Let’s remember some important people we lost in 2024 (part 1)
In recent years, it seems that we have lost many remarkable individuals who have shaped the world as we once knew it. I had planned to write this blog post after the start of the new year, but upon learning of Jimmy Carter’s passing at the age of 100, I felt compelled to share my thoughts sooner. His death has sadly added him to the list of the most influential people we have lost in 2025.
Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy Carter receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Source: Jimmy Carter Photo Gallery: Nobel Prize 2002
On 29th December late in the evening, just before I closed all socials, I saw a surprising message on one of the channels. Jimmy Carter, the ex-American president passed away in his home. The democrat’s full name was James Earl Carter Junior, born on the 1st October 1924. He was elected as the 39th American president serving office from 1977 until 1981.
Mister Carter is one famous for his one mandate presidency along with some controversial politics during his time. At that time he became famous with the Carter Doctrine, which stipulates that the US army will intervene if needed to defend the American interest in the Persian gulf. There is also his famous “malese speech” in 1979, saying that America has a crisis of confidence.
What Jimmy Carter became known was the time after his residency. Unlike his predecessors and successors, he had the longest post-presidency period of over 40 years. During that time Mr. Carter built on his legacy and in particular in the humanitarian domain and human rights. He became known as “the most decent politician to occupy the White House in decades and certainly the most intelligent and hard-working president in the 20th century”. Mr. Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of efforts dedicated to resolving international conflicts in a peaceful way and to promote economic and social development.
Alen Delon
On 18th August 2024, at the age of 88, we lost one of the most influential men in the movie business in the 20th century – Alen Delon. The French actor, singer, screenwriter, producer and businessman was discovered for the movie business in 1957 when he attended the Cannes Film Festival. At the venue he was introduced to David Selznik who was impressed by the young Frenchman, invited him to Rome and proposed him a seven year contract in Hollywood under one condition – if he improves his English. At the same time, he was made a second offer from Yves Allégret, that would allowed him to stay in France. He then choose to stay in his home country. Despite his successful movie roles, he never managed to become famous in the US.
He still lives as one of the biggest sex symbols of our time. Individuality, made to reform our thinking in this direction. In his infamous interview for BBC in 1969, on the occasion of his friend Markovic’s death, he was asked if he had homosexual relationships. “So what’s wrong if I had? Would I be guilty of something?”, replied Monsier Delon, leaving the audience once again jaw down.
In 2019 after he was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival at the end of May, he got a stroke and since then he had been trying to recover.
Alen Delon during the shooting of The Young Rolls Roys (1964). Source: www.radiofrance.fr
Alen Delon and Brigitte Bardon in Saint Tropez, France, 1969. Source: www.amomamma.fr.
Alen Delon receiving and Honorary Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2019. Source: www.vanityfair.com
