2014 deaths

Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. Williams received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards, as well as five Grammy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005.

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

South African writer (1923–2014)

Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006

American actress (1924–2014)

Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)

American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor. He was known for his distinctive supporting character roles—eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits—and memorable leading roles in many films and theatrical productions, from the early 1990s until his early death in 2014. He was voted the greatest actor of the 21st century in a 2024 ranking by The Independent.

Argentine-Spanish association football player (1926–2014)

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

Polish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989

American folk singer (1919–2014)

British singer (1944–2014)

English actor (1942–2014)

Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981)

Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor (1930–2014)

American actor (1920–2014)

Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947-2014)

German-born actress (1910–2014)

American economist (1930-2014)

Italian conductor (1933–2014)

American actor (1915–2014)

French film director (1922-2014)

French mathematician (1928–2014)

American actor (1939–2014)

Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (1916–2014)

Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)

American director and comedian (1931–2014)

American film and television actor (1928–2014)

Australian racing driver (1926–2014)

Spanish football player and manager (1938–2014)

American biologist (1929–2014)

Austrian singer and composer (1934–2014)

President of the Republic of Haiti (1951-2014)

German author (1926-2014)

American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)

American voice actor (1932–2014)

Zambian politician (1937–2014)

American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1944–2014)

politician and former church minister (1926-2014)

English crime writer (1920-2014)

British politician (1925–2014)

American author

Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999

German-born American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)

American political scientist (1915–2014)

Indian yoga teacher and scholar (1918–2014)

American actor (1928–2014)

Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist

queen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)

Polish poet, dramatist and writer

French-American conductor (1930-2014)

British musician (1943–2014)

Swiss artist (1940–2014)

Soviet Cosmonaut (1935-2014)

Belgian politician (1922–2014)

Israeli politician (1928-2014)

Sierra Leonean President (1932–2014)

Italian racing driver (1959-2014)

American actor (1918–2014)