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IN MEMORIAM 2024
~ January thru November ~
Webmaster's Note: Only individuals who appeared on this site while alive are included on this page.
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Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh actress, Mary Poppins, Broadway's A Little Night Music |
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Bill Hayes, American pop singer, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", and actor, TV's Days of Our Lives |
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Joyce Randolph, American actress, TV's The Honeymooners |
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Jack Burke, Jr., American golfer |
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Norman Jewison, Canadian motion picture producer and director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck |
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Arno Penzias, German-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist |
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Charles Osgood, American journalist and television host, CBS News Sunday Morning |
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Sandra Milo, Italian actress, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits |
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Jean Carnahan, American politician, Missouri senator (2001–2002) |
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Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer, Broadway's West Side Story, Chicago |
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Don Murray, American actor, Bus Stop, A Hatful of Rain, TV's Knots Landing |
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Jean Malaurie, French cultural anthropologist and polar explorer |
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Dries van Agt, Dutch prime minister (1977–1982) |
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Robert M. Young, American documentarian and motion picture director, Dominick and Eugene |
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Robert Badinter, French lawyer, government official, and anti-death penalty activist |
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Allen J. Bard, American chemist, known as the father of modern electrochemistry |
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Charles D. Ferris, American government official, FCC Chairman (1977–1981) |
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Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, known as the father of peace studies |
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Roger Guillemin, French-born American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist |
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Micheline Presle, French actress, Devil in the Flesh, Under My Skin |
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian president (1985–1995) |
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Iris Apfel, American interior designer and fashion icon |
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Eleanor Collins, Canadian jazz singer |
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Herbert Kroemer, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Malachy McCourt, American actor, TV's Ryan's Hope, Oz, and memoirist, A Monk Swimming |
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Pete Rodriguez, American boogaloo musician and bandleader |
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Byron Janis, American classical pianist |
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Thomas Stafford, American astronaut |
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Laurent de Brunhoff, French/American children's writer and illustrator, the Babar the Elephant series |
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Daniel Kahneman, Israeli/American Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist |
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Barbara Rush, American actress, It Came from Outer Space, The Young Philadelphians |
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Lou Conter, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona |
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John Barth, American writer, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy |
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Maryse Condé, Guadeloupian novelist, Ségou, and playwright |
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Juan Vicente Pérez, Venezuelan supercentenarian, world's oldest validated man at time of death |
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Lynne Reid Banks, English writer, The L-Shaped Room, The Indian in the Cupboard |
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Peter Higgs, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle |
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Ralph Puckett, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Jaime de Armiñán, Spanish motion picture director and screenwriter, Mi querida señorita, El Nido |
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Robert MacNeil, Canadian-born American journalist, co-anchor of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
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Faith Ringgold, American painter, sculptor, and quilter |
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Whitey Herzog, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Josip Manolić, Croatian prime minister (1990–1991) |
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Carl Erskine, American baseball player |
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Jerome Rothenberg, American poet and translator |
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Terry Carter, American actor, TV’s McCloud, Battlestar Galactica, and documentarian |
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Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer, inventor of the one-transistor dynamic memory cell |
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Helen Vendler, American literary critic |
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Bill Holman, American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger |
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Pete McCloskey, American politician, California representative (1967–1983) |
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Roger Corman, American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors |
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Nonny Hogrogian, American children's writer and illustrator, One Fine Day |
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Mary Wells Lawrence, American advertising executive |
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Mark Damon, American actor, House of Usher, and motion picture producer, 9½ Weeks |
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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning short story writer, Runaway |
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Dabney Coleman, American actor, 9 to 5, Tootsie |
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Bud Anderson, American World War II triple ace fighter pilot |
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Darryl Hickman, American actor, The Grapes of Wrath, and television executive |
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Albert Ruddy, Canadian-born American motion picture producer, The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby |
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Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter, "Chim Chim Cher-ee", collaborator with brother Robert B. Sherman |
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Philippe Leroy, French actor, The Night Porter, La Femme Nikita |
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Janis Paige, American actress, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Broadway's The Pajama Game |
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Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian |
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William Russell, English actor, TV's Doctor Who |
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Parnelli Jones, American race car driver |
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Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect |
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William Anders, American astronaut |
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James Lawson, American activist, minister, and educator |
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Anouk Aimée, French actress, A Man and a Woman |
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Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach |
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Frederick Crews, American literary critic, author of The Pooh Perplex |
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Bill Cobbs, American actor, The Hudsucker Proxy, Night at the Museum |
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Audrey Flack, American painter and sculptor |
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Yvonne Furneaux, French actress, La Dolce Vita, Repulsion |
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Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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Vic Seixas, American tennis player |
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Joe Engle, American astronaut |
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Tonke Dragt, Dutch children's writer and illustrator, The Letter for the King |
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Ruth Westheimer, German-born American psychosexual therapist and talk show host |
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James B. Sikking, American actor, TV's Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, M.D. |
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Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor, Elf, TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart |
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Kenneth Grange, English industrial designer |
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John Mayall, English blues-rock singer and musician, frontman of the Bluesbreakers |
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Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, The Country Girls |
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Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Mitzi McCall, American actress and comedian |
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Gena Rowlands, American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria |
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Peter Marshall, American singer, actor, and game show host, The Hollywood Squares |
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Silvio Santos, Brazilian media tycoon and television host |
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Ruth Johnson Colvin, American literacy activist |
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Maria Branyas, American-born Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest validated living person at time of death |
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Selim Hoss, Lebanese prime minister (1976–1980, 1987–1990, 1998–2000) and president (1988–1989) |
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Alexander Goehr, German-born English composer |
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Lucine Amara, American opera singer |
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James Earl Jones, American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars |
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Caterina Valente, French-born Italian singer, guitarist, and actress |
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Joe Schmidt, American football player and coach |
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Otis Davis, American Olympic gold medal-winning runner |
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Kathryn Crosby (aka Kathryn Grant), American singer and actress, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad |
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Daniel J. Evans, American politician, Washington governor (1965–1977) and senator (1983–1989) |
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Benny Golson, American jazz saxophonist and composer |
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Fredric Jameson, American Marxist theorist and cultural critic |
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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegalese educator, UNESCO Director-General (1974–1987) |
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Robert Coover, American writer, The Public Burning |
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Cissy Houston, American soul and gospel singer |
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Ethel Kennedy, American human rights activist and political figure, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy |
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Alvin Rakoff, Canadian motion picture and television director, A Voyage Round My Father |
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Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, conducted 1971's Stanford Prison Experiment |
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Mitzi Gaynor, American singer, dancer, and actress, South Pacific |
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Andrew Schally, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist |
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Barbara Dane, American folk, blues, and jazz singer and social activist |
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Mimi Hines, Canadian-born comedian, actress, and singer |
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Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian priest, pioneer of Latin American liberation theology |
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Leon Cooper, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Jonathan Haze, American actor, 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors |
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Dub Jones, American football player and coach |
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Quincy Jones, American music producer, musician, and composer |
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Bernard Marcus, American businessman, co-founded Home Depot |
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Madeleine Riffaud, French resistance fighter, journalist, and poet |
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Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-born Swiss artist |
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June Spencer, English actress, The Archers radio series |
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Lou Donaldson, American jazz saxophonist |
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Ella Jenkins, American singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The First Lady of Children's Music" |
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Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player |
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Frank Auerbach, German-born English painter |
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Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer |
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Timothy West, English actor, Nicholas and Alexandra, Iris |
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Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate developer and philanthropist |
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archeologist |
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Arthur Frommer, American travel writer and publisher |
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Fred Harris, American politician, Oklahoma senator (1964–1973) |
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, English/American writer, the Emma Harte series |
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Helen Gallagher, American actress, TV's Ryan's Hope |
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Earl Holliman, American actor, The Rainmaker, TV's Police Woman |
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Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress, Viridiana |
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Lou Carnesecca, American basketball coach |
