CastAway

Source: https://www.latestly.com/socially/sports/keshav-datt-passes-away-mamata-banarjee-offers-condolences-to-indian-hockey-legends-family-2617935.html while not the best source, there's also this tweet from the CM of West Bengal:

Rene Robert dead

Meh, I'll believe when someone puts their name to it or it's an actually reliable paper reporting it. Daily Mirror ain't it.

JMLP until the end!

Le Pen

JMlP

Continuing my Jean Marie le Pen campaign

Joanne Rogers, widow of Fred Rogers, dies Also noted in Dead of 2021

Last Civil War widow dies: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/08/last-civil-war-widow-dies-helen-viola-jackson

Let's say 21

JMLP

I'm throwing in my hat for 21 deaths this year and saying 31st

I got closer than I thought I would with 26 to be honest - I just picked it at the start of the year because it was the lowest number not taken, never thought we'd get so close

No option for Le Pen, who is my regular pick?

I don't actually think it's be him, but you can have my pick of Jean-Marie Le Pen only under severe protest