Photos: 2024 celebrity deaths

David Pryor, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, poses, Jan. 24, 2006, at the school in Little Rock, Ark. Former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, a Democrat who was one of the state’s most beloved political figures and remained active in public service in the state long after he left office, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

FILE – This Feb. 1978 photo shows Robert MacNeil, executive editor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report”. MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday, April 12, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/FILE)

Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli talks with journalists prior to the start of the Roberto Cavalli men’s Fall-Winter 2014 show, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Jan.14, 2014. 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)

O. J. Simpson sits in Superior Court in Los Angeles on December 8, 1994 during an open court session where Judge Lance Ito denied a media attorney’s request to open court transcripts from a 07 December private meeting involving prospective jurors. O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Photo credit should read POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Akebono poses for a photo during a news conference at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Tuesday, July 26, 2005. Hawaii-born Akebono, one of the greats of sumo wresting and a former grand champion, is reported to have died earlier this month of heart failure while receiving care at a hospital in Tokyo, the United States Forces in Japan said in a statement on Thursday, April 11, 2024. (AP Photo /Lucy Pemoni, File)

DJ Mister Cee plays during the 50 years of Hip-Hop celebration block party in Brooklyn, New York, on August 5, 2023. Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York City radio personality who played an instrumental role in the Notorious B.I.G.‘s debut album, has died. He was 57. (AFP via Getty Images/Kena Betancur)

No Labels Founding Chairman and former Sen. Joe Lieberman speaks in Washington on Jan. 18, 2024. Lieberman, 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 Wednesday, March 27, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FILE – U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., faces reporters during a news conference in Quincy, Mass., on Feb. 22, 2010. Former longtime Massachusetts congressman and district attorney Delahunt, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obam’s agenda, has died following an illness. He died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82, news reports said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

This undated photo provided by Shelter PR shows Chance Perdomo. Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V,” has died at age 27, following a motorcycle crash, his publicist said, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Gray Hamner/Chance Perdomo and Shelter PR via AP)

FILE – Louis Gossett Jr. poses for a portrait in New York to promote the release of “Roots: The Complete Original Series” on Blu-ray on May 11, 2016. 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,” has died. He was 87. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Famed American sculptor Richard Serra poses in front of “Slat,” a 1984 steel sculpture, after its reinstallation in La Defense, west of Paris, Dec. 15, 2008. Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel and other malleable materials into large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork that are now dotted across the world, died Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at his home in Long Island, N.Y. He was 85. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

FILE – Linda Bean attends a campaign rally held by Eric Trump for his father, Donald Trump, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Saco, Maine. Bean, a granddaughter of famed outdoors retailer L.L. Bean, who became an entrepreneur, philanthropist and conservative activist, has died at age 82. Bean died Saturday, March 23, 2024, her business manager, Veronika Carlson, confirmed in a written statement Sunday, March 24. No cause was given. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

FILE – Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York Monday evening, March 19, 2001. Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died. He was 82. Pollini performed frequently at Milan’s La Scala. The opera house said in a statement that he died on Saturday March 23, 2024, without giving a cause of death. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)

FILE – Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff signs the wall, while celebrating 75 years of the book on Friday, April 21, 2006 at Mabel’s Fables in Toronto, Ont. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, died Friday, March 22, 2024 at his home in Key West, Fla., according to The New York Times. (Nathan Denette /The Canadian Press via AP)

Eric Carmen, the former lead vocalist of The Raspberries and singer of “All by Myself,” is dead, according to his website. He was 74. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – This black and white photo taken in May 1982 shows Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, whose death was announced on March 8, 2024. The creator of Japan’s hugely popular and influential “Dragon Ball” comics and anime cartoons, Akira Toriyama, has died aged 68, his production team said on March 8, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

Analyst Chris Mortensen watches action prior to an Alliance of American Football game between the Birmingham Iron and the Salt Lake Stallions at Legion Field on February 16, 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama. Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/AAF/Getty Images)

Comedian/actor Richard Lewis hosts the Video Software Dealers Association’s award show at the organization’s annual home video convention at the Bellagio July 27, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 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,” has died. He was 76. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Actor Kenneth Mitchell was announced dead by his family on Feb. 25, 2024. Seen here in 2015, he was diagnosed with ALS back in 2018. Mitchell was 49 years old. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

In this file photo taken on Saturday, July 20, 2019, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny attends a protest in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47. The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 and lost consciousness. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Conductor Seiji Ozawa stops to greet a young child in the audience as he arrives for a reception for himself and the other Kennedy Center Honors honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 6, 2015. Japanese conductor Ozawa, who has music director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died, his office said Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

In this April 7, 2014, file photo shows Toby Keith performs at ACM Presents an All-Star Salute to the Troops in Las Vegas. “Beer For My Horses” singer-songwriter Toby Keith has died. He was 62. Keith passed peacefully on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 surrounded by his family, according to a statement posted on the country singer’s website. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Carl Weathers arrives at a special screening for the season three premiere of “The Mandalorian” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at The Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. He was 76. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Chita Rivera arrives at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in New York. Rivera, the Tony Award-winning dancer, singer and actress who forged a path for Latina artists, has died at 91. Rivera’s death was announced by her daughter, Lisa Mordente, who said she died in New York after a brief illness. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – 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. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

FILE – Melanie Safka opens the second day of the “A Day In The Garden” festival on Aug. 15, 1988, in Bethel, N.Y. Melanie, a singer-songwriter behind 1970s hits including “Brand New Key,” has died. Melanie’s publicist tells The Associated Press that she died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. She was 76. Born Melanie Safka, the singer rose through the New York folk scene and was one of only three solo women to perform at Woodstock. Her hits included “Lay Down” and “Look What They’ve Done to My Song Ma.” (AP Photo/Ken Bizzigotti, File)

FILE – Actress Joyce Randolph attends the Museum of the Moving Image Salute to Ben Stiller at Cipriani’s 42nd Street on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2008, in New York. Randolph, who played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, on the “The Honeymooners,” 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/Evan Agostini, File)

ROCHESTER, MI – NOVEMBER 18: Bill Hayes poses at the Days Of Our Lives: 50 Years Book Signing In Village of Rochester Hills on November 18, 2015 in Rochester, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images for Corday Productions)

FILE – German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, head of Germany’s organising committee for the soccer World Cup, plays with the Golden Ball for the World Cup in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on April 18, 2006. Germany’s World Cup-winning coach Franz Beckenbauer has died. He was 78. Beckenbauer was one of German soccer’s central figures. He captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1974. He also coached the national side for its 1990 World Cup win against Argentina. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer, File)

FILE – U.S. actor Christian Oliver arrives at the premiere of “Speed Racer” during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival May 3, 2008, in New York. Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash on Jan. 4, 2024 near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, 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. 4, 2023. She was 100. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)