Here is the list (albeit a partial one) of some of the celebrities and other notable people who died this year.
JANUARY
Patti Page, 85, singer
Richard Ben Cramer, 62, journalist (Pulitzer Prize winner)
James M. Buchanan, 93, economist (Nobel Prize winner)
Eugene C. Patterson, 89, newspaper editor (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Stan Musial, 92, baseball player
Earl Weaver, 82, baseball manager
Pauline Phillips, 94, columnist known as Dear Abby
Conrad Bain, 89, actor
Stanley Karnow, 87, journalist & historian (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Patty Andrews, 94, singer & member of Andrews Sisters
FEBRUARY
Edward I. Koch, 88, three-term mayor of New York City
Donald Byrd, 80, jazz trumpeter
Mindy McCready, 37, singer
Dr. C. Everett Koop, 96, Surgeon General of U.S.
Van Cliburn, 78, pianist
Dale Robertson, 89, actor
Donald A Glaser, 86, physicist (Nobel Prize winner)
MARCH
Bonnie Franklin, 69, actress
Hugo Chavez, 58, President of Venezuela
Harry Reems, 65, porn star
Chinua Achebe, 82, author
Ray Williams, 58, basketball player
Anthony Lewis, 85, journalist (Pulitzer Prize winner)
APRIL
Jack Pardee, 76, football player
Chuck Fairbanks, 79, football coach
Roger Ebert, 70, film critic
Annette Funicello, 70, actress
Margaret Thatcher, 87, British Prime Minister
Francois Jacob, 92, scientist (Nobel Prize winner)
Pat Summerall, 82, sports broadcaster
Jonathan Winters, 87, comedian
Maria Tallchief, 88, ballerina
Robert G. Edwards, 87, doctor (Nobel Prize winner)
Richie Havens, 72, musician
George Jones, 81, singer
MAY
Jeff Hanneman, 49, musician
Christian de Duve, 95, biochemist (Nobel Prize winner)
Ray Harryhausen, 92, special effects wizard
Joyce Brothers, 85, psychologist & broadcaster
Ken Venturi, 82, golf player & broadcast analyst
Ray Manzarek, 74, musician
Haynes Johnson, 81, journalist (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Mulgrew Miller, 57, jazz pianist
Jean Stapleton, 90, actress
JUNE
Deacon Jones, 74, football player
Frank Lautenberg, 89, U.S. senator
Esther Williams, 91, swimmer & actress
Robert W. Fogel, economist (Nobel Prize winner)
James Gandolfini, 51, actor
Slim Whitman, 90, singer
JULY
William H. Gray III, 71, congressman
Amar G. Bose, 83, audio engineer & inventor
Helen Thomas, 92, journalist
George Scott, 69, baseball player
Eileen Brennan, 80, actress
Lindy Boggs, 97, congressperson
Virginia E. Johnson, 88, sex researcher
Emile Griggith, 75, boxer
Dennis Farina, 69, policeman & actor
William W. Scranton, 96, governor & UN representative
Michael Ansara, 91, actor
AUGUST
Julius Chambers, 76, civil rights attorney
Art Donovan, 89, football player
Eydie Gorme, 84, singer
General David C. Jones, 92, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lee Thompson Young, 29, actor
Elmore Leonard, 87, writer
Marian McPartland, 95, jazz pianist
Dean Meminger, 65, basketball player
Julie Harris, 87, actress
Seamus Heaney, 74, poet (Nobel Prize winner)
David Frost, 74, broadcaster
SEPTEMBER
Ray Dolby, 80, audio engineer & inventor
Ken Norton, 70, boxer
David Hubel, 87, scientist (Nobel Prize winner)
L.C. Greenwood, 67, football player
OCTOBER
Tom Clancy, 66, writer
Vo Nguyen Giap, 102, North Vietnamese general
Andy Pafko, 92, baseball player
Scott Carpenter, 88, astronaut
Oscar Hijuelos, 62, writer (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Thomas S. Foley, 84, Speaker of the House
Bum Phillips, 90, football coach
Lawrence Klein, 93, economist (Nobel Prize winner)
Bill Sharman, 87, basketball player & coach
Lou Reed, 71, musician
NOVEMBER
Walt Bellamy, 74, basketball player
Ace Parker, 101, football player
Frederick Sanger, 95, biochemist (Nobel Prize winner)
Doris Lessing, 94, writer (Nobel Prize winner)
Mike McCormack, 83, football player & coach
Todd Christensen, 57, football player
Vern Mikkelsen, 85, basketball player
Chico Hamilton, 92, jazz drummer
Paul Walker, 40, actor
DECEMBER
Nelson Mandela, 95, activist & President of South Africa
Eleanor Parker, 91, actress
Jim Hall, 83, jazz guitarist
Peter O'Toole, 81, actor
Joan Fontaine, 96, actress
Ray Price, 87, singer
Al Goldstein, 77, published Screw magazine
Paul Blair, 69, baseball player
Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, inventor of AK-47 assault rifle
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