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Tom Lee, the former CEO of Parks Canada and an Order of Canada recipient, has died. https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2021/02/former-ceo-parks-canada-has-died

Max Vernon, the Metropolitan Police's head negotiator who helped save the lives of 19 hostages during the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, has died. He was 84. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9259383/Chief-negotiator-1980-Iranian-Embassy-siege-dies.html

Harold J. Winston, the former head of US Chess, has died. https://new.uschess.org/news/former-us-chess-president-harold-j-winston-has-died

Claudia Lawrence's father dies without ever finding out the fate of his daughter. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/missing-chef-claudia-lawrences-father-dies-with-case-unsolved-6hf63hsj7

Frank Orr, an iconic sportswriter for the Toronto Star, has died. He was 84. Orr - no relation to Bobby Orr - was a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee in the media category and an award-winning journalist for the newspaper for four decades. https://www.thephwa.com/2021/02/13/phwa-mourns-the-passing-of-toronto-star-titan-frank-orr/

Rupert Neve, a renown British audio design and engineering wizard, whose multi-decade career began in the UK army in World War II, took him through the 1970s, where he took an interest in digital technology, and continued until present day, has died. He was 94. https://sonicstate.com/news/2021/02/13/rupert-neve-dies-at-94/

Christopher Pennock, a stage and screen actor whose Broadway credits included The Rose Tattoo, Abelard & Heloise & A Patriot For Me and who also had a long list of television credits, notably Gabriel Collins on Dark Shadows and episodic appearances on soap operas & other dramas, has died. He was 76. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stage-and-Screen-Actor-Christopher-Pennock-Dies-at-76-20210213

Frederick K. C. Price, founder of the Crenshaw Christian Center, has died. He was 89. Price had been ill with COVID-19, a fact known to his followers, as his name had been bantered about on social media the past few days. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/02/12/frederick-k-c-price-founder-of-crenshaw-christian-center-dies-from-covid/

Lucy Mirigan, believed to be the oldest resident of San Francisco, has died. She was 114. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-oldest-resident-dies-at-age-114-15948083.php (Behind paywall)

Robert Holts, Nebraska's last surviving Tuskegee Airman, has died. He was 96. https://www.ketv.com/article/robert-holts-who-served-america-as-a-tuskegee-airman-in-wwii-has-died/35495370?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_KETV#

Lynn Stalmaster, a legendary casting director who worked on nearly 200 movies, including “West Side Story”, “Harold and Maude” and “Tootsie,” has died. He was 93. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lynn-stalmaster-dead-93-casting-director-1234907610/

You didn't. Just needs a QO. Milford Graves dead: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/milford-graves-free-jazz-pioneer-rest-in-peace/

Rachna Gilmore, an Indian-born, Canadian children's author and Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for her book A Screaming Kind of Day, died February 1st. She was 68. https://quillandquire.com/omni/rachna-gilmore-prolific-childrens-book-author-has-died/

Russ Thyret, the former Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. records, has died. He was 76. https://variety.com/2021/music/news/warner-bros-records-russ-thyret-dead-dies-1234907355/

Bakari Mwampachu, a former Tanzanian Minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs, has died. https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/former-minister-bakari-mwapachu-has-died-3288666

Maria Guarnaschelli, a legendary cookbook editor with a four-decade career who may have been best known for her 1997 revision of The Joy of Cooking, has died. She was 79. Her daughter, Alex Guarnaschelli, is one of the most prolific reality star celebrity chefs/judges on American television. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/85535-legendary-cookbook-editor-maria-guarnaschelli-dies-at-79.html

Dorothy Caldwell, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest rally car driver, has died. She was 103. She had begun driving the vehicles late in life, at age 94. https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/124210996/worlds-oldest-rally-car-navigator-dies-aged-103

Larry Robins, who managed Natalie Cole, Peter, Paul and Mary & George Wallace and served as a producer on an upcoming Netflix series, has died. He was 75. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/larry-robins-music-manager-and-producer-dies-at-75?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Billy Conigliaro, the first ever Boston Red Sox draft pick, a 1965 selection who went on to play nearly 350 games with Boston, Milwaukee and Oakland, has died. He was 73. https://www.mlb.com/news/billy-conigliaro-dies

Tedd Church, who won two National Newspaper Awards in a 38-year career with the Montreal Gazette, has died. He was 81. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/obituary-former-gazette-photographer-tedd-church-was-one-of-the-best-of-his-generation

Dazharia Quint Noyes, a popular TikTok star known as bxbygirldee, has died. She was 18. https://heavy.com/news/dazhariaa-quint-noyes-bxbygirldee-dead/

Larry Flynt dead. https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/10/larry-flynt-dead-dies-hustler-founder/

Richie Albright, the long-time drummer of country legend Waylon Jennings, has died. He was 81. Albright was a member of the Waylors since 1964. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/richie-albright-waylon-jennings-drummer-dead-obit-1126223/

The most like candidate, though, might be an American radio talk show host. https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-fight-lung-cancer-staffers-pray-remission (In case it hasn't been posted elsewhere.)

And yet listed as COVID-19 on the Wikipedia "Deaths in 2021" page (at least at the time I'm writing this). I looked at this one obituary, it didn't list a cause of death and I left it at that.