From veteran stars of stage and display screen to a music trade titan and a method icon centenarian, we have now misplaced a number of well-known faces in 2024.

Dame Maggie Smith, Donald Sutherland, Quincy Jones, John Prescott, Iris Apfel and Shannen Doherty had been among the many notable figures we stated goodbye to.

One Course star Liam Payne additionally tragically died, aged 31.

Right here, we glance again on the lives and careers of those that are not with us.

January

Derek Draper, a former political adviser and husband of TV presenter Kate Garraway, died after a number of years of great well being issues on account of coronavirus.

A distinguished determine in New Labour within the Nineteen Nineties, Draper labored for Blairite Peter Mandelson and arrange the Progress organisation with Liam Byrne, who went on to change into an MP.

The 56-year-old was stated to be one of many UK’s longest-suffering COVID sufferers, spending 13 months in hospital after contracting the virus in March 2020.

Garraway introduced the dying of her “darling husband”, whereas former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, who Draper labored with within the Nineteen Nineties, and distinguished New Labour determine Alistair Campbell additionally shared tributes.

Obituary: Bigger than life Labour character is not going to be forgotten

Broadcast icon Annie Nightingale was Radio 1’s first feminine DJ, showing as a panellist on the BBC’s Juke Field Jury earlier than becoming a member of the radio station seven years later.

She remained the station’s solely feminine DJ till 1982, which noticed the arrival of Janice Lengthy, and is credited with serving to to pave the best way for the likes of Sara Cox, Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball.

She was awarded an MBE in 2002 and a CBE in 2020 – and in 2004, she turned the primary feminine DJ from Radio 1 to be inducted into the Radio Academy Corridor of Fame.

Ball and Whiley had been amongst these paying tribute following her dying on the age of 83, with Ball describing Nightingale as “the unique trailblazer for us girls in radio”.

Obituary: How Annie Nightingale modified the trade

German and World Cup soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer was broadly considered one of many biggest gamers of all time.

A gifted defender, he received an array of trophies and honours throughout his glittering profession, together with a World Cup with West Germany as each a participant and a supervisor, and two Ballon d’Or awards.

He was additionally famed for carving out his personal position as a sweeper – sitting barely behind his staff’s line of defense and sweeping up any man or ball that broke by.

Former England star Gary Lineker was amongst these paying tribute to Beckenbauer following his dying at 78, describing him as “one of many absolute greats of our recreation”.

Obituary: Der Kaiser who modified the notion of Germany

Different stars and notable figures who died in January 2024 embody:

Starsky & Hutch actor David Soul (pictured above proper with co-star Paul Michael Glaser)
Movie and TV director, and Kate Beckinsale’s step-father, Roy Battersby
Actor Christian Oliver
Mary Poppins actress Glynis Johns
X-Males and Designated Survivor star Adan Canto
Emmerdale and Hollyoaks actress Georgina Hale
Filmmaker Norman Jewison
Boney M founder and producer Frank Farian
Alien Nation and Star Trek Enterprise actor Gary Graham
Neighbours star Troy Beckwith
Gogglebox star Pat Webb
Broadway legend Chita Rivera
Adele Springsteen, mom of Bruce Springsteen
Welsh rugby participant JPR Williams

February

Radio DJ Steve Wright was one other BBC broadcasting legend, who hosted reveals for the broadcaster for greater than 4 a long time.

He began his profession as a clerk earlier than leaving the company to affix Thames Valley Radio to start his broadcasting profession in 1976 – returning to the BBC 4 years later to current weekend programmes on Radio 1 earlier than launching the present that might finally outline his profession, Steve Wright In The Afternoon, in 1981.

He later turned identified for Sunday Love Songs on Radio 2, in addition to a collection of specials and podcasts.

Wright died on the age of 69, with the BBC’s director of music amongst these paying tribute.

“He liked radio, and he liked the BBC,” she stated. “However most of all… he liked his viewers.”

Coronation Road star John Savident (pictured above together with his co-star Sue Nicholls) arrived on the well-known cobbles in 1994 and was shortly established as a fan favorite, identified for enjoying the booming-voiced butcher Fred Elliott.

Fred’s disastrous love life, together with three marriages and a number of other failed proposals, offered lots of the character’s most memorable storylines on the cleaning soap. He additionally had a secret son, Ashley, performed by Steven Arnold, and the 2 later developed an in depth bond as they labored as butchers collectively.

Like so many much-loved comedy characters, he had a easy catchphrase – “I say” – which peppered his speech.

Nicholls, who performed Fred’s long-term love curiosity Audrey Roberts within the ITV cleaning soap, hailed him for bringing “pleasure” to her life, following his dying at 86.

Bushy Bikers star Dave Myers (pictured proper above) initially labored as a make-up artist and first met Si King, the person who would change into his on-screen cooking associate, whereas engaged on a TV drama known as The Playing Man in 1995.

Their first TV look collectively was on The Bushy Bikers’ Cookbook in 2004, through which the pair rode the size of Portugal in a part-cooking present, part-travel programme. Over their close to 30-year friendship and profession, the pair turned TV cookery favourites and revealed greater than 25 books.

Myers additionally took half in Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, reaching week seven of the BBC competitors with associate Karen Hauer.

King led the tributes after his dying from most cancers at 66, saying: “I want you god’s velocity brother; you’re and can stay a beacon on this world.”

Kelvin Kiptum ran his first ever marathon in Valencia on the finish of 2022. Just some months later, the Kenyan ran his second, the London Marathon, and received it.

His third, in Chicago in October 2023, noticed him break the world document for the quickest ever marathon time – two hours and 35 seconds – smashing fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge’s document by 34 seconds.

Kiptum would have gone on to attain extra – however tragically died in a automobile crash in western Kenya, alongside his Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana, aged 24. He had been in coaching together with his sights set on a brand new document – eyeing the primary official marathon run underneath two hours in Rotterdam.

Kenya’s former prime minister, Raila Odinga, paid tribute to a “exceptional particular person” and “Kenyan athletics icon”.

Obituary: Kiptum was gearing up for an additional exceptional feat

Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny was certainly one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics and relentlessly campaigned in opposition to corruption within the Kremlin.

He had been serving a 19-year jail sentence on fees of extremism on the time of his dying, aged 47, and at all times maintained the case in opposition to him was politically motivated.

Two months earlier, he had been moved from his former jail within the Vladimir area of central Russia to the “Polar Wolf” penal colony about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) northeast of Moscow, and inside the Arctic Circle.

“In case your convictions imply one thing, you should be ready to face up for them and make sacrifices if needed,” he wrote in his memoir, Patriot, which was revealed posthumously in October 2024.

Learn extra: ‘I am going to by no means see my grandchildren‘

Different stars and notable figures who died in February 2024 embody:

The Workplace star Ewen MacIntosh (pictured above proper together with his co-stars)
A Place In The Solar presenter Jonnie Irwin
Rocky, Predator and Completely happy Gilmore actor Carl Weathers
Dad’s Military actor Ian Lavender
Solely Fools And Horses actor Michael Jayston
Creator Wendy Mitchell, who introduced personal dying
Music govt Bing Worthington, brother of Snoop Dogg
Strictly Come Dancing star Robin Windsor
Grange Hill and Brookside star Stuart Organ
Porn star Kagney Linn Karter
Star Trek and Marvel actor Kenneth Mitchell
Curb Your Enthusiasm and Robin Hood: Males In Tights star Richard Lewis
TikTok singer Cat Janice

March

Born in New York in 1921, Iris Apfel was primarily an inside designer, however turned a public determine due to a contract that noticed her and her husband Carl seek the advice of on interiors within the White Home for six presidents.

Later in life, she captured consideration by her vibrant bohemian model – carrying irreverent, eye-catching outfits, mixing high fashion and outsized costume jewelry.

Her fame blew up in 2005 when the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute in New York hosted a present about her known as Rara Avis – Latin for uncommon chicken.

She referred to herself as a “geriatric starlet”, and frequently appeared within the model pages of the New York Instances, was photographed for Vogue Journal, and featured in adverts for Coach, MAC Cosmetics and Kate Spade.

Apfel died aged 102, simply days after marking the Leap 12 months on her Instagram account.

Eric Carmen rose to fame with energy pop group Raspberries earlier than reaching solo success with hits together with By no means Gonna Fall In Love Once more – and have become most well-known for his energy ballads together with All By Myself and Hungry Eyes.

All By Myself options within the basic opening scene of Bridget Jones’s Diary, and was famously lined by Celine Dion and likewise Jewel, for the Clueless soundtrack.

Hungry Eyes featured in Soiled Dancing, starring Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze, and Carmen additionally wrote Nearly Paradise, from the Footloose soundtrack.

His spouse, Amy, introduced his dying at 74, saying: “It introduced him nice pleasure to know, that for many years, his music touched so many and will probably be his lasting legacy.”

Different stars and notable figures who died in March 2024 embody:

Oscar-winning The King’s Speech author David Seidler
Star Wars and Gremlins actor Mark Dodson
Bullseye darts legend Tony Inexperienced
BBC presenter Nick Sheridan
Manga artist Akira Toriyama
World Social gathering frontman and former Waterboys member Karl Wallinger
Charlie Fowl, former RTE correspondent
Mountaineer and journey filmmaker David Breashears
Blade Runner and Knives Out actor M Emmet Walsh
Gogglebox and Movie star Massive Brother star George Gilbey
Louis Gossett Jr, the primary black man to win the perfect supporting actor Oscar
Gen V star Probability Perdomo

April

OJ Simpson, a fomer American soccer star and Hollywood actor, was tried for double homicide in 1995, in what was dubbed the “trial of the century” and watched by hundreds of thousands world wide.

It got here after he infamously fled from police when suspicion fell on him after the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her buddy Ronald Goldman, in a freeway automobile chase that was additionally televised reside.

Simpson was finally discovered not responsible of homicide, however was later discovered answerable for the deaths in a civil lawsuit. He was then imprisoned for 9 years in 2008, for armed theft and kidnapping after an incident at a resort in Las Vegas.

He died on the age of 76 after affected by most cancers. Talking to Sky Information, the Goldman household’s lawyer, David Cook dinner, stated he nonetheless believed Simpson was “a assassin” and “the very fact he died would not change it”.

Learn extra: How the dramatic OJ Simpson case unfolded

Identified for his flamboyant and glamorous model, Italian designer Roberto Cavalli based his label within the early Nineteen Seventies.

He was identified for his animal-print designs, brilliant colors and patchwork results, and stars together with Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez and Taylor Swift had been identified for carrying his creations.

Cavalli died at his residence in Florence on the age of 83, Italian information company ANSA reported.

Fellow designer Giorgio Armani was amongst these paying tribute, saying: “I can’t think about a imaginative and prescient of vogue extra distant from mine than that of Roberto Cavalli, but I’ve at all times had monumental respect for him: Roberto was a real artist, wild and great in his use of prints, able to reworking fantasy into seductive garments… his Tuscan verve will probably be significantly missed.”

Professor Peter Higgs was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose pioneering idea led to the invention of the Higgs boson particle.

Higgs boson, or the “God particle”, explains why matter has mass and holds the universe collectively.

A “really gifted” scientist, he predicted the existence of the brand new subatomic particle way back to 1964, however his idea wouldn’t be confirmed till 2012 – when experiments on the Massive Hadron Collider at Cern lastly proved its existence.

The next 12 months, Prof Higgs, emeritus professor at Edinburgh College, was collectively awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, together with Francois Englert.

He died aged 94, with Edinburgh College’s principal and vice-chancellor, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, paying tribute to a “exceptional particular person” whose “pioneering work has motivated hundreds of scientists, and his legacy will proceed to encourage many extra for generations to come back”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in April 2024 embody:

Battlestar Galactica and McCloud star Terry Carter (pictured above)
Ultravox star Chris Cross, who co-wrote Vienna
Yellowstone actor Cole Brings A lot
Viral YouTuber Indignant Rantman
Irish soccer supervisor and participant Joe Kinnear
Actress and charity co-founder Samantha Davis, spouse of Warwick Davis
The Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer Dickey Betts
Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad
Bestselling creator CJ Sansom
Line Of Responsibility actor Brian McCardie
US creator and filmmaker Paul Auster

Could

Kris Hallenga was recognized with breast most cancers when she was 23 and lived with the sickness for 15 years, tirelessly campaigning to boost consciousness in that point.

She was the founding father of breast most cancers charity CoppaFeel! and in 2023 organised a “dwelling funeral” so she could possibly be there to see her life celebrated.

Daybreak French gave the eulogy in character because the Vicar of Dibley, whereas Ms Hallenga gave a speech. Afterwards, she posted on Instagram: “I’ve by no means felt love prefer it. I’ve by no means felt pleasure prefer it. I’ve by no means felt such kinship with mortality. I’ve by no means felt so alive.”

She died on the age of 38, with an announcement on the CoppaFeel! web site saying: “She hasn’t misplaced a battle, she wasn’t in a combat and she or he actually would not need you to see her dying as tragic. She was merely dwelling. She was 38 and died with fulfilment and a coronary heart full of affection.”

Learn extra: ‘I attended my very own send-off‘

Bernard Hill was greatest identified for his position as King Theoden within the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, a efficiency which received him quite a few awards, in addition to for enjoying Captain Edward Smith within the 1997 Oscar-winning movie Titanic.

He additionally featured as Yosser Hughes within the iconic drama collection Boys From The Blackstuff.

Hill was married to fellow actor Marianna Hill, with whom he shared a son.

He died on the age of 79, together with his administration firm paying tribute to “a real gentleman and very gifted artist”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in Could 2024 embody:

Grease star Susan Buckner (pictured left, with Olivia Newton-John within the movie)
Tremendous Measurement Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy
Recreation Of Thrones actor Ian Gelder
Nirvana and Pixies producer Steve Albini
This Morning leisure reporter Sam Rubin
Spurs and Wales soccer star Terry Medwin
Filmmaker Roger Corman
Susan Backlinie, who performed the primary sufferer in Jaws
Supergran star Gudrun Ure
Chris Pratt’s former stunt double Tony McFarr
Boardwalk Emperor and 9 To five star Dabney Coleman
Practice bassist Charlie Colin
Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang songwriter Richard M Sherman
Doug Ingle, co-founder of heavy rock band Iron Butterfly
Albert S Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of The Godfather

June

Donald Sutherland‘s movie breakthrough got here together with his portrayal of irreverent soldier Vernon Pinkley in The Soiled Dozen, and he turned identified to totally different generations for a spread of characters through the years.

He had roles in Robert Redford’s Strange Folks and Oliver Stone’s JFK, and performed President Snow within the Starvation Video games franchise alongside Jennifer Lawrence. In Kelly’s Heroes, he starred alongside Telly Savalas and Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Oddball – on a mission to steal gold from the Nazis.

Sutherland received an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his efficiency within the mini-series Citizen X, and acquired an honorary Oscar in 2017.

He was additionally the daddy of fellow Hollywood star Keifer Sutherland, who led the tributes “to probably the most essential actors within the historical past of movie” following his dying at 88. “He liked what he did and did what he liked, and one can by no means ask for greater than that. A life nicely lived.”

TV physician Michael Mosley was identified for showing on tv programmes akin to This Morning and The One Present, and was additionally one of many presenters of the collection Belief Me, I am A Physician on the BBC.

For the documentary Infested! Dwelling With Parasites on BBC 4, he lived with tapeworms in his intestine for six weeks, and was additionally credited for the rising recognition of the 5:2 food regimen for shedding pounds.

Extra not too long ago, he offered Secrets and techniques Of Your Massive Store and Who Made Britain Fats? for Channel 4.

He died aged 67 after going lacking whereas on vacation on the Greek island of Symi.

Obituary: A fearless gonzo journalist, unafraid to experiment on himself

Rob Burrow was a former rugby league star who labored tirelessly to boost consciousness about motor neurone illness (MND) after being recognized with the sickness himself.

He spent his whole league profession at Leeds Rhinos, profitable eight Tremendous League titles, and likewise performed internationally for England and Nice Britain.

He may even be remembered for his bravery in coping with his sickness, for which he was awarded a CBE within the New 12 months Honours Record simply months earlier than his dying at 41.

“I do not need pity,” he had advised Sky Information shortly after his prognosis. “I do not need individuals feeling sorry for me, I simply wish to go on as regular.”

Learn extra: Rob Burrow’s wifes transferring tribute: ‘Merely the perfect‘

Different stars and notable figures who died in June 2024 embody:

Black Lace star, and Agadoo singer, Colin Gibb (pictured above)
Dance producer Dario G
Former Arsenal and Everton star Kevin Campbell
Hollywood and Broadway actress Janis Paige
Swedish rapper C.Gambino
TV presenter and conservationist Simon Cowell
YouTuber Comicstorian
French music icon Francoise Hardy
Suspicious Minds songwriter Mark James
Pirates Of The Caribbean star Tamayo Perry
US rapper Foolio
Loopy City singer Seth Binzer, generally known as Shifty Shellshock
Evening At The Museum actor Invoice Cobbs
Roseanne and Arrested Improvement actor Martin Mull

July

Shannen Doherty (pictured left along with her Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Jason Priestley) started appearing as a toddler, transferring to Los Angeles along with her household when she was seven and enjoying Jenny Wilder within the ultimate season of Little Home On The Prairie at 11.

She appeared within the 1989 teen comedy Heathers earlier than her breakout position – enjoying Brenda in hit teen collection Beverly Hills, 90210, the next 12 months.

Doherty left in the course of the fourth season in 1994, however Aaron Spelling, who produced the present, later forged her within the supernatural collection Charmed.

She died on the age of 53 after being recognized with breast most cancers in 2015, along with her former co-stars amongst these paying tribute.

Learn extra: Co-stars pay tribute to ‘drive of nature’ Shannen Doherty

John Mayall was the British blues musician whose band was a coaching floor for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and lots of different superstars. He’s credited with serving to develop the English tackle city, Chicago-style rhythm and blues that performed an essential position within the blues revival of the late Sixties.

At numerous instances, his band the Bluesbreakers included Clapton and Jack Bruce, later of Cream; Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Peter Inexperienced of Fleetwood Mac; Mick Taylor, who performed for 5 years with the Rolling Stones; Harvey Mandel and Larry Taylor of Canned Warmth; and Jon Mark and John Almond, who went on to kind the Mark-Almond Band.

Though Mayall by no means approached the identical heights of fame as a few of his illustrious alumni, he was nonetheless performing in his late 80s – and was generally known as the “Father of British blues”.

He died at residence in California, aged 90.

Abdul “Duke” Fakir (left) was the final surviving authentic member of certainly one of Motown’s hottest and enduring acts, The 4 Tops.

Lots of Motown’s biggest stars, from the Supremes to Stevie Marvel, got here of age on the Detroit-based firm, which was based by Berry Gordy within the late Nineteen Fifties. However Fakir and his group – with lead singer Levi Stubbs, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton – had been collectively for a decade when Gordy signed them in 1963.

Between 1964 and 1967 that they had 11 high 20 hits, together with two quantity ones: I Cannot Assist Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) and Attain Out I am going to Be There. Different hits included Child I Want Your Loving, Standing In The Shadows Of Love, and Ask The Lonely, they usually reached the highest 20 for the final time within the early Eighties, with When She Was My Lady.

Fakir died together with his spouse and different family members by his facet, aged 88.

“Contenders, prepared! Gladiators, prepared!” For many who grew up within the Nineteen Nineties, John Anderson‘s was probably the most acquainted voices of Saturday night time TV.

He was greatest generally known as the umpire within the authentic ITV collection of Gladiators, which aired between 1992 and 2000, and the revamped Sky collection in 2008.

However the Scottish sports activities coach additionally educated greater than 100 Olympians and was inducted into the Teaching Corridor of Fame in 2002. He was a head coach for the Beginner Athletics Affiliation of England and a Scottish nationwide coach.

He died on the age of 92, with the official Gladiators social media accounts paying tribute and remembering his “iconic voice”.

Shelley Duvall was an actress greatest identified for her efficiency alongside Jack Nicholson in psychological horror The Shining, and likewise starred in movies together with Popeye, alongside Robin Williams, Woody Allen’s Annie Corridor, and Jane Campion’s The Portrait Of A Woman, reverse Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich.

She labored incessantly with the filmmaker Robert Altman, performing in motion pictures akin to Nashville and three Ladies – with the latter incomes her the perfect actress award on the Cannes Movie Competition.

However it’s her iconic efficiency as a terror-stricken spouse and mom in basic 1980 horror The Shining for which she will probably be remembered, enjoying tormented Wendy Torrance within the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Stephen King novel. Kubrick, a well-known perfectionist, was notoriously laborious on the actress throughout manufacturing of the movie, set within the creepy Overlook Lodge, with one distressing scene reportedly carried out in 127 takes.

She died on the age of 75, along with her associate Dan Gilroy paying tribute to his “stunning Shelley”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in July 2024 embody:

US health teacher Richard Simmons (pictured above)
EastEnders and The Invoice actress Roberta Taylor
Neighbours star Janet Andrewartha, generally known as Lyn Scully
DJ and producer Tomcraft, identified for hit single Loneliness
Elf and The Massive Bang Principle actor Bob Newhart
Titanic and Avatar producer Jon Landau
Nice British Bake Off contestant Daybreak Hollyoak
TV intercourse therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer

August

Sven-Goran Eriksson rose from working as a PE instructor in a small Swedish city to the peaks of English soccer – changing into the primary overseas supervisor of the England males’s staff, teaching gamers together with David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard, in 2001.

Throughout that interval they famously beat Germany 5-1 in 2001, with a hat-trick from Michael Owen, within the qualifiers for the 2002 World Cup. They went on to achieve the quarter-finals – and did so once more for Euro 2004 and the next World Cup in 2006.

Eriksson left the England position after the 2006 World Cup and would later handle Mexico and the Ivory Coast, in addition to English golf equipment Manchester Metropolis and Leicester Metropolis. Because of well being points, he stepped down as sporting director at Swedish membership Karlstad in February 2023.

After saying his most cancers prognosis, he was granted his lifelong want when he led out Liverpool Legends, as they performed in a charity match in opposition to Ajax at Anfield just some months earlier than his dying at 76.

Obituary: Eriksson’s England period was about soccer and fame

Black Panther actress Connie Chiume was a South African star and filmmaker who appeared within the Black Panther movies, set within the fictional land of Wakanda.

She performed Zawavari, a former chief of the Mining Tribe, within the 2018 authentic, which additionally starred the late actor Chadwick Boseman within the lead position of T’Challa. It was the primary superhero film ever nominated for greatest image on the Oscars, and made $1.3bn (£997.6m) worldwide on the field workplace.

Within the 2022 sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly, Chiume’s character turned a Wakanda elder who was a part of the funeral passage for T’Challa.

Chiume, who died on the age of 72, additionally appeared within the South African collection Gomora, Significantly Single and Queen Sono, in addition to the musical movie, Black Is King, directed by Beyonce. Her accomplishments included a South African Movie and Tv Award (Safta) for greatest supporting actress for her position in Zone 14, a collection about two warring households, in 2009.

US rapper and hype man Fatman Scoop was greatest identified for his 2003 hit Be Devoted and its sampling of Religion Evans’s Love Like This.

He was additionally identified for that includes on Mariah Carey’s Grammy-nominated music It is Like That, on Missy Elliott’s Lose Management, and for his collaborations with artists together with Nick Cannon, Skrillex and Timbaland.

In 2015, he appeared on Channel 5’s Movie star Massive Brother: UK vs USA, and was the third housemate to be evicted.

He died aged 56, after being seen collapsing on stage throughout a efficiency in Connecticut. Elliott was amongst these paying tribute, saying his voice and vitality had contributed “to many songs that made the individuals pleased and wish to dance for over 20 years”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in August 2024 embody:

French movie star Alain Delon (pictured above)
Legendary Hollywood agent Jay Kanter
Former Leicester Metropolis supervisor Craig Shakespeare
Double Oscar nominee and The Pocket book star Gena Rowlands
Former England cricketer Graham Thorpe

September

Born in Essex in 1934, Dame Maggie Smith turned internationally recognised and probably the most versatile, completed and meticulous performers of her technology – profitable two Oscars, a number of BAFTAs and quite a few different awards throughout her profession.

On the Nationwide Theatre and Outdated Vic, she excelled in each tragedy and comedy, transferring simply from Shakespeare to Noel Coward, to Restoration comedy to Ibsen.

She was greatest identified for enjoying Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in Downton Abbey, and Professor Minerva McGonagall within the Harry Potter movies, however her CV additionally included performances in Demise On The Nile, Gosford Park, The Finest Unique Marigold Lodge and its sequel, and The Woman In The Van – the difference of Alan Bennett’s memoirs.

She died aged 89, with the King and Queen main tributes to a “nationwide treasure”, remembering “her heat and wit”.

Obituary: Shakespeare to Harry Potter – Dame Maggie garnered generations of followers

James Earl Jones was an appearing nice identified for his distinctive voice – most famously as Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King.

He additionally appeared in Conan The Barbarian, performed the daddy of Eddie Murphy’s character in Coming to America, starred in The Hunt for Pink October and Patriot Video games, and was certainly one of only a choose group of entertainers who’ve received the quadruple EGOT prizes – Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.

He died aged 93 surrounded by relations, his agent stated, with stars together with Mark Hamill and Colman Domingo paying tribute.

“RIP dad,” posted Hamill, who performed Luke Skywalker, Vader’s son, within the Star Wars movies.

Born in Texas, Kris Kristofferson was a rustic music legend who began his music profession within the mid-Sixties.

Regardless of being a singer himself, a lot of his songs had been greatest identified for his or her performances by others, together with Ray Worth’s US primary hit For the Good Instances and Janis Joplin’s 1971 single Me And Bobby McGee.

Within the mid-Eighties he joined forces with Willie Nelson, Johnny Money and Waylon Jennings to create the nation supergroup The Highwaymen, releasing three albums earlier than all 4 returned to their solo careers.

On the large display screen, he received the 1976 Golden Globe Award for greatest actor after his efficiency within the romantic drama A Star Is Born reverse Barbra Streisand – itself a remake, which was later remade once more starring Bradley Cooper and Woman Gaga.

Tributes from music stars flooded in after his dying at 88, with Dolly Parton saying: “I’ll at all times love you.”

Tito Jackson was an authentic member of The Jackson 5, who discovered fame together with his siblings Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael – who went on to change into a pop megastar and died in 2009.

He was the third of 9 Jackson youngsters in complete, and performed guitar and offered backing vocals within the group. Their hits within the Nineteen Seventies included ABC, I Need You Again, Blame It On The Boogie, and I am going to Be There.

Tito was nonetheless touring with brothers Jackie and Marlon earlier this 12 months they usually performed a competition within the UK within the weeks earlier than his dying at 70. His dying was introduced “with heavy hearts” by sons Taj, Taryll and TJ Jackson – who discovered fame themselves within the group 3T within the Nineteen Nineties.

Different stars and notable figures who died in September 2024 embody:

Trailblazing ballerina Michaela DePrince (pictured above)
Loopy P singer Danielle Moore
Former Coronation Road star Geoff Hinsliff
Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei
Tony-award profitable star Gavin Creel
Dawson’s Creek star Obi Ndefo
Hazard Mouse author Brian Trueman
US rapper Wealthy Homie Quan
Terry Wogan’s spouse, Woman Helen
Former Liverpool soccer captain Ron Yeats
Grammy-winning Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes
X Issue finalist Ben Thapa
US voice actor Peter Renaday – Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Karate Child villain Chad McQueen
Thunderbirds and Peppa Pig actor David Graham
Crossroads and Paddington actress Cleo Sylvestre

October

Liam Payne rose to fame in One Course, the boyband fashioned on X Consider 2010. The group went on to change into probably the most profitable pop band’s of all time, reaching enormous chart success and touring stadiums world wide with hits together with What Makes You Lovely, Story Of My Life, and Finest Tune Ever.

Payne had wished to be a singer from a younger age, and cast a profession as a solo star after the group’s break-up. He signed a cope with Capitol Information, had hits together with Strip That Down and Get Low, and labored with a spread of high-profile artists.

His dying at 31, after falling from a resort balcony in Argentina, shocked the world. He left behind his son, Bear, with former associate Cheryl – who paid tribute alongside stars together with his former bandmates and Simon Cowell.

“Liam lived extensive open, together with his coronary heart on his sleeve, he had an vitality for all times that was infectious,” stated Harry Types in his tribute. “He was heat, supportive and extremely loving. The years we spent collectively will eternally stay among the many most cherished years of my life. I’ll miss him at all times, my beautiful buddy.”

Obituary: One Course made childhood dream a actuality – however fame was by no means straightforward

Alex Salmond who led the Scottish Nationwide Social gathering between 1990 and 2000 after which once more between 2004 and 2014, and was a distinguished determine within the nation’s nationalist motion.

The second time round he used his mandate as first minister to carry a referendum on Scottish independence. Nonetheless, the “Sure Scotland” marketing campaign was defeated and he resigned consequently.

On the time of his dying at 69 – which occurred instantly in North Macedonia, as he was attending a cultural diplomacy discussion board – he had been the chief of the nationalist Alba Social gathering since 2021.

King Charles was amongst these paying tribute to a politician whose “devotion to Scotland drove his a long time of public service”.

Learn extra: The shock of Salmond’s dying is reverberating round UK politics

Cissy Houston was a two-time Grammy winner in her personal proper, who sang as back-up for artists together with Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.

She recorded greater than 600 songs all through her profession, and her vocals will be heard on tracks by Chaka Khan, Donny Hathaway, Jimi Hendrix, Luther Vandross, Beyonce, Paul Simon and Roberta Flack.

She was additionally the mom of the late Whitney Houston, certainly one of music’s biggest ever vocalists.

Her daughter-in-law Pat Houston introduced her dying at 91, saying Cissy’s “greater than seven-decade profession in music and leisure will stay on the forefront of our hearts”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in October 2024 embody:

Die Onerous 2 and Roots star John Amos (pictured above)
Madonna’s brother – artist, dancer and designer Christopher Ciccone
Musician Nell Smith
DJ Jackmaster
Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno
High Gun: Maverick teacher Charles Thomas Coleman
Baywatch star Michael Newman
Beechgrove Backyard presenter Jim McColl
Tarzan and Doc Savage star Don Ely
Grateful Lifeless founding member Phil Lesh
Younger Frankenstein and Tootsie star Terri Garr

November

Quincy Jones was a legendary music producer and composer who labored with stars from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson – with the historic Thriller album amongst his best-known credit of a profession spanning greater than 75 years.

Jones collected 28 Grammy award wins out of 80 nominations, and was named probably the most influential jazz musicians of the twentieth century by Time journal. He additionally composed the soundtrack to the hit 1969 British movie The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine, and oversaw the all-star recording of the 1985 charity document We Are The World.

His youngsters embody music producer Quincy Jones III and actress Rashida Jones, identified for Parks And Recreation and the US model of The Workplace.

“Though that is an unimaginable loss for our household, we have a good time the nice life that he lived and know there’ll by no means be one other like him,” his household stated following his dying at 91.

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John Prescott was the longest-serving deputy prime minister in British historical past, serving in Neil Kinnock’s shadow cupboard earlier than changing into Tony Blair’s deputy.

The son of a railway signalman and the grandson of a miner, he supplied a contemporary working-class perspective in stark distinction to Blair’s rich Oxbridge background – one thing the previous prime minister himself has stated undoubtedly contributed to Labour’s electoral success in that period.

He was a former commerce union activist and ex-merchant seaman, who served as MP for Kingston upon Hull East for 40 years.

Paying tribute following his dying at 86, Blair described Prescott as “probably the most gifted individuals I ever encountered in politics”, who might “discuss within the bluntest and typically bluest language”.

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Scottish comic Janey Godley discovered viral fame along with her dubbed imitations of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s COVID-19 information briefings in the course of the pandemic.

After 15 years working a pub along with her husband in the course of the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, she had begun her stand-up profession in 1994, occurring to co-present BBC Radio 4’s Unfastened Ends, in addition to fronting BBC Radio 4 collection The C Bomb.

She additionally appeared on reveals together with Have I Received Information For You, the Scottish cleaning soap opera River Metropolis, and crime drama Traces.

Godley, who had most cancers, died aged 63 a month after being moved to a hospice for end-of-life care, with Sturgeon describing as “a drive of nature, and one of many funniest individuals I’ve ever identified”.

Actor Timothy West was identified for a lot of performances in tv and the theatre, together with in common soaps Coronation Road and EastEnders.

He was husband to Prunella Scales, who performed Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, and the pair travelled collectively on UK and abroad canals within the Channel 4 collection, Nice Canal Journeys.

In 1984, the actor was appointed CBE for his companies to drama within the Queen’s Birthday Honours Record. He was additionally the winner of an RTS tv award for his lead position in Churchill And The Generals, launched in 1979, in keeping with imdb.com. He truly performed Winston Churchill 3 times throughout his profession, together with in The Final Bastion (1984) and in Hiroshima (1995).

He died peacefully aged 90 “after a protracted and extraordinary life on and off the stage”, his youngsters stated.

Different stars and notable figures who died in November 2024 embody:

The Archers star June Spencer (pictured above as a younger actress)
The Kinks and Who producer Shel Talmy
Irish comic and Father Ted actor Jon Kenny
Supermodel Georgina Cooper
Hair stylist Trevor Sorbie
Former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar
Candyman star Tony Todd

December

Comic Duncan Norvelle was well-known for his “Chase me” catchphrase, and appeared on TV programmes akin to Wogan and The Bob Monkhouse Present all through his profession.

He additionally hosted a pilot episode for a relationship present that might later change into Blind Date, hosted by Cilla Black.

Norvelle’s partmer, Lynn Trevallion, described him as “most likely [the] final of the legends of true selection comedy”, following his dying at 66.

Tommy Cannon, of comedy duo Cannon and Ball, additionally paid tribute to his buddy, saying he had “fond reminiscences working with him in summer season season”.

Zakir Hussain was one of many biggest exponents of tabla music, a type of Indian drumming, and labored with artists together with George Harrison and Van Morrison throughout a profession in music spanning six a long time.

His expertise additionally received him 4 Grammys – the document for an Indian musician – together with for greatest world music album, world music efficiency, and greatest modern instrumental album earlier in 2024.

Within the Nineteen Nineties he delved into Asian Underground music that fused Western music with Asian classics, however made certain to retain the prominence of the tabla. He has additionally made music for Bollywood and Hollywood movies, together with this 12 months’s Monkey Man with Dev Patel, and acted in 1983’s Warmth And Mud, a Service provider-Ivory manufacturing through which his character romanced Julie Christie.

He died on the age of 73, together with his household saying he had left behind “a unprecedented legacy cherished by numerous music lovers across the globe, with an affect that may resonate for generations to come back”.

Different stars and notable figures who died in December 2024 embody:

Former England rugby participant Tom Voyce (pictured above)
Music trade veteran Julian Spear
GB Paralympian Will Arnott
Topsy And Tim creator Jean Adamson
Eminem’s mom Debbie Nelson
Princess Birgitta of Sweden
Disney influencer Dominique Brown

• This checklist is in depth however not exhaustive

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