Dame Maggie Smith and the other famous people who passed away in 2024

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BBC Collage - clockwise James Earl Jones, Liam Payne, Steve Wright, Shannen Doherty, Donald Sutherland, Quincy Jones, Dame Maggie Smith, Shelley Duvall

The shaper of the world's bestselling LP, an Oscar-winning British histrion who conquered surface and stage, a fearless Russian absorption person and 1 of Ireland's top novelists - present are immoderate of the well-known faces nary longer with us.

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Among those we retrieve are acting fable Dame Maggie Smith, erstwhile teen prima Shannen Doherty, and "the astir beauteous antheral successful cinema", Alain Delon.

David Soul

As Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, 1 fractional of the bull duo Starsky & Hutch, David Soul became 1 of the biggest TV stars of the 1970s. The US actor's fame led to a parallel euphony vocation and 2 UK fig 1 hits, Don't Give Up On Us Baby and Silver Lady. Later successful life, helium moved to the UK wherever helium acted successful theatre and TV.

Getty Images Shannen Doherty photographed against a marble-effect wall, wearing a low-neck achromatic top.

Shannen Doherty's archetypal large movie relation was successful the 1988 achromatic drama Heathers. This was followed by 4 seasons of the TV amusement Beverly Hills 90210. Her character, Brenda, was a Midwest miss transplanted with her household to the affluent Los Angeles suburb. Doherty besides appeared successful the TV bid Charmed and the movie Mallrats.

Getty Images Dame Maggie Smith photographed successful 2015, aged 80, against a achromatic background. She is smiling and wearing a achromatic top, a elemental necklace and a collar-less floral jacket.

Dame Maggie Smith’s acting vocation spanned stage, cinema and tv for much than 70 years. Her best-known movie roles see The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (for which she won a champion histrion Oscar) and A Room with a View. In her aboriginal years, she was the imperious Dowager Countess of Grantham successful Downton Abbey, and Minerva McGonagall successful the Harry Potter films.

Getty Images A bespectacled James Earl Jones stares successful to the camera with his chin resting connected his fists. He is wearing a achromatic garment and braces.

US histrion who starred successful dozens of films, but whose astir celebrated relation was astir apt the 1 successful which helium did not really look - the dependable of Darth Vader successful the archetypal Star Wars trilogy. James Earl Jones besides enjoyed a distinguished signifier career, winning 2 Tony awards.

A inactive from Dad's Army shows a young Ian Lavender playing Private Pike. He smiles shyly dressed successful his azygous and a reddish and bluish scarf.

The youngest subordinate of the Home Guard platoon successful Dad's Army, 1 of the BBC's best-loved sitcoms. Ian Lavender played Pike, the guileless young slope clerk and taxable of Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe)'s put-down: "You anserine boy!" Later successful life, the Birmingham-born histrion appeared successful EastEnders.

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Shelley Duvall's astir celebrated movie relation was astir apt Wendy, the terror-stricken woman of Jack Nicholson successful Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. She starred successful respective different critically acclaimed films including Annie Hall, Nashville and Thieves Like Us, arsenic good arsenic appearing arsenic Olive Oyl successful the 1980s musical, Popeye.

Catching Fire successful 2013, erstwhile helium was 78. He is grey-haired and bearded and is smiling. He wears a achromatic overgarment and a pinkish garment and tie.

Canadian histrion who started his agelong vocation successful British TV and theatre, earlier achieving movie stardom successful the warfare films Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Among his galore notable films were M*A*S*H, Don't Look Now, Casanova, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Ordinary People. More recently, helium starred successful The Hunger Games trilogy arsenic the evil President Snow.

Getty Images Undated 1960s publicity photograph of Alain Delon (in colour) erstwhile helium would person been successful his precocious 20s oregon aboriginal 30s. He has dark, somewhat bouffant hair, wide bluish eyes and is smiling slightly. He wears a achromatic sweater and is looking consecutive astatine the camera.

Reportedly erstwhile described arsenic the astir beauteous antheral successful cinema, Parisian Alain Delon was 1 of Europe's starring movie stars successful the 1960s and 70s, appearing successful Plein Soleil, Le Samourai and The Leopard. Delon's past large nationalist quality was to person an honorary Palme d'Or astatine the Cannes Film Festival successful May 2019.

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French histrion whose show successful the 1966 movie A Man and a Woman earned her a Golden Globe and a Bafta grant for champion actress, arsenic good arsenic an Oscar information - the archetypal clip an histrion oregon histrion had been nominated for a French connection performance.

A inactive of Bernard Hill successful characters arsenic Yosser Hughes - helium is facing side-on, sporting a heavy achromatic moustache.

Manchester-born, Bernard Hill became a Liverpool icon for the ages arsenic Yosser "Gizza Job" Hughes successful Alan Bleasdale’s 1982 TV series, Boys from the Blackstuff. Hill aboriginal had large roles successful the deed films Titanic and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and astir precocious appeared successful BBC bid including Wolf Hall and The Responder.

Getty Images Gena Rowlands photographed against a partition successful what appears to beryllium a publicity shot, taken astir 1960 erstwhile she was 30. She is wearing make-up and staring consecutive astatine the camera, she has cautiously styled shoulder-length blonde hairsbreadth and has golden earrings which (from what small is visible) look to lucifer the colour of her dress.

US histrion who was nominated for an Oscar for 1974's A Woman Under the Influence and 1980's Gloria. Both films were collaborations with her precocious husband, the manager John Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands besides won 4 Emmys and 2 Golden Globes earlier retiring successful 2015.

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Timothy West was known for roles connected signifier and surface including the TV sitcom Brass, dramas specified arsenic Bleak House and Gentleman Jack, and soaps Coronation Street and EastEnders. He was joined to the histrion Prunella Scales. In caller years, the mates filmed 10 bid of Channel 4's Great Canal Journeys.

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Scottish comedian who utilized details from her highly pugnacious upbringing for material. She endured poverty, maltreatment and the execution of a genitor earlier taking to drama successful her 30s. Janey Godley achieved planetary fame for her stand-up and for her galore net videos. Fittingly, her memoir was titled Nothing Left Unsaid.

Actors and performers who besides died successful 2024 include:

Glynis John - histrion who played Mrs Banks successful Mary Poppins
John Savident - Coronation Street star
Gudrun Ure - Supergran, successful the 1980s children's TV amusement of the aforesaid name
Cheng Pei-pei - prima of Oscar-winning movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed from Rocky movies

Including "radio genius" Steve Wright, enactment therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer, and 1 fractional of the Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers.

Dr Ruth Westheimer

Renowned enactment therapist and speech amusement host, "Dr Ruth" was celebrated for speaking frankly astir enactment successful her unmistakable German accent. A Holocaust subsister calved successful Frankfurt, Ruth Westheimer came to fame arsenic the big of a section vigor programme successful the US, Sexually Speaking, which was nationally syndicated successful 1984. She past went connected to constitute Dr Ruth's Guide To Good Sex, the archetypal of much than 40 books.

Publicity changeable of Steve Wright against a achromatic background. He has thinning acheronian hair, glasses and a moustache and is smiling broadly for the camera. He wears a achromatic buttoned-up collarless garment and a acheronian jacket.

Described arsenic a "radio genius" by 1 erstwhile colleague, Steve Wright was a DJ connected BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for much than 4 decades. The long-time presenter of the day amusement connected archetypal Radio 1 and past its sister station, helium brought his ain inimitable benignant to carnivore connected his programmes. Wright was appointed an MBE for services to vigor lone weeks earlier his death.

Getty Images Dave Myers, photographed arriving astatine the National Television Awards 2015. He is balding but has agelong hairsbreadth astatine the back, quadrate glasses, a greying beard and a waxed moustache. He is wearing a greenish jacket, a achromatic garment and a spotted necktie to lucifer the jacket. He besides is wearing a acheronian reddish silk scarf.

One fractional of the TV cooking duo the Hairy Bikers, Myers travelled astir the UK and the satellite with his person Si King, sampling and cooking nutrient arsenic they went. The Hairy Bikers published much than 30 look books, selling much than six cardinal copies, and besides documented their value nonaccomplishment successful Hairy Dieters: How To Love Food And Lose Weight.

Annie Nightingale photographed successful 1976 erstwhile she was 36. She has airy shoulder-length hair, and is wearing a achromatic vessel apical implicit a gingham shirt. She is successful a workplace and is looking astatine the camera with a somewhat fixed grin.

The archetypal pistillate presenter connected BBC Radio 1 and the station's longest-serving DJ, Annie Nightingale joined the presumption successful 1970 and broadcast her past amusement successful December 2023. She was passionate astir a wide scope of music, championing genres ranging from prog stone and punk to acerb location and grime. She was besides a long-time presenter of BBC Two's The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Getty Images Publicity changeable of Michael Mosley against a achromatic background. He has glasses, somewhat receding greyish hair, and is smiling arsenic helium looks to the camera. He wears a acheronian overgarment and a cobalt bluish garment with the apical 2 buttons undone.

Doctor, broadcaster and writer celebrated for popularising the thought of intermittent fasting, Michael Mosley’s books connected the 5:2 and Fast 800 diets were planetary bestsellers. His BBC Radio 4 bid Just One Thing, which focused connected simple, accessible wellness tips, attracted 25 cardinal listeners astir the world.

Media figures who besides died successful 2024 include:

Johnnie Irwin - presenter of the Channel 4 show, Escape To The Country
Morgan Spurlock - documentary-maker who made Super Size Me astir the fast-food industry
Chris Serle - presenter of BBC TV's long-running show, That's Life
Robin Windsor - Strictly Come Dancing professional

Our look backmost includes grounds shaper Quincy Jones, One Direction prima Liam Payne and French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy.

Liam Payne

Liam Payne was 1 of 5 solo contestants successful the 2010 bid of The X Factor, who were told by the judges to unite and vie arsenic a lad set - the effect was One Direction. Although they lone came 3rd successful the endowment show, they went connected to go 1 of the biggest UK bands of the 21st Century, with 4 UK fig 1 albums and chart-topping singles astir the world. Payne besides had immoderate solo occurrence earlier his tragic aboriginal decease astatine the property of 31.

Getty Images Françoise Hardy photographed successful the 1960s connected what looks similar a winter's time successful Paris. She has agelong brownish hairsbreadth and wears a heavy fur coat. She stares straight and earnestly astatine the camera

French singer-songwriter, known for her melancholy ballads, Françoise Hardy's astir celebrated songs included All the Girls and Boys (Tous les garçons et les filles), It Hurts to Say Goodbye (Comment te dire adieu) and My Friend the Rose (Mon amie la rose).

Getty Images News photograph of Quincy Jones, smartly dressed successful a acheronian suit, purple garment and achromatic tie, accessorised with a brownish abstract-pattern silk scarf. He is rather aged successful this photo, with nary hairsbreadth and a bladed moustache.

One of the top euphony producers of the 20th Century, Quincy Jones began his vocation moving with Frank Sinatra. In the 1980s helium produced Michael Jackson's 2 astir palmy LPs - Thriller and Bad - arsenic good arsenic co-writing respective of the songs. Quincy Jones besides masterminded the USA for Africa single, We Are The World.

Getty Images Film inactive of Kris Kristofferson, taken successful the 1970s against a inheritance of entity - helium has reddish hair, a greying beard and is wearing a achromatic turtle-neck sweater with epaulettes

An histrion and musician, Kris Kristofferson had occurrence arsenic a performer but much interaction arsenic a songwriter, penning hits including Help Me Through The Night and Me And Bobby McGee. The Texan besides starred successful the films Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, Heaven's Gate and - drafting connected his philharmonic inheritance - the 1977 remake of A Star Is Born, alongside Barbra Streisand.

Musicians who besides died successful 2024 include:

Steve Harley - Cockney Rebel singer, who reached fig 1 successful 1975 with Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Melanie - 1960s vocalist made celebrated by her quality astatine the 1969 Woodstock festival
Herbie Flowers - bass subordinate connected Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side, and writer of Clive Dunn's fig 1 novelty hit, Grandad
Sergio Mendes - Brazilian bossa nova fable remembered internationally for his hit, Mas Que Nada
Mary Weiss - pb vocalist of 1960s vocal radical The Shangri-Las, who sang The Leader of the Pack

This twelvemonth saw the deaths of Russia's starring absorption politician, Alexei Navalny, the UK's erstwhile lawman premier minister, John Prescott, and ex-first curate of Scotland, Alex Salmond.

Alexei Navalny

Russia's astir salient absorption politician, Alexei Navalny campaigned relentlessly against President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of moving a corrupt and "feudal" state. After surviving repeated attempts to poison him, Alexei Navalny died successful mysterious circumstances successful a Russian prison.

Getty Images John Prescott is pictured looking somewhat implicit his enarthrosis with a wry look connected his face. He has acheronian hair, somewhat greying, and is wearing a navy bluish overcoat implicit a suit. His garment is airy bluish and his necktie is acheronian blue.

John Prescott was lawman premier curate successful the Blair authorities and 1 of the astir recognisable politicians of the New Labour era. Renowned arsenic a governmental scrapper, helium gained notoriety successful 2001 for punching a protester who had thrown an ovum astatine him. After serving arsenic East Hull's MP for 40 years, helium was made Lord Prescott.

Getty Images Alex Salmond is photographed extracurricular against a blurry inheritance of trees. He is bald and clean-shaven, with distinctively bushy eyebrows, and smiles for the camera. He wears a airy bluish overgarment with an "Alba" badge pinned to it, and a blue-check button-down shirt.

A starring fig successful Scotland's nationalist movement, Alex Salmond was Scottish archetypal curate from 2007-14, and led the unsuccessful pro-independence referendum run successful 2014. Later successful beingness helium attracted contention aft quitting the Scottish National Party and mounting up a rival nationalist party, Alba.

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One of Australia's astir revered Aboriginal leaders, Lowitja O'Donoghue was instrumental successful negotiating Australia's historical Native Title authorities which granted onshore rights to First Nations people. She received immoderate of the nation's apical honours for her pioneering enactment and successful 1984 was named Australian of the Year.

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Former Labour curate and crossbench peer, Lord Field spent 40 years arsenic MP for Birkenhead and was a starring dependable connected payment betterment for overmuch of his career. He was a curate for a play successful the Blair authorities but was regarded arsenic a maverick wrong his ain party, successful nary tiny portion due to the fact that of his adjacent idiosyncratic relationship with Margaret Thatcher.

Political figures who besides died successful 2024 include:

Alberto Fujimori - erstwhile president of Peru, who was convicted of quality rights abuses and corruption
Michael Ancram - served arsenic lawman person of the Conservative Party for 5 years
Nguyen Phu Trong - long-serving Vietnamese leader
John Bruton - Irish person who served arsenic taoiseach from 1994 to 1997
Derek Draper - Former Labour rotation doc whose conflict with Covid was the taxable of an ITV documentary

Writers who died this twelvemonth see the novelists Edna O'Brien and Paul Auster, and the short-story writer Alice Munro.

Paul Auster

US writer of The New York Trilogy - a postulation of detective stories with a philosophical twist, centred connected a shady quartet of backstage investigators named Blue, Brown, Black and White. His different novels included Timbuktu and The Brooklyn Follies. Paul Auster was praised for his crisp dialogue, and his books person been translated into much than 40 languages.

Getty Images Close up representation of Edna O'Brien taken successful 2009. She has shortish hair, smartly styled, and looks consecutive into the camera with a precise aggravated expression.

Irish novelist whose archetypal book, The Country Girls, remains her astir famous. Published successful 1960, it tells the communicative of 2 convent girls, and its frank portrayal (for its time) of their enactment lives resulted successful the publication being banned successful Ireland. Edna O'Brien wrote much than 20 works of fabrication and was described by chap novelist Philip Roth arsenic "the astir talented pistillate present penning successful English".

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Yorkshire-born writer champion known for her archetypal novel, A Woman Of Substance. The 1979 saga of a young woman's travel from rags to riches stayed connected the New York Times' bestseller database for 43 weeks. It spawned 7 sequels and a palmy TV adaptation.

Getty Images Alice Munro is photographed adjacent up and laughing, holding 1 of her ain paperbacks unfastened successful beforehand of her. She has abbreviated grey somewhat chaotic hair.

Author whose fabrication focused connected agrarian beingness successful her location state of Canada. In 2013, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature - she was the archetypal Canadian to person the accolade, and the lone laureate to beryllium honoured chiefly for short-story writing.

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Acclaimed writer astatine the forefront of the Black Arts Movement successful the US, known crossed the satellite for her defiant yet endearing penning astir race, gender, enactment and love. Nikki Giovanni authored much than 30 books, ranging from poesy to children's books. Her past work, titled The Last Book, is acceptable to beryllium published successful 2025.

Writers who besides died successful 2024 include:

Lynne Reid Banks - British writer of The L-Shaped Room
Maryse Condé - Guadeloupe-born writer of epic novels tackling the bequest of colonialism successful Africa and the Caribbean
John Burnside - award-winning Scottish poet

Our database includes the Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs, foundation laminitis Camila Batmanghelidjh and the erstwhile caput of the British army, Sir Mike Jackson.

Camila Batmanghelidjh

Flamboyant and sometimes arguable laminitis of Kids Company, a foundation acceptable up to supply enactment to deprived and susceptible inner-city children and young people. Ms Batmanghelidjh attracted galore influential backers, but the foundation closed successful 2015 due to the fact that of fiscal difficulties, and she was forced to measurement down.

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Nobel prize-winning British physicist, who gave his sanction to the "Higgs boson", a particle that helps explicate wherefore the basal gathering blocks of the Universe - atoms - person mass. The particle's beingness was confirmed successful 2012 by scientists utilizing the Large Hadron Collider astatine Cern successful Switzerland. Higgs' reaction? "It's precise bully to beryllium close sometimes."

Getty Images Kris Hallenga holds a microphone and is wearing a CoppaFeel! T-shirt. She has agelong blonde hairsbreadth and is smiling broadly.

The laminitis of bosom crab consciousness foundation CoppaFeel!, Kris Hallenga was herself diagnosed with the illness 15 years agone erstwhile she was 23. She was besides a columnist astatine The Sun and a bestselling author. In 2014, a documentary astir her beingness and enactment - Kris: Dying to Live - was aired connected BBC Three.

Getty Images Daniel Kahnemann is simply a astute aged antheral wearing glasses, a acheronian overgarment and open-necked light-blue shirt. He has small hairsbreadth but what small determination is seems to beryllium brightly illuminated.

Behavioural scientist who wrote the best-selling publication Thinking, Fast and Slow. This took contented with 1 of the cardinal ideas underlying economics - that radical are rational beings who ever enactment retired of self-interest. Daniel Kahnemann suggested that, connected the contrary, they often enactment irrationally, based connected instinct. In 2002, helium won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics.

Getty Images General Sir Mike Jackson is photographed close-up successful combat cogwheel against a inheritance of trees. He has a maroon service beret and a camouflage jacket. He is looking intently beyond the camera, his look lined and craggy.

The erstwhile caput of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson was successful complaint during the US-led penetration of Iraq successful 2003. In Kosovo successful 1999, helium famously refused an bid from his US commandant to intercept Russian forces erstwhile they entered the state without Nato's agreement, saying: "I'm not going to commencement the Third World War for you."

German footballing fable Franz Beckenbauer, snooker's archetypal TV prima Ray Reardon, and marathon satellite champion Kevin Kiptum each died successful 2024.

Geoff Capes

The UK's astir celebrated changeable putter, Geoff Capes doubly won golden astatine some the Commonwealth Games and the European Indoor Championships. The Lincolnshire-born jock besides doubly held the rubric of World's Strongest Man. He was a three-time Olympian and came closest to winning a medal with a fifth-place decorativeness astatine the 1980 Games successful Moscow.

Kelvin Kiptum is photographed against a achromatic inheritance - idiosyncratic is holding a microphone up to him but helium is looking distant and smiling astatine thing beyond the camera. He wears a lightweight bluish zip-up overgarment implicit a high-necked achromatic apical with sponsorship branding connected it

The beingness of men's marathon satellite grounds holder Kelvin Kiptum was tragically chopped abbreviated by a roadworthy mishap successful his location country, Kenya. In October 2023, the 24-year-old long-distance runner bettered the grounds of his compatriot Eliud Kipchoge, completing the Chicago Marathon successful 2 hours and 35 seconds.

Getty Images Sven-Goran Eriksson looks impassively beyond the camera successful beforehand of a assemblage of spectators successful England replica shirts. He has receding grey hairsbreadth and wears frameless spectacles, a achromatic suit jacket, achromatic garment and acheronian tie.

The archetypal non-British manager of the England shot team, Sven-Goran Eriksson led them to quarter-finals astatine 3 large tournaments betwixt 2001 and 2006. The Swede besides managed 12 clubs including Manchester City, Leicester, Roma and Lazio, winning 18 trophies.

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Ugandan long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei made her marathon debut successful 2021 and recorded a idiosyncratic champion of 2 hours 22 minutes and 47 seconds the pursuing year, making her the second-fastest Ugandan pistillate of each time. At the Paris Olympics she came 44th. Rebecca Cheptegei was murdered successful September this twelvemonth astatine the property of 33.

Getty Images A representation of Franz Beckenbauer taken during his days arsenic a manager - helium has acheronian curly hair, is clean-shaven and is wearing a bluish and achromatic waterproof overgarment with reddish horizontal stripes. He appears to beryllium outdoors against a blurry greenish inheritance and is pointing astatine thing with his close hand.

Nicknamed "Der Kaiser", German footballer Franz Beckenbauer was wide regarded arsenic 1 of the game's top players. He won the World Cup arsenic skipper of West Germany successful 1974 and lifted the trophy again arsenic manager successful 1990. Franz Beckenbauer besides played 582 times for Bayern Munich and won the German top-flight arsenic some subordinate and manager.

Reuters Ray Reardon, pictured successful his playing days. He is leaning implicit the snooker table, getting acceptable to deed the achromatic ball. He is wearing a achromatic garment and waistcoat favoured by astir each snooker players. His hairsbreadth is precise acheronian and slicked backmost into a "widow's peak"

Welsh snooker subordinate who dominated the crippled successful the 1970s, claiming six satellite titles betwixt 1970 and 1978. Ray Reardon became celebrated among aboriginal adopters of colour TV arsenic the main gully connected Pot Black, the BBC's archetypal snooker showcase. He retired successful 1991 and aboriginal worked arsenic a advisor for Ronnie O'Sullivan, helping him triumph the satellite rubric successful 2004.

Getty Images Rob Burrow pictured during the past fewer years of his beingness erstwhile helium was suffering from MND - helium has receding straw-coloured hairsbreadth and helium is looking beyond the camera, biting his lip. He seems to beryllium successful a wheelchair being pushed by an indistinct figure, whose little fractional is disposable successful the photo. Rob Burrows wears a achromatic sweater, with a bluish lanyard astir his neck.

Leeds Rhinos and Great Britain rugby league player, Rob Burrow's 17-year vocation included winning 8 Super League Grand Finals, 3 World Club Challenges and 2 Challenge Cups. Two years aft his retirement, Rob Burrow was diagnosed with centrifugal neurone illness (MND) and spent the remainder of his beingness fundraising and raising consciousness of the illness portion battling it himself.

Getty Images A achromatic and achromatic photograph of Lea Pericoli holding a tennis racket down her shoulders. She is wearing bold earrings and a precise frilly tennis top.

Regarded arsenic 1 of Italy's apical players successful the 1950s and 60s, Lea Pericoli reached the past 16 of the French Open doubly and the Wimbledon championships 3 times. On apical of her diversion achievements, Ms Pericoli's contention outfits, adorned with feather and fur, made her a benignant icon. She aboriginal became a fashionable tv presenter and journalist.

Former England and Surrey cricketer, Graham Thorpe played 100 Tests for his state betwixt 1993 and 2005, arsenic good arsenic 82 one-day internationals. A stylish left-handed batter, helium scored 6,744 Test runs, including 16 centuries. At region level, Thorpe spent his full first-class playing vocation astatine Surrey, from 1988 to 2005.

Getty Images Black and achromatic photograph of JPR Williams arsenic a young man, wearing a Wales rugby shirt, lasting successful beforehand of a ceramic wall. His hairsbreadth is shoulder-length and helium has ample sideburns.

John Peter Rhys Williams became an icon of Wales's play of rugby glory successful the 1970s, erstwhile they won 3 Five Nations expansive slams. The full-back earned 55 caps for his country, and played for London Welsh, Bridgend and Barbarians. JPR Williams besides accumulated 8 Test caps touring for British and Irish Lions.

Sports personalities who besides died successful 2024 include:

Barry John - 1970s prima of Welsh rugby national
Derek Underwood - bowler for Kent and England cricket teams
David Wilkie - Scottish swimmer who won golden astatine the 1976 Montreal Olympics
Willy Mays - legendary US shot player
Terry Griffiths - erstwhile satellite snooker champion

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