List of Famous people who died in 2014

Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams
First Name Robin
Last Name Williams
Born on July 21, 1951
Died on August 11, 2014 (aged 63)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and a wide variety of voices, he is often regarded as one of the best comedians of all time. Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s, and rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–1982).

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Harold Ramis

Harold Allen Ramis
First Name Harold
Last Name Ramis
Born on November 21, 1944
Died on February 24, 2014 (aged 69)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, director and writer. His best-known film acting roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in was Year One (2009).

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Billy Milligan

First Name Billy
Last Name Milligan
Born on February 14, 1955
Died on December 13, 2014 (aged 59)

William Stanley Milligan was an American citizen who was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s. After having committed several felonies including armed robbery, he was arrested for three rapes on the campus of Ohio State University. In the course of preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with multiple personality disorder. His lawyers plead insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to raise such a defense, and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in mental hospitals.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
First Name Gabriel
Last Name Márquez
Born on March 6, 1927
Died on April 17, 2014 (aged 87)

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958 he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

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Juan José Esparragoza Moreno

First Name Juan
Last Name Moreno
Born on February 3, 1949
Died on June 7, 2014 (aged 65)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, commonly referred to by his alias El Azul, is a Mexican drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. Originally a member of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) police agency, he founded the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s along with other drug kingpins in Mexico. Following its disintegration in the late 1980s, he went on to lead the Juárez Cartel and eventually settled in the Sinaloa Cartel. He worked alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, once considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

First Name Philip
Last Name Hoffman
Born on July 23, 1967
Died on February 2, 2014 (aged 46)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer. Known for playing distinctive supporting and character roles, he acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of his generation.

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Gary Plauche

First Name Gary
Last Name Plauche
Born on November 10, 1945
Died on October 20, 2014 (aged 68)

Leon Gary Plauché was an American man known for the 1984 vigilante killing of Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped and molested Plauché's son, Jody. The killing occurred on Friday, March 16, 1984, and was captured on camera by a local news crew. Although Plauché shot and killed Doucet, he was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 hours of community service for the shooting and received no prison time. The case received wide publicity because some people questioned whether Plauché should have been charged with murder or let off. Plauché stated that he was in the right, and that those in a similar position would have done the same thing.

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Phillip Hughes

First Name Phillip
Last Name Hughes
Born on November 30, 1988
Died on November 27, 2014 (aged 25)

Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20. He made his One Day International Debut in 2013.

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Shirley Temple

First Name Shirley
Last Name Temple
Born on April 23, 1928
Died on February 10, 2014 (aged 85)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat who was Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. As an adult, she was named United States ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.

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Robert Hansen

Robert Christian Hansen
First Name Robert
Last Name Hansen
Born on February 15, 1939
Died on August 21, 2014 (aged 75)

Robert Christian Hansen, known in the media as the "Butcher Baker," was an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. He was arrested and convicted in 1983, and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

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