From Liam Payne to Alexei Navalny and Paul Oster: Artists, politicians, scientists who left life in 2024

Great personalities, famous artists, letter people. Persons who are no longer near us. They left life in 2024. Among them, dissident Alexei Navalny, the singer, actress Maggie Smith, author Paul Oster, producer and musician Quincy Jones. The list of names doesn’t end here. Just hours before time change, a sad review of celebrities who left life in 2024 is presented. One of the most difficult days, that of Liam Payne’s death. ADVERSE January 04/01: David SOUL, 80, actress, born in the US who received British citizenship in 2004, had embodied Hatch in the American police series “Starsky and Hutch” in the 1970s. 29/01: Sandra MILO, 90, Italian actress, who had worked with leading directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Luigi Jamba and Dino Risi. February 01/02: Carl WUEDERS, 76, African American actor known primarily for incarnation of boxer Apollo Creed in the film series “Roki”, ADVERSE 03/02 : Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, 86, son of the last King of Italy Umberto. 04/02 : Hage YKENGOB, 82 years old, Prime Minister of Namibia (1990-2002 and 2012-2015) and then president (2015-2024), form of independence and fierce opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa. 05/02: Jean MALORI, 101, French ethnologist and publisher, a keen advocate of the “first peoples” especially of the North, denouncing the “tiredness” of a West who lost contact with nature. 05/02: Toby KITH, the country singer who wrote “Sould’ve Been a Cowboy”, the most popular song of the ’90s. 06/02: Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor, one of the most famous orchestra directors of his generation, who ran the world’s most famous orchestras. 06/02: John BRUTON, 76, former Prime Minister of Ireland, who helped build in 1998 the foundations of the “Good Friday Agreement”, as the Northern Ireland peace agreement has become known, and then served as EU ambassador to Washington. 07/02: Alfred GROSE, 99 years old, French-German historian and politician, major figure in reconciliation and cooperation between France and Germany. 09/02: Robert BADENDENDER, 95, Minister of Justice of the governments of François Mitterrand who abolished the death penalty in France in 1981. 16/02: Alexei NAVALNI, 47, principal critic of Vladimir Putin, who died in prison under unclear circumstances. 21/02: Pamela SALM, 80, British actress, who is best known for her appearance in the film James Bond “Never Say Again”. 26/02: Jacob ROTSILD, 87, British banker, member of one of Europe’s most well-known banking dynasties, 29/02: Paolo TAVANI, 92, director, who along with his brother Vittorio was a reference point of Italian cinema. March 01/03: Iris AFFEL, 102, American businessman, designer, fashion icon. 01/03: Akira TORIYAMA, 68, Japanese manga comics creator, known for very popular comic books such as “Dragon Ball” and “Dr. Slump”. 21/03: Frederic Mitterrand, 76, nephew of former President François Mitterrand, former French Minister of Culture and television man. 23/03: Maurizio POLINI, 82, Italian pianist, virtuoso of Chopin and Beethoven’s works. 25/03: Chris CROSs, 71, bassist who became known as a member of the new wave band Ultravox. 26/03: Richard SERA, 85, American sculptor, meaning form of contemporary art. 27/03: Joe LIBERMAN, 82, former U.S. Senator, Al Gore vice president candidate in the 2000 election. 29/03: Louis GOSET JUNIOR, 87, the first black actor to win an Oscar of a second male role. April 01/04: Lou CONTER , 102 years old, the last survivor of USS Arizona, the American warlord left in history as he sank when the Japanese imperial army bombed Pearl Harbor. 08/04: Peter HIGS, 94, British physicist, Nobel Prize winner of Physics in 2013 for the “Higgs Corps”, considered the fundamental element of the fundamental structure of matter. 10/04: O. J. SIMPSON, 76, former U.S. football superstar, whose trial for double homicide in 1995 centered the American interest, before he was finally acquitted. 12/04: Roberto Cavali, 80, famous Italian designer who began to engage in fashion at a young age and in 1970 he created his own house. 30/04: Paul OSTER, 77, a polygraph American novel creator, poems and films that became famous in the international literary scene with the “New York Trilogy”. May 09/05: Roger CORMAN , 98, American director, form of American independent cinema. 13/05: Alice MANRO, 92 years old, Canadian author, Nobel Prize-winning Literature in 2013. 19/05: Ebrahim RAISI, 63, president of Iran, who died in a helicopter crash. June 05/06: Akira Edo, 90, Japanese biochemist, who discovered statins. 18/06: Anuk EME, 92 years old, actor, one of the most famous figures of the 20th century French cinema, film actor such as “One man and one woman”, “Lola” and “Dolce Vita”. 20/06: Donald SANDERLAN T, 88 years old, Canadian actor, Award-winning Oscar, star of “MASH”, “Klute” and “The Hunger Games”. July 01/07: Ismail CANDARE, 88, the most prominent contemporary Albanian writer who resisted the regime of Emver Hoja. 12/07: Dr. Ruth WESTHYMER, an American sexologist who became a figure of pop culture as he encouraged Americans to have sex often, safely and with imagination. 13/07: Sanen DOXERTI, 53, American actress, best known for her participation in American television series ‘Beverly Hills Hearts,’ in the role of Brenda Walsh and ‘The Witches’, in the role of Prue Halliwell. 19/07: Ngugen Fu TRONG, 80, leader of the ruling Vietnam Communist Party, who remained in the most powerful office in the country for 13 years. 19/07: Sheila Jackson LI, 74, American MP, member of the Democratic Party, who represented for nearly three decades the 18th Texas constituency in the House of Representatives. 27/07: Edna O’Brien, 93, Irish author, known for her revolutionary and feminist literary work. 30/07: Fouad SYKR, 63 years old, leading member of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah. 31/07: Ismail Haniya, 62, political leader of the Islamist Palestinian organisation Hamas. August 14/08: Gina ROULANTS, 94, legendary American actress, awarded three times with Emmy, twice as an Oscar candidate for the embodiment of strong characters or women with serious health problems in films such as Gloria (1980) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974), directed by her Greek-American husband John Cassavetis. 18/08: Alain DELON, 88-year-old sacred monster of French cinema. 18/08: Phil DONAHI, 88-year-old, the presenter who changed the image of television in the US with a talk show played for decades and often focused on sensitive social and political issues. 19/08: Mike LINTS, 59, British technology mogul who lost his life when his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. 26/08: Sven- Goran ERICSON, 76, Swede, one of Europe’s leading coaches in the 1980s and 1990s and the first foreign technician to take over the England national. September 05/09: Rebecca CHEPTEGEY, 33 years old, Ugandan marathon runner, who became a firestorm by her partner who filled her with gasoline a few weeks after her participation in the Marathon at the Paris Olympics. 05/09: Sergio Mendes, 83 years old, a legend of Brazilian music that made her known around the world the bosha nova. 09/09: James Earl Jones, 93, American actor, who became famous when he loaned his voice to the fictional character Darth Vader, but also to his rich theatre and film career. 11/09: Alberto FUHIMORI, 86, former president of Peru to whom he had been awarded thanks in December, despite his 2009 conviction to serve 25 years of imprisonment for “crimes against humanity”. 15/09: Elias HOURI, 76, one of the greatest Lebanese novelists of his generation and a staunch defender of the Palestinian case. 27/09: Maggie SMITH, 89, British actress, award-winning twice with Oscar, star in “Harry Potter” films and in the series “Downton Abbey”. 27/09: Hassan NASSRALA, 64, leader of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah. 28/09: Chris Christopherson, 88, American actor and legendary form of country music. October 09/10: Ratan TATA, 86, former president of Tata Group, who brought to the international fore his Indian group, which he expanded with a series of high profile acquisitions. 12/10: Alex SALMONT, 69, Scottish politician, who served as the first Scottish minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). 16/10: Liam PIN, 31, British musician, former member of the band “One Direction”, when he fell off the third floor balcony of the hotel in Buenos Aires. 16/10: Yahia SINUAR, 61, political leader of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, brain of the raids of the organization in October 2023 in southern Israel. 20/10: Fetullah GUULEN, 83 years old, Turkish preacher, the man whom the government of Turkey called the organizer of the coup attempt of 15 July 2016. 21/10: Paul DIA ANO, 66, singer of Iron Maiden on their first two albums. 28/10: Manuel “WUAHIRO” MIRAVAL, 91, famous Cuban musician, the trumpeter of the band Buena Vista Social Club. 29/10: Terry GAR, 79, American actress, known from the films “Frankenstein Jr.” November 03/11: Quincy JOUNS, 91, American music producer, singer, composer and orchestra director. 18/11: Charles DIMON, French composer of the legendary song “Non, je ne regrette rien” and companion of “La Môme” (Edith Piaf). 20/11: John PRESKOT, 86, former vice president of the British government over Prime Minister Tony Blair. 24/11: Barbara Taylor BRADFORD, 91, British novelist bestseller who have been translated around the world. December 04/12: Henri BORAN, 97, the only one who survived the 6,000 Jewish children under the age of 16 displaced from France to Auschwitz in 1942, author of the Holocaust Testimony Book “Thanks for surviving”. 17/12: Marissa PAREDES, 78, Spanish actress, whose career was particularly characterized by the six films in which he starred with director Pedro Almodovar. 25/12: Osamou SOUZUKI, 94 years old, an iconic figure of the Japanese car and two-wheel industry that he ran for over forty years. 27/12: Olivia HASAY, British actress, who had been honored with the Golden Globe Award for the role of teenage Juliet in Franco Jeffirelli’s 1968 film “Roman and Juliet”. 28/12: Olivier TONT, 95 years old, French journalist and writer, known mainly from Albert Camy’s multi-awarded biography. 29/12: Jimmy CARTER, 100, former president of the United States, who was also honored with the Nobel Peace Prize.