2024 Deaths: Part 1

2024 Deaths: Part 1

January

1^st: Khemais Chammari, 81, Tunisian diplomat, human rights activist, and politician, deputy (1994–1996).

1^st: André Hissink, 104, Dutch World War II veteran (No. 320 Squadron).

1^st: Riad al-Turk, 93, Syrian political dissident.

2^nd: Juan Carlos Henao Pérez, 64, Colombian jurist (Colombian peace agreement) and academic, president of the Constitutional Court (2009–2010) and rector of Universidad Externado (2012–2021).

2^nd: Sir Frank Kitson, 97, British military officer, Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces (1982–1985) and deputy commander field army (1980–1982).

2^nd: Zvi Zamir, 98, Polish-born Israeli military officer, director of the Mossad (1968–1974.)

4^th: Glynis Johns, 100, British actress (Mary Poppins, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners), Tony winner (1973).

4^th: Ruy Mingas, 84, Angolan composer (national anthem), musician and politician, deputy (2017–2021).

4^th: Christian Oliver, 51, German actor (Speed Racer, The Good German, Saved by the Bell: The New Class), plane crash.

4^th: Mike Sadler, 103, British Army officer, last original member of the Special Air Service.

4^th: David Soul, 80, American-British actor (Starsky & Hutch, Magnum Force) and singer ("Don't Give Up on Us").

5^th: Bernard Malgrange, 95, French mathematician (Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, Malgrange preparation theorem), member of the French Academy of Sciences.

5^th: Brian McConnachie, 81, American actor and writer (SCTV Network, Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon), complications from Parkinson's disease.

5^th: James N. Purcell Jr., 85, American author and diplomat, director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs (1983–1986).

6^th: Erwin Schild, 103, German-born Canadian Conservative rabbi, Holocaust Survivor (Dachau) and author.

7^th: Menachem Daum, 77, German-born American documentary film-maker (A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, Hiding and Seeking).

8^th: Adan Canto, 42, Mexican actor (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Designated Survivor, The Cleaning Lady, 2 Hearts), appendiceal cancer.

8^th: Ventura Pons, 78, Spanish film director (Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, Anita Takes a Chance, Food of Love).

9^th: Amalija Knavs, 78, Slovenian-American textile pattern maker.

10^th: Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian operatic soprano (Bolshoi Theatre).

10^th: Tian Zengpei, 93, Chinese diplomat and politician, ambassador to Yugoslavia (1986–1988) and chairperson of the committee of Foreign Affairs (1998–2003).

11^th: John V. Byrne, 95, American marine geologist and academic, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1981–1984) and president of Oregon State University (1984–1995).

12^th: Bill Hayes, 98, American singer ("The Ballad of Davy Crockett") and actor (Days of Our Lives, The Cardinal).

12^th: James D. Hughes, 101, American Air Force lieutenant general.

12^th: František Janouch, 92, Czech nuclear physicist and dissident.

12^th: Alec Musser, 50, American actor (All My Children) and model (Abercrombie & Fitch), suicide by gunshot.

13^th: Sir Patrick Moberly, 95, British diplomat, ambassador to Israel (1981–1984) and South Africa (1984–1987).

13^th: Joyce Randolph, 99, American actress (The Honeymooners).

13^th: Joseph Zadroga, 76, American 9/11 survivor advocate, traffic collision.

16^th: Vaino Väljas, 92, Estonian diplomat and politician, first secretary of the communist party (1988–1990).

19^th: Mary Weiss, 75, American singer (The Shangri-Las).

22^nd: Jack Jennings, 104, British World War II veteran, last survivor of the Burma Death Railway.[6] (death announced on this date).

22^nd Dexter King, 62, American civil rights activist, son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., prostate cancer.

22^nd: Gary Graham, 73, American actor (Alien Nation, Star Trek: Enterprise, All the Right Moves), cardiac arrest.

22^nd: Bridget McEvilly, 77, British army nurse, matron-in-chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (1999–2002).

23^rd: David Kahn, 93, American historian, journalist, and writer (The Codebreakers).

24^th: Sara Rus, 96, Polish-born Argentine Holocaust Survivor and activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.)

25^th: Bat-Sheva Dagan, 98, Polish-Israeli Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz), educator and author.

25^th: Roger Donlon, 89, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (1964).

28^th: Marie Mansfield, 92, American baseball player (Rockford Peaches, Battle Creek Belles).

28^th: Larry L. Taylor, 81, American military officer, Medal of Honor recipient.

30^th: Hinton Battle, 67, American actor (The Wiz, Dreamgirls, Miss Saigon) and dancer, Tony winner (1981, 1984, 1991).

30^th: Chita Rivera, 91, American actress (West Side Story, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chicago), Tony winner (1984, 1993).

31^st: Karel Ellinger, 95, Czech chemist and Holocaust Survivor.

 

February

1^st: Pearl Berg, 114, American supercentenarian.

1^st: Carl Weathers, 76, American actor (Rocky, Predator, The Mandalorian), television director, and football player, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

2^nd: Jonnie Irwin, 50, English television presenter (A Place in the Sun, Escape to the Country, To Buy or Not to Buy), lung cancer.

3^rd: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, 86, Italian royal, disputed head of the House of Savoy (since 1983).

4^th: Bob Beckwith, 91, American firefighter (September 11 rescue efforts), cancer.

4^th: Brooke Ellison, 45, American academic and disability advocate (first quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University.)

4^th: Hage Geingob, 82, Namibian politician, president (since 2015) and prime minister (1990–2002, 2012–2015), cancer.

4^th: Antonio Paolucci, 84, Italian art historian, minister of culture (1995–1996) and director of the Vatican Museums (2007–2017).

5^th: Dries van Agt, 93, Dutch politician, prime minister (1977–1982), minister of justice (1971–1977) and foreign affairs (1982), euthanasia.

5^th: Toby Keith, 62, American country singer ("Should've Been a Cowboy", "How Do You Like Me Now?!", "Red Solo Cup") and songwriter, stomach cancer.

6^th: Javier Salmerón, 57, Spanish athlete, double Paralympic silver medallist (1992).

7^th: Anthony C. George, 86, Grenadian artist, designer of the flag of Grenada.

7^th: Vladyslav Rykov, Ukrainian military pilot.

8^th: Lauro Baja, 86, Filipino diplomat, heart attack.

10^th: Askar Mussinov, 62, Kazakh diplomat.

14^th: Ervín Hoida, 105, Czechoslovak-born British World War II veteran.

15^th: Anne Whitfield, 85, American actress (White Christmas, Juvenile Jungle, Rawhide).

16^th: Alain Cribier, 79, French cardiologist, performed first-ever transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

18^th: Cornelio Sommaruga, 91, Swiss humanitarian, lawyer, and diplomat, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1987–1999).

20^th: Anfinn Kallsberg, 76, Faroese politician, prime minister (1998–2004).

21^st: Vitalij Kuprij, 49, Ukrainian-American musician (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ring of Fire) and composer.

24^th: Kenneth Mitchell, 49, Canadian actor (Jericho, Star Trek: Discovery, Miracle), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

27^th: Richard Lewis, 76, American comedian and actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Anything but Love, Robin Hood: Men in Tights), heart attack.

27^th: Richard H. Truly, 86, American Navy vice admiral, fighter pilot, and astronaut, administrator of NASA (1989–1992).

28^th: Nikolai Ryzhkov, 94, Russian politician, premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1991), senator (2003–2023), and member of the Politburo (1985–1990).

29^th: Brian Mulroney, 84, Canadian politician, prime minister (1984–1993) and MP (1983–1993), complications from a fall.

 

March

1^st: Gerald Gustafson, 95, American fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.

1^st: Paul Houde, 69, Canadian actor (Les Boys, Winter Stories) and television and radio host, complications from brain surgery.

3^rd: Carlos Díaz Medina, 88, Spanish politician, member of the Andalusian parliament (1982–1994), mayor of Cádiz (1979–1995).

3^rd: Suzy Platiel, 93, Algerian-born French ethnolinguist and Africanist.

5^th: Linda Balgord, 64, American stage actress and singer (The Pirate Queen, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera).

5^th: Nesse Godin, 95, Lithuanian-born American Holocaust Survivor.

5^th: Kathy Goldman, 92, American anti-poverty activist.

7^th: Son Myung-soon, 95, South Korean first lady (1993–1998).

8^th: David E. Harris, 89, American pilot, the first African-American commercial pilot.

8^th: Jonathan Hunt, 85, New Zealand politician and diplomat, Postmaster-General (1984–1987), member (1966–2005) and speaker (1999–2005) of the House of Representatives.

8^th: Herbert Kroemer, 95, German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (2000).

9^th: Antanas Bagdonavičius, 85, Lithuanian rower, Olympic silver medallist (1960).

10^th: Georgy Luntovsky, 73, Russian banker and politician, deputy (1996–1999), deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (1999–2017).

10^th: Giandomenico Picco, 75, Italian diplomat.

11^th: Paul Alexander, 78, American lawyer and paralytic polio survivor, complications from COVID-19.

11^th: Robert L. Barry, 89, American diplomat, ambassador to Bulgaria (1981–1984) and Indonesia (1992–1995), dementia.

11^th: Dorie Ladner, 81, American civil rights activist.

11^th: Barbara Payne, 91, American baseball player (Kalamazoo Lassies, Battle Creek Belles, Rockford Peaches).

13^th: Natalia Kasatkina, 89, Russian ballerina (The Rite of Spring) and choreographer (Swan Lake), blood clot.

13^th: Neophyte, 78, Bulgarian Orthodox prelate, patriarch of All Bulgaria (since 2013).

14^th: Lamara Chkonia, 93, Georgian operatic soprano.

14^th: Frans de Waal, 75, Dutch primatologist (The Ape and the Sushi Master) and ethologist, stomach cancer.

14^th: Joshua Zak, 94, Israeli theoretical physicist (Zak transform) and writer.

15^th: Maria Chwalibóg, 91, Polish actress (Mother Joan of the Angels, Man – Woman Wanted, Korczak).

15^th: Aleksandr Shirvindt, 89, Russian stage and film actor (The Irony of Fate, Three Men in a Boat, Winter Evening in Gagra) and screenwriter.

16^th: Richard E. Benedick, 88, American diplomat, complications from dementia.

16^th: Jared Cohon, 76, American academic administrator, president of Carnegie Mellon University (1997–2013).

16^th: Addold Mossin, 104, Estonian neopaganist, World War II veteran and political activist.

18^th: Rose Dugdale, 82, English paramilitary leader (Provisional IRA).

18^th: Howell M. Estes III, 82, American general. Commander in chief in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Space Command (USSC), and served as commander in the Air Force Space Command (AFSC).

18^th: Jennifer Leak, 76, Canadian actress (Yours, Mine and Ours, The Young and the Restless, Another World), progressive supranuclear palsy.

18^th: Angel Marin, 82, Bulgarian politician, vice president (2002–2012).

18^th: Joana Neves, 37, Brazilian swimmer, Paralympic silver medallist (2016).

18^th: James D. Robinson III, 88, American bank holding executive, CEO of American Express (1977–1993), respiratory failure.

18^th: Thomas P. Stafford, 93, American astronaut (Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10), liver cancer.

20^th: Alfred M. Gray Jr., 95, American military officer, commandant of the Marine Corps (1987–1991).

22^nd: Laurent de Brunhoff, 98, French author (Babar), complications from a stroke.

24^th: Judith Hemmendinger, 100, German-born Israeli researcher and author. Social worker and refugee counselor for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

25^th: Claude Alphandéry, 101, French resistance member, banker and economist.

25^th: Elisabeth Guttenberger, 98, German Holocaust survivor and human rights activist, witness at Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

25^th: Nancy Valverde, 92, American LGBT rights activist.

26^th: Esther Coopersmith, 94, American diplomat, UNESCO goodwill ambassador (since 2009), cancer.

26^th: Ihor Yukhnovskyi, 98, Ukrainian physicist and politician, first deputy prime minister (1992–1993) and MP (1990–2006).

26^th: Andriy Antonyshchak, 54, Ukrainian politician, MP (2014–2019), complications from wounds sustained in action.

29^th: Louis Gossett Jr., 87, American actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, Iron Eagle), Oscar winner (1982).

29^th: Chance Perdomo, 27, American-British actor (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gen V, After We Fell), traffic collision.

31^st: Jonathan Bennett, 94, New Zealand-born British philosopher of language and metaphysics.

31^st: Francesc Codina i Castillo, 79, Spanish politician, member of the Catalan parliament (1984–2000) and senator (1993–1995).

 

April

1^st: Lou Conter, 102, American naval commander, last survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona, congestive heart failure.

4^th: Lynne Reid Banks, 94, British author (The Indian in the Cupboard, The L-Shaped Room), cancer.

4^th: Bruce Kessler, 88, American director (The Gay Deceivers, The Monkees, McCloud) and racing driver.

7^th: Jaroslav Bašta, 75, Czech politician and diplomat, deputy (1996–2000, since 2021), ambassador to Russia (2000–2005), Charter 77 signatory.

8^th: Ralph Puckett, 97, American Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient.

9^th: Vladimir Aksyonov, 89, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2).

10^th: O. J. Simpson, 76, American Hall of Fame football player (Buffalo Bills) and actor (The Naked Gun, The Towering Inferno), Heisman Trophy winner (1968), prostate cancer.

15^th: Josip Manolić, 104, Croatian politician, prime minister (1990–1991) and speaker of the Chamber of Counties (1993–1994).

20^th: Marie Margosian, 94, American Teacher.

20^th: Gediminas Kirkilas, 72, Lithuanian politician, prime minister (2006–2008), minister of national defence (2004–2006) and MP (1992–2020).

21^st: Chan Romero, 82, American singer-songwriter ("Hippy Hippy Shake") and guitarist.

28^th: William Calley, 80, American war criminal (My Lai Massacre).

29^th: Mollie Lentaigne, 103, British artist and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during World War II.

30^th: Sir Robert Martin, 66–67, New Zealand disability rights activist, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (since 2017).

 

May

2^nd: Susan Buckner, 71, American actress (Grease, Deadly Blessing, The Brady Bunch Hour).

3^rd: Nora Cortiñas, 94, Argentine social psychologist and human rights activist, co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

3^rd: Avraham Harshalom, 99, Czech-Israeli businessman and Holocaust Survivor.

3^rd: Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., 93, American Foreign Service officer and hostage survivor (Iran hostage crisis).

4^th: Judith G. Garber, 62, American diplomat, ambassador to Latvia (2009–2012) and Cyprus (2019–2022).

5^th: Oleksandr Pielieshenko, 30, Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter (2016) and serviceman, killed in action.

7^th: Reid Morden, 82, Canadian diplomat and civil servant, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (1988–1992).

7^th: Joan Rigol, 81, Spanish politician, president of the parliament of Catalonia (1999–2003), Catalan minister of employment (1980–1984) and culture (1984–1985).

11^th: John A. Wickham Jr., 95, American military officer, chief of staff (1983–1987).

13^th: Clarence Sasser, 76, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

16^th: Dabney Coleman, 92, American actor (9 to 5, Tootsie, The Guardian), Emmy winner (1987), cardiac arrest.

17^th: Bud Anderson, 102, American Air Force colonel and flying ace.

17^th: Bette Nash, 88, American flight attendant and Guinness World Record holder, breast cancer.

22^nd: Darryl Hickman, 92, American actor (The Grapes of Wrath, Leave Her to Heaven, Fighting Father Dunne).

22^nd: Silvia Reyes, 75, Spanish LGBTI rights activist.

23^rd: Ángeles Flórez Peón, 105, Spanish socialist militant, writer and Civil War veteran.

24^th: David Teacher, 100, British World War II veteran.

25^th: Johnny Wactor, 37, American actor (General Hospital, Siberia, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage), shot.

28^th: Ludwika Wujec, 83, Polish physicist, politician, and anti-Communist dissident.

28^th: Róbert Cvi Bornstein, 98, Slovak resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor.

28^th: Oleksandr Martynenko, 63, Ukrainian journalist and presidential press secretary, deputy chief of the Presidential Administration (1998–2002).

30^th: Geneviève de Galard, 99, French nurse (First Indochina War).

 

June

1^st: Artur Chilingarov, 84, Russian polar explorer and politician, member of the State Duma (1993–2011, since 2016) and senator (2011–2014).

1^st: Andrzej Kostenko, 87, Polish screenwriter (Ręce do góry, Le Départ) and actor (When Angels Fall).

1^st: Ruth Maria Kubitschek, 92, Czechoslovak-born German actress (He Can't Stop Doing It, Madame and Her Niece, Tears of Blood).

1^st: Mary-Lou Pardue, 90, American geneticist and academic.

2^nd: Jeannette Charles, 96, British actress (National Lampoon's European Vacation, The Naked Gun, Austin Powers in Goldmember).

2^nd: Donovan Ebanks, 72, Cayman diplomat, acting governor (2009–2010).

3^rd: Vagif Huseynov, 81, Azerbaijani military officer and politician, chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1989–1991).

3^rd: Johannes Lott, 94, Estonian lawyer and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (1975–1978).

3^rd: William Russell, 99, English actor (Doctor Who, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, The Great Escape).

4^th: Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan, 89, Afghan royal, head of the House of Barakzai (since 2007).

7^th: William Anders, 90, American astronaut (Apollo 8) and diplomat, ambassador to Norway (1976–1977), photographer of Earthrise, plane crash.

8^th: Richard B. Hetnarski, 96, Polish-born American academic and translator.

9^th: Lyons Brown Jr., 87, American businessman and diplomat, ambassador to Austria (2001–2005).

12^th: Vyacheslav Zudov, 82, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 23).

13^th: Benji Gregory, 46, American actor (ALF, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Once Upon a Forest), heat stroke.

13^th: Cynthia Shepard Perry, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Sierra Leone (1986–1989) and Burundi (1990–1993).

16^th: Érik Canuel, 63, Canadian film and television director (Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Red Nose, Hemingway: A Portrait), plasma cell leukemia.

18^th: Vitaly Fen, 76, Uzbek diplomat, ambassador to South Korea (1995–2013, since 2017).

18^th: Willie Mays, 93, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York / San Francisco Giants, New York Mets), World Series champion (1954), heart failure.

19^th: Michel Dupuch, 92, French diplomat and government official, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast from 1979-1993)

20^th: Donald Sutherland, 88, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Ordinary People, The Hunger Games), Emmy winner (1995).

21^st: Romay Davis, 104, American World War II veteran and Congressional Gold Medal recipient.

24^th: Dzianis Sidarenka, 48, Belarusian diplomat, ambassador to Germany (2016–2024), suicide by fall.

25^th: Bill Cobbs, 90, American actor (The Bodyguard, The Hudsucker Proxy, Air Bud).

26^th: Stefan Romaniw, 68, Ukrainian-Australian activist, first vice-president of the Ukrainian World Congress (since 2018).

26^th: Pat Heywood, 92, Scottish actress (Romeo and Juliet, 10 Rillington Place, Wuthering Heights.)

27^th: Ilse Fuskova, 95, Argentine LGBT rights activist.

27^th: Martin Mull, 80, American actor (Clue, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Roseanne) and musician.

28^th: Kong Nay, 80, Cambodian musician and chapei dang veng player.

29^th: Princess Lalla Latifa Amahzoune, 78, Moroccan royal consort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_January_2024