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PHOTOS: 2014 Famous Deaths

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Edward Herrmann after presenting an award at the 39th International Emmy Awards, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in New York.
Christine Cavanaugh arrives for the 68th Academy Awards at the Music Center in Los Angeles, Monday, March 25, 1996.
British rock singer Joe Cocker performs during his concert in Papp Laszlo Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, June 5, 2011.
Marcia Strassman, the actress who played Gabe Kaplan's wife, Julie, on the 1970's sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died at age 66.
Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at age 86.
Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter and choreographer, died Sunday of complications of pneumonia in New York. He was 84.
Brittany Maynard received national attention over the decision to end her own life.
Paul Revere, born Paul Revere Dick, the organist and leader of the Raiders rock band, died Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 at his home in Idaho, says Revere's manager Roger Hart. He was 76.
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, actor Roger Moore, right, poses with actor Richard Kiel in Los Angeles.
FILE - In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014 file photo, Simone Battle of the band G.R.L. at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Joan Rivers has passed away.
Actor and Oscar-winning film director Richard Attenborough died at the age of 90 Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014.
This Sept. 25, 1982 photo provided by NBC shows announcer Don Pardo. Pardo died Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 in Arizona at the age of 96.
Actress Lauren Bacall during a tribute to actress Bette Davis at Boston University in Boston, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008.
Actor Robin Williams attends the CW, CBS and Showtime 2013 summer TCA party on July 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
FILE - Actor James Garner is pictured during an interview in Norman, Okla., Garner's hometown, in this Friday, April 21, 2006 file photo.
This film image released by the Sundance Selects shows Elaine Stritch in a scene from "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me." (AP Photo/Sundance Selects)
FILE - This is a Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006 file photo of Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, of South Africa.
Louis Zamperini gestures during a news conference Friday May 9, 2014 in Pasadena, Calif.
This Feb. 24, 1982 photo released by ABC shows actor Bob Hasting, a cast member on the daytime series "General Hospital," in Los Angeles.
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 1989 file photo, actor Meshach Taylor poses during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif.
Actress Ruby Dee attends a special 20th anniversary screening of "Do the Right Thing", in New York, on Monday, June 29, 2009.
Ann B. Davis died Sunday, June 1, after falling in her San Antonio home. (AP)
Poet Maya Angelou, author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' dies at age 86.
Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who starred in the TV show,`The FBI'' from 1965 to 1974 died Friday at his ranch in Solvang, Calif., at age 95.
British actor British actor Bob Hoskins retired after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He died April 30, 2014 at the age of 71.
Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, died Saturday April 19, 2014.
Comedian John Pinette died of natural causes Saturday at a hotel in Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office said Sunday evening.
James Rebhorn, the prolific character actor whose credits included "Homeland," ''Scent of a Woman" and "My Cousin Vinny," has died. He was 65
Comedian David Brenner shown July 13,1977.
Host Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 81. He died after suffering a heart attack.
Spanish guitar player Paco de Lucia died from a heart attack in Mexico at age 66.
Director Harold Ramis, the iconic writer, director and actor and creative force behind such seminal comedies as 'Groundhog Day,' and 'Caddyshack' died Monday, February 24, 2014.
ob Casale, the guitarist for the band Devo best known for the 1980s hit "Whip It," died Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, from conditions that led to heart failure. He was 61.
Actress Mary Grace Canfield as handywoman, Ralph Monroe, from the television series, "Green Acres" ied of lung cancer on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.
Ralph Waite, 85, who played the father in TV's hit series "The Waltons," has died Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.
Comedian Sid Caesar died on Wednesday, February 12.
Shirley Temple Black.
Philip Seymour Hoffman died in Manhattan on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at age 46.
Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the 'The Partridge Family' 1970s sitcom, died in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at age 82.
San Diego Padres baseball broadcaster Jerry Coleman died Sunday, January 5, 2014, after a brief illness. He was 89.
Russell Johnson, as the professor on "Gilligan's Island" died Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. He was 89.
Don Everly, of the Everly Brothers died Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. He was 74. Everly died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at a Burbank hospital, said his son Jason Everly.
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Edward Herrmann after presenting an award at the 39th International Emmy Awards, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in New York.
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