Casey Kasem

The American Top 40 radio host who crafted a long and lucrative career out of counting down to No. 1 died on Father's Day, June 15, at age 82. Kasem, who hosted the syndicated weekend show for nearly four decades, died of complications from dementia at St. Anthony's Hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash.

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Ann B. Davis

Ann B. Davis, best known as ever chipper live-in housekeeper Alice Nelson on the popular ABC series The Brady Bunch, died Sunday, June 1, in San Antonio, after taking a bad fall in her home. She was 88.

Maya Angelou

Poet and author Maya Angelou -- who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page -- died on May 28. She was 86.

Malik Bendjelloul

Malik Bendjelloul, the film director behind the Oscar-winning music documentary Searching for Sugarman, was found dead Tuesday, May 13, in Stockholm at age 36. Police wouldn't specify the cause of death. Sugarman, which detailed the life and career of American singer Sixto Rodriguez, was awarded with the Oscar for best documentary in 2013.

Bob Hoskins

British actor Bob Hoskins died in April after a battle with pneumonia. He was 71. A character actor known for playing tough guys with soft centers, Hoskins' credits range from his Oscar-nominated turn in the noir drama Mona Lisa to a role in the part-animated 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He retired from acting in 2012 after completing his last role as one of the seven dwarves in the Kristen Stewart starrer Snow White and the Huntsman. "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Bob," said a statement from wife Linda and children Alex, Sarah, Rosa and Jack.

Phyllis Frelich

Phyllis Frelich, the deaf actress who won the best actress Tony Award in 1980 for her performance in the best play winner Children of a Lesser God, died on April 10. She was 70.

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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney, the pint-sized ball of energy who starred as Andy Hardy, America's boy next door, in 16 films for MGM — merely one highlight in an irrepressible and unimaginable nine-decade career in show business — died on April 6. He was 93.

Dave Brockie

Dave Brockie — known to fans as Oderus Urungus, the frontman for gore-loving heavy metal band GWAR — was found dead at his Richmond, Va., home on March 23. The singer was 50.

James Rebhorn

James Rebhorn, the busy character actor who played the father of Claire Danes' troubled CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the Showtime drama Homeland, died Friday, March 21. He was 65.

L'Wren Scott

L'Wren Scott, designer and girlfriend of Mick Jagger, was found dead on Monday morning, March 17. She was found hanging in her apartment at 200 Eleventh Avenue by her assistant at around 10 a.m. ET. She was 49. Last month, the designer canceled her London show due to production delays. Instead, Scott was planning to unveil her fall 2014 collection via social media earlier this month, but that apparently had been delayed.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the stars of the British cooking show Two Fat Ladies, died Saturday, March 15, at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary following a long illness. She was 66. Dickson Wright filmed four seasons of Two Fat Ladies along with Jennifer Paterson, who died in 1999 of cancer.

David Brenner

David Brenner, the wry stand-up comic and pundit from Philadelphia who as a favorite of Johnny Carson appeared more times on The Tonight Show than any other guest, died Saturday, March 15, of cancer. He was 78.

Harold Ramis

The writer, director and actor behind such comedy classics as Animal House, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters died on Monday, Feb. 24 from complications related to auto-immune inflammatory vasculitis, a condition he had battled for the past four years. He was 69. 

Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite, who was beloved to TV viewers as the ultimate father figure, John Walton, on The Waltons, died on Feb. 13 at his home in South Palm Desert.

Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar, the intelligent and yet nonsensical comic who forever changed the course of television with his groundbreaking 1950s live Saturday night variety shows Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, died at 91.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple, the enchanting singing and dancing child star with the glowing corkscrew curls who saved a Hollywood studio and helped yank America from the throes of the Great Depression, died on Feb. 10 of natural causes at her Woodside, California home, surrounded by her family and caregivers. She was 85.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman died on Feb. 2 in his New York City apartment. He was 46. Police found Hoffman dead on the floor of the bathroom in the apartment with envelopes allegedly containing heroin in the residence. Hoffman won the best actor Oscar for playing Truman Capote. Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, Hoffman also was Oscar nominated for his supporting work in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012). He received Tony Award noms for True West (2000), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2003) and, as Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman (2012).

Tom Sherak

Tom Sherak, former Academy president and studio executive at 20th Century Fox and Revolution Studios, died Jan. 28 at his home in Calabasas, Calif., after battling prostate cancer for a dozen years. He was 68.

Pete Seeger

Iconic folk singer Pete Seeger, who was once blacklisted in the 1950s for crooning songs of protest, died Jan. 27 of natural causes in New York. He was 94. 

Dave Madden

Dave Madden, who played band manager Reuben Kincaid in the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, died Jan. 16 in a hospice care center in Jacksonville, Florida at age 82.

Ruth Robinson Duccini

Ruth Robinson Duccini, best known for her role as a Munchkin in the 1939 classic The Wizard Oz, died of natural causes at age 95. Duccini was residing at a hospice care center in Las Vegas when she passed on Jan. 16.

Donald Engel

Attorney Donald Engel, known for representing top music stars in legal contract cases of the 1980s and 1990s, died Jan. 15 at age 84 after a long fight against leukemia. Engel is notably credited for leading Olivia Newton-John to victory against MCA Records in a 1979 court case regarding contract disagreements.

Frank Marth

Frank Marth, best known for his recurring roles in the popular 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners, died Jan. 12 of congestive heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease at age 91.

Russell Johnson

Russell Johnson, best known for playing Professor Roy Hinkley on the 1960s comedy Gilligan’s Island, passed away on Jan. 16 due to kidney failure. He was 89.

Richard Shepherd

Breakfast at Tiffany’s producer Richard Shepherd, who also headed production at MGM and Warner Bros, died Jan. 14 in his Los Angeles home. Shepherd had been fighting a long illness before losing the battle to kidney failure at age 86.

Juanita Moore

Juanita Moore, who became the fifth African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award when she garnered an Oscar nom for her role in 1959’s Imitation of Life, died on Jan. 1 at age 99.

Ken Anderson

KISS production manager Ken Anderson died of cancer on Dec. 15, 2013 at age 75, though his family did not publicly reveal the news of his passing until later in January. Anderson was most noted for overseeing the over-the-top stage shows of rock band KISS from 1976-1982. 

Carmen Zapata

Carmen Zapata, Sister Act actress and co-founder of Los Angeles’ Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, had been suffering from a heart condition when she passed away Jan. 5 at her home in Van Nuys. She was 86.

Larry D. Mann

Larry D. Mann, best known for voicing the role of Yukon Cornelius in the animated holiday classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, died Jan. 6 of age-related causes, according to son Richard Mann. He was 91.

Monica Spear

Telenova actress Monica Spear, also known as former Miss Venezuela, was killed on Jan. 6 along with her ex-husband Henry Thomas Berry after resisting a robbery in Caracas, Venezuela. According to authorities, the pair had been awaiting a tow truck to assist them after their car broke down when the attack occurred. Spear was 29.

Phil Everly

Phil Everly, one half of The Everly Brothers, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Jan. 3. He was 74. The country-rock duo was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and the Country Music Hall of Fame later in 2001.

Run Run Shaw

Legendary media mogul Run Run Shaw, credited as a leading pioneer of the Chinese entertainment industry, passed away at his home in Hong Kong on Jan. 7. He was 106.

Saul Zaentz

Academy Award-winning film producer Saul Zaentz passed away from complications of Alzheimer’s on Jan. 3 at age 92. Zaentz won three Oscars for 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1984’s Amadeus and 1996’s The English Patient.