In the year 2014
1,224 Notable deaths
Hitoshi Motoshima
Japanese politician (1922-2014).
Born February 20th, 1922 in Nagasaki.
Died October 31st, 2014 at 92 years old in Nagasaki.
Birgitta Stenberg
Swedish author.
Born April 26th, 1932 in Stockholm, Engelbrekt church parish.
Died August 23rd, 2014 at 82 years old (liver cancer).
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
South african middle distance runner (1980-2014).
Born September 8th, 1980 in Limpopo.
Died October 24th, 2014 at 34 years old in Witbank (traffic collision). [ref]
John Shirley-Quirk
English bass-baritone.
Born August 28th, 1932 in Liverpool.
Died April 7th, 2014 at 81 years old in Bath (disease).
Bruno Zumino
Italian physicist (1923–2014).
Born April 28th, 1923 in Rome.
Died June 22nd, 2014 at 91 years old in Berkeley.
Genpei Akasegawa
Japanese artist, photographer and writer (1937–2014).
Born March 27th, 1937 in Yokohama.
Died October 26th, 2014 at 77 years old in Machida (sepsis).
Emmanuel III Delly
Patriarch of the chaldean catholic church (1927–2014).
Born October 26th, 1927 in Tel Keppe. [ref]
Died April 8th, 2014 at 86 years old in San Diego (disease).
Antonio Cafiero
Argentine politician (1922–2014).
Born September 12th, 1922 in Buenos Aires.
Died October 13th, 2014 at 92 years old in Buenos Aires (pneumonia).
Sheik Umar Khan
Sierra leonean virologist (1975-2014).
Born March 6th, 1975 in Sierra Leone.
Died July 29th, 2014 at 39 years old in Sierra Leone (Ebola hemorrhagic fever).
Julio Abbadie
Uruguayan footballer (1930-2014).
Born September 7th, 1930 in San Ramón. [ref]
Died July 16th, 2014 at 83 years old in Montevideo. [ref]
Atef Ebeid
Egyptian politician (1932-2014).
Born April 14th, 1932 in Tanta.
Died September 12th, 2014 at 82 years old [ref]
Giorgio Gaslini
Italian pianist, composer and conductor (1929–2014).
Born October 22nd, 1929 in Milan. [ref]
Died July 29th, 2014 at 84 years old in Borgo Val di Taro (falling from height). [ref]
Juan Formell
Cuban musician (1942–2014).
Born August 2nd, 1942 in Cuba.
Died May 1st, 2014 at 71 years old in Havana. [ref]
Carolyn Kizer
American poet (1925–2014).
Born December 10th, 1925 in Spokane. [ref]
Died October 9th, 2014 at 88 years old in Sonoma (dementia).
Mel Patton
American athletics competitor (1924-2014).
Born November 16th, 1924 in Los Angeles.
Died May 9th, 2014 at 89 years old in Fallbrook (diabetes).
Blagoje Paunović
Serbian football player/manager (1947-2014).
Born June 4th, 1947 in Medveđa.
Died December 9th, 2014 at 67 years old in Belgrade. [ref]
Ina Bauer
German figure skater (1941-2014).
Born January 31st, 1941 in Krefeld.
Died December 13th, 2014 at 73 years old in Krefeld.
Marvin Leonard Goldberger
American theoretical physicist (1922–2014).
Born October 22nd, 1922 in Chicago.
Died November 26th, 2014 at 92 years old in La Jolla.
James McEwan
Canoe racer (1952-2014).
Born September 24th, 1952 in Olney.
Died June 14th, 2014 at 61 years old (multiple myeloma).
Stanisław Mikulski
Polish actor (1929-2014).
Born May 1st, 1929 in Łódź. [ref]
Died November 27th, 2014 at 85 years old in Warsaw (stroke). [ref]
Elena Varzi
Italian actress.
Born December 21st, 1926 in Rome.
Died September 1st, 2014 at 87 years old in Sperlonga (heart failure).
Ayşe Nana
Turkish actor and dancer of armenian ancestry (1936–2014).
Born February 10th, 1936 in Istanbul. [ref]
Died January 29th, 2014 at 77 years old in Rome (cancer).
Manuel Cardona Castro
Spanish physicist (1934–2014).
Born September 7th, 1934 in Barcelona.
Died July 2nd, 2014 at 79 years old in Stuttgart.
Ștefan Andrei
Romanian politician (1931–2014).
Born March 29th, 1931 in Podari.
Died August 31st, 2014 at 83 years old in Snagov (disease).
Moshe Gil
Israeli historian (1921–2014).
Born February 8th, 1921 in Białystok.
Died January 23rd, 2014 at 92 years old in Tel Aviv.
Deaths 676 to 700 of 1224
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy