In 2024, India saw some of the most groundbreaking achievements, ranging from the withdrawal of troops from the border with China along the Line of Actual Control to the first test flight of the new variant Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk1A to the test of a hypersonic missile. , The country’s defense and security apparatus is developed across land, sea, air and space sectors.

Here are the top milestones in India’s defense and security apparatus

Disruption on the border with China

In October, the Center announced that India and China had agreed on the “final phase of troop disengagement” regarding patrolling arrangements in the Depsang and Demchok areas. The first is in northern Ladakh, while the second is in the east. Pangong Tso, along with other areas such as Galwan Valley and Gogra Hotsprings, has been the subject of controversy over differing perceptions of the boundary line.

In 2020, troops from nuclear-armed countries clashed in the Galwan Valley, killing 20 Indian soldiers and an officer. Troops withdrew from most areas but Depsang and Demchok remained disputed.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar confirmed the major announcement of disengagement at the NDTV World Summit that day, saying, “We reached an agreement on patrolling, and we are back to the status quo of 2020. With this, we can say that China “Disengagement has been done with.” The whole… There are areas where, for various reasons after 2020, they blocked us, we blocked them, we have now reached an understanding that will allow patrolling as we were doing till 2020.

A month later in November, the Indian Army “successfully completed” patrolling at one of the patrolling points in Depsang area of ​​Ladakh following a consensus today.

Mission Divyastra

India successfully conducted the first flight test in March Agni-5 intercontinental ballistic missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs). The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully tested the MIRV technology, which was in development for several years, putting India in the elite list of countries that have the capability.

DRDO scientists have been working on Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV) technologies for many years. This technology allows a single missile like Agni-5 to carry multiple warheads and target locations independently. The DRDO developed system is equipped with indigenous avionics system and high accuracy sensor package, which ensures that the re-entry vehicles reach the target points within the desired accuracy.

Agni-5 is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that travels into space before re-entering the atmosphere.

‘Project Zorawar’ – India’s answer to China in Ladakh

In July, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) developed a light tank in a record two years, which will become the Army’s high-altitude light tank to counter China’s ZQ-15 in Ladakh. Meets the need.

The tank was put on advanced stage More tests will be added soon. Light tank Zorawar weighs 25 tonnes. This is the first time, a fresh tank has been designed And prepared it for trial in such a short time.

About 59 of these tanks will initially be provided to the Army and will be the front runner for the flagship program of 295 more armored vehicles.

Tejas MK1A was airborne

On March 28, Group Captain KK Venugopal (Retd), Chief Test Pilot, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, flew the first aircraft of the Tejas MK1A series, staying in the air for 18 minutes. This was a major milestone in India’s LCA project, which aims to replace the existing fleet of MiGs and other aging aircraft in the Indian Air Force.

“The Tejas MK1A will have advanced electronic radar, combat and communication systems, additional combat capability and improved maintenance facilities,” HAL said.

Indian Air Force has ordered 83 Tejas MK1A Variant in a deal worth Rs 36,468 crore with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. In November last year, the Defense Acquisition Council had approved the project to procure 97 more Tejas jets for the Indian Air Force.

Commissioning of INS Arighat

India launched INS Arighat on 29 AugustSecond of the Arihant class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, in service.

The submarine will strengthen India’s nuclear triad, enhance nuclear deterrence, help establish strategic balance and peace in the region and play a decisive role in the country’s security.

The Defense Ministry said the country’s nuclear submarines have the distinction of having indigenous systems and equipment, which were conceived, designed, manufactured and integrated by Indian scientists, industry and naval personnel.

nuclear missile test firing

A few months after the commissioning of INS Arighat, India tested a nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missile with a range of 3,500 km. K-4 missile launched in November and will provide India with a second strike capability.

This underlined India’s nuclear triad capability, putting it in a small group of countries that can fire nuclear missiles from land, air and undersea.

According to reports, this was the first test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

hypersonic missile test

India had successfully tested it in November Long-range hypersonic missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh described the missile test as a historic moment as it puts India among the select group of countries having the capability to develop such critical technologies.

@DRDO_India has successfully flight tested its long-range hypersonic missile from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on 16 November 2024.

Defense Minister Shri @rajnathsingh Congratulated DRDO, Armed Forces and Industry for the successful flight… pic.twitter.com/wq7yM2YS9f

– Defense Minister’s Office/RMO India (@DefenceMinIndia) 17 November 2024

He congratulated the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the armed forces and the industry for what he described as a “fantastic” achievement.

Commissioning of new Navy helicopters

In March, a squadron of MH-60 Romeo helicopters INS Garuda, a naval air station and the “cradle of naval aviation” was commissioned at Kochi. Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 334 is the newest air squadron of the Navy and is home to the submarine hunters MH-60R. Captain M Abhishek Ram will be the Commanding Officer of INAS 334 Squadron.

The MH-60R, manufactured by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, is the naval version of the US Blackhawk helicopter, which is currently one of the most powerful anti-submarine helicopters in the world and is considered a game changer due to its anti-submarine/anti-surface capability. Capabilities and command, and control capabilities.

India ordered 24 MH-60R in a $905 million government-to-government deal with the US. Two helicopters were formally handed over to the Indian Navy by the US counterpart in 2021.

C295 aircraft manufacturing facility

PM Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez jointly inaugurate the Tata Aircraft Complex for manufacturing C-295 transport aircraft At the Tata Advanced Systems Limited campus in Vadodara, Gujarat in October 2024.

The C-295 is a 5-10 ton capacity transport aircraft with contemporary technology that will replace the Indian Air Force’s aging Avro-748 aircraft.

In September 2021, India signed a Rs 21,935 crore contract with Airbus Defense and Space SA, Spain, for the supply of 56 aircraft – 16 aircraft will be brought from Spain in fly-away condition and 40 will be built in India by TASL. Six of the 16 aircraft have already been inducted into the Indian Air Force in 11 squadrons based at Vadodara.

The last one will be delivered by August 2025. The first made-in-India C-295 is expected to be launched from the final assembly line facility in Vadodara by September 2026 and the rest by August 2031.

Test firing of Rudram-II

In May, India successfully tested air-surface anti-radiation Missile from Su-30MKI fighter jet. Rudram-II anti-radiation supersonic missile has been developed by Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

The Rudram-II is the latest variant after the Mark-1 variant was tested by the Su-30MKI, the backbone of India’s fighter fleet, four years ago.

The flight test met all test objectives, validating the propulsion system and control and guidance algorithms. Rudram missile is the first indigenously developed anti-radiation missile designed to target enemy ground radar (surveillance, tracking) and communication stations in Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) missions.

Rudram-II is one of the best and is aimed at neutralizing multiple types of enemy assets. India currently operates the Russian Kh-31, an anti-radiation missile. Rudram missiles will replace the Kh-31s.

JARWENG, South Sudan – Nobel Prize-winning peacekeeper Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging a war to eradicate an ancient parasite that plagues the world’s poorest people.

Rarely fatal but extremely painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water contaminated with larvae that develop into 3-foot-long worms inside the body. The noodle-thin parasites then burst out, breaking the skin in the form of burning blisters.

Carter made Guinea worm eradication a top mission of the Carter Center, the nonprofit he founded after he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, left the White House. The former president united public health experts, billionaire donors, African heads of state and thousands of volunteer villagers to work toward eliminating a human disease for only the second time in history.

“This will be the most exciting and gratifying accomplishment of my life,” Carter told the Associated Press in 2016. Even after entering home hospice care in February 2023, aides said Carter kept asking for Guinea worm updates.

Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100.

Thanks to the Carters’ efforts, the insects, which affected an estimated 3.5 million people in 20 African and Asian countries when the center began their campaign in 1986, have been brought to the brink of extinction. According to The Carter Center, only 14 human cases were recorded in four African countries in 2023.

The World Health Organization’s eradication target is 2030. Carter Center leaders hope this will be achieved soon.

That recently meant returning to Jarweng, a remote area in South Sudan in northeast Africa. The village of 500 people had not seen Guinea worm infection since 2014, until Ngong Aguek and his two sons drank swamp water during a visit in 2022. A fourth person also got infected.

“Taking out the worms is more painful than giving birth to a child,” Aguek said, pointing to the wounds where four worms had come out of her left leg.

The center’s staff and volunteers went door-to-door to distribute water filters and teach people how to inspect for dogs, which may also carry the parasite.

“If anyone gets hurt, the Carter Center will help,” villager Matthew Maniel said while listening to a training session while checking his dog’s symptoms. an audacious plan

In the mid-1980s, global health agencies were otherwise occupied and heads of state largely ignored a disease affecting millions of their citizens. Carter was still defining the center’s mission when public health experts who had worked in his administration approached him with a plan to eliminate the disease.

In 1979, it was just a few years after WHO declared that smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated worldwide. Experts told Carter that Guinea worm could become another.

“President Carter, with his political background, was able to do much more in the area of ​​global health than we could have done alone,” said Dr. William Foege, who led the smallpox eradication program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and CDC before becoming Carter. had led. The first executive director of the centre.

Those who worked closely with Carter suspect that Guinea worm’s impact on poor African farmers resonated with the former president, who as a boy lived in a Georgia farmhouse without electricity or running water.

“Nobody was doing anything about it, and it was such a terrible disease,” said Dr. Donald Hopkins, the campaign’s architect who led the center’s health programs until 2015. From Guinea worm disease to work. cure other diseases

There is no vaccine that prevents Guinea worm infection or any medicine that gets rid of the parasites. Treatment has changed little since ancient Greece. The emerging insects are gently wrapped around a stick and slowly pulled through the skin. It may take several weeks to remove an entire worm without breaking it.

So rather than scientific breakthroughs, the campaign has relied on motivating millions of people to change basic behaviour.

Activists from the central and host governments trained volunteers to teach neighbors to filter water through cloth screens and remove tiny fleas that carry larvae. Villagers learned to track and report new cases – often for a reward of $100 or more. Infected people and dogs were to be prevented from polluting water sources.

The goal was to break the life cycle of the worm – and therefore eliminate the parasite itself – in each endemic community, ultimately eliminating Guinea worm entirely.

The campaign became a model for combating a wide range of neglected tropical diseases afflicting poor people with limited access to clean water, sanitation and health care. Expanding its public health mission, the Center has supplied training, equipment and medicines that have helped 22 countries eliminate at least one disease within their borders.

Mali became the latest in May 2023 when WHO confirmed it had eliminated trachoma, a blinding infection. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are working to eliminate malaria and mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis by 2030. Countries in Africa and America are trying to eliminate river blindness by 2035. a personal mission

The former US president taking over the reins was a big boost for a non-profit that had been reliant on private donors to fund its initiatives.

Carter’s fundraising enabled the center to pour $500 million into fighting Guinea worm. He persuaded manufacturers to donate larvicide as well as nylon cloth and specially made drinking straws to filter the water. His visits to afflicted villages often attracted news coverage, raising awareness globally.

“He went to a lot of areas where people were suffering,” said Dr. William Brieger, a professor of international health at Johns Hopkins University who spent 25 years in Africa. “The kind of attention it brought to him for getting on the ground and highlighting the plight of individual people suffering, I think it made a significant difference.”

Carter saw the disease firsthand in 1988 while visiting a village in Ghana, where about 350 people were infested by worms. He approached a young woman who was seen cradling a child in her arm.

“But there was no child,” Carter wrote in his 2014 book “A Call to Action.” “Instead she was holding her right breast, which was about a foot long and had a worm coming out of her nipple.”

Carter used his position to inspire other leaders to take on larger roles. Some heads of state became competitive, inspired by the center’s charts and newsletters that showed which countries were progressing and which were lagging behind. insects in the war zone

In 1995, Carter intervened when the civil war in Southern Sudan made it too dangerous for workers to reach hundreds of hotspots. The ceasefire he negotiated enabled the Center and others to distribute 200,000 water filters and search more endemic villages.

Makoy Samuel Yibi, the young nation’s Guinea worm eradication director, said Carter’s efforts not only stopped transmission in much of South Sudan, but also built confidence in communities, resulting in a “significant peace dividend.”

In 1993, Pakistan became the first endemic country to eliminate human cases. India soon followed suit. Until 1997, the disease was not found in Asia. By 2003, recorded cases worldwide had dropped to 32,000 – a 99% decline in less than two decades.

Some setbacks discouraged Carter. While visiting a hospital full of afflicted children and adults amid a 2007 resurgence in Ghana, Carter publicly suggested that the disease perhaps should be renamed “Ghana worm”.

“Ghana was very embarrassed,” Hopkins said.

Ghana ended broadcasting within three more years. Even more inspiring: Nigeria, which once had the highest number of cases in the world, reached zero infections in 2009.

“He was a thunderbolt,” Hopkins said. “It was important throughout Africa, throughout the global campaign.” till the last worm

Even after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Carter remained focused: “I would like the last Guinea worm to die before I die,” he told reporters in 2015.

Despite declining cases, total success has proven elusive.

Historic floods and years of civil war have displaced millions of people across Central Africa who lack access to clean drinking water. Nine of the 13 total cases reported in 2023 occurred in Chad, where infection in dogs has made it difficult to eliminate the worms.

“These planets are the most challenging places to operate on Earth,” said Adam Weiss, who has directed the mission since 2018. “You need eyes and ears on the ground every day.”

The campaign still relies on about 30,000 volunteers spread across about 9,000 villages. It may be difficult to remain vigilant now because cases are so rare, Weiss said.

“I would still like to think that we will beat that timeline,” Weiss said of the 2030 eradication goal. “The Carter Center is committed to this, obviously, no matter what.”

This story has been updated to show that 14 human Guinea worm cases were reported in four African countries in 2023, according to The Carter Center.

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Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia.

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आखरी अपडेट:30 दिसंबर, 2024, 13:09 IST

2024 में, दुनिया ने विकास इंजन, तकनीकी नवप्रवर्तक और स्थिरता में अग्रणी के रूप में भारत की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका को तेजी से स्वीकार किया।

प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में, भारत ने एक वैश्विक शक्ति के रूप में अपनी स्थिति मजबूत की है। | फ़ाइल छवि/पीटीआई

वैश्विक क्षेत्र में भारत का उदय न केवल परिवर्तनकारी रहा है बल्कि इसे नेताओं, अर्थशास्त्रियों और वैश्विक संस्थानों द्वारा व्यापक रूप से मान्यता भी मिली है। प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में, भारत ने एक वैश्विक शक्ति के रूप में अपनी स्थिति मजबूत की है। 2024 में, दुनिया ने विकास इंजन, तकनीकी नवप्रवर्तक और स्थिरता में अग्रणी के रूप में भारत की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका को तेजी से स्वीकार किया। वैश्विक विशेषज्ञों, उद्योग जगत के नेताओं और संगठनों ने लगातार देश की उपलब्धियों पर प्रकाश डाला है।

यह सफलता न केवल 2024 में स्पष्ट है बल्कि पिछले कुछ वर्षों में वैश्विक बयानों में भी इसकी प्रतिध्वनि हुई है। उदाहरण के लिए, 2021 में, फर्स्ट सोलर के सीईओ मार्क विडमर ने कहा कि हर देश को वही करना चाहिए जो भारत जलवायु परिवर्तन के साथ कर रहा है। 2017 में जेपी मॉर्गन के सीईओ जेमी डिमन ने कहा था कि पीएम मोदी हमेशा बहुत ग्रहणशील हैं, वह खुले हैं, वह बहुत स्मार्ट हैं। 2023 में हसन अल्लम होल्डिंग्स के सीईओ हसन अल्लम ने पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व की सराहना की और कहा कि उनके नेतृत्व में, भारत के निजी क्षेत्र में विशेष रूप से बुनियादी ढांचे, इंजीनियरिंग, विनिर्माण की दुनिया में जबरदस्त वृद्धि हुई है। यह दर्शाता है कि वैश्विक विशेषज्ञों और उद्योग जगत के नेताओं ने लगातार भारत की तीव्र प्रगति और पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व पर प्रकाश डाला है। 2024 में भी कई नेताओं ने इसे दोहराया।

विश्व नेताओं द्वारा भारत और भारत की प्रगति पर वक्तव्य 2024 है

सुजुकी मोटर्स के अध्यक्ष तोशीहिरो सुजुकी ने पीएम मोदी के मजबूत नेतृत्व की प्रशंसा की और कहा, “पिछले 10 वर्षों में, विनिर्माण उद्योगों के लिए पीएम मोदी के मजबूत नेतृत्व और निरंतर समर्थन के तहत, भारतीय ऑटोमोबाइल बाजार का लगातार विस्तार हो रहा है। परिणामस्वरूप, भारत दुनिया का तीसरा सबसे बड़ा ऑटोमोबाइल बाजार बन गया है।” उन्होंने कहा, ”पीएम मोदी के प्रगतिशील दृष्टिकोण और भारत की वृद्धि के लिए धन्यवाद,” उन्होंने यह दर्शाया कि कैसे शासन और दूरदर्शिता प्रगति को आगे बढ़ाने में साथ-साथ चलते हैं।

डब्ल्यूईएफ के अध्यक्ष बोर्गे ब्रेंडे ने भारत के प्रक्षेप पथ के बारे में आशावाद व्यक्त किया और कहा, “हमें लगता है, आने वाले दशक में, हम कम से कम आने वाले दो दशकों में 10 ट्रिलियन डॉलर की अर्थव्यवस्था के बारे में बात कर सकते हैं।” उन्होंने भारत की संपन्न डिजिटल अर्थव्यवस्था और इसके बारे में प्रकाश डाला। सेवाओं के निर्यात में तेजी, उन्होंने कहा, “डिजिटल अर्थव्यवस्था और सेवाओं के निर्यात के कारण भारत सबसे आगे है। यह भारत के लिए बहुत तेजी से बढ़ रहा है।” भारत।”

प्रौद्योगिकी और वित्त क्षेत्र के नेताओं ने भी भारत की प्रगति को मान्यता दी है। मास्टरकार्ड में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बाजार के अध्यक्ष, लिंग हाई, अपने बढ़ते छोटे और मध्यम आकार के उद्यम (एसएमई) क्षेत्र के दम पर भारत की विकास कहानी के बारे में आशावादी हैं क्योंकि सरकार ने डिजिटलीकरण और वित्तीय समावेशन पर प्रयासों को दोगुना कर दिया है। उन्होंने कहा, “यदि आप जनसांख्यिकी, मुद्रास्फीति में कमी, खर्च करने की क्षमता, निर्यात, सेवा क्षेत्र जैसे बुनियादी सिद्धांतों को देखें, तो भारत के लिए बहुत सी चीजें मजबूत हो रही हैं।”

मार्क बेनिओफ, सीईओ, सेल्सफोर्स: “दुनिया ‘भारतीय युग’ में आगे बढ़ रही है और देश रोमांचक अवसर प्रस्तुत करता है। और आप जानते हैं कि यह एक बहुत ही रोमांचक अवसर है,”

थॉमस डोहम्के, सीईओ, गिटहब: “जब मैं तब और आज के भारत की तुलना करता हूं, तो वहां अविश्वसनीय ऊर्जा है; चीजें गतिशील और विकसित हो रही हैं। तब कोई मेट्रो नहीं थी और अब हमारे पास कई लाइनें हैं। हवाई अड्डा अद्भुत, आधुनिक और स्वच्छ है। मुझे लगता है कि यह सॉफ्टवेयर उद्योग में जो हो रहा है उसका भी प्रतिबिंब है। भारत में पहले से ही बड़ी संख्या में सॉफ्टवेयर डेवलपर मौजूद हैं।”

जेमी डिमन, सीईओ, जेपी मॉर्गन: “उन्होंने यह अद्भुत प्रवृत्ति शुरू की है जहां प्रत्येक नागरिक को हाथ, नेत्रगोलक या उंगली से पहचाना जाता है। उन्होंने 700 मिलियन लोगों के लिए बैंक खाते खोले हैं और भुगतान सुचारू रूप से किया जा रहा है। उनकी शिक्षा प्रणाली और बुनियादी ढांचा उल्लेखनीय है, जो एक न्यायप्रिय और सख्त व्यक्ति के कारण पूरे देश को ऊपर उठा रहा है।”

जॉर्ज कैप्स्च, कैप्सच समूह के अध्यक्ष और वैश्विक सीईओ: “भारत अब बहुत अच्छा प्रदर्शन कर रहा है, और हम बाजार में प्रवेश करने के इच्छुक हैं। हमने कई साल पहले कोशिश की थी और सफल नहीं हुए थे, लेकिन इस बार हमारा मानना ​​है कि सही साझेदारों के साथ यह सही समय है।”

एस4 कैपिटल के कार्यकारी अध्यक्ष मार्टिन सोरेल ने वैश्विक नेता के रूप में भारत की कुशल ब्रांडिंग के लिए पीएम मोदी की सराहना की। उन्होंने कहा, ”पीएम मोदी देशों की ब्रांडिंग और ब्रांडिंग के परम गुरु हैं. उन्होंने भारत की स्थिति पर शानदार काम किया है।”

बिल एंड मेलिंडा गेट्स फाउंडेशन के फाउंडेशन अध्यक्ष क्रिस्टोफर जे एलियास ने भारत की विकास कहानी की सराहना करते हुए कहा, “अन्य देश अपने स्वास्थ्य देखभाल और अन्य विकास लक्ष्यों को प्राप्त करने में मदद के लिए भारत के सफल डिजिटल सार्वजनिक बुनियादी ढांचे मॉडल का उपयोग कर सकते हैं।” भारत की डीपीआई की प्रगति पर प्रकाश डालते हुए उन्होंने कहा, ” भारत में विशेष उपलब्धि वाला एक क्षेत्र जो मुझे लगता है कि दुनिया के लिए अनुसरण करने के लिए एक अच्छा मॉडल हो सकता है वह है डिजिटल सार्वजनिक बुनियादी ढांचा जिसने वित्तीय सेवाओं, स्वास्थ्य आदि में काफी प्रगति हासिल करने में मदद की है।”

बिल गेट्स ने कहा कि वह भारत के भविष्य को लेकर आश्वस्त हैं। डिजिटल सार्वजनिक बुनियादी ढांचे और ग्रामीण अर्थव्यवस्था को बदलने में पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व की सराहना करते हुए उन्होंने कहा, “डिजिटल कनेक्शन का यह विचार जो आधार और बैंक खातों से शुरू होता है जिन्हें आप डिजिटल रूप से प्रबंधित करते हैं, फल-फूल रहा है। और इसलिए हम कृषि में अब देखते हैं कि वे किसानों का पंजीकरण कर रहे हैं और उन्हें अग्रिम सूचना दे रहे हैं। और इसलिए भारतीय नेतृत्व एक ऐसी चीज़ है जिससे अन्य देशों को लाभ होना चाहिए।”

‘चिप वॉर’ के लेखक क्रिस मिलर ने चीन के लिए एक आकर्षक विकल्प के रूप में भारत के आकर्षण का उल्लेख किया। भारत की विकास गाथा की सराहना करते हुए उन्होंने कहा, “मुझे लगता है कि भारत में चिप उद्योग पर बहुत उत्साह और फोकस है। विदेशी कंपनियाँ भारत को एक आकर्षक स्थान के रूप में देख रही हैं। अच्छी खबर यह है कि भारत में पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र का हर हिस्सा बढ़ रहा है।”

यूएनजीए के अध्यक्ष डेनिस फ्रांसिस ने तेजी से विकास के लिए डिजिटल साधनों का उपयोग करने के लिए भारत की प्रशंसा की। इस बात पर प्रकाश डालते हुए कि कैसे भारत के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में लोग स्मार्टफोन के स्पर्श मात्र से भुगतान और बिलों का भुगतान करने में सक्षम हैं, उन्होंने कहा, “भारत पिछले पांच या छह वर्षों में केवल इसके उपयोग से 800 मिलियन लोगों को गरीबी से बाहर निकालने में सक्षम रहा है।” एक स्मार्टफोन का।” उन्होंने इस बात पर जोर दिया कि भारत में ग्रामीण किसान, जिनका कभी बैंकिंग प्रणाली से कोई संबंध नहीं था, अब अपने सभी व्यवसाय अपने स्मार्टफोन पर करने में सक्षम हैं। वे अपने बिलों का भुगतान करते हैं और उन्हें ऑर्डर के लिए भुगतान प्राप्त होता है। 800 मिलियन लोगों ने उठा लिया गरीबी से बाहर क्योंकि वहाँ एक उच्च स्तर है भारत में इंटरनेट की पहुंच बढ़ गई है और लगभग हर किसी के पास सेलफोन है।”

वियतनाम के प्रधान मंत्री फाम मिन्ह चिन्ह ने कहा, “पिछले 10 वर्षों में, पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व में, भारत दुनिया की 5वीं सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था बन गया है, एक महत्वपूर्ण वैश्विक भूमिका के साथ शीर्ष शक्तियों में से एक है, और अपनी पहचान बनाई है।” निशान।”

आईएमएफ की उप प्रबंध निदेशक गीता गोपीनाथ भी भारत की आर्थिक वृद्धि को लेकर उत्साहित हैं, उन्होंने कहा, ”भारत दुनिया की पांचवीं सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था बन गया है, और जल्द ही शीर्ष तीन वैश्विक आर्थिक शक्तियों में शामिल होने के लिए तैयार है।” उन्होंने कहा कि उन्हें उम्मीद है कि 2027 तक भारत तीसरी सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था बन जाएगा।

अर्थशास्त्र में नोबेल पुरस्कार विजेता पॉल रोमर ने भारत के डिजिटल पब्लिक इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर (डीपीआई) की सराहना की। उन्होंने कहा, ”आधार इस समय दुनिया की सबसे महत्वपूर्ण तकनीकी प्रणाली है। मुझे लगता है कि पहली चीजों में से एक यह है कि डिजिटल साउथ के अन्य देशों को खुद से कहना चाहिए, अगर भारत यह कर सकता है, तो हम भी यह कर सकते हैं। देशों को कुछ ऐसा प्रयास करने के लिए आत्मविश्वास और महत्वाकांक्षा की आवश्यकता है जो पहले नहीं किया गया है, जैसा कि भारत ने आधार संख्या बनाकर किया था।”

एप्पल के सीईओ टिम कुक ने कहा, “हाल के वर्षों में, भारत उन मुट्ठी भर देशों और क्षेत्रों में से एक बन गया है जहां एप्पल ने नए राजस्व मानक स्थापित किए हैं। पहले आईफोन के अनावरण के 15 से अधिक वर्षों के बाद, यह डिवाइस भारत में व्यक्तिगत प्रौद्योगिकी में सबसे प्रतिष्ठित ब्रांड बना हुआ है।”

एनवीडिया के सीईओ जेन्सेन हुआंग ने भारत की तकनीकी क्षमताओं की सराहना की। उन्होंने कहा, “भारत दुनिया के कुछ महानतम कंप्यूटर वैज्ञानिकों का घर है। तो, यह बहुत अच्छा अवसर है. आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस भी एक नया उद्योग है, एक नया विनिर्माण उद्योग है जो बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है और इसलिए मैं इसे संभव बनाने के लिए भारत के साथ बहुत गहराई से साझेदारी करने की उम्मीद कर रहा हूं।”

डीपी वर्ल्ड के चेयरमैन सुल्तान अहमद बिन सुलेयम ने पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व में भारत की वृद्धि की प्रशंसा की और कहा, “भारत 2023 में दुनिया की सबसे तेजी से बढ़ती प्रमुख अर्थव्यवस्था है, यह विकास पीएम मोदी के मजबूत नेतृत्व में जारी रहेगा।”

भूटान के प्रधान मंत्री दशो शेरिंग टोबगे ने लाखों लोगों को गरीबी से बाहर निकालने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका के लिए भारत की सहकारी समितियों की सराहना की। उन्होंने कहा, “यह उचित है कि अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सहकारिता वर्ष का शुभारंभ भारत में हो रहा है, क्योंकि सामूहिक कार्रवाई की विशाल परिवर्तनकारी शक्ति का उदाहरण देने वाला इससे बेहतर कोई देश नहीं है। भारतीय सहकारी आंदोलन शानदार ढंग से सफल रहा है, जिससे लाखों लोगों को गरीबी से मुक्ति मिली है और उनकी समृद्धि में वृद्धि हुई है।”

भारत के नेतृत्व पर वक्तव्य

यूएसआईएसपीएफ के अध्यक्ष जॉन चैंबर्स ने कहा, “पीएम मोदी का तीसरा कार्यकाल सदी के लिए दृष्टिकोण स्थापित करेगा, जिसमें भारत दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था बनने की ओर अग्रसर है – चीन से दोगुना और अमेरिका से 30-40% बड़ा।”

डीपी वर्ल्ड के सीईओ सुल्तान अहमद बिन सुलेयम ने कहा, “यह आदमी (पीएम मोदी) अद्भुत हैं। उनकी ऊर्जा, उनका दृष्टिकोण ही हमें प्रेरित करता है। पीएम मोदी की नीतियां…हमें प्रेरणा दे रही हैं और हमें भारत में और भी अधिक काम करने की इजाजत दे रही हैं।”

कीथ स्वेनडसेन, सीईओ एपी मोलर-मार्सक ने कहा, “देश के लिए उनके 2047 के दृष्टिकोण और यह समुद्री क्षेत्र में कैसे फिट बैठता है, इस बारे में पीएम के साथ चर्चा करने का अवसर मिलना एक बड़ा सम्मान है। प्रधानमंत्री के साथ उस पर चर्चा करने का अवसर मिलना बहुत रोमांचक है, मुझे कहना होगा कि वे बहुत ही प्रेरणादायक नीतियां हैं और मैं हमारे उद्योग के विवरण के बारे में उनके ज्ञान से बहुत प्रभावित हुआ।”

गुयाना के राष्ट्रपति इरफान अली ने पीएम मोदी को “नेताओं के बीच एक चैंपियन” बताया और कहा, “आपका यहां होना हमारे लिए सबसे बड़ा सम्मान है। आप नेताओं के बीच एक चैंपियन हैं। आपने अविश्वसनीय रूप से नेतृत्व किया है।” उन्होंने पीएम मोदी का नेतृत्व “विकासशील दुनिया के लिए एक अविश्वसनीय प्रकाश” कहा, “आपने विकासशील दुनिया को रोशनी दिखाई है और विकास मेट्रिक्स और ढांचे बनाए हैं जिन्हें कई लोग अपने देश में अपना रहे हैं।”

राष्ट्रपति पुतिन ने पीएम मोदी की प्रशंसा की और कहा कि वह विश्व स्तर पर भारत की स्थिति को मजबूत करने के लिए पीएम मोदी की ‘मेक इन इंडिया’ पहल से प्रभावित हैं। उन्होंने कहा, “रूसी संघ के सभी क्षेत्रों में, जिनमें उच्च तकनीक वाले क्षेत्र भी शामिल हैं, अपने उत्पादों को बेचने और निर्यात करने के अवसरों का विस्तार करने की तीव्र आवश्यकता है। मैं जानता हूं कि प्रधानमंत्री मोदी का मेक इन इंडिया जैसा ही कार्यक्रम है और यह हमारे जैसा ही कार्यक्रम है और हम भारत में भी अपनी विनिर्माण साइटें स्थापित करने के लिए तैयार होंगे।”

अमेरिका के नवनिर्वाचित राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप ने पीएम मोदी को सबसे अच्छा इंसान बताया और कहा, ‘पीएम मोदी (भारत), वह मेरे दोस्त हैं और सबसे अच्छे इंसान भी हैं। उनके प्रधानमंत्री नियुक्त होने से पहले भारत बहुत अस्थिर था। बाहर से देखने पर ऐसा लगता है जैसे वह आपका पिता है। वह सबसे अच्छा और पूर्ण हत्यारा है।”

वियतनाम के प्रधान मंत्री फाम मिन्ह चिन्ह ने पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व पर विश्वास व्यक्त किया और कहा, “हमारा मानना ​​है कि प्रधान मंत्री मोदी के नेतृत्व में उनके लगातार तीसरे कार्यकाल में भारतीय लोगों को और अधिक लाभ मिलेगा, और भी अधिक वैभव हासिल होगा।” भविष्य में सफलताएँ प्राप्त करें और विकसित भारत 2047 प्राप्त करें।”

अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बिडेन ने कहा, “भारत के साथ संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका की साझेदारी इतिहास में किसी भी समय की तुलना में अधिक मजबूत, करीबी और अधिक गतिशील है। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी, जब भी हम बैठते हैं, मैं सहयोग के नए क्षेत्रों को खोजने की हमारी क्षमता से दंग रह जाता हूं। आज कुछ अलग नहीं था।”

ब्रिजवाटर एसोसिएट्स के मुख्य निवेश अधिकारी रे डेलियो ने कहा, “भारत कई कारणों से एक बहुत ही विशेष क्षण में है, विशेष रूप से इसलिए क्योंकि उस पर अत्यधिक मात्रा में कर्ज का बोझ नहीं है और यह अब टेकऑफ़ बिंदु पर है। मेरी राय में आपके पास एक महान नेता हैं पीएम मोदी।”

भूटानी पीएम दाशो शेरिंग टोबगे ने पीएम मोदी को “बड़े भाई” कहा। उन्होंने कहा, “मैं खुश हूं क्योंकि जब भी मैं भारत आता हूं, मुझे अपने “बड़े भाई” पीएम मोदी से मिलने का मौका मिलता है।”

वैश्विक राष्ट्राध्यक्षों से लेकर प्रौद्योगिकी और व्यापार क्षेत्र के नेताओं तक, सर्वसम्मति स्पष्ट है: प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का नेतृत्व भारत की वैश्विक छवि को फिर से परिभाषित करने, अंतर्राष्ट्रीय साझेदारी को बढ़ावा देने और देश को एक उज्जवल भविष्य की ओर ले जाने में सहायक रहा है।

It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by humanitarian work that affected people all around the world.

Founding the Carter Center with his wife, Rosalynn, he became a global champion for democracy, human rights and public health. And he still took time to teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Georgia.

Carter was the nation’s longest-lived president when he died Sunday at age 100.

But he was just one of many noteworthy people who died in 2024.

Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in February, was a fierce political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, crusading against corruption and staging protests against the Kremlin. He had been jailed since 2021 when he returned to Russia to face certain arrest after recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin.

Other political figures who died this year include: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi; former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Vietnamese politician Nguyen Phu Trong; U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee; former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov; pundit Lou Dobbs; Greek politician Vasso Papandreou; former U.S. senators Joe Lieberman, Jim Inhofe, Tim Johnson and Jim Sasser; Namibian President Hage Geingob; and former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss.

The year also brought the deaths of several rights activists, including the reverends Cecil L. “Chip” Murray and James Lawson Jr.; Dexter Scott King; Hydeia Broadbent; and David Mixner.

Business leaders who died this year include: Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, The Home Depot co-founder Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, financier Jacob Rothschild and Daiso retail chain founder Hirotake Yano.

O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from. His death in April brought an end to a life that had become defined by scrutiny over the killings.

Other noteworthy sports figures who died include: basketball players Jerry West and Dikembe Mutombo; baseball players Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela; and gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi.

The music industry lost a titan in producer Quincy Jones, who died in November. His many contributions included producing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album and working with hundreds of other musicians over a long and storied career.

Other artists and entertainers who died this year include: actors James Earl Jones, Chita Rivera, Donald Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Louis Gossett Jr., Shelley Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimée, Carl Weathers, Joyce Randolph, Tony Todd, Shannen Doherty and Song Jae-lim; musicians Sergio Mendes, Toby Keith, Phil Lesh, Melanie, Dickey Betts, Françoise Hardy, Fatman Scoop, Duane Eddy and Frankie Beverly; filmmakers Roger Corman and Morgan Spurlock; authors Faith Ringgold, Nikki Giovanni and N. Scott Momaday; TV fitness guru Richard Simmons; sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer; talk show host Phil Donahue; and poets Shuntaro Tanikawa, John Sinclair and Kazuko Shiraishi.

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 :

JANUARY

Zvi Zamir, 98. A former director of Israel’s Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was about to be attacked on the eve of the 1973 Mideast war. Jan. 2.

Glynis Johns, 100. A Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim. Jan. 4.

David Soul, 80. The actor-singer was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo “Starsky & Hutch” and topped the music charts with the ballad “Don’t Give Up on Us.” Jan. 4.

Franz Beckenbauer, 78. He won the World Cup both as a player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm. Jan. 7.

Joyce Randolph, 99. A veteran stage and television actor whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on “The Honeymooners” provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband. Jan. 13.

Jack Burke Jr., 100. He was the oldest living Masters champion and staged the greatest comeback ever at Augusta National for one of his two majors. Jan. 19.

Marlena Shaw, 81. The jazz and R&B vocalist whose “California Soul” was one of the defining soul songs of the late 1960s. Jan. 19.

Mary Weiss, 75. The lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included “Leader of the Pack.” Jan. 19.

Gigi Riva, 79. The all-time leading goalscorer for Italy’s men’s national team was known as the “Rombo di Tuono” . Jan. 22.

Dexter Scott King, 62. He dedicated much of his life to shepherding the civil rights legacy of his parents, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Jan. 22.

Charles Osgood, 91. He anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence. Jan. 23.

Melanie, 76. The singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key.” Jan. 23.

N. Scott Momaday, 89. A Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature. Jan. 24.

Herbert Coward, 85. He was known for his “Toothless Man” role in the movie “Deliverance.” Jan. 24. Car crash.

Sandra Milo, 90. An icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s “8½” and later became his muse. Jan. 29.

Jean Carnahan, 90. She became the first female senator to represent Missouri when she was appointed to replace her husband following his death. Jan. 30.

Chita Rivera, 91. The dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident. Jan. 30.

FEBRUARY

Carl Weathers, 76. A former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore.” Feb. 1.

Ian Lavender, 77. An actor who played a hapless Home Guard soldier in the classic British sitcom “Dad’s Army.” Feb. 2.

Hage Geingob, 82. Namibia’s president and founding prime minister who played a central role in what has become one of Africa’s most stable democracies after returning from a long exile in Botswana and the United States as an anti-apartheid activist. Feb. 4.

Bob Beckwith, 91. A retired firefighter whose chance encounter with the president amid the rubble of ground zero became part of an iconic image of American unity after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Feb. 4.

Toby Keith, 62. A hit country crafter of pro-American anthems who both riled up critics and was loved by millions of fans. Feb. 5. Stomach cancer.

John Bruton, 76. A former Irish prime minister who played a key role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. Feb. 6.

Sebastián Piñera, 74. The two-time former president of Chile faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term. Feb. 6. Helicopter crash.

Seiji Ozawa, 88. The Japanese conductor amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Feb. 6.

Henry Fambrough, 85. The last surviving original member of the iconic R&B group The Spinners, whose hits included “It’s a Shame,” “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love” and “The Rubberband Man.” Feb. 7.

Robert Badinter, 95. He spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout of Yugoslavia’s breakup. Feb. 9.

Bob Edwards, 76. He anchored National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” for just under 25 years and was the baritone voice who told many Americans what had happened while they slept. Feb. 10.

Hirotake Yano, 80. He founded the retail chain Daiso known for its 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store. Feb. 12.

Alexei Navalny, 47. The fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests. Feb. 16.

Lefty Driesell, 92. The Hall of Fame coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs. Feb. 17.

Hydeia Broadbent, 39. The HIV/AIDS activist came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with. Feb. 20.

Jacob Rothschild, 87. The financier and philanthropist was part of the renowned Rothschild banking dynasty. Feb. 26.

Richard Lewis, 76. An acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname “The Prince of Pain.” Feb. 27.

Nikolai Ryzhkov, 94. A former Soviet prime minister who presided over botched efforts to shore up the crumbling national economy in the final years of the USSR. Feb. 28.

Brian Mulroney, 84. The former Canadian prime minister forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement that was once vilified but is now celebrated. Feb. 29.

MARCH

Iris Apfel, 102. A textile expert, interior designer and fashion celebrity known for her eccentric style. March 1.

Akira Toriyama, 68. The creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics. March 1. Blood clot.

Chris Mortensen, 72. The award-winning journalist covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN. March 3.

David E. Harris, 89. He flew bombers for the U.S. military and broke barriers in 1964 when he became the first Black pilot hired at a major U.S. airline. March 8.

Eric Carmen, 74. The singer-songwriter fronted the power-pop 1970s band the Raspberries and later had soaring pop hits like “All by Myself” and “Hungry Eyes” from the hit “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack. March 11.

Paul Alexander, 78. A Texas man who spent most of his life using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree. March 11.

David Mixner, 77. A longtime LGBTQ activist who was an adviser to Bill Clinton during his presidential campaign and later called him out over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer personnel in the military. March 11.

M. Emmet Walsh, 88. The character actor brought his unmistakable face and unsettling presence to films including “Blood Simple” and “Blade Runner.” March 19.

Lou Whittaker, 95. A legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more than 250 trips up Mount Rainier, the tallest peak in Washington state. March 24.

Joe Lieberman, 82. The former U.S. senator of Connecticut nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later. March 27. Complications from a fall.

Louis Gossett Jr., 87. The first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots.” March 28.

William D. Delahunt, 82. The longtime Massachusetts congressman was a Democratic stalwart who postponed his retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda. March 30.

Chance Perdomo, 27. An actor who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V.” March 29. Motorcycle crash.

Barbara Rush, 97. A popular leading actor in the 1950s and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career. March 31.

RIL

Lou Conter, 102. The last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. April 1.

John Sinclair, 82. A poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him. April 2.

The Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, 94. An influential pastor and civil rights leader who used his tenure at one of Los Angeles’ oldest churches to uplift the predominantly Black neighborhoods following one of the country’s worst race riots. April 5.

Peter Higgs, 94. The Nobel prize-winning physicist proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. April 8.

Ralph Puckett Jr., 97. A retired Army colonel awarded the Medal of Honor seven decades after he was wounded leading a company of outnumbered Army Rangers in battle during the Korean War. April 8.

O.J. Simpson, 76. The decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial. April 10.

William Strickland, 87. A longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s. April 10.

Robert MacNeil, 93. He created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades. April 12.

Faith Ringgold, 93. An award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and detailed quilts combining painting, textiles and storytelling. April 12.

Carl Erskine, 97. He pitched two no-hitters as a mainstay on the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series. April 16.

Bob Graham, 87. A former U.S. senator and two-term Florida governor who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war. April 16.

Dickey Betts, 80. The guitar legend who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man.” April 18.

Roman Gabriel, 83. The first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL and the league MVP in 1969. April 20.

Terry Anderson, 76. The globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years. April 21.

William Laws Calley Jr., 80. As an Army lieutenant, he led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history. April 28.

Duane Eddy, 86. A pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless others. April 30.

MAY

Dick Rutan, 85. He, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling. May 3.

Jeannie Epper, 83. A groundbreaking performer who did stunts for many of the most important women of film and television action of the 1970s and ’80s, including star Lynda Carter on TV’s “Wonder Woman.” May 5.

Bernard Hill, 79. An actor who delivered a rousing cry before leading his people into battle in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” and went down with the ship as the captain in “Titanic.” May 5.

Steve Albini, 61. An alternative rock pioneer and legendary producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more. May 7.

Kim Ki Nam, 94. A North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders. May 7.

Pete McCloskey, 96. A pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day. May 8.

Ralph Kennedy Frasier, 85. The last surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s. May 8.

Roger Corman, 98. The “King of the Bs” helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks. May 9.

Alice Munro, 92. The Nobel laureate was a Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers. May 13.

Dabney Coleman, 92. The mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie.” May 16.

Peter Buxtun, 86. The whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study. May 18.

Ebrahim Raisi, 63. The Iranian president was a hard-line protege of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels, launched a major attack on Israel and experienced mass protests. May 19. Helicopter crash.

Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60. Iran’s foreign minister and a hard-liner close to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the country’s nuclear program. May 19. Helicopter crash.

Ivan F. Boesky, 87. The flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street. May 20.

Morgan Spurlock, 53. The documentary filmmaker and Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet. May 23. Complications of cancer.

Bill Walton, 71. He starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Fame center for his NBA career and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting. May 27.

Robert Pickton, 74. A Canadian serial killer who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s. May 31. Injuries from a prison assault involving another inmate.

JUNE

Tin Oo, 97. One of the closest associates of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as well as a co-founder of her National League for Democracy party. June 1.

Janis Paige, 101. A popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 90s. June 2.

David Levy, 86. An Israeli politician born in Morocco who fought tirelessly against deep-seated racism against Jews from North Africa and went on to serve as foreign minister and hold other senior governmental posts. June 2.

Brigitte Bierlein, 74. The former head of Austria’s Constitutional Court became the country’s first female chancellor in an interim government in 2019. June 3.

Paul Pressler, 94. A leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations. June 7.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., 95. An apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction. June 9.

Lynn Conway, 86. A pioneer in the design of microchips that are at the heart of consumer electronics who overcame discrimination as a transgender person. June 9.

Françoise Hardy, 80. A French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s. June 11.

Jerry West, 86. Selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, his silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo. June 12.

George Nethercutt, 79. The former U.S. congressman was a Spokane lawyer with limited political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994. June 14.

Kazuko Shiraishi, 93. A leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, she was known for her dramatic readings — at times with jazz music. June 14.

Willie Mays, 93. The electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players. June 18.

Anouk Aimée, 92. The radiant French star and dark-eyed beauty of classic films including Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman.” June 18.

Donald Sutherland, 88. The Canadian actor whose wry, arresting screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games.” June 20.

Bill Cobbs, 90. The veteran character actor became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man. June 25.

Martin Mull, 80. His droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including “Roseanne” and “Arrested Development.” June 27.

Pål Enger, 57. A talented Norwegian soccer player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting from the National Gallery in Oslo. June 29.

JULY

Jim Inhofe, 89. A powerful fixture in Oklahoma politics for over six decades, the Republican U.S. senator was a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change. July 9.

Joe Bonsall, 76. A Grammy award winner and celebrated tenor of the country and gospel group the Oak Ridge Boys. July 9.

Tommy Robinson, 82. A former U.S. congressman who gained notoriety as an Arkansas sheriff for tactics that included chaining inmates outside a state prison to protest overcrowding. July 10.

Shelley Duvall, 75. The intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” July 11.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 96. The diminutive sex therapist became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics. July 12.

Shannen Doherty, 53. The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories. July 13.

Richard Simmons, 76. He was television’s hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better. July 13.

James Sikking, 90. He starred as a hardened police lieutenant on “Hill Street Blues” and as the titular character’s kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.” July 13.

Jacoby Jones, 40. A former NFL receiver whose 108-yard kickoff return in 2013 remains the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history. July 14.

Cheng Pei-pei, 78. A Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” July 17.

Bob Newhart, 94. The deadpan accountant-turned-comedian became one of the most popular TV stars of his time after striking gold with a classic comedy album. July 18.

Lou Dobbs, 78. The conservative political pundit and veteran cable TV host was a founding anchor for CNN and later was a nightly presence on Fox Business Network for more than a decade. July 18.

Nguyen Phu Trong, 80. He was general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician. July 19.

Sheila Jackson Lee, 74. The longtime congresswoman from Texas helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday. July 19.

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, 88. The last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops, which was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love.” July 22.

Edna O’Brien, 93. Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House. July 27.

Francine Pascal, 92. A onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captivated millions of young readers. July 28.

Betty Prashker, 99. A pioneering editor of the 20th century who as one of the first women with the power to acquire books published such classics as Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics” and Susan Faludi’s “Backlash” and helped oversee the careers of Jean Auel, Dominick Dunne and Erik Larson among others. July 30.

Ismail Haniyeh, 62. Hamas’ top leader in exile landed on Israel’s hit list after the militant group staged its surprise Oct. 7 attacks. July 31. Killed in an airstrike in Iran.

AUGUST

Jack Russell, 63. The lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White, whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me,” and who was fronting his band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island. Aug. 7.

Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, 88. A Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career. Aug. 8.

Susan Wojcicki, 56. A pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube. Aug. 9.

Wallace “Wally” Amos, 88. The creator of the Famous Amos cookie empire went on to become a children’s literacy advocate. Aug. 13.

Gena Rowlands, 94. She was hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes. She later charmed audiences in her son’s tear-jerker “The Notebook.” Aug. 14.

Peter Marshall, 98. The actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares.” Aug. 15.

Alain Delon, 88. The internationally acclaimed French actor embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world. Aug. 18.

Phil Donahue, 88. His pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others. Aug. 18.

Ruth Johnson Colvin, 107. She founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Aug. 18.

Al Attles, 87. A Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than six decades with the organization as a player, general manager and most recently team ambassador. Aug. 20.

John Amos, 84. He starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots.” Aug. 21.

Salim Hoss, 94. The five-time former Lebanese prime minister served during some of the most tumultuous years of his country’s modern history. Aug. 25.

Leonard Riggio, 83. A brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before it was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com. Aug. 27.

Edward B. Johnson, 81. As a CIA officer, he traveled into Iran with a colleague to rescue six American diplomats who fled the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran. Aug. 27.

Johnny Gaudreau, 31. An NHL player known as “Johnny Hockey,” he played 10 full seasons in the league. Aug. 29. Killed along with his brother when hit by a car while riding bicycles.

Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, 69. As New Zealand’s Māori King, he was the seventh monarch in the Kiingitanga movement. Aug. 30.

Fatman Scoop, 56. The hip-hop artist topped charts in Europe with “Be Faithful” in the early 2000s and later lent his distinctive voice and ebullient vibe to hits by artists including Missy Elliott and Ciara. Aug. 30. Died after collapsing on stage.

SEPTEMBER

Linda Deutsch, 80. A special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials including Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson. Sept. 1.

James Darren, 88. A teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget.” Sept. 2.

Sergio Mendes, 83. The Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend. Sept. 5.

James Earl Jones, 93. He overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen, eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader. Sept. 9.

Frankie Beverly, 77. With his band Maze, he inspired generations of fans with his smooth, soulful voice and lasting anthems including “Before I Let Go.” Sept. 10.

Jim Sasser, 87. He served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and six years as ambassador to China. Sept. 10.

Alberto Fujimori, 86. His decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison. Sept. 11.

Joe Schmidt, 92. The Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Detroit Lions win NFL championships in 1953 and 1957 and later coached the team. Sept. 11.

Tito Jackson, 70. One of the brothers who made up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5. Sept. 15.

John David “JD” Souther, 78. A prolific songwriter and musician who helped shape the country-rock sound that took root in Southern California in the 1970s with his collaborations with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. Sept. 17.

Kathryn Crosby, 90. She appeared in such movies as “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”, “Anatomy of a Murder,” and “Operation Mad Ball” before marrying famed singer and Oscar-winning actor Bing Crosby. Sept. 20.

John Ashton, 76. The veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop” films. Sept. 26.

Maggie Smith, 89. The masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. Sept. 27.

Hassan Nasrallah, 64. The Hezbollah leader who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East. Sept. 27. Killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Kris Kristofferson, 88. A Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor. Sept. 28.

Drake Hogestyn, 70. The “Days of Our Lives” star appeared on the show for 38 years. Sept. 28.

Pete Rose, 83. Baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied. Sept. 30.

Dikembe Mutombo, 58. A Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game. Sept. 30. Brain cancer.

Gavin Creel, 48. A Broadway musical theater veteran who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!” opposite Bette Midler and earned nominations for “Hair” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Sept. 30. Cancer.

Humberto Ortega, 77. The Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega. Sept. 30.

Ken Page, 70. A stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Sept. 30.

OCTOBER

Megan Marshack, 70. An aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former New York governor and vice president when he died under circumstances that spurred intense speculation. Oct. 2.

Mimis Plessas, 99. A beloved Greek composer whose music was featured in scores of films, television shows and theatrical productions and who provided the soundtrack to millions of Greeks’ lives. Oct. 5.

Cissy Houston, 91. A two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of singer Whitney Houston. Oct. 7.

Tim Johnson, 77. The former U.S. senator was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home during his nearly three decades in Washington. Oct. 8.

Ratan Tata, 86. One of India’s most influential business leaders, the veteran industrialist was former chairman of the $100 billion conglomerate Tata Group. Oct. 9.

Leif Segerstam, 80. The prolific Finnish conductor and composer was one of the most colorful personalities in the Nordic country’s classical music scene. Oct. 9.

Ethel Kennedy, 96. The wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter. Oct. 10.

Lilly Ledbetter, 86. A former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation. Oct. 12.

Philip G. Zimbardo, 91. The psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment. Oct. 14.

Liam Payne, 31. A former One Direction singer whose chart-topping British boy band generated a global following of swooning fans. Oct. 16. Died after falling from a hotel balcony.

Yahya Sinwar, 61. The Hamas leader who masterminded the surprise Oct. 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel that shocked the world and triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Oct. 16. Killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Mitzi Gaynor, 93. The effervescent dancer and actor starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film “South Pacific” and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. Oct. 17.

Vasso Papandreou, 79. A trailblazing Greek politician who served as a government minister, European commissioner and leading advocate for women’s representation in politics. Oct. 17.

Thelma Mothershed Wair, 83. One of nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults. Oct. 19.

Fethullah Gülen, 83. A reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing unproven accusations that he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey. Oct. 20.

Fernando Valenzuela, 63. The Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired “Fernandomania” while winning the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 1981. Oct. 22.

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, 96. The Peruvian theologian was the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents. Oct. 22.

Phil Lesh, 84. A classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling by reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. Oct. 25.

Teri Garr, 79. The quirky comedy actor rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star in such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie.” Oct. 29. Multiple sclerosis.

Colm McLoughlin, 81. An Irishman who landed in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates and helped lead Dubai Duty Free into becoming an airport retail behemoth generating billions of dollars. Oct. 30.

NOVEMBER

Quincy Jones, 91. The multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists. Nov. 3.

Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, 95. The co-founder of The Home Depot, a billionaire philanthropist, and a big Republican donor. Nov. 4.

Murray Sinclair, 73. A former First Nation judge, senator and chair of the commission that delved into Canada’s troubled history of residential schools for First Nations students. Nov. 4.

Elwood Edwards, 74. He voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting. Nov. 5.

Tony Todd, 69. An actor known for his haunting portrayal of a killer in the horror film “Candyman” and for roles in many other films and television shows. Nov. 6.

Bobby Allison, 86. He was founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and a NASCAR Hall of Famer. Nov. 9.

Reg Murphy, 90. A renowned journalist whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore — and who found himself the subject of national headlines when he survived a politically motivated kidnapping. Nov. 9.

Vardis J. Vardinoyannis, 90. A powerful and pivotal figure in Greek shipping and energy who survived a terrorist attack and cultivated close ties with the Kennedy family. Nov. 12.

Timothy West, 90. A British actor who played the classic Shakespeare roles of King Lear and Macbeth and who in recent years along with his wife, Prunella Scales, enchanted millions of people with their boating exploits on Britain’s waterways. Nov. 12.

Song Jae-lim, 39. A South Korean actor known for his roles in K-dramas “Moon Embracing the Sun” and “Queen Woo.” Nov. 12.

Shuntaro Tanikawa, 92. He pioneered modern Japanese poetry — poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions. Nov. 13.

Bela Karolyi, 82. The charismatic, if polarizing, gymnastics coach turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power in the sport. Nov. 15.

Olav Thon, 101. A billionaire entrepreneur recognizable for his bright red cap who went from selling leather and fox hides in his youth to building one of Norway’s biggest real estate empires. Nov. 16.

Arthur Frommer, 95. His “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad. Nov. 18.

Alice Brock, 83. Her Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” Nov. 21.

Fred Harris, 94. A former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s. Nov. 23.

Chuck Woolery, 83. The affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19. Nov. 23.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, 91. A British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies. Nov. 24.

Mary McGee, 87. A female racing pioneer and subject profiled in the Oscar-contending documentary “Motorcycle Mary.” Nov. 27.

Prince Johnson, 72. The Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world. Nov. 28.

Ananda Krishnan, 86. One of Malaysia’s richest tycoons with a vast business empire including telecommunications, media, petroleum and real estate. Nov. 28.

Lou Carnesecca, 99. The excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s rousing Final Four run in 1985 and who was a treasured figure in New York sports. Nov. 30.

DECEMBER

Debbie Nelson, 69. The single mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was known widely through his hit song lyrics. Dec. 2.

Nikki Giovanni, 81. The poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality. Dec. 9.

George Joseph Kresge Jr., 89. He was known to generations of TV watchers as the mesmerizing entertainer and mentalist The Amazing Kreskin. Dec. 10.

Jim Leach, 82. A former congressman who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dec. 11.

John Spratt, 82. A former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned Republican. Dec. 14.

Zakir Hussain, 73. One of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences. Dec. 15.

Fred Lorenzen, 89. A NASCAR Hall of Famer and the 1965 Daytona 500 champion. Dec. 18.

Tsuneo Watanabe, 98. The powerful head of the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, who had close ties with the country’s powerful conservative leaders. Dec. 19.

Rickey Henderson, 65. The baseball Hall of Famer was the brash speedster who shattered stolen base records and redefined baseball’s leadoff position. Dec. 20.

Shyam Benegal, 90. A renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s. Dec. 23.

Desi Bouterse, 79. A military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and murder. Dec. 24.

Osamu Suzuki, 94. The charismatic former boss of Suzuki Motor Corp. helped turn the Japanese mini-vehicle maker into a globally competitive company. Dec. 25.

Warren Upton, 105. The oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah. Dec. 25.

Manmohan Singh, 92. India’s former prime minister who was widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States. Dec. 26.

Richard Parsons, 76. One of corporate America’s most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup. Dec. 26.

Greg Gumbel, 78. The longtime CBS sportscaster who became the first Black announcer in the U.S. to call play-by-play of a major sports championship. Dec. 27.

Olivia Hussey, 73. The actor won a Golden Globe for her role as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” and later brought a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over nude scenes in the film. Dec. 27.

Dayle Haddon, 76. The actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow. Dec. 27.

Jimmy Carter, 100. The peanut farmer who won the U.S. presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian. Dec. 29.

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