Passed on in 2024.

As usual, it seems somewhat morbid to dwell on the deaths of the year without also recognizing the births of the same year… but with extremely few exceptions (I’m a grandfather now!), we don’t know which of the millions who came into the world this year will be familiar to us by the end of their lives. Children of prophecy are, mercifully, few.

• David J. Skal
• Brian Lumley
• Glynis Johns
• David Soul
• Tracy Torme
• Tisa Farrow
• Terry Bisson
• Ed Broadbent
• Howard Waldrop
• Tom Purdom
• Laurie Johnson
• Peter Schickele
• Norman Jewison
• David Emge
• Gary Graham
• Harry Connick Sr.
• Carl Weathers
• Christopher Priest
• Toby Keith
• Mojo Nixon
• Paul Neary
• William Post
• Laken Riley
• Brian Stableford
• Charles Dierkop
• Richard Lewis
• Brian Mulroney
• Eric Carmen
• M. Emmet Walsh
• Vernor Vinge
• Ron Harper
• Joe Lieberman
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Ardeth G. Kapp
• Joe Flaherty
• O.J. Simpson
• Eleanor Coppola
• Duane Eddy
• Bernard Hill
• Roger Corman
• David Sanborn
• Alice Munro
• Don Perlin
• Dabney Coleman
• Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
• Morgan Spurlock
• John Maddox Roberts
• Caleb Carr
• Richard M. Sherman
• Willie Mays
• Donald Sutherland
• Peter Gillis
• Bill Cobbs
• Robert Towne
• Shelley Duvall
• M.J. Engh
• Ruth Westheimer
• Shannen Doherty
• Richard Simmons
• Bob Newhart
• Sheila Jackson Lee
• John Mayall
• Patti Yasutake
• Janet Morris
• Sergio Donati
• Greg Kihn
• Alain Delon
• Phil Donahue
• John Amos
• Sergio Mendes
• Will Jennings
• James Earl Jones
• Chad McQueen
• Tito Jackson
• JD Souther
• Dick Diamonde
• Kathryn Crosby
• Maggie Smith
• Kris Kristofferson
• Ron Ely
• Frank Fritz
• Pete Rose
• Cissy Houston
• Ethel Kennedy
• Mitzi Gaynor
• Aaron Kaufman
• Paul DiAnno
• Paul Morrissey
• Teri Garr
• Greg Hildebrandt
• Peanut
• Alan Rachins
• Jonathan Haze
• Quincy Jones
• Tony Todd
• Lou Donaldson
• Chuck Woolery
• Hal Lindsey
• Jim Abrahams
• Lila Rae Seeds
• Brian Thompson
• The Amazing Kreskin
• John Marsden
• Michael Edward
• Barry N. Malzberg
• Olivia Hussey
• Jimmy Carter