We’re remembering all the great stars we have lost in 2024 from Hollywood icons to music sensations.
In 2023, we had to say goodbye to some legendary stars. From losing TV presenter Jerry Springer, iconic singers Tina Turner and Tony Bennett, and Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin to Dancing With the Stars’ very own Len Goodman, 2023 was quite a devastating year in celebrity passings.
James Earl Jones died at age 93 in his upstate New York home on Monday, September 9.
The actor, who is best known as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, is a two-time Tony Award winner and one-time Oscar nominee.
He was first married to actress-singer Julienne Marie and then to actress Cecilia Hart for 34 years until she died in 2016. He is survived his son with Hart, Flynn Earl Jones.
Groundbreaking TV host and journalist Phil Donahue passed away on Sunday, August 18, following a long illness, his family said in a statement to the Today Show. Donahue, who revolutionized TV in his daytime talk show The Phil Donahue Show, was 88.
Donahue is survived by his wife of 44 years, Marlo Thomas, his sister, his children, grandchildren and his golden retriever, Charlie.
Iconic French actor Alain Delon passed away on August 18 surrounded by his family and beloved Belgian Shepherd Loubo, Deadline reports. He was 88.
Delon, who starred in iconic French movies like Le Samouraï, Purple Moon and The Leopard, was one of the last surviving actors of the French cinema in the 1960s and 70s.
