Influential people who died in 2024

FILE - Flowers and candles adorn a statue honoring the late former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela outside the Pan-American stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 23, 2024. Valenzuela died the previous day at age 63. FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends a press conference in New York City, Sept. 20, 2023. FILE - Actress Glynis Johns is pictured Sept. 11, 1982. FILE - Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra during a rehearsal of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 26, 2008. FILE - O.J. Simpson reacts during his parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada, July 20, 2017. FILE - In this 1970 file photo, British actor Albert Finney embraces his bride, French Actress Anouk Aimee, after their registry office wedding in London. FILE - Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas speaks during the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Aug. 28, 2020. FILE - British actress Dame Maggie Smith is pictured in London, Dec. 16, 2015. FILE - Ratan Tata is pictured with Jaguar's newly launched C-X16 car during India's Auto Expo, in New Delhi, Jan. 5, 2012. FILE - "Romeo and Juliet" movie director Franco Zeffirelli, left, and actors Olivia Hussey, center, and Leonard Whiting are seen after the premiere of the film in Paris, Sept. 25, 1968.

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