Famous People Who Died in 2014

• Angelou, Maya

  The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

• Attenborough, Richard

  The director and producer of the movie Gandhi

• Bacall, Lauren

  Bogart's co-star in To Have and Have Not

• Baraka, Amiri

  Author of the 1964 play Dutchman

• Bradlee, Ben

  The editor of The Washington Post, 1968-91

• Carter, Rubin "Hurricane"

  The boxer whose murder convictions were tossed

• Davis, Ann B.

  Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch

• Dee, Ruby

  Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis

• Eusebio

  Portugal's all-time top-scoring footballer

• Garner, James

  Star of the TV show The Rockford Files

• Geldof, Peaches

  The star of Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind

• Giger, H.R.

  The designer of the Alien monster

• Gordimer, Nadine

  The Nobel-winning South African author who wrote July's People

• Hoffman, Philip Seymour

  Oscar-winning star of the 2005 movie Capote

• Hoskins, Bob

  The star of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

• James, P.D.

  The "queen of crime" who wrote the Adam Dagliesh mystery novels

• Kasem, Casey

  The host of the radio show American Top 40

• Keyes, Daniel

  The author of Flowers for Algernon

• Matthiessen, Peter

  The author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord

• Mazursky, Paul

  The director of An Unmarried Woman

• Márquez, Gabriel García

  The author of One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Nichols, Mike

  The director of The Graduate

• Phelps, Fred Sr.

  The founder of the Westboro Baptist Church

• Ramis, Harold

  The director of Groundhog Day

• Rivers, Joan

  The TV talk-show host with the catch-phrase "Can we talk?"

• Rooney, Mickey

  Star of the Andy Hardy movies

• Sharon, Ariel

  Prime minister of Israel, 2001-2006

• Temple, Shirley

  The dimpled, child movie star of the 1930s

• Wallach, Eli

  The "Ugly" of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• Williams, Robin

  The manic comic who won a dramatic Oscar for Good Will Hunting

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