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. - 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, in prison aged 47, after over three years behind bars - 29: ALI HASSAN MWINYI, former Tanzanian president, who introduced multi-party democracy, 98 - 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 - 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 so-called Higgs boson -- jointly earned him the Nobel Physics Prize, 94 - 10: O.J.
SIMPSON, ex-American football star acquitted in 1995 following the televised "Trial of the Century" of the murder of his ex-wife and her male friend. A 1997 civil trial found Simpson liable and he then served nearly nine years in prison for a bungled 2007 armed robbery, 76 - 30: PAUL AUSTER, American novelist who wrote "The New York Trilogy", 77 - 9: ROGER CORMAN, American B-movie filmmaker, 98 - 13: ALICE MUNRO, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author known for her mastery of the sh.
