BERNARD McGHEE

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year
The month of April saw the death of history’s first Latin American pope. Known for his embrace of the downtrodden, Pope Francis signaled a different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris.
 
Mia Love, the Republican nominee in Utah's 4th congressional district, smiles after speaking during a rally in Lehi, Utah, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year
The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress. Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love died after battling brain cancer.
 
Mia Love, the Republican nominee in Utah's 4th congressional district, smiles after speaking during a rally in Lehi, Utah, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year
The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress. Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love died after battling brain cancer.
 
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Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by humanitarian work that affected people all around the world.
 
FILE - Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from an ex-con hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it came to a sudden end when his plane mysteriously exploded on Aug. 23.