Deaths in 2014
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- André Popp, 90, French composer.
- Joe Cocker, 70, British singer ("You Can Leave Your Hat On", "Woman to Woman"), lung cancer.
- Larry Smith, 63, American record producer (Run–D.M.C., King of Rock).
- Wendy Rene, 67, American soul singer, complications from stroke.
- Giulio Questi, 90, Italian director and screenwriter (Django Kill, La morte ha fatto l'uovo).
- P. D. James, 94, English crime novelist (The Children of Men).
- Jimmy Ruffin, 78, American soul singer ("What Becomes of the Brokenhearted").
- Mike Nichols, 83, German-born American director (The Graduate), cardiac arrest.
- Oscar de la Renta, 82, Dominican fashion designer, cancer.
- John Holt, 67, Jamaican singer (The Paragons) and songwriter ("The Tide Is High").
- Mark Bell, 43, British musician and house music producer (LFO), complications from surgery.
- Ray Metzker, 83, American photographer.
- Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
- Paul Revere, 76, American bandleader, keyboardist (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
- Antti Lovag, 94, Hungarian architect.
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 88, French publisher.
- Joe Sample, 75, American jazz musician (The Crusaders).
- Bob Crewe, 82, American songwriter and record producer (The Four Seasons).
- Joan Rivers, 81, American actress and comedienne, respiratory and cardiac arrest.
- Hopeton Lewis, 66, Jamaican singer ("Take It Easy").
- Uziah Thompson, 78, Jamaican percussionist, heart attack.
- Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor.
- Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress, stroke.
- Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
- Robin Williams, 63, American comedian and actor, apparent suicide by asphyxiation.
- Henry Stone, 93, American record company executive and record producer (TK Records)
- Idris Muhammad, 74, American jazz drummer.
- On Kawara, 81, Japanese conceptual artist.
- Charlie Haden, 76, American jazz bassist and bandleader, (The Shape of Jazz to Come), post-polio syndrome.
- Paul Mazursky, 84, American film director and screenwriter (An Unmarried Woman, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), pulmonary cardiac arrest.
- Bobby Womack, 70, American Hall of Fame R&B singer and songwriter ("I Can Understand It").
- Felix Dennis, 67, British poet and publisher, editor of Bizarre, throat cancer.
- Gerry Goffin, 75, American lyricist ("The Loco-Motion").
- Horace Silver, 85, American jazz pianist (Song for My Father), natural causes.
- Stanley Marsh 3, 76, American artist and philanthropist, patron of Cadillac Ranch.
- Elodie Lauten, 63, French-born American composer.
- Isabelle Collin Dufresne, 78, French-born American actress (I, a Man), artist, author and model (Andy Warhol), cancer.
- Alexander Shulgin, 88, American pharmacologist and chemist, pioneered the development and use of MDMA from ecstasy.
- Bunny Yeager, 85, American model and photographer.
- H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss Oscar-winning surrealist artist (Alien), injuries from a fall.
- Gabriel García Márquez, 87, Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), pneumonia.
- Richard Hoggart, 95, British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy), dementia.
- Sue Townsend, 68, British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series), stroke.
- Mickey Rooney, 93, American actor.
- Cheo Feliciano, 78, American Puerto Rican salsa and bolero composer and singer, traffic collision.
- Régine Deforges, 78, French author, editor, director and playwright.
- Jacques Le Goff, 90, French historian.
- Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer.
- Scott Asheton, 64, American drummer (The Stooges), heart attack.
- Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech film director (Daisies).
- Alain Resnais, 91, French film director (Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour).
- Jan Hoet, 77, Belgian art critic and curator, heart attack.
- Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
- Aslan, French pin-up artist.
- Harold Ramis, 69, American film director (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day) and actor (Ghostbusters).
- Wayne Smith, 48, Jamaican reggae musician ("Under Mi Sleng Teng").
- Shirley Temple, 85, American actress and diplomat, natural causes.
- Stuart Hall, 82, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist.
- Gabriel Axel, 95, Danish film director (Babette's Feast) and actor.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor and director.
- Pete Seeger, 94, American folk singer and songwriter ("Turn! Turn! Turn!", "If I Had a Hammer", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?").
- Riz Ortolani, 87, Italian film composer.
- Amiri Baraka, 79, American poet, writer and activist.
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