Deaths in 2024  

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• Paul Auster, 77, American author (Moon Palace, The Brooklyn Follies).
• Duane Eddy, 86, American Hall of Fame guitarist ("Rebel-'Rouser", "Because They're Young", "Peter Gunn").
• Margaret Lee, 80, English actress (Casanova 70, Venus in Furs, Dorian Gray).
• Laurent Cantet, 63, French film director, screenwriter (Heading South) and cinematographer.
• Hana Brejchová, 77, Czech actress (Loves of a Blonde, Amadeus).
• Jean-Marie Aerts, 72, Belgian composer (Domeztik).
• Lourdes Portillo, 80, Mexican filmmaker (The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo).
• Daniel Dennett, 82, American philosopher (Darwin's Dangerous Idea).
• Richard Horowitz, 75, American film composer (The Sheltering Sky, Eros in Arabia).
• Roberto Cavalli, 83, Italian fashion designer and inventor.
• Patti Astor, 74, American actress (Underground U.S.A., Wild Style) and gallerist (Fun Gallery).
• Peter Higgs, 94, British theoretical physicist, discoverer of the Higgs boson.
• O. J. Simpson, 76, American football player and actor (The Naked Gun, The Towering Inferno).
• Keith LeBlanc, 69, American drummer (Little Axe, Tackhead) and music producer ("No Sell Out").
• John Barth, 93, American writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse).
• Albert Heath, 88, American jazz drummer (Heath Brothers), leukemia.
• Gaetano Pesce, 84, Italian architect and designer.
• Marian Zazeela, 83, American visual and musical artist.
• Richard Serra, 85, American artist and sculptor (Tilted Arc).
• Daniel Kahneman, 90, Israeli-American author, psychologist, and economist (Thinking, Fast and Slow).
• Marjorie Perloff, 92, American poetry scholar.
• M. Emmet Walsh, 88, American actor (Blade Runner, Blood Simple).
• Jimmy Hastings, 85, British musician (Soft Machine).
• Vernor Vinge, 79, American science fiction author (True Names).
• Kevin Toney, 70, American jazz pianist (The Blackbyrds) and composer.
• Steve Harley, 73, British musician (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) and songwriter ("Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)").
• Frans de Waal, 75, Dutch primatologist (The Ape and the Sushi Master) and ethologist.
• Eric Carmen, 74, American musician (Raspberries), singer ("Hungry Eyes"), and songwriter ("All by Myself").
• Percy Adlon, 88, German film director, screenwriter, and producer (Bagdad Cafe).
• David Bordwell, 76, American film historian and theorist.
• Iris Apfel, 102, American businesswoman and designer.
• Paolo Taviani, 92, Italian film director (Allonsanfàn, Padre Padrone, Kaos) and screenwriter.
• Claude Montana, 76, French fashion designer.
• Benoît van Innis, 63, Belgian visual artist and cartoonist.
• Brian Stableford, 75, British science fiction writer.
• Jan Assmann, 85, German Egyptologist.
• Alexei Navalny, 47, Russian lawyer, opposition politician and political prisoner.
• Günter Brus, 85, Austrian painter, performance and graphic artist, and writer.
• Damo Suzuki, 74, Japanese singer (Can) and songwriter ("Mushroom", "Vitamin C").
• Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, Jamaican musician (Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Upsetters).
• Melanie, 76, American singer-songwriter ("Brand New Key") and guitarist.
• Carl Andre, 88, American sculptor (Equivalent VIII).
• Frank Farian, 82, German singer, songwriter ("Rasputin") and record producer (Boney M., Milli Vanilli).
• Norman Jewison, 97, Canadian film director (In the Heat of the Night).
• Marlena Shaw, 81, American singer ("Woman of the Ghetto", "California Soul").
• Laurence Badie, 95, French actress (Cannabis).
• Janusz Majewski, 92, Polish film director (Lokis) and screenwriter.
• Phill Niblock, 90, American composer, filmmaker and videographer.
• Gian Franco Reverberi, 89, Italian composer (Django, Prepare a Coffin) and musician.

See also

• 2024
• Lists of deaths by year