Deaths 2024: Part 2

2024 Deaths: Part 2

July

1^st: Renate Hoy, 93, German actress (Schloß Hubertus, A Certain Smile, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars) and beauty pageant contestant.

1^st: Taras Hunczak, 92, Ukrainian-American historian and political scientist.

3^rd: Andriy Kutsenko, 35, Ukrainian track cyclist, killed in action.

3^rd: Valerian Shuvaev, 69, Russian diplomat, ambassador to Algeria (since 2022) and Iraq (2008–2012).

4^th: Joe Robles, 78, American military general, president and CEO of the USAA (2007–2015).

6^th: Lionel Fernando, 88, Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat, ambassador to France (2008–2010) and governor of North Eastern Province (1993–1994).

6^th: Dr. Yitzhak (Itzik) Yifat, one of three Paratroopers who appeared in an iconic photo taken at the Western Wall after Israel captured it during the 1967 Six Day War.

7^th: Josefina Herrán, 94, Uruguayan first lady (1972–1976).

8^th: Adrián Olivares, 48, Mexican singer (Menudo).

8^th: Pierre Nguyễn Soạn, 87, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Qui Nhơn (1999–2012).

8^th: Jógvan Sundstein, 91, Faroese politician, prime minister (1989–1991).

10^th: Joe Engle, 91, American astronaut (STS-2, STS-51-I).

11^th: Shelley Duvall, 75, American actress (The Shining, Nashville, 3 Women), complications from diabetes.

12^th: Ruth Westheimer, 96, German-American sex therapist and Holocaust Survivor.

13^th: Shannen Doherty, 53, American actress (Beverly Hills, 90210, Charmed, Heathers), breast cancer.

13^th: James B. Sikking, 90, American actor (Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Pelican Brief), complications from dementia.

13^th: Richard Simmons, 76, American fitness instructor and television personality (General Hospital, Match Game, Hollywood Squares)

18^th: Jerry Fuller, 85, American songwriter ("Young Girl", "Travelin' Man", "Show and Tell"), lung cancer.

18^th: Bob Newhart, 94, American comedian and actor (The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, Elf), Emmy (2013) and Grammy (1961) winner.

19^th: Iryna Farion, 60, Ukrainian linguist, professor, and politician, deputy (2012–2014), shot.

19^th: Kevan Gosper, 90, Australian athlete and sports administrator, Olympic silver medalist (1956), chairman of the AIS (1981–1985).

22^nd: Karel Dyba, 83, Czech economist, politician, and diplomat, ambassador to the OECD (2007–2012).

25^th: Martin Indyk, 73, American diplomat, ambassador to Israel (1995–1997, 2000–2001), esophageal cancer.

25^th: Harold Zvi Schiffrin, 101, American-born Israeli sociologist and intelligence officer (Ritchie Boys).

26^th: Tom C. Korologos, 91, American diplomat, ambassador to Belgium (2004–2007).

28^th: Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, 85, Greek royal, historian and author.

28^th: Francine Pascal, 92, American author (Sweet Valley High), lymphoma.

29^th: Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, 82, British courtier, private secretary to the sovereign (1990–1999) and member of the House of Lords (1999–2022).

31^st: Paul Bucha, 80, American army officer and political advisor, Medal of Honor recipient.

31^st: Ismail Haniyeh, 62, Palestinian politician, prime minister (2006–2014), Hamas chief in the Gaza Strip (2014–2017), and chairman of the Hamas political bureau (since 2017), explosion.

 

August

1^st: Jürgen Ahrend, 94, German pipe organ builder (Rysum organ, Schnitker organ (Groningen), Schnitger organ (Hamburg)).

2^nd: Ruth Montague, 85, British Air Force officer, director of the Women's Royal Air Force (1989–1994).

4^th: Charles Cyphers, 85, American actor (Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, Major League).

4^th: Tsung-Dao Lee, 97, Chinese-American physicist (Lee–Yang theory, Kinoshita–Lee–Nauenberg theorem, Lee–Yang theorem), Nobel Prize laureate (1957).

5^th: Patti Yasutake, 70, American actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beef, Gung Ho), T-cell lymphoma.

8^th: Mitzi McCall, 93, American actress (Ice Age, World's Greatest Dad, Alright Already) and comedian.

10^th: Josep Manuel Basáñez, 82, Spanish businessman and politician, minister of economy and finance of Catalonia (1987–1988) and member of the Catalan parliament (1988–1989).

10^th: Adolf M. Birke, 84, German historian, director of the German Historical Institute London (1985–1994).

10^th: Rudolf Jelínek, 89, Czech actor (Thirty Cases of Major Zeman, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, Zelená vlna).

12^th: Valentin Piseev, 82, Russian sports administrator, president (1988–2010) and general secretary (2010–2014) of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

12^th: Zaid Rifai, 87, Jordanian politician, prime minister (1973–1976, 1984–1989) and president of the senate (1997–2009).

12^th: Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, 98, Kuwaiti royal, commander of the Kuwait National Guard (since 1967)

13^th: Wally Amos, 88, American businessman (Famous Amos) and television personality (Learn to Read), complications from dementia.

14^th: Takayuki Kubota, 89, Japanese-American karateka, founder of Gosoku-ryu.

14^th: Delbar Nazari, 68, Afghan politician, minister of women's affairs (2015–2021), cardiac arrest.

14^th: Gena Rowlands, 94, American actress (A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, The Notebook), four-time Emmy winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

15^th: Sergey Bagayev, 82, Russian physicist, director of the Institute of Laser Physics (1992–2016).

15^th: Galina Brok-Beltsova, 99, Russian bomber navigator (587th Bomber Aviation Regiment).

15^th: Peter Marshall, 98, American game show host (Hollywood Squares) and actor (Annie, Ensign Pulver), four-time Emmy winner, kidney failure.

15^th: Ľubomír Paulovič, 71, Slovak actor (She Grazed Horses on Concrete, It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill, The Peacemaker), heart failure.

16^th: Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, 91, American-born British aristocrat, lady of the bedchamber (1973–2022).

18^th: Boris Bystrov, 79, Russian actor (Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase, TASS Is Authorized to Declare...).

18^th: Phil Donahue, 88, American talk show host (The Phil Donahue Show) and filmmaker (Body of War).

18^th: Dušan Šinigoj, 90, Slovenian economist and politician, president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1984–1990).

19^th: Maria Branyas, 117, American-born Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest person (since 2023).

19^th: Guy de Muyser, 98, Luxembourgish jurist, economist, and diplomat, chief of staff to Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1969–1981).

21^st: John Amos, 84, American actor (Good Times, Roots, The West Wing), heart failure.

21^st: Euan MacDonald, 50, Scottish disability rights activist (Euan's Guide, Euan MacDonald Centre), complications from motor neurone disease.

27^th: Ron Hale, 78, American actor (Ryan's Hope, General Hospital, All the President's Men).

27^th: Serhiy Serhiychuk, 53, Ukrainian politician, governor of Cherkasy Oblast (2020), missile strike.

28^th: Obi Ndefo, 51, American actor (Dawson's Creek, Stargate SG-1).

28^th: Behzod Yo'ldoshev, 79, Uzbek physicist, president of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (2000–2005, since 2017).

29^th: Alban Liechti, 89, French anti-colonial activist.

29^th: Darrel J. McLeod, 67, Canadian Cree writer.

30^th: Sir Shridath Ramphal, 95, Guyanese diplomat, politician, and academic administrator, Commonwealth secretary-general (1975–1990), minister of foreign affairs (1972–1975), and chancellor of the UWI (1989–2003).

30^th: Tūheitia, 69, New Zealand Māori monarch, king (since 2006), complications from heart surgery.

31^st: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Israeli-American Hamas hostage.[658] (body discovered on this date)

 

September

1^st: Budimir Lončar, 100, Croatian diplomat, minister of foreign affairs of Yugoslavia (1987–1991).

1^st: Àngels Martínez Castells, 76, Spanish economist, academic and politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia (2015–2017).

2^nd: James Darren, 88, American singer ("Goodbye Cruel World") and actor (Gidget, T. J. Hooker).

2^nd: Kong Sam Ol, 94, Cambodian politician, MP (since 1993), minister of agriculture (1986–1989) and the Royal Palace (since 1998).

3^rd: Vladimir Bure, 73, Russian swimmer and ice hockey fitness consultant, Olympic silver medalist (1972), complications from a heart attack.

3^rd: Kazimierz Działocha, 92, Polish judge and politician, judge of the constitutional tribunal (1985–1993), senator (1995–1997), MP (1997–2001).

3^rd: Igor Spassky, 98, Russian nuclear engineer (Delta III, Typhoon and Oscar submarines).

4^th: Olavi Heinonen, 85, Finnish judge, president of the Supreme Court (1989–2001).

5^th: Davy Kiprotich Koech, 73, Kenyan immunologist, founder of KEMRI.

6^th: Armand de Fluvià, 92, Spanish genealogist, heraldist and LGBT rights activist, respiratory failure.

6^th: Cathy Merrick, 62, Canadian First Nations leader, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (since 2022).

7^th: Slavo Kukić, 70, Bosnian sociologist, member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

7^th: Dan Morgenstern, 94, German-born American Holocaust Survivor, music journalist (Jazz Journal, DownBeat) and archivist, eight-time Grammy winner, heart failure.

8^th: Ana Gervasi, 57, Peruvian diplomat, minister of foreign affairs (2022–2023).[573] (body discovered on this date).

8^th: Philip Williams, 70, Canadian actor (Jason X, The Hardy Boys, Cyberchase).

9^th: James Earl Jones, 93, American actor (Star Wars, Fences, The Lion King), Tony winner (1969, 1987).

10^th: Chungdak Koren, 74, Tibetan nurse and politician, member of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration (2011–2014).

10^th: Maria Politseymako, 86, Russian actress (Success, 100 Days Before the Command, The Parrot Speaking Yiddish).

11^th: Chad McQueen, 63, American actor (The Karate Kid, Martial Law, Red Line) and racing driver, organ failure.

12^th: John Haglelgam, 75, Micronesian politician, president (1987–1991).

14^th: Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, 82, Kuwaiti royal, prime minister (2011–2019) and minister of defense (2001–2011).

15^th: Geoffrey Hinsliff, 86, English actor (Coronation Street, Brass, Doctor Who).

16^th: Barbara Leigh-Hunt, 88, English actress (Frenzy, Henry VIII and His Six Wives, Bequest to the Nation).

17^th: Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, 56, Mauritanian diplomat, minister of foreign affairs (2008–2009).

19^th: Pierre Vilars, 108, French military officer.

19^th: Eduardo Xol, 58, American television personality (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), designer and entertainer, stabbed.

20^th: Kathryn Crosby, 90, American actress (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Anatomy of a Murder, Operation Mad Ball) and singer.

20^th: David Graham, 99, British actor (Thunderbirds, Doctor Who, Peppa Pig).

22^nd: Peter Jay, 87, British journalist and diplomat, ambassador to the United States (1977–1979).

26^th: John Ashton, 76, American actor (Beverly Hills Cop, Some Kind of Wonderful, Midnight Run), cancer.

27^th: Abdul Gafur, 95, Bangladeshi Bengali language activist.

27^th: Dame Maggie Smith, 89, British actress (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey), Oscar winner (1969, 1978),

28^th: Kris Kristofferson, 88, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Me and Bobby McGee", "Help Me Make It Through the Night") and actor (A Star Is Born), Grammy winner (1972, 1974, 1975).

29^th: Bismarck Myrick, 83, American diplomat, ambassador to Lesotho (1995–1998) and Liberia (1999–2002).

30^th: Pete Rose, 83, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos) and manager, World Series champion (1975, 1976, 1980), heart disease.

30^th: Gavin Creel, 48, American actor (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Book of Mormon, Hello, Dolly!), Tony winner (2017), malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.

 

October

1^st: Gudbrand Bakken, 83, Norwegian veterinarian and civil servant.

1^st: David Burnham, 91, American journalist (The New York Times), choking.

1^st: Alford Gardner, 98, Jamaican-born British emigrant and historical adviser (Windrush generation), bowel cancer.

2^nd: Susie Berning, 83, American Hall of Fame golfer, U.S. Women's Open champion (1968, 1972, 1973).

2^nd: Martin Schröder, 93, Dutch pilot and businessman, founder of Martinair.

2^nd: Sir Daniel Williams, 88, Grenadian politician and lawyer, governor-general (1996–2008).

3^rd: Saturnino Braga, 93, Brazilian politician, two-time deputy, senator (1975–1986), mayor of Rio de Janeiro (1986–1989).

3^rd: Yeshayahu Gavish, 99, Israeli major general.

3^rd: Rawhi Mushtaha, Palestinian militant and founding member of Hamas.[59] (death announced on this date).

3^rd: Dorothy Pocklington, 90, American brigadier general.

4^th: Christopher Ciccone, 63, American dancer and interior designer, pancreatic cancer.

4^th: Petar Matić Dule, 104, Serbian army colonel general, politician and World War II veteran, last living People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

4^th: Toni Vaz, 101, American stuntwoman, 1^st Black Stuntwoman in Hollywood, and founder of NAACP Image Awards.

5^th: Naima Lamcharki, 81, Moroccan actress (Casablanca, Nest of Spies, Blood Wedding).

5^th: Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández, 99, Mexican politician and diplomat, senator (1988–1991, 2018–2024), president (since 2024) and four-time member of the chamber of deputies.

5^th: Vladimir Piskunov, 83, Russian businessman and politician, member of the Soviet of Nationalities (1984–1989).

5^th: Maria Weimer, 45, German-born Swedish diplomat and politician, MP (2014–2018).

6^th: Neil Grabois, 88, American mathematician and academic administrator, president of Colgate University (1988–1999).

6^th: Minas Hadjimichael, 67, Cypriot diplomat, injuries sustained from a traffic collision.

6^th: Edna Tepava, 69, French beauty pageant contestant, Miss Tahiti (1973), Miss France (1974).

7^th: Sultan bin Mohammed Al Kabeer, 70, Saudi prince and food industry executive, co-founder of Almarai.

7^th: Arie L. Kopelman, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Chanel (1986–2004), pancreatic cancer.

7^th: Nicholas Pryor, 89, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Port Charles, Risky Business), cancer.

7^th: Elhanan Tannenbaum, 78, Polish-born Israeli hostage.

9^th: Lily Ebert, 100, Hungarian-born British Holocaust Survivor of Auschwitz and writer.

10^th: Ethel Kennedy, 96, American human rights advocate, Wife of Robert F. Kennedy,  founder of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, complications from a stroke.

10^th: Leszek Moczulski, 94, Polish political dissident, MP (1991–1997).

12^th: Lilly Ledbetter, 86, American equal-pay activist (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009), respiratory failure.

12^th: Margarete Müller, 93, German politician, member of the State Council of East Germany (1963–1989).

12^th: Oldřich Vlasák, 68, Czech politician, member (2004–2014) and vice-president (2012–2014) of the European Parliament.

13^th: Donald J. Hall Sr., 96, American greeting card executive, CEO of Hallmark Cards (1966–1986).

13^th: Brunhilde Hanke, 94, German politician, member of the State Council (1967–1990) and the Volkskammer (1963–1990), mayor of Potsdam (1961–1984).

13^th: Lê Văn Triết, 94, Vietnamese diplomat and politician, minister of trade (1991–1997).

14^th: Philip Zimbardo, 91, American psychologist (Stanford prison experiment, Heroic Imagination Project) and writer (The Lucifer Effect).

15^th: Sir Mike Jackson, 80, British general, chief of the general staff (2003–2006) and Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces (2000–2003), prostate cancer.

15^th: Bob Seeley, 96, American boogie-woogie pianist.

16^th: Paul McDonald Calvo, 90, Guamanian politician, governor (1979–1983) and senator (1971–1975).

16^th: Agustí Forné López, 62, Spanish journalist (Televisió de Catalunya), stroke.

16^th: Evelyn Hurley, 109, American nun and educator.

16^th: Tina Kaidanow, 59, American diplomat and government official, ambassador to Kosovo (2008–2009) and coordinator for counterterrorism (2014–2016).

16^th: Oleksandr Kikhtenko, 68, Ukrainian military leader and politician, governor of Donetsk Oblast (2014–2015).

16^th: Patti McGee, 79, American Hall of Fame skateboarder, complications from a stroke.

16^th: Liam Payne, 31, English singer (One Direction), fall.

16^th: Yahya Sinwar, 61, Palestinian politician, Hamas chief in the Gaza Strip (since 2017) and chairman of the Hamas political bureau (since 2024), shot.

17^th: George A. Bekey, 96, Czechoslovak-born American roboticist.

17^th: Simon Fieschi, 41, French webmaster and writer, survivor of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

17^th: Mitzi Gaynor, 93, American actress (There's No Business Like Show Business, The Birds and the Bees, South Pacific), singer and dancer.

17^th: Imre Kozma, 84, Hungarian Roman Catholic priest and human rights activist.

18^th: Yehuda Bauer, 98, Czechoslovak-born Israeli Holocaust historian and Survivor.

18^th: Sheldon J. Krys, 90, American diplomat, ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (1985–1988).

19^th: John Kinsel Sr., 107, American World War II veteran (Navajo Code Talkers).

20^th: Ehsan Daxa, 41, Israeli army colonel, IED attack.

20^th: Janusz Olejniczak, 72, Polish pianist and actor (The Pianist), heart attack.

21^st: Flory Anstadt, 95, Dutch programme creator (Kinderen voor Kinderen) and television director.

21^st: Mimi Hines, 91, Canadian actress (Funny Girl) and singer.

22^nd: Dmytro Bohachov, 32, Ukrainian footballer (FC Barsa Sumy, PFC Sumy, national U-20 team), killed in action.

22^nd: Elizabeth Francis, 115, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States (since 2024).

24^th: Denys Graham, 98, Welsh actor (The Dam Busters, Dunkirk, Zulu).

24^th: Roy W. Menninger, 97, American psychiatrist, president of the Menninger Foundation (1967–1993).

27^th: Yaakov Turner, 89, Israeli air force pilot, police officer, and politician, mayor of Beersheba (1998–2008).

29^th: Teri Garr, 79, American actress (Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), complications from multiple sclerosis.

31^st: David Vere-Jones, 88, British-born New Zealand statistician and probabilist, Rutherford Medal recipient (1999), FRSNZ (since 1982).

 

November

1^st: Camilo Mortágua, 90, Portuguese antifascist militant, participant in the Santa Maria hijacking.

1^st: Marcel Bédard, 84, Canadian politician, mayor of Beauport (1970–1980), Quebec MNA (1973–1976).

1^st: Diane Coleman, 71, American lawyer and disability rights advocate, sepsis.

2^nd: Mirta Acuña de Baravalle, 99, Argentine human rights activist, co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

2^nd: Jonathan Haze, 95, American actor (The Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror, It Conquered the World).

2^nd: Alan Rachins, 82, American actor (L.A. Law, Dharma & Greg, Showgirls), heart failure.

2^nd: Paul Stephenson, 87, British community worker and civil rights activist (Bristol Bus Boycott).

4^th: Barbara T. Bowman, 96, American education activist

4^th: Bernard Marcus, 95, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of Home Depot.

4^th: Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton, 86, British diplomat and life peer, ambassador to the United States (1991–1995), lung disease.

4^th: Murray Sinclair, 73, Canadian First Nations lawyer, judge and politician, senator (2016–2021), chancellor of Queen's University (2021–2024).

4^th Gary Cormack, 74, Canadian wheelchair curler, Paralympic champion (2006).

5^th: Volodymyr Matvieiev, 81, Ukrainian politician, people's deputy (1990–1994, 1998–2006, 2007–2012).

6^th: Madeleine Riffaud, 100, French Resistance member, poet, and war correspondent (L'Humanité).

6^th: Tony Todd, 69, American actor (Candyman, Platoon, Final Destination).

6^th: Ivan Zvonimir Čičak, 77, Croatian dissident and politician (Croatian Spring), president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (1993–1998, since 2009).

6^th: Vojtěch Vašíček, 68, Czech pentathlete, Paralympic champion (1992).

7^th: Sir Bom Gillies, 99, New Zealand soldier, last surviving member of the Māori Battalion.

7^th: Pim Sierks, 92, Dutch airline pilot (1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague).

7^th: James Rawson, 59, British table tennis player, Paralympic champion (1992).[169] (death announced on this date).

8^th: Geneviève Grad, 80, French actress (The Troops of St. Tropez), cancer.

8^th: Betty Bausch-Polak, 105, Dutch Holocaust Survivor.

9^th: Morihisa Aoki, 85, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to Peru (1994–1997).

9^th: Felice D. Gaer, 78, American human rights activist, metastatic breast cancer.

9^th: Viesturs Meijers, 56, Latvian chess grandmaster.

10^th: Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, 95, British army officer.

10^th: Abdelkader Lecheheb, 70, Moroccan diplomat and footballer (USM d'Oujda, MC Oujda, national team), ambassador to Russia (2008–2019).

10^th: Stanley Rensch, 84, Surinamese Maroon and human rights activist, denounced the Moiwana massacre.

12^th: Bronislaw Bernacki, 80, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Odesa-Simferopol (2002–2020).

12^th: John Horgan, 65, Canadian politician and diplomat, premier of British Columbia (2017–2022) and ambassador to Germany (since 2023), thyroid cancer.

12^th: Helen Kleinbort Krauze, 99, Polish-born Mexican journalist (Novedades de México).

12^th: Jean Nallit, 101, French Resistance member and Righteous Among the Nations.

14^th: Vadim Brovtsev, 55, Russian businessman and politician, prime minister (2009–2012) and acting president of South Ossetia (2011–2012), heart attack.

15^th: Robert Dixon, 103, American World War II veteran, last surviving Buffalo Soldier.

15^th: Jon Kenny, 66, Irish comedian and actor (The Banshees of Inisherin, Les Misérables, Father Ted), heart attack.

15^th: Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, 86, Somaliland politician, president (2010–2017), minister of finance (1997–1999) and MP (1993–1996).

15^th: Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, 101, Japanese royal, stroke and pneumonia.

17^th: Jim Knaub, 68, American wheelchair marathon athlete and actor (The Man Who Loved Women), five-time Boston Marathon winner.

18^th: Arthur Frommer, 95, American travel writer, founder of Frommer's, pneumonia.

18^th: Emile Jansen, 64, Dutch actor (Winter in Wartime).

20^th: Ursula Haverbeck, 96, German neo-Nazi and convicted Holocaust denier.

20^th: Andy Paley, 72, American musician (The Paley Brothers, The Modern Lovers), record producer, and composer (SpongeBob SquarePants), throat cancer.

21^st: Alice Brock, 83, American artist and restaurateur, inspiration for "Alice's Restaurant", chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

23^rd: Chuck Woolery, 83, American game show host (Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection) and musician (The Avant-Garde).

28^th: Renee Bornstein, 90, French-born British Holocaust survivor and writer, pancreatic cancer.

29^th: Tchinda Andrade, 45, Cape Verdean LGBT activist, subject of Tchindas.

29^th: Morton I. Abramowitz, 91, American diplomat, assistant secretary of state (1985–1989) and ambassador to Thailand (1978–1981) and Turkey (1989–1991).

29^th: Peter B. Teeley, 84, American political consultant and diplomat, ambassador to Canada (1992–1993), cancer.

 

December:

1^st: Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, 85, British aristocrat.

2^nd: Perry J. Dahl, 101, Canadian-born American air force colonel and World War II flying ace.

2^nd: Sam Fox, 95, American businessman and diplomat, ambassador to Belgium (2007–2009).

2^nd: Debbie Mathers, 69, American author (My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem), complications from lung cancer.

3^rd: Tengiz Beridze, 85, Georgian academic and biochemist.

3^rd: Henri Borlant, 97, French doctor, writer, and Holocaust Survivor, Auschwitz.

4^th: Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 87, Swedish royal.

4^th: Rafael Nieto Navia, 86, Colombian diplomat and political scientist, president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (1987–1989).

5^th: Christel Bodenstein, 86, German actress (The Captain from Cologne, The Singing Ringing Tree, Viel Lärm um nichts).

5^th: David I. Steinberg, 96, American historian.

5^th: José de la Torre, 37, Spanish actor (Toy Boy).

6^th: Vitaliy Dyrdyra, 86, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic champion (1972).

6^th: Phelekezela Mphoko, 84, Zimbabwean diplomat and politician, second vice-president (2014–2017) and acting president (2017).

7^th: Iosif Vitebskiy, 86, Ukrainian fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1968).

8^th: Gérard Bessière, 96, French diarist, poet and priest.

8^th: Alain Fuchs, 71, Swiss-born French chemist and academic, president of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University (2017–2024).

8^th: Jean Khamsé Vithavong, 82, Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic coadjutor (1982–1984) and vicar apostolic (1984–2017) of Vientiane.

8^th: Leonid Rudnytzky, 89, Polish-born Ukrainian-American linguist.

9^th: Will Arnott, 25, British Paralympic boccia player (2024).

9^th: Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin, 88, Israeli jurist, judge (1995–2006) and vice president (2000–2006) of the National Labor Court.

9^th: Mazen al-Hamada, 47, Syrian human rights activist. (body discovered on this date)

10^th: Josy Arens, 72, Belgian politician, three-time deputy, member of the Parliament of Wallonia (2014–2019), mayor of Attert (since 1995).

10^th: Donald Bitzer, 90, American Hall of Fame electrical engineer, co-inventor of the plasma display.

10^th: Michael Cole, 84, American actor (The Mod Squad, General Hospital, It).

10^th: Raghnall Ó Floinn, Irish art historian, director of the National Museum of Ireland (2013–2018).

10^th: Claus Raidl, 82, Austrian banker, president of the Austrian National Bank (2008–2018).

11^th: Bob Fernandez, 100, American veteran (Pearl Harbor).

12^th: Wolfgang Becker, 70, German film director (Good Bye, Lenin!, Life Is All You Get, Child's Play) and screenwriter.

12^th: Lee Edwards, 92, American academic and political writer, co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

12^th: David Weatherley, 85, British-born New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, Home and Away).

13^th: Diane Delano, 67, American actress (Northern Exposure, Popular, The Ellen Show), cancer.

14^th: Rachel Dror, 103, German-Israeli teacher and Holocaust survivor

16^th: Wittekind Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, 88, German member of former princely house.

17^th: Igor Kirillov, 54, Russian military officer, commander of the Russian NBC Protection Troops (since 2017), bombing.

18^th: John Marsden, 74, Australian writer (Tomorrow, When the War Began, So Much to Tell You).[3] (death announced on this date).

18^th: Carole Crawford, 81, Jamaican model and beauty queen, Miss World (1963).

18^th: Friedrich St. Florian, 91, Austrian-American architect (World War II Memorial, Providence Place).

19^th: Federico Mayor Zaragoza, 90, Spanish scientist, academic and politician, director-general of UNESCO (1987–1999), minister of education and science (1981–1982) and MEP (1987).

19^th: Francisco Nemenzo Jr., 89, Filipino political scientist, president of the University of the Philippines (1999–2005) and chancellor of UP Visayas (1989–1992).

20^th: Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, 67, Irish language activist, editor and president of Conradh na Gaeilge.

21^st: Michelle Botes, 62, South African actress (American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Arende, Isidingo), cancer.

21^st: Art Evans, 82, American actor (Die Hard 2, A Soldier's Story, Fright Night), complications from diabetes.

21^st: Brent Manley, 77, American bridge writer and editor (The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge), complications from dementia.

21^st: Don Martina, 89, Curaçaoan politician, prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1979–1984, 1986–1988).

21^st: Hudson Meek, 16, American actor (Baby Driver), traffic collision.

22^nd: Eduard Kuznetsov, 85, Russian-Israeli dissident, journalist, and writer, co-leader of the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair.

22^nd: Mykola Soroka, 72, Ukrainian politician, governor of Rivne Oblast (1997–2005) and MP (2012–2014).

23^rd: Thomas Gaither, 86, American botanist and civil rights activist (Friendship Nine).

23^rd: Pere Moles, 89, Andorran politician and historian, four-time general councillor.

24^th: Dési Bouterse, 79, Surinamese politician, military officer, and convicted murderer, commander of the Armed Forces (1980–1990), chairman of the National Military Council (1980–1987) and president (2010–2020).

24^th: Edwin Gastanes, 66, Filipino lawyer and sports administrator, general secretary of the Philippine Football Federation (2013–2023) and Philippine Olympic Committee (2019–2023).

24^th: Tom Hyland, 72, Irish human rights activist, campaigner for the East Timorese people.

25^th: María Antonia Morales, 93, Chilean judge, justice of the Supreme Court (2001–2006).

25^th: Osamu Suzuki, 94, Japanese automotive industry executive, president (1978–2000) and chairman (2000–2021) of Suzuki, lymphoma.

27^th: Greg Gumbel, 78, American sportscaster (CBS Sports, NFL), cancer.

27^th: Olivia Hussey, 73, British-Argentine actress (Romeo and Juliet, Black Christmas, Jesus of Nazareth), cancer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024