Celebrity deaths 2024: Obituaries for actors, singers and stars who have died in 2024 including Richard Lewis, Chance Perdomo, Donald Sutherland, Shelley Duvall, Liam Payne and more
December 11: Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81. Giovanni, subject of the prize-winning…