Remembering the People We Lost in 2021

An incomplete list.

Surfing great Greg Noll on his deck at home that overlooks the Smith River near Crescent City. (Photo by Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

1. Gray December

It has been a month of passings: Bob Dole, Joan Didion, and Desmond Tutu all gone this month. And then Harry Reid and John Madden yesterday.

Which makes this as good a time as any to ta…