From Liam Payne to Sven, Dame Maggie Smith and Rob Burrow, the beloved stars we tragically lost in 2024
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FROM acting legends such as Dame Maggie Smith, to music icons like One Direction's Liam Payne, 2024 was a year full of sad showbiz losses. Here The Sun remembers the stars we lost in 2024. THE controversial founder of the Kids Company charity and awarded a CBE, but stepped down as chief executive in 2015 after it hit financial difficulties.
![[L-R Liam Payne, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Dame Maggie Smith, Annie Nightingale and Rob Burrow]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dk-30-12-obits_COMP.png?strip=all&w=960)
Known for her exotic outfits. Died in sleep after a long illness. HUSBAND of TV host Kate Garraway. Ex-lobbyist and adviser to Tony Blair. Reportedly one of UK’s longest-suffering Covid patients, spending 13 months in hospital. He died from a heart attack and viral complications.
![[Glynis Johns died on January 4 at the age of 100]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/glynis-johns-glynis-johns-portrait-869774154.jpg?strip=all&w=773)
ONE of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, having played opposite Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins. Sang Send In The Clowns for her Broadway role in A Little Night Music. Died in LA from natural causes. ARMY officer and the last original member of the SAS.
![[David Soul died at age 80 on January 4]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NINTCHDBPICT000869951673.jpg?strip=all&w=624)
A navigator, his first successful SAS mission was in 1941 when his group blew up 24 aircraft in a raid in Libya. Later joined MI6. Died in a nursing home in Cambridge. AMERICAN actor and singer, best known as Hutch in the hit TV series Starsky & Hutch. As a singer, Soul had No 1s in the UK and US.
![[Annie Nightingale died on January 11 at age 83]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/no-n-picture-shows-c-176329124.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
A heavy smoker for 50 years and wed five times, Soul died in London after years of ill health. FOOTBALL legend “Der Kaiser” was said to have invented the role of “modern sweeper”. Led West Germany to World Cup glory in 1974, repeating the feat as coach in 1990.
![[Ian Lavender died age 77 on February 2]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ian-lavender-private-pike-dads-888347.jpg?strip=all&w=699)
