Notable Deaths In 2014

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Here are just a handful of the notable people who died this year.

DECEMBER
28 - Frankie Randall -- singer and actor
26 - Dick Dale -- musician and singer
26 - Joe Macko -- baseball player and manager
23 - Alphonse J. Jackson -- educator, politician, civil rights activist
22 - Joe Cocker -- singer
22 - Joseph Sargent -- film director
18 - Virna Lisi -- actress
17 - Lowell Steward -- member of Tuskegee Airmen
9 - Mary Ann Mobley -- actress and Miss America

NOVEMBER
27 - P.D. James -- crime novelist
23 - Marion Barry -- politician
21 - Richard Eder -- journalist
9 - Orlando Thomas -- football player
6 - Maggie Boyle -- singer and musician

OCTOBER
28 - Galway Kinnell - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
24 - Marcia Strassman -- actress
21 - Ben Bradlee -- journalist and newspaper editor
14 - Elizabeth Pena -- actress
5 - Misty Upham -- actress
4 - Paul Revere -- musician

SEPTEMBER
30 - Jerrie Mock -- first woman to fly solo around the world
21 - Caldwell Jones -- basketball player
20 - Polly Bergen -- actress
17 - George Hamilton IV -- singer
14 - Tony Auth -- Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
4 - Joan Rivers -- comedienne

AUGUST
30 - Andrew V. McLaglen -- film and television director
28 - Gelnn Cornick -- musician (bassist for Jethro Tull)
24 - Richard Attenborough -- actor
23 - Philippine de Rothschild -- winemaker
19 - James Foley -- photojournalist
18 - Jim Jeffords -- politician
18 - Don Pardo -- radio and television announcer
12 - Lauren Bacall -- actress
11 - Robin Williams -- comedian
9 - Ed Nelson -- actor

JULY
28 - Margot Adler -- journalist
23 - Helen Johns -- Olympic champion swimmer
22 - Robert Newhouse -- football player
19 - James Garner -- actor
17 - Elaine Stritch -- actress
16 - Johnny Winter -- musician
15 - Alice Coachman -- athlete, first black woman to be an Olympic champion
13 - Thomas Berger -- novelist
11 - Tommy Ramone -- musician and record producer
9 - Eileen Ford -- model agency executive
2 - Louis Zamperini -- long-distance runner and WWII POW

JUNE
30 - Paul Mazursky -- film director and screenwriter
28 - Seymour Barab -- composer and cellist
28 - Meshach Taylor -- actor
27 - Bobby Womack -- singer
26 - Howard Baker -- politician
25 - Etta Hulme -- editorial cartoonist
24 - Eli Wallach -- actor
22 - Steve Rossi -- comedian
17 - Stanley Marsh -- philanthropist (and creator of Cadillac Ranch)
16 - Tony Gwynn -- baseball player
15 - Casey Kasem -- radio DJ
14 - Rodney Thomas -- football player
13 - Chuck Noll -- football coach
11 - Ruby Dee -- actress
9 - Bob Welch -- baseball player
4 - Don Zimmer -- baseball player and manager
1 - Ann B. Davis -- actress

MAY
31 - Martha Hyer -- actress
28 - Maya Angelou -- poet, civil rights activist
9 - Mel Patton -- sprinter and Olympic champion
8 - Bill Coughlin -- journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
6 - Jimmy Ellis -- champion boxer
3 - Gary Becker -- Nobel Prize winner in economics
2 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. -- actor

APRIL
29 - Bob Hoskins -- actor
28 - Jack Ramsay -- basketball coach
20 - Alistair MacLeod -- author
17 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Nobel Prize-winning author
6 - Mickey Rooney -- actor
4 - Anja Niedringhaus -- Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist

MARCH
24 - Doria Palmieri -- psychologist and wife of Ron Reagan
21 - James Rebhorn -- actor
19 - Fred Phelps -- bigot
15 - David Brenner -- comedian
10 - Joe McGinniss -- author and political journalist

FEBRUARY
27 - Aaron Allston -- game designer
24 - Harold Ramis -- writer, director, actor
20 - Garrick Utley -- television journalist
19 - Dale Gardner -- astronaut
13 - Ralph Waite -- actor
12 - Sid Ceasar -- comedian
10 - Shirley Temple -- actress and diplomat
6 - Ralph Kiner -- baseball player
3 - Richard Bull -- actor
2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman -- actor

JANUARY
31 - Christopher Jones -- actor
28 - Stevie Woods -- singer
27 - Pete Seeger -- singer, songwriter, activist
19 - Steven Fromholz -- singer and songwriter
9 - Amiri Baraka -- poet
9 - Franklin McCain -- civil rights leader