Notable High-Profile Losses

A Peek into Profiles of Personalities Across the Globe Who Died This Year

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From Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to British actress Maggie Smith and US music titan Quincy Jones, here are some of 2024's most notable deaths.

February
► 4: Hage Geingob, Namibia's president and its first post-independence prime minister, aged 82.
► 9: Robert Badinter, France's former justice minister who ended capital punishment in 1981, 95.
► 16: Alexei Navalny, the top opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison aged 47, after over three years behind bars.
► 17: Mike Procter, former South African all-rounder, national coach, match referee, commentator, 77.
► 29: Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former Tanzanian president, who introduced multiparty democracy, 98.

March
► 1: Iris Apfel, New York fashion celebrity known as the "geriatric starlet", 102.
► 1: Akira Toriyama, creator of Japan's Dragon Ball manga and anime cartoons, 68.

April
► 2: Maryse Conde, French writer, chronicler of the lives of the descendants of Africans taken as slaves to the Caribbean, 90.
► 8: Peter Higgs, British physicist whose theory of a mass-giving particle – the Higgs boson – which jointly earned him the Nobel Physics Prize, 94.