A look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who died in 2024.
![Richard Lewis performs at Zanies in 2018, before a new wave of troubles arrived.](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/03/03/PO4QJEWDNVFR5JSRU37BQ3SRNI.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
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Richard Lewis, 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,” died Feb. 27, 2024. He was 76. Pictured above, Lewis performs at Zanies in 2018. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
![Eleanor Coppola wrote and directed the new film "Paris Can Wait," the 81-year-old's first fiction feature.](https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2017/05/18/JFQR3M7X3BFKTDCGWS5NORRNWM.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
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Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)