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On January 7th, we woke up to the news of Franz Beckenbauer’s death. This Sunday, Jimmy Carter passed away. This year, we lost dozens of well-known personalities around the world. Remember some.
In 2024, some unavoidable names in international politics left.
Among them, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, left us this week. He governed for only one term, but became an activist for human rights and one of the Camp David Accords that, in 1979, led to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty.
He was 100 years old, but there were those who left earlier, such as , Russian politician who headed the main facet of opposition to Putin. He died in Siberia, where he was imprisoned for “extremism”.
Here, in politics, names like , the first woman to lead the Attorney General’s Office, who died in July in Porto, have been lost.
We also lost political figures, symbols of Portuguese democracy, the woman who delivered carnations on April 25, 1974 and eternalized forever the nickname of the revolution, and the Navy officer who participated in April 25 and indicated “Grândola, Vila Morena ” as password.
In sports, , passed away in January. The German player won three European Cups, the 1974 World Cup and the 1972 and 1976 Ballon d’Or. Benfica’s former coach also passed away from cancer this year.
Portugal also lost important sports figures, including the coach, the first to be European champion with FC Porto, and the president of the Portuguese Olympic Committee,
We also say goodbye to the iconic Sporting captain , and , former Benfica right-back.
was the Ugandan athlete who participated in the 2024 Olympic Games and whose tragic death shocked the world: she was set on fire by a boyfriend who doused her with gasoline.
The former American football player was one of the most iconic faces of the century, having been acquitted of double homicide in one of the most publicized trials in US history. He passed away in April.
Film fans should remember the death of , director of, among other icons, The Place of the Dead e Jaime.
The actress, iconic face of Harry Potter or Downtown Abbey, was another great loss to international cinema, along with the also unmistakable, who instead of the face, voiced the characters Darth Vader, from Star Wars, and Mufasa, from The Lion King.
The French “sex symbol” was another personality who marked the obituary of 2024. You may remember the actor in the memorable “Plein soleil” (1960).
Portuguese literature was marked by the death of , an essayist and poet who was 74 years old. In journalism, you certainly remember , one of the first Portuguese to cover the war in Ukraine, who left early, a victim of cancer, at the age of 53.
In science, the father of the “God Particle”, Nobel laureate in Physics, died at the age of 94. He was the first to posit the existence of the Higgs Boson, a fundamental particle in physics.
In music, the death of the producer, responsible for publishing the best-selling album in history, Thriller, by Michael Jackson, shook the world. Still on the international scene, it was one of the most publicized deaths of the year. The One Direction singer was 31 years old and fell out of a window.
Here, we lost two icons. , who had been fighting cancer for several years, considered the “king” of romantic music in Portugal, died on October 24th, aged 79.
The singer, author of the iconic album “Por Este Rio Acima” (1982), a symbol of Portugueseness, also left us at the age of 75.
It was a year full of matches, and he can remember these. These figures will certainly forever mark the history of Portugal and the world. Certainly, you will also remember other deaths, equally impactful.
We remember him 24, with which we leave emptier for 2025.
