Notable deaths of 2024 (70 images)

By Wade Sheridan

Best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, game show legend Chuck Woolery, legendary music producer Quincy Jones, "Young Frankenstein" star Terri Garr, Grateful Dead co-founder Phil Lesh, Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, One Direction singer Liam Payne, baseball star Luis Tiant, gospel singer Cissy Houston and "Good Times" and "Roots" star John Amos, are among the notable deaths of 2024.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford arrives at Cosmopolitan's Cosmo 100 event in New York City on November 12, 2012. Bradford, whose books have sold more than 91 million copies including "A Woman of Substance," "The Heir," and "The Wonder of it All," died at the age of 91 on November 24. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

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Chuck Wooley

Game show legend Chuck Woolery throws a ceremonial first pitch before a Milwaukee Brewers-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game in St. Louis on April 15, 2015. Woolery, best known for being the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" and for hosting "Love Connection," died at the3 age of 83 on November 23. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

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Quincy Jones

Legendary record producer, musician, composer and film producer Quincy Jones participates in a hand and footprint ceremony immortalizing him in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on November 27, 2018. Jones, who worked with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra and who earned 28 Grammy Awards, died at the age of 91 on November 3. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

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Teri Garr

Actress Teri Garr signs copies of her book "Speed Bumps" at Barnes & Noble in New York City on November 7, 2005. Garr, best known for starring in "Young Frankenstein," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Mr. Mom," "Tootsie," "MASH" and "The Bob Newhart Show," died at the age of 79 on October 29. Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/UPI

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