January - Fan Zhendong, Chinese professional table tennis player.^[2]
May - Jacqueline Wang, great-grandchild of Wang Guangqi, great-grandniece of Wang Guangmei, attended Groton School and Columbia University in the City of New York.
November - Xu Minghao, singer, member of Seventeen.

Deaths

January 14 — King Hu, film director based in Hong Kong and Taiwan (b. 1932)
January 28 — Wong Shun-leung, Hong Kong martial artist (b. 1935)
February 2 — Qin Jiwei, general (b. 1914)
February 17 — Leonard Ho, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1925)
February 19 — Deng Xiaoping, 3rd Paramount Leader of China (b. 1904)^[3]
March 31 — Dorothy Liu, Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician (b. 1934)
April 9 — Wu Zuoren, painter (b. 1908)
April 11 — Wang Xiaobo, novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
April 26 — Peng Zhen, 4th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1902)
May 6 — Wang You, biochemist (b. 1910)
May 7 — Yip Hon, gambling tycoon (b. 1904)
May 16 — Wang Zengqi, writer (b. 1920)
May 25 — Luo Ergang, historian (b. 1901)
June 6 — Liao Shantao, mathematician (b. 1920)
June 10 — Zhou Lin, politician (b. 1912)
June 27 — Joseph Zong Huaide, Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Shandong (b. 1917)
June 28 — Yang Yichen, politician (b. 1914)
June 30 — Su Bingqi, archaeologist and co-founder of Peking University's archaeology program (b. 1909)
September 8 — Yu Jim-yuen, martial artist, actor, teacher and the master of China Drama Academy (b. 1905)
September 22 — Chiang Wei-kuo, Nationalist general and adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1916)
September 23 — Lu Sheng, lieutenant general (b. 1911)
October 7 — Wan Laiming, animator (b. 1900)
October 17 – Fang Yi, former Vice Premier of China (b. 1916)
October 20 — Li Ruishan, politician (b. 1920)
October 26 — Teng Haiqing, military officer and politician (b. 1909)
November 8 — Lam Ching-ying, Hong Kong stuntman, actor, martial artist and action director (b. 1952)
November 9 — Wu Xiuquan, military officer and diplomat (b. 1908)
December 4 — Ho Sin Hang, Hong Kong entrepreneur, philanthropist and financier (b. 1900)
December 16 — Hu Ning, physicist and writer (b. 1916)

Notes and References

Web site: Golden Goblet Award 1997 . siff.com . December 19, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141219173151/http://www.siff.com/InformationEn/ViewDetail.aspx?ParentCategoryID=87f3154e-0ec5-4706-bc07-f15f17a52477&InfoGuid=e22ea812-0a6a-4cf3-b5de-634e63133fb9 . December 19, 2014.
Web site: Table Tennis: FAN Zhendong . Tokyo 2020 Olympics . . July 30, 2021 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210730141139/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/athlete-profile-n1321133-fan-zhendong.htm . July 30, 2021.
Encyclopedia: Deng Xiaoping Biography & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . July 4, 2019.