Last Farewells: Notable deaths of 2024

Alexei Navalny
47. Anticorruption activist who led opposition to Putin for over a decade while enduring arrests, assaults and near-fatal poisoning

Dame Maggie Smith
89. Actress who excelled in both tragedy and comedy, best known for roles in Downton Abbey and in Harry Potter films

Franz Beckenbauer
78. Football legend, won a World Cup with West Germany, as both player and manager, and two Ballon d’Or awards

Jimmy Carter
100. Longest-lived President of U.S., former peanut farmer won 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for conflict resolution

Quincy Jones
91. Music producer and composer, worked with many stars including Michael Jackson on best-selling album “Thriller”

Liam Payne
31. Member of One Direction, one of the most successful boybands of all time. Also enjoyed solo success

Donald Sutherland
88. Versatile actor known to different generations for his roles in films such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH, and Hunger Games

Dr Manmohan Singh
92. India’s first Sikh Prime Minister with reputation for honesty, launched ground- breaking social and economic reforms

Peter Higgs
94. Nobel-prize winning physicist who first showed how new Higgs boson particle helped bind universe together

OJ Simpson
76. Former American footballer and actor who was acquitted of murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown in 1995 “trial of the century”

James Earl Jones
93. Acting great known for distinctive voice – most famously as Star Wars villain Darth Vader and The Lion King’s Mufasa

Roberto Cavalli
83. Celebrated Italian designer who created flamboyant clothes to dress stars from Brigitte Bardot to Spice Girls

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