Notable Deaths in 2024

CBS News ^ | December 29, 2024 | David Morgan

[Red Badger]

A look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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TOO MANY TO LIST..............

NAMES AND SHORT BIOS AT LINK.

[Phoenix8]

Ahh I’m so sad to see Olivia Hussey pass.

I recall being 7-8 when I saw her in Romeo and Juliette. I think she was the first woman to open my eyes to feminine beauty and the idea of sensual love.

[StormEye]

"I recall being 7-8 when I saw her in Romeo and Juliette."

Yeah. She was one of the first to cause a big stir in me
when I took a class trip to theater to see that movie.
Damn, I thought she was cute!

[quilterdebbie]

Wow, what a list. Lots of memories of most of them. RIP.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Wow!

You must have exciting and warm memories of that long ago golf and tennis tournament, and great memories of meeting all those well-known celebrities.

Thank-you for posting, and Happy New Year!

[telescope115]

Quite a list. One curiosity: I noticed, in reading about Ted Olsen, there was no mention of his wife Barbara Olsen, who perished on one of the hijacked planes on 9/11. Also tragic, 9/11 was his birthday…..

[telescope115]

Brilliantly done!🙂

[telescope115]

How did you see Romeo and Juliet when you were 7 or 8? She wasn’t even old enough to see herself in the theater, she, at 16 or 17, was too young to get in.

[Phoenix8]

I think I saw the flick a few years after it came out.

Believe it or not while we only had 4 channels, that went off the air at midnight or maybe 1am, they would show entire rated R movies if after 9 or so.

I was born in ‘62 the movie was made in ‘68. I may be off by a year or so either way. But it seems like it was around ‘70-‘71.

[telescope115]

I never went to see it, but my wife did at the time. She was born in ‘53, me in ‘54.
I did see it eventually, with her. Even though it was Shakespeare, I still consider it a chick flick. Olivia Hussey was a truly beautiful woman.

[Phoenix8]

She had looks that were ..synergistic I guess. If you concentrated on each part of her face nothing was especially stand-out. Yet when it came together something clicked. Compare that to another that passed, Shannon Doghterty. For a few years I don’t think any woman on the planet could surpass her…and every single aspect of her face was flawless, together or separate.