Notable celebrity and newsmaker deaths of 2024

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Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, died Jan. 4, 2024. She was 100. (Carlos Rene Perez/AP)
Franz Beckenbauer, president of the 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee, presents the golden soccer ball for the World Cup final in front of the Brandenburg Gate on April 18, 2006.
Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, died Jan. 7, 2024. He was 78. (Peer Grimm/AP)
Peter Crombie as "Crazy" Joe Davola on "Seinfeld."
Peter Crombie, the “Seinfeld” actor who played sitcom writer “Crazy” Joe Davola on the show’s fourth season, died Jan. 10, 2024, after an intestinal illness. He was 71. (Randy Tepper/NBCU)
FILE - Actress Joyce Randolph, who played "Trixie" on the TV series "The Honeymooners," on Nov. 24, 1990, in New York. Randolph, who played Ed Norton's sarcastic wife Trixie, has died at age 99. Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night, Jan. 13, 2024, at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Joyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actress whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on “The Honeymooners” provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, died Jan. 13, 2024. She was 99. (Richard Drew/AP)
Jack Burke Jr. is helped by Cary Middlecoff as he puts on the green jacket after winning the Masters on April 8, 1956, in Augusta, Ga.
Jack Burke Jr., who was the oldest living Masters champion, died Jan. 19, 2024, in Houston. He was 100, just 10 days short of his next birthday. (Uncredited/AP)
Singer Mary Weiss is photographed in Babylon, N.Y., on June 18, 2007. Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included "The Leader of the Pack," has died at age 75. Miriam Linna, founder of Weiss' label, Norton Records, said Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, that Weiss died Friday, Jan. 19, in Palm Springs, Calif.
Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included “Leader of the Pack,” died Jan. 19, 2024. She was 75. (Jim Cooper/AP)
Norman Jewison, center, director of the 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night," appears with his wife Lynne St. David before a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles on April 6, 2017. Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died "peacefully" Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson. He was 97.
Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to social dramas such as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” died at age 97 on Jan. 20, 2024. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
FILE - Dexter King, son of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., listens to arguments in the State Court of Criminal Appeals in Jackson, Tenn., Friday, Aug. 29, 1997, to determine whether two Memphis judges have overstepped their authority surrounding the investigation of the King assassination. The King Center in Atlanta said the 62-year-old son of the civil rights leader died Monday, Jan. 22, 2024 at his California home after battling prostate cancer. (Helen Comer/The Jackson Sun via AP, Pool, File)
Dexter Scott King, who dedicated much of his life to shepherding the civil rights legacy of his parents, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died Jan. 22, 2024, after battling prostate cancer. He was 62. (Helen Comer/AP)
Charles Osgood on the set of "CBS Sunday Morning."
Charles Osgood, the witty CBS News journalist who shepherded “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades — a longer tenure than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt — died Jan. 23, 2024, at 91 years of age after living for a period of time with dementia, according to CBS News. (John Filo/CBS)
The singer-songwriter Melanie plays the Day in the Garden concert in Woodstock, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1998.
Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” died Jan. 23, 2024. Her publicist Billy James told The Associated Press that Melanie died Tuesday. She was 76 and lived in central Tennessee. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., answers a question during a news conference in New Orleans, May 25, 2001. Connick Sr., who was New Orleans' district attorney for three decades but later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.
Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Jan. 24, 2024, at age 97. (Bill Haber/AP)
Chita Rivera arrives at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 10, 2018, in New York.
Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident, died Jan. 30, 2024. She was 91. (Evan Agostini/Invision)
Toby Keith, a hit country crafter of pro-American anthems who both riled up critics and was loved by millions of fans, died Feb. 5, 2024. He was 62. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Bob Edwards, who anchored National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” for just under 25 years and was the baritone voice who told many Americans what had happened while they slept, died. Edwards, who died Feb. 10, 2024, was 76 years old. (Seth Wenig/AP)
FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019 file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia. In August 2020, the opposition leader fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The plane landed in the city of Omsk, where Navalny was hospitalized in a coma. Two days later, he was airlifted to Berlin, where he recovered. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Feb. 16, 2024, in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

 

 

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