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- Jan 4 David Soul [Solberg], American-British actor (Starsky & Hutch; Here Come s the Brides), and singer ("Don't Give Up On Us"), dies at 80 [1]
- Jan 4 Glynis Johns, British stage and screen Tony Award-winning actress and singer (Mary Poppins; A Little Night Music - "Send In The Clowns"; The Sundowners), dies at 100 [1]
- Jan 10 Tisa Farrow, American actress (Zombie; Fingers; Grim Reaper), dies at 72
- Jan 12 Bill Hayes, American singer (Your Show of Shows; The Ballad of Davy Crockett"), and actor (Days of Our Lives. 1970-2023 - "Doug"), dies at 98
- Jan 13 Joyce Randolph (née Sirola), American actress (The Honeymooners - "Trixie Norton"), dies at 99 [1]
- Jan 13 Tom Shales, American Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic (Washington Post, 1977-2010), and author (Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live), dies of COVID-19 complicated kidney failure at 79 [1]
- Jan 16 Laurence "Laurie" Johnson, British film and television score composer (Dr. Strangelove; The Avengers), dies at 96 [1]
- Jan 16 Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach), American bassoonist, Grammy Award-winning composer, classical music parodist (No-No Nonette; Concerto for Horn & Hardart; Silent Running), and broadcaster, dies at 88 [1]
- Jan 20 Norman Jewison, Canadian director and producer (In the Heat of the Night; Fiddler on the Roof; Moonstruck; Rollerball; ...and Justice For All), dies at 97 [1] [2]
- Jan 23 Charles Osgood [Wood], American broadcast news anchor (The Osgood File; CBS News Sunday Morning, 1994-2016), writer, and poet, dies of dementia at 91 [1]
- Jan 29 Sandra Milo [Salvatrice Greco], Italian actress (8½; Juliet of the Spirits), and television personality, dies at 90
- Jan 30 Chita Rivera, American Tony Award-winning dancer, singer, and actress (West Side Story; Bye Bye Birdie; Sweet Charity; Chicago), dies at 91 [1] [2]
Carl Weathers (1948-2024)
Feb 1 American football player, actor (Rocky films (I-IV); Street Justice; The Mandalorian), and director, dies at 76
- Feb 2 Don Murray, American actor (Bus Stop; Advise & Consent; Endless Love), dies at 94 [1]
- Feb 2 Stefan Yanev, Bulgarian soccer midfielder (Cherno More Varna 228 games) and broadcaster (BNT; 17 books on Bulgarian football), dies at 84
- Feb 2 Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, American operatic soprano, and actress (Diva), dies of cancer at 75 [1]
- Feb 7 Mojo Nixon [Neill McMillan, Jr.], American musician ("Elvis Is Everywhere") and actor, dies of cardiac event at 66 [1]
- Feb 12 Steve Wright, English DJ and actor (Funny Man), dies at 69
- Feb 21 Micheline Presle [Chassagne], French actress (Donkey Skin; Devil in the Flesh; I Want to Go Home), dies at 101
Kenneth Mitchell (1974-2024)
Feb 24 Canadian actor (Star Trek: Discovery), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 49
- Feb 26 Ole Anderson, American pro wrestler (founding member of influential stable "The Four Horsemen"; PWI Tag Team of the Year 1975, 77 with Gene Anderson), dies at 81
Richard Lewis (1947-2024)
Feb 27 American comedian and actor (Anything But Love; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of a heart attack at 76 [1]
- Mar 2 John Okafor, Nigerian Nollywood actor and comedian, dies at 62 [1]
- Mar 3 Chris Mortensen, American sports journalist (ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio), dies from throat cancer at 72
- Mar 3 Edward Bond, English stage director, playwright (Saved; The War Plays; Restoration), and screenwriter (Blow-Up), dies at 89
- Mar 3 Eleanor Collins [Elnora Proctor], Canadian jazz and standards singer, and television personality, regarded as Canada’s “first lady of jazz”, dies at 104
- Mar 7 Steve Lawrence [Sidney Leibowitz], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Go Away Little Girl"; Steve and Eydie), and actor (The Lonely Guy; The Blues Brothers), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Mar 13 Dan Wakefield, American novelist (Going All The Way; New York In The Fifties), journalist (The Atlantic, 1968-81), and screenwriter, dies at 91
- Mar 19 M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor (Blade Runner; Wildcats; Blood Simple; Knives Out), dies at 88 [1]
- Mar 21 Ron Harper, American actor (Planet of the Apes (TV series); Wendy and Me), dies at 91
- Mar 22 Jean-Paul Vignon, French actor and singer, dies of liver cancer at 89
- Mar 29 Louis Gossett Jr, American Emmy and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Roots; An Officer and a Gentleman; Diggstown), dies at 87 [1]
- Mar 31 Barbara Rush, American stage and screen actress (Peyton Place - "Marsha"; It Came From Outer Space; Flamingo Road), dies at 97 [1]
- Apr 1 Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and actor (SCTV; Freaks and Geeks), dies at 82 [1]
O.J. Simpson (1947-2024)
Apr 10 American College/Pro Football HOF running back (Heisman Trophy 1968 USC; NFL MVP 1973; 5 × First-team All-Pro & Pro Bowl; Buffalo Bills), broadcaster, and actor; found responsible Brown/Goldman deaths 1994, dies of prostate cancer at 76 [1]
- Apr 12 Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist (PBS, 1975-95; NBC Weekend News, 1965-67), and novelist, dies at 93 [1] [2]
- Apr 18 Spencer Milligan, American actor (Land of the Lost), dies at 86
- Apr 21 Alex Hassilev, Russian-American folk singer, guitarist, banjo player (The Limeliters), actor, and record producer, dis of cancer at 91
- Apr 24 Bob Cole, Canadian sports broadcaster (CBC - Hockey Night in Canada), dies at 90
- May 9 Roger Corman, American film, producer, director (Little Shop of Horrors; The Raven), and Hollywood mentor, dies at 98 [1]
- May 12 David Sanborn, American Grammy Award-winning jazz and session saxophonist (David Bowie - "Young Americans"; David Letterman Show), dies of prostate cancer at 78 [1]
- May 16 Dabney Coleman, American Emmy Award-winning character actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Mayor Jeeter"; 9 to 5; Buffalo Bill; Boardwalk Empire), dies at 92 [1]
- May 22 Darryl Hickman, American actor (Men of Boys Town; The Human Comedy; Tea and Sympathy), and screenwriter, dies at 92
- May 23 Morgan Spurlock, American director and documentary producer (Super Size Me), dies of cancer at 53 [1]
- Jun 1 Phillipe Leroy, French actor (Night Porter; The Life of Leonardo da Vinci), dies at 93
- Jun 2 Janis Paige [Donna Mae Tjaden], American stage and screen actress (The Pajama Game; Silk Stockings; Trapper John, M.D.), dies at 101
- Jun 11 Françoise Hardy, French pop singer, songwriter ("Je Suis D’Accord", "Comment te Dire Adieu"). and actress, dies of cancer complications at 80 [1]
- Jun 11 Howard Fineman, American journalist and political commentator (Newsweek; NBC News; AOL Huffington Post Media Group), dies of pancreatic cancer at 75
- Jun 12 Tony Lo Bianco, American stage and screen actor (The French Connection; A View From the Bridge; Hizzoner!), dies of prostate cancer at 87 [1]
- Jun 13 Benji Gregory, American actor (Alf - "Brian Tanner"), dies of suspected heatstroke at 46
- Jun 18 Anouk Aimée [Nicole Dreyfus], French actress (La Dolce Vita; 8 1/2; A Man and A Woman), dies at 92 [1]
- Jun 20 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor (The Dirty Dozen; M*A*S*H (film): Ordinary People; The Hunger Games films), dies at 88 [1]
- Jun 25 Bill Cobbs [Wilbert F. Cobbs], American actor (Night at the Museum; The Color of Money; I'll Fly Away; Star Trek: Enterprise), dies at 90 [1]
- Jun 25 Sika Anoa'i, American pro wrestler (WWF Tag Team C'ship x 3 with brother Afa as the Wild Samoans), dies at 79
- Jun 26 (Richard) "Kinky" Friedman, American country rocker ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), and humorist, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 79 [1]
- Jun 26 Pat Heywood, Scottish actress (10 Rillington Place; Lucky Feller), dies at 92
- Jun 27 Martin Mull, American comic singer-songwriter and character actor (Fernwood 2-Night; Roseanne; Clue), dies at 80 [1]
- Jun 29 Doug Sheehan, American actor (Knots Landing, 1983-87 - "Ben": General Hospital, 1979-82 - "Joe Kelly"), dies at 75
- Jul 1 Robert Towne (né Schwartz), American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Chinatown: The Last Detail; Shampoo), and director (Personal Best; Tequila Sunrise), dies at 89 [1]
- Jul 5 Jon Landau, American Academy Award-winning film producer (Titanic; Avatar; Avatar: The Way of Water), dies of cancer at 63
- Jul 5 Yvonne Furneaux [Scatcherd], British actress (La Dolce Vita; Repulsion), dies at 98
Shelley Duvall (1949-2024)
Jul 11 American actress (Popeye; Nashville; The Shining), dies in her sleep from diabetes complications at 75 [1]
- Jul 12 Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket batsman (4 Tests; 1 x 100, HS 166; Warwickshire, Otago) and broadcaster (TVNZ), dies at 88
- Jul 13 James B. Sikking, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Lt. Howard Hunter"; Doogie Howser, M.D. - "David Howser"; Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss), dies at 90
Shannen Doherty (1971-2024)
Jul 13 American actress (Little House on the Prairie; Beverly Hills 90210; Charmed), dies of cancer at 53 [1]
- Jul 16 David Morrow, Australian Rugby League HOF broadcaster (ABC, 2GB), dies from cancer at 71
- Jul 17 Cheng Pei Pei, Hong Kong actress, cinema's 1st female action star (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), dies at 78 [1]
- Jul 18 Lou Dobbs, American broadcast journalist and conservative political pundit (CNN, 1980-99 & 2001-09; Fox Business, 2011-21), dies at 78
- Jul 22 Mark Carnevale, American golfer (PGA Tour Rookie of the Year 1992) and broadcaster (Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio), dies at 64
- Jul 28 Chino XL [Derek Keith Barbosa], American rapper and actor, dies at 50
- Aug 6 Connie Chiume, South African filmmaker and actress known for "Black Panther", dies at 72 [1]
Susan Wojcicki (1968-2024)
Aug 9 American businesswoman (CEO of YouTube, 2014-23; Google executive, 1999-2014), considered "the most important person in advertising", dies of lung cancer at 56
- Aug 13 Wally Amos, American cookie entrepreneur (Famous Amos), television personality, adult literacy advocate, and motivational speaker, dies of complications of dementia at 88 [1]
- Aug 14 Gena Rowlands, American actress (The Notebook; Night on Earth; The Betty Ford Story; Peyton Place), dies at 94 [1]
- Aug 14 Peter Marshall [Ralph Pierre LaCock], American TV game show host (Hollywood Squares), and stage actor and singer, dies of kidney failure at 98 [1]
- Aug 16 Afa Anoaʻi, Samoan-American WWE HOF pro wrestler (The Wild Samoans: WWF Tag Team C'ship x 3), dies at 81
Alain Delon (1935-2024)
Aug 18 French-Swiss stage and screen actor (Purple Noon; Le Samouraï; Monsieur Klein), filmmaker, and pop singer, dies at 88 [1]
Teri Garr (1944-2024)
Oct 29 American actress (Young Frankenstein; Tootsie; Mr. Mom), dies of complications of multiple sclerosis at 79 [1]
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