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Soulful gospel artist Mandisa, a Grammy-winning singer who got her start as a contestant on “American Idol” in 2006, died April 18, 2024, according to a statement on her verified social media. She was 47. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
Soulful gospel artist Mandisa, a Grammy-winning singer who got her start as a contestant on “American Idol” in 2006, died April 18, 2024, according to a statement on her verified social media. She was 47. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

News Obituaries |
Notable celebrity and newsmaker deaths of 2024

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A look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who died in 2024.
FILE - Actress Glynis Johns is shown, Sept. 11, 1982. 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, has died, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2023. She was 100.(AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)
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)
David Roe (Family photo)
David Roe, who got hooked on radio listening to rock ‘n’ roll as a teenager and went on to a 35-year career as a news anchor and reporter for WBBM-AM in Chicago, died Jan. 20, 2024 of esophageal cancer. (Family photo)
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)
Richard Lewis performs at Zanies in 2018, before a new wave of troubles arrived.
Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune
Richard Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname “The Prince of Pain,” died Feb. 27, 2024. He was 76. Pictured above, Lewis performs at Zanies in 2018. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman gives a thumbs-up as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2017.
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family. Lieberman died in New York City on March, 27, 2024, due to complications from a fall, the statement said. He was 82. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” died March 28, 2024. He was 87. (Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

 

Second City alumni Harold Ramis (cq) (left) and Joe Flaherty (cq) perform a skit at "The Second City Celebrates 50 Years of Funny" event at Pipers Alley in Chicago on Saturday, December 12, 2009. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION... 00314102C SECOND CITY- SHOW
Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” died April 1, 2024. He was 82. Above, Second City alumni Harold Ramis (left) and Flaherty perform a skit at “The Second City Celebrates 50 Years of Funny” event at Pipers Alley in Chicago on Dec. 12, 2009. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
FILE - In this 1977 file photo shows Buffalo Bills NFL Football player O.J. Simpson. (AP Photo, File)
O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but was found liable in a separate civil trial, died on April 10, 2024. He was 76. (AP)
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli talks with journalists prior to the start of the Roberto Cavalli men's Fall-Winter 2014 show, in Milan, Italy on Jan. 14, 2014. Italy's world-famous fashion designer Roberto Cavalli - known for his flamboyant and glamorous style died on Friday, April 12, 2024 aged 83, his company announced in an Instagram post. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
Italy’s world-famous fashion designer Roberto Cavalli – known for his flamboyant and glamorous style — died on April 12, 2024, aged 83, his company announced in an Instagram post. (Luca Bruno/AP)
Eleanor Coppola wrote and directed the new film "Paris Can Wait," the 81-year-old's first fiction feature.
Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)
The Chicago Cubs' Ken Holtzman on June 11, 1978. (Walter Neal/Chicago Tribune)
Former Major League pitcher Ken Holtzman, who died April 14, 2024 at age 78, finished with a 174-150 record, 1,601 strikeouts and a 3.49 ERA in 15 seasons, seven of them with the Chicago Cubs. He and Jake Arrieta are the only pitchers to throw two no-hitters for the Cubs in the modern era. (Walter Neal/Chicago Tribune)
St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog relaxes at the Astrodome in Houston after the American League beat Herzog's National League squad in baseball's All-Star Game in 1986. (AP Photo)
Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s and perfected an intricate, nail-biting strategy known as “Whiteyball,” died April 15, 2024. He was 92. (AP Photo)
FILE - Sen. Bob Graham, right, speaks during the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill and Offshore Drilling meeting on Sept. 27, 2010, in Washington. The former Florida Sen. Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died, according to an announcement by his family Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Former U.S. Sen. and two-term Florida Gov. Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died, according to an announcement by his family, April 16, 2024. He was 87. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Then AP chief Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson, center, accompanied by his sister Peggy Say, left, and Madeleine Bassil, right, smiles broadly upon his arrival at the Wiesbaden Air Force hospital in Germany, Dec. 5, 1991, a day after being released by his abductors in Beirut, where he was held captive for almost seven years. Anderson died on April 21, 2024, at age 76. (Thomas Kienzle/AP)
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died on April 21, 2024, at age 76. (Thomas Kienzle/AP)
Founding member of the Allman Brothers Band Dickey Betts exits the funeral of Gregg Allman at Snow's Memorial Chapel, in Macon, Ga. June 3, 2017.
Jason Vorhees / AP
Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man,” died April 18, 2024. He was 80. (Jason Vorhees/The Macon Telegraph via AP)
Mandisa accepts the award for pop/contemporary album of the year at the Dove Awards, Oct. 7, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Mandisa, a contemporary Christian singer who appeared on "American Idol" and won a Grammy for her 2013 album "Overcomer," has died. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
Soulful gospel artist Mandisa, a Grammy-winning singer who got her start as a contestant on “American Idol” in 2006, died April 18, 2024, according to a statement on her verified social media. She was 47. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

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