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  • Dec 29, 2024
  • Dec 29, 2024 Updated May 29, 2026
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Here's a look back at the entertainers, leaders, athletes and other notable people we said goodbye to in 2024.

Andreas Brehme

Andreas Brehme

Germany players celebrate after Andreas Brehme, left on ground, scores the winning goal in the World Cup soccer final match against Argentina, in the Olympic Stadium, in Rome, July 8, 1990. Andreas Brehme, who scored the only goal as West Germany beat Argentina to win the 1990 World Cup final, died Feb. 20, 2024. He was 63. 

AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File

Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico relationship, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mulroney died at the age of 84 on Feb. 29, 2024.

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