| Rabi Mishra | | 2021-01-20 | | male | | | India |
| Boris Pastukhov | 1933-10-10 | 2021-01-19 | 87 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Carlos Tapia | 1941-07-11 | 2021-01-19 | 79 | male | | Peru | Peru |
| Cesare Maestri | 1929-10-02 | 2021-01-19 | 91 | male | | Italy | Italy |
| Ellinah Wamukoya | 1951-01-01 | 2021-01-19 | 70 | female | | | Eswatini |
| Emanuele Macaluso | 1924-03-21 | 2021-01-19 | 96 | male | | | Italy |
| Felipe Quispe | 1942-08-22 | 2021-01-19 | 78 | male | | Bolivia | Bolivia |
| Gustavo Peña | 1941-11-22 | 2021-01-19 | 79 | male | natural causes | | Mexico |
| Sami Haddad | 1939-01-01 | 2021-01-19 | 82 | male | | United Kingdom | State of Palestine |
| Toleafoa Ken Vaafusuaga Poutoa | | 2021-01-19 | | male | | | |
| Vigen Stepanyan | 1952-10-08 | 2021-01-19 | 68 | male | | Armenia | Armenia |
| V Shanta | 1927-03-11 | 2021-01-19 | 93 | female | | India | India |
| Zdeněk Sternberg | 1923-08-15 | 2021-01-19 | 97 | male | | | Czechoslovakia |
| Абдураззаков, Хабибулло Абдураззакович | 1937-11-07 | 2021-01-19 | 83 | male | | | Tajikistan |
| Стефка Спасова | 1947-10-10 | 2021-01-19 | 73 | female | | Bulgaria | |
| Ákos Kriza | 1965-02-10 | 2021-01-18 | 55 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Alberto Berco | 1929-08-14 | 2021-01-18 | 91 | male | | Spain | Argentina |
| Anatoly Tsfasman | 1928-10-14 | 2021-01-18 | 92 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Catherine Rich | 1932-06-10 | 2021-01-18 | 88 | female | | France | France |
| Dani Shmulevich-Rom | 1940-11-29 | 2021-01-18 | 80 | male | | | Israel |
| David Richardson | 1955-12-24 | 2021-01-18 | 65 | male | natural causes | | United States of America |
| Don Sutton | 1945-04-02 | 2021-01-18 | 75 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Dündar Aliosman | 1930-12-30 | 2021-01-18 | 90 | male | | Syria | Syria |
| Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez | 1955-10-15 | 2021-01-18 | 65 | male | | Mexico | |
| Gatot Sudjito | 1960-10-28 | 2021-01-18 | 60 | male | | | |
| Hans de Boer | 1955-01-17 | 2021-01-18 | 66 | male | natural causes | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Igor Vykhukholev | 1955-01-15 | 2021-01-18 | 66 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Jean-Pierre Bacri | 1951-05-24 | 2021-01-18 | 69 | male | natural causes | France | France |
| Josep Maria Mestres i Quadreny | 1929-03-04 | 2021-01-18 | 91 | male | | | Spain |
| Joshua Kyeremeh | | 2021-01-18 | | male | natural causes | Ghana | Ghana |
| Juan Carlos Tabío | 1943-01-01 | 2021-01-18 | 78 | male | | Cuba | Cuba |
| K. V. Vijayadas | 1959-05-25 | 2021-01-18 | 61 | male | natural causes | India | India |
| Lubomír Kaválek | 1943-08-09 | 2021-01-18 | 77 | male | natural causes | United States of America | Czechoslovakia |
| Maria Koterbska | 1924-07-13 | 2021-01-18 | 96 | female | | Poland | Poland |
| Nancy C. Wilkie | 1942-12-27 | 2021-01-18 | 78 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Nombulelo Hermans | | 2021-01-18 | | female | | | South Africa |
| Rikkert La Crois | 1934-01-24 | 2021-01-18 | 86 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Sinclair Hood | 1917-01-31 | 2021-01-18 | 103 | male | | | Ireland |
| Volodymyr Cherniak | 1941-10-26 | 2021-01-18 | 79 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| ʿAbd al-Rahman ʿAli Hajji | 1935-01-01 | 2021-01-18 | 86 | male | natural causes | Spain | Iraq |
| Мичри, Александр Ильич | 1934-03-21 | 2021-01-18 | 86 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| 庹继光 | 1971-06-01 | 2021-01-18 | 49 | male | suicide | People's Republic of China | People's Republic of China |
| Abel Gabuza | 1955-03-23 | 2021-01-17 | 65 | male | | | South Africa |
| Bheki Ntuli | 1957-12-24 | 2021-01-17 | 63 | male | | | |
| Carlos Burga | 1952-05-12 | 2021-01-17 | 68 | male | | | Peru |
| Ghulam Mustafa Khan | 1931-03-03 | 2021-01-17 | 89 | male | | | Dominion of India |
| Giles Constable | 1929-06-01 | 2021-01-17 | 91 | male | | United States of America | United Kingdom |
| Hamilton Carvalhido | 1941-05-10 | 2021-01-17 | 79 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Jacques Bral | 1948-09-21 | 2021-01-17 | 72 | male | | France | France |
| Joan Eloi Vila | 1959-04-12 | 2021-01-17 | 61 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| József Sas | 1939-01-03 | 2021-01-17 | 82 | male | | | Hungary |
| Leonid Lych | 1929-02-08 | 2021-01-17 | 91 | male | | Belarus | Soviet Union |
| MC Livinho | 1994-11-11 | 2021-01-17 | 26 | male | | | Brazil |
| Miklós Szita | 1948-12-21 | 2021-01-17 | 72 | male | | | Hungary |
| Muriel Grossfeld | 1940-10-07 | 2021-01-17 | 80 | female | | | United States of America |
| Nikolay Antoshkin | 1942-12-19 | 2021-01-17 | 78 | male | | Russia | Russia |
| Philip Wilson | 1950-10-10 | 2021-01-17 | 70 | male | | | Australia |
| Roger Machin | 1926-05-28 | 2021-01-17 | 94 | male | | France | France |
| Ruxandra Garofeanu | 1944-03-09 | 2021-01-17 | 76 | female | | | Romania |
| Sammy Nestico | 1924-02-06 | 2021-01-17 | 96 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Stefano Vilardo | 1922-03-22 | 2021-01-17 | 98 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Vicent Tur Torres | 1959-01-01 | 2021-01-17 | 62 | male | natural causes | Spain | Spain |
| Víctor Crisólogo Espejo | 1952-07-12 | 2021-01-17 | 68 | male | natural causes | Peru | Peru |
| Aleksander Loit | 1925-06-11 | 2021-01-16 | 95 | male | | Sweden | Estonia |
| Arturo Tizón | 1984-05-25 | 2021-01-16 | 36 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Carlo Nayaradou | 1957-06-05 | 2021-01-16 | 63 | male | | | France |
| Choi Jeongrye | 1955-01-01 | 2021-01-16 | 66 | female | | | South Korea |
| Chris Cramer | 1948-01-03 | 2021-01-16 | 73 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Claudia Montero | 1962-01-01 | 2021-01-16 | 59 | female | | | Argentina |
| CM Murphy | 1954-11-09 | 2021-01-16 | 66 | male | natural causes | Australia | Australia |
| Dustin Higgs | 1972-03-10 | 2021-01-16 | 48 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Einar Eriksen | 1933-03-04 | 2021-01-16 | 87 | male | | | Norway |
| György Handel | 1959-03-20 | 2021-01-16 | 61 | male | | | Hungary |
| Hans Bentzon | 1941-09-02 | 2021-01-16 | 79 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Jon Arnett | 1935-04-20 | 2021-01-16 | 85 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| José Juan Belda Inglés | 1947-01-01 | 2021-01-16 | 74 | male | | | Spain |
| Juan Carlos Copes | 1931-05-31 | 2021-01-16 | 89 | male | natural causes | Argentina | Argentina |
| Junior Mance | 1928-10-10 | 2021-01-16 | 92 | male | | | United States of America |
| Michael Bryce | 1938-06-21 | 2021-01-16 | 82 | male | | | Australia |
| Morten Falck | 1946-02-05 | 2021-01-16 | 74 | male | | | Norway |
| Muammer Sun | 1932-10-15 | 2021-01-16 | 88 | male | natural causes | Turkey | Turkey |
| Muhammad Muhawish Zufayri | 1969-01-01 | 2021-01-16 | 52 | male | | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia |
| Pave Maijanen | 1950-09-03 | 2021-01-16 | 70 | male | | | Finland |
| Pedro Trebbau | 1929-05-20 | 2021-01-16 | 91 | male | | | Venezuela |
| Phil Spector | 1939-12-26 | 2021-01-16 | 81 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Salleh Abas | 1929-08-25 | 2021-01-16 | 91 | male | | Malaysia | Malaysia |
| Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo | 1927-09-21 | 2021-01-16 | 93 | male | | | Indonesia |
| Sergei Rodin | 1981-01-24 | 2021-01-16 | 39 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Sergi Mingote | 1971-03-09 | 2021-01-16 | 49 | male | accident | People's Republic of China | Spain |
| Vincent Davy | 1940-09-24 | 2021-01-16 | 80 | male | | Canada | France |
| Xavier Hunault | 1923-01-29 | 2021-01-16 | 97 | male | | | France |
| Петраускас Антанас Аугустинович | 1939-12-04 | 2021-01-16 | 81 | male | | Ukraine | |
| فهد الحمود | 1958-01-01 | 2021-01-16 | 63 | male | | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia |
| Anatoli Vichnevski | 1935-04-01 | 2021-01-15 | 85 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Anatoliy Vishnevskiy | 1935-04-01 | 2021-01-15 | 85 | male | | | |
| A. V. Karavashkin | 1964-08-20 | 2021-01-15 | 56 | male | | Russia | |
| Benjamin de Rothschild | 1963-07-30 | 2021-01-15 | 57 | male | natural causes | Switzerland | France |
| Dale Baer | 1950-06-15 | 2021-01-15 | 70 | male | | | |
| Eddie Kuligowski | 1946-07-22 | 2021-01-15 | 74 | male | | | France |
| Geoff Barnett | 1946-10-16 | 2021-01-15 | 74 | male | natural causes | | United Kingdom |
| Gerardo Malla | 1936-11-24 | 2021-01-15 | 84 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Gildardo García | 1954-03-09 | 2021-01-15 | 66 | male | natural causes | Colombia | Colombia |
| Hans Rüger | 1925-12-02 | 2021-01-15 | 95 | male | | | |
| Ivo Auf der Maur | 1924-08-14 | 2021-01-15 | 96 | male | | | Switzerland |
| Jevgeni Pelešev | 1930-12-13 | 2021-01-15 | 90 | male | | | |
| Kamal Morarka | 1946-06-18 | 2021-01-15 | 74 | male | | | India |
| Lệ Thu | 1943-07-16 | 2021-01-15 | 77 | female | | | Vietnam |
| Li Shen | | 2021-01-15 | | female | | Taiwan | Taiwan |
| Mark Langham | | 2021-01-15 | | male | | | |
| Miki Vukovic | 1944-06-25 | 2021-01-15 | 76 | male | | Spain | Serbia |
| Miklós Munkácsi | 1941-12-15 | 2021-01-15 | 79 | male | | | Hungary |
| Norbert Herr | 1944-05-28 | 2021-01-15 | 76 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Patrick Williams | 1947-05-02 | 2021-01-15 | 73 | male | | | France |
| Ryszard Sarkowicz | 1952-11-02 | 2021-01-15 | 68 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Sergey Borisov | 1958-06-10 | 2021-01-15 | 62 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Thomas V. Miller, Jr. | 1942-12-03 | 2021-01-15 | 78 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Tiit Lilleorg | 1941-11-25 | 2021-01-15 | 79 | male | | | Estonia |
| Vicente Cantatore | 1935-10-06 | 2021-01-15 | 85 | male | | Spain | Argentina |
| Vytautas Brėdikis | 1930-11-20 | 2021-01-15 | 90 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Aleksandr Nikitin | 1961-02-04 | 2021-01-14 | 59 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Ali Saleh Mohammed Ali Jaber | 1976-02-03 | 2021-01-14 | 44 | male | natural causes | Indonesia | Saudi Arabia |
| Andras Hantz | 1934-02-03 | 2021-01-14 | 86 | male | | | Romania |
| Boris Grachevsky | 1949-03-18 | 2021-01-14 | 71 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Boris Iosifovitsj Hasan | 1948-05-18 | 2021-01-14 | 72 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Cai Meibiao | 1928-03-26 | 2021-01-14 | 92 | male | | People's Republic of China | People's Republic of China |
| Carlos Armando Biebrich | 1939-11-19 | 2021-01-14 | 81 | male | | Mexico | Mexico |
| Cliff Burvill | 1937-03-26 | 2021-01-14 | 83 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Derek Challis (1930–2021) | 1930-10-29 | 2021-01-14 | 90 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Elijah Moshinsky | 1946-01-08 | 2021-01-14 | 75 | male | | | Australia |
| Evžen Neustupný | 1933-10-31 | 2021-01-14 | 87 | male | | | Czech Republic |
| Jan de Vries | 1944-01-05 | 2021-01-14 | 77 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Jan Rybář | 1931-07-16 | 2021-01-14 | 89 | male | | | Czech Republic |
| Kumiko Yokoi | 1944-01-01 | 2021-01-14 | 77 | female | natural causes | Japan | Japan |
| Larry Willoughby | 1947-01-01 | 2021-01-14 | 74 | male | natural causes | | United States of America |
| Leonidas Pelekanakis | 1962-11-02 | 2021-01-14 | 58 | male | | | |
| Leonid Shchemelev | 1923-02-05 | 2021-01-14 | 97 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Melanio Asensio | 1936-05-18 | 2021-01-14 | 84 | male | | | Spain |
| Norodom Yuvaneath | 1943-10-17 | 2021-01-14 | 77 | male | | | Cambodia |
| Peter Mark Richman | 1927-04-16 | 2021-01-14 | 93 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Pierre Cherpin | 1968-01-26 | 2021-01-14 | 52 | male | | | France |
| Sjarifuddin Baharsjah | 1931-01-01 | 2021-01-14 | 90 | male | | | Indonesia |
| Sotiris Joanidis | 1939-05-18 | 2021-01-14 | 81 | male | | | |
| Storm Constantine | 1956-10-12 | 2021-01-14 | 64 | female | | | United Kingdom |
| Vincent Logan | 1941-06-30 | 2021-01-14 | 79 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Yrjö Rantanen | 1950-04-23 | 2021-01-14 | 70 | male | | | Finland |
| Alexander Selkirk | 2020-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 1 | male | cause of cancer | France | Great Britain |
| Astrīda Kairiša | 1941-04-08 | 2021-01-13 | 79 | female | | | Soviet Union |
| Benjamin F. Gibson | 1931-07-13 | 2021-01-13 | 89 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Bernd Kannenberg | 1942-08-20 | 2021-01-13 | 78 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Bryan Monroe | 1965-08-22 | 2021-01-13 | 55 | male | natural causes | | United States of America |
| D Prakash Rao | 1958-11-11 | 2021-01-13 | 62 | male | | India | India |
| Edgar Kausel | 1934-06-22 | 2021-01-13 | 86 | male | | | Chile |
| Eusébio Scheid | 1932-12-08 | 2021-01-13 | 88 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Gábor Vass | 1956-06-23 | 2021-01-13 | 64 | male | natural causes | | Hungary |
| Gimax | 1938-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 83 | male | | | Italy |
| Henri Goraïeb | 1935-05-09 | 2021-01-13 | 85 | male | | | Lebanon |
| Joël Robert | 1943-11-24 | 2021-01-13 | 77 | male | natural causes | Belgium | Belgium |
| Juraj Galvánek | 1945-08-17 | 2021-01-13 | 75 | male | | | Slovakia |
| Khalid ibn Abdullah | 1937-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 84 | male | | | Saudi Arabia |
| Lisa M. Montgomery | 1968-02-27 | 2021-01-13 | 52 | female | capital punishment | United States of America | United States of America |
| Lisa Montgomery | 1968-02-27 | 2021-01-13 | 52 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Maguito Vilela | 1949-01-24 | 2021-01-13 | 71 | male | | | Brazil |
| Marielle de Sarnez | 1951-03-27 | 2021-01-13 | 69 | female | natural causes | France | France |
| Mario Cecchini | 1933-01-25 | 2021-01-13 | 87 | male | | Italy | Italy |
| Michel Gravel | 1936-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 85 | male | | | Canada |
| Mirain Llwyd Owen | 1973-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 48 | female | | | |
| Mircea Păcurariu | 1932-07-30 | 2021-01-13 | 88 | male | | Romania | Romania |
| Móricz Imre | 1935-04-14 | 2021-01-13 | 85 | male | | | Hungary |
| Moses Hamungole | 1967-05-01 | 2021-01-13 | 53 | male | | | |
| Natália de Sousa | 1947-01-25 | 2021-01-13 | 73 | female | | | |
| Nelson Nieves | 1934-12-25 | 2021-01-13 | 86 | male | | | Venezuela |
| Øyvind Sandberg | 1953-04-04 | 2021-01-13 | 67 | male | | | Norway |
| Patrick Chapuis | 1949-09-03 | 2021-01-13 | 71 | male | | France | France |
| Philip Tartaglia | 1951-01-11 | 2021-01-13 | 70 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Robert Cohan | 1925-03-27 | 2021-01-13 | 95 | male | | | United States of America |
| Safwat El-Sherif | 1933-12-19 | 2021-01-13 | 87 | male | natural causes | Egypt | Republic of Egypt |
| Seyoum Mesfin | 1949-01-25 | 2021-01-13 | 71 | male | | | Ethiopia |
| Siegfried Fischbacher | 1939-06-13 | 2021-01-13 | 81 | male | natural causes | United States of America | Germany |
| Sinikka Nopola | 1953-11-26 | 2021-01-13 | 67 | female | | Finland | Finland |
| Sylvain Sylvain | 1951-02-14 | 2021-01-13 | 69 | male | natural causes | | United States of America |
| Tim Bogert | 1944-08-27 | 2021-01-13 | 76 | male | | | United States of America |
| شفيع شلبي | 1947-05-02 | 2021-01-13 | 73 | male | | | Egypt |
| محمد زويد النفيعي | 1945-01-01 | 2021-01-13 | 76 | male | | | Saudi Arabia |
| مستور العصيمي | 1928-06-18 | 2021-01-13 | 92 | male | | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia |
| 陆新元 | 1950-07-03 | 2021-01-13 | 70 | male | natural causes | People's Republic of China | People's Republic of China |
| Allan Nilsson | 1933-05-10 | 2021-01-12 | 87 | male | | | Sweden |
| Álvaro Enrique Mejía Flórez | 1940-05-15 | 2021-01-12 | 80 | male | | | Colombia |
| Antônio Carlos de Almeida Braga | 1926-07-02 | 2021-01-12 | 94 | male | | Portugal | Brazil |
| Antonio de la Merced | 1938-03-14 | 2021-01-12 | 82 | male | | | Spain |
| Avi Harlev | | 2021-01-12 | | male | unnatural death | Israel | Israel |
| Bernhard Vossebein | 1925-03-14 | 2021-01-12 | 95 | male | | | Germany |
| Bogdan Stanoevici | 1958-01-22 | 2021-01-12 | 62 | male | natural causes | Romania | Romania |
| Bruce Bennett | 1944-01-01 | 2021-01-12 | 77 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Carlos Joseph | 1980-07-14 | 2021-01-12 | 40 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Csaba Gyenge | 1940-01-22 | 2021-01-12 | 80 | male | | Romania | |
| Eckhard Weiher | 1939-12-29 | 2021-01-12 | 81 | male | | | |
| Enrique Pineda | 1933-10-28 | 2021-01-12 | 87 | male | | | Cuba |
| Evgeniya Gatilova | 1921-09-19 | 2021-01-12 | 99 | female | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Ələfsər Məmmədov | 1952-01-04 | 2021-01-12 | 69 | male | | | Azerbaijan |
| Florentin Crihălmeanu | 1959-09-17 | 2021-01-12 | 61 | male | natural causes | Romania | Romania |
