the Indian Ocean, causing the country's worst marine ecological disaster.
The ship had been on fire for the past two weeks.
The first daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is born in the United States in Santa Barbara, California.
Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.
French writer David Diop wins the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood Is Black.
June 3 – Sir Anerood Jugnauth, who was Mauritius's Prime Minister for a total of twenty-years and its President for a decade, dies at aged 91.