People we lost in 2014

Phil Everly, right, of the musical duo The Everly Brothers, looks at his plaque in the Country Music Hall of Fame along with his sons, Chris, left, and Jason, in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 4, 2001. Everly, who with his brother Don formed an influential harmony duo that touched the hearts and sparked the imaginations of rock 'n' roll singers for decades, including the Beatles and Bob Dylan, died Jan. 3, 2014. He was 74.

Russell Johnson

This Oct. 2, 1978 file photo shows Russell Johnson, who played "The Professor" on "Gilligan's Island," posing during filming of a two-hour reunion show, "The Return from Gilligan's Island," in Los Angeles. Johnson died Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at his home in Washington State of natural causes. He was 89.

Pete Seeger

This Sept. 21, 2013 photo shows Pete Seeger performing on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The American troubadour, folk singer and activist died on Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman attends the "God's Pocket" premiere during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 17, 2014, in Park City, Utah. Hoffman, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote" and created a gallery of other vivid characters, died Feb. 2, 2014, from a toxic mix of heroin and other drugs. He was 46.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple accepts the Life Achievement Award onstage during the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 29, 2006, in Los Angeles. Temple, the curly-haired child star who put smiles on the faces of Depression-era moviegoers, died died Feb. 10, 2014, at the age of 85.

Sid Caesar

In this May 5, 2002 file photo, Sid Caesar, of "Your Show of Shows," arrives at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration in New York. Caesar, whose sketches lit up 1950s television with zany humor, died Feb. 12, 2014. He was 91.

Ralph Waite

This photo released by CBS shows Ralph Waite, as Jackson Gibbs, in an episode "The Namesake" from "NCIS." Waite, who played the father in TV's hit series "The Waltons," died Feb. 13, 2014, at the age of 85.

Bob Casale

Bob Casale performs live at The 2010 KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, Calif., on June 5, 2010. Casale, the guitarist for Devo, best known for the 1980 hit "Whip It," died of heart failure on Feb 17, 2014. He was 61.

Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis attends the "Meet the Oscars" exhibit at The Shops at North Bridge on Feb. 25, 2010, in Chicago. Ramis, the filmmaker behind "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day" and a star in "Ghostbusters," died Feb. 24, 2014, from complications related to auto-immune inflammatory vasculitis. He was 69.

Sheila MacRae

Actress Sheila MacRae arrives at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on June 26, 2004, in North Hollywood, California. MacRae, best known for playing Alice Kramden to Jackie Gleason's Ralph in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners," died March 6, 2014. She was 92.

Scott Asheton

Scott Asheton, drummer for the influential punk rock band the Stooges, performs during the Vegoose music festival at Sam Boyd Stadium's Star Nursery Field Oct. 27, 2007, in Las Vegas. Asheton died March 15, 2014, at the age of 64.

David Brenner

Comedian David Brennerposes for cameras at the screening of "The Aristrocrats" during Cinevegas 2005 at the Palms Casino on June 13, 2005, in Las Vegas. Brenner, the gangly, toothy-grinned "Tonight Show" favorite whose brand of observational comedy became a staple for other standups, including Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser, died March 15, 2014. He was 78.

L'Wren Scott

This Oct. 18, 2012, file photo shows L'Wren Scott at the London Film Festival American Express Gala for "The Rolling Stones - Crossfire Hurricane" in London. Scott, a fashion designer and the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, committed suicide on March 17, 2014. She was 49.

James Rebhorn

In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, actor James Rebhorn attends the premiere of "The Box", in New York. Rebhorn passed away on March 21, 2014, at his home in New Jersey after a long battle with melanoma. He was 65.

Kate O'Mara

In this Oct. 6, 1998, file photo, British actress Kate O'Mara poses for photographers. O'Mara, best known for her role in the 1980s soap opera "Dynasty," died after a short illness on March 30, 2014, at the age of 74,

Frankie Knuckles

DJ Frankie Knuckles plays at the Def Mix 20th Anniversary Weekender at Turnmills nightclub on May 6, 2007, in London. Knuckles, a Grammy-winning Chicago disc jockey known as the "Godfather of House Music" who worked with artists including Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, died March 31, 2014, at age 59.

John Pinette

In this Nov 5, 2008, file photo, John Pinette arrives to the 2nd annual Stand Up For Heroes: A Benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation in New York. Pinette, the stand-up comedian who portrayed a hapless carjacking victim in the final episode of "Seinfeld,"  died April 5, 2014, of natural causes. He was 50.

Mickey Rooney

In this March 19, 1957, file photo, actor, singer and dancer Mickey Rooney performs a dance routine during rehearsal for the television show "George M. Cohan Story" in Hollywood, Calif. Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, died April 6, 2014, at his North Hollywood home. He was 93.

Peaches Geldof

Peaches Geldof attends The BRIT Awards 2014 at 02 Arena on Feb. 19, 2014, in London. Geldof, the wild-child second daughter of concert organizer Bob Geldof who worked as a model, a television presenter and a fashion writer, died April 7, 2014, of a heroin overdose. She was 25.

Ultimate Warrior

The Ultimate Warrior speaks during the WWE Hall of Fame Induction at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on April 5, 2014. The wrestler, whose real name was James Brian Hellwig, died April 8, 2014, of cardiovascular disease, according to authorities. He was 54.

Kevin Sharp

This image provided by Sue Veldkamp shows a book cover of Kevin Sharp. Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, died April 19, 2014, in Fair Oaks, Calif. He was 43.

Bob Hoskins

British actor Bob Hoskins attends the Moet British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate Market on Dec. 5, 2010, in London. Hoskins, who found fame with roles in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and dozens of other films,  died April 29, 2014, after a bout of pneumonia. He was 71.

H.R. Giger

Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at an art museum in Chur, Switzerland, on June 29, 2007. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," died May 12, 2014, at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall.

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou speaks on stage during the 34th Annual AWRT Gracie Awards Gala at The New York Marriott Marquis on June 3, 2009, in New York. The acclaimed poet and author died at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., on May 28, 2014. She was 86.

Ann B. Davis

Ann B. Davis poses for photos in the audience of the 5th Annual TV Land Awards held at Barker Hangar on April 14, 2007, in Santa Monica, California. Davis, best known for being the wiseacre maid on TV's "The Brady Bunch," died after a fall on June 1, 2014. She was 88.

Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall attends the British Comedy Awards at Fountain Studios on Dec. 16, 2011, in London. Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, died June 9, 2014, at the age of 56.

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee attends "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" New York Series Premiere at the Paris Theater on Oct. 16, 2013, in New York. Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio, television and film, died June 11, 2014. She was 91.

Casey Kasem

Casey Kasem arrives at the 13th Annual Night of 100 Stars Oscar Viewing Black Tie Gala, Feb. 29, 2004, in Beverly Hills, California. Kasem, the radio personality who rose to fame with the music countdown shows "American Top 40" and "Casey's Top 40," died on June 15, 2014. He was 82.

Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on Feb. 27, 2011, in Hollywood, Calif. The star of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "The Magnificent Seven," died on June 24, 2014, at his New York City home. He was 98.

Bobby Womack

Musician Bobby Womack poses for a photo on June 22, 2012, in Los Angeles. Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, died at age 70 on June 27, 2014.

Meshach Taylor

Meshach Taylor poses for a photo on Sept. 28, 2008, in Los Angeles. The actor, who appeared in the hit sitcoms "Designing Women" and "Dave's World," died of cancer on June 28, 2014. He was 67.

Paul Mazursky

Paul Mazursky attends The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' Salute To Stanley Kubrick on Nov. 7, 2012, in Beverly Hills, California. Mazursky, the innovative and versatile director who showed the absurdity of modern life in such movies as "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "An Unmarried Woman," died of pulmonary cardiac arrest on July 1, 2014. He was 84.

Tommy Ramone

Tommy Ramone attends the Recording Academy hosted Special Merit Awards Ceremony at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Feb. 12, 2011, in Los Angeles. Ramone, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, died July 11, 2014, at the age of 65.

Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter performs on stage on July 19, 2008 during the XII Jazz Festival in Valencia's Palau de la Musica. The Texas blues icon, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and '70s for his energetic performances and musical collaborations, died July 16, 2014. He was 70.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch attends the Broadway opening night of "High" at the Booth Theatre on April 19, 2011, in New York. The star of stage, film and television known for her husky voice and brassy demeanor died of natural causes on July 17, 2014, at age 89.

James Garner

James Garner poses in the press room with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Feb. 5, 2005, in Los Angeles. Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's Romance," was found dead of natural causes on July 19, 2014. He was 86.

James Shigeta

James Shigeta, right, attends a press conference about Asian-Americans in the U.S. film industry at the 54th International Film Festival of Locarno, Switzerland, Aug. 8, 2001. Shigeta, who played the lead in the 1961 movie musical "Flower Drum Song" and had a small role in the first "Die Hard," died at an assisted-living facility on July 28, 2014. He was 85.

Robin Williams

Robin Williams speaks onstage during the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept.22, 2013. The actor and comedian, who found fame on "Mork & Mindy" and starred in films like "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Aladdin" and "Good Will Hunting," committed suicide on Aug. 11, 2014. He was 63.

Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall smiles after arriving in Chicago Feb. 1, 1945. Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, the model-turned-actress who starred with husband Humphrey Bogart in classic movies such as "Key Largo" and "To Have and Have Not," died Aug. 12, 2014, at age 89.

Don Pardo

Don Pardo arrives at the Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences' 19th Annual Hall Of Fame Induction at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 20, 2010, in Beverly Hills, California. Pardo, the durable television and radio announcer who was the longtime announcer for "Saturday Night Live," died Aug. 18, 2014, at age 96.

Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough attends the Galaxy British Book Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on April 9, 2008, in London. The actor and Oscar-winning director for the much-lauded "Gandhi" died Aug. 24, 2014, at age 90.

Jimi Jamison

Jimi Jamison, lead singer of Survivor, performs the band's song "Eye of the Tiger" as boxer Manny Pacquiao walks out to the ring to take on Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Nov. 12, 2011, in Las Vegas. Jamison died Aug. 31, 2014, at the age of 63.

Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers attends the after party for the Broadway opening night of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical" at Pier 60 on March 20, 2011, in New York. Rivers, the author, reality star and fashion critic who was a pioneer for women in stand-up comedy and television, died at a New York hospital on Sept. 4, 2014, after going into cardiac arrest during a throat procedure at a Manhattan clinic on Aug. 28. She was 81.

Simone Battle

Simone Battle of the band G.R.L. is seen at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 22, 2014. Battle was found dead of an apparent suicide in her West Hollywood, Calif., home on Sept. 5, 2014. She was 25.

Paul Revere

In a July 1967 file photo, Paul Revere, front, and the Raiders are seen in character. Revere, the organist and leader of the Raiders rock band, died of cancer on Oct. 4, 2014. He was 76.

Geoffrey Holder

Actor Geoffrey Holder attends the 2010 Anglo-American Cultural Gala Awards reception on Oct. 25, 2010, in New York. The multifaceted award-winning performer who earned two Tonys in directing and costume design for "The Wiz," died Oct. 5, 2014. He was 84.

Misty Upham

Misty Upham attends the premiere of The Weinstein Company's "August: Osage County" at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Dec. 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. The actress, who appeared in "August: Osage County" and "Django Unchained," died Oct. 5, 2014, at the age of 32.

Jan Hooks

Jan Hooks attends the "Lalawood" after party and festival closer during the 29th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 18, 2004, in Toronto, Canada. The "Saturday Night Live" alumna died Oct. 9, 2014, after a long illness. She was 57.

Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel, right, as Jaws and Roger Moore, as James Bond, are shown fighting in the 1977 film, "The Spy Who Loved Me." Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, died Oct. 10, 2014, at the age of 74.

Elizabeth Pena

Elizabeth Pena arrives at the 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards in a tent on the beach on Feb. 26, 2005, in Santa Monica. California. Pena, the versatile actress who shifted between dramatic roles in such films as "Lone Star" and comedic parts in TV shows like "Modern Family," died Oct. 14, 2014, from complications stemming from alcohol abuse. She was 55.

Oscar de la Renta

Designer Oscar de la Renta and model Karlie Kloss walk the runway at the Oscar de la Renta fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 on September 9, 2014, in New York. The designer whose dresses adorned royalty, first ladies and celebrities in a career that spanned more than five decades died of cancer on Oct. 20, 2014, at his home in Connecticut. He was 82.

Jack Bruce

Musician Jack Bruce attends the 2011 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center on Jan. 13, 2011. Bruce, best known as the bassist from the 1960s group Cream, died on Oct. 25, 2014. He was 71.

Marcia Strassman

Marcia Strassman attends the 2003 TCA Press Tour on Jan. 7, 2003, in Hollywood, California. Strassman, who played Gabe Kaplan's wife, Julie, on the hit 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Oct. 25, 2014, after battling breast cancer. She was 66.

​​Carol Ann Susi

Carol Ann Susi, the actress best known for voicing the unseen Mrs. Wolowitz on "The Big Bang Theory" died Nov. 11, 2014, after a brief battle with cancer. She was 62.

Diem Brown

Diem Brown steps out on July 26, 2014, for an event in Water Mill City, New York. The "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" star and advocate for cancer survivors died Nov. 14, 2014, after a long battle with cancer. She was 32.

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols speaks onstage while receiving the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award on June 10, 2010 in Culver City, California. Nichols, a gifted director whose film, TV and stage hits such as "The Graduate," "Working Girl" and ''Angels in America" amplified the aspirations and tragic losses of generations, died Nov. 19. 2014. He was 83.

Bobby Keys

Bobby Keys, a saxophonist and life-long rock 'n roller who played on recordings by Buddy Holly and John Lennon and performed one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, on Dec. 2, 2014. He was 70.

Ian McLagan

Ian McLagan performs at Grimey's Americanarama on Sept. 20, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee. The Rolling Stones collaborator and Faces keyboardist died on Dec. 2, 2014, after suffering a stroke a day earlier. He was 69.

Ken Weatherwax

From left to right, are John Astin, who played Gomez Addams, Felix Silla, who was Cousin It, Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams and Ken Weatherwax, who was Pugsley Addams. Weatherwax, who played the child character Pugsley on "The Addams Family" television series in the 1960s, died of a heart attack on Dec. 7, 2014. He was 59.

Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker performs during a concert of his "Hard Knocks" world tour in Mannheim, southwestern Germany, on Dec. 3, 2010. The British singer, best known for his cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends," died after a battle with lung cancer on Dec. 22, 2014. He was 70.

Buddy DeFranco

NEA Jazz Master Honoree Buddy DeFranco speaks during the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Induction on Jan. 13, 2006, in New York. The renowned jazz clarinetist -- who collaborated with Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other top singers and musicians of his era -- died Dec. 24, 2014, at the age of 91.

Luise Rainer

Luise Rainer attends a ceremony honoring her with a Star on the Berlin Walk of Fame on Sept. 5, 2011, in Berlin. Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era who was the first to win back-to-back Oscars, died at her home in London from pneumonia on Dec. 29, 2014. She was 104.