A Year In Review
Last Updated: December 22
Our 2014 Scoring Roster
Headliners
Big deaths rendered meaningless because nobody scored.
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Seymour Hoffman |
Harold Ramis | Bob Hoskins | Robin Williams | Joan Rivers |
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The B-List
Folks who, while not quite rising to the level of Headliner, were still of note.
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James Avery
(12/31, 68) Uncle Phil!! Wild Bill Guarnere (3/8, 90) Easy Company veteran from Band of Brothers David Brenner (3/15, 78) longtime standup. Was funny in the 70s David McDuffie (3/9, 86) allegedly this guy |
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James Rebhorn
(3/12, 65) ubiquitous character actor John Pinette (4/5, 50) standup comic and Broadway star Gabriel Garcia Marquez (4/17, 87) Nobel winning author Ruby Dee (6/11, 91) actor, civil rights activist, married to Ossie Davis |
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Rik Mayall
(6/9, 56) influential British comic Meshach Taylor (6/28, 67) Designing Women star Elaine Stritch (7/17, 89) Broadway and later tv star Don Pardo (8/18, 96) SNL announcer |
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Lord Richard
Attenborough (8/24, 90) Director, producer, actor Richard Kiel (9/10, 74) Bond villain Jaws Geoffrey Holder (10/5, 84) actor, dancer, the 7Up Un-Cola guy Jan Hooks (10/9, 57) SNL great |
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Elizabeth Pena (10/14,
55) La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder, Modern Family Oscar De La Renta (10/20, 82) fashion designer Gerard Parkes (10/20, 90) from Fraggle Rock Glen Larson (11/14, 77) created Battlestar Galactica, Quincy, Fall Guy, Magnum PI and Knight Rider. Dang. |
The C-List
Minor celebrities, various other entertainment names.
Ruth Robinson Duccini (1/16, 95) Last of Oz's female Munchkins Ben Starr (1/19, 92) Co-creator of Silver Spoons and Facts of Life Maximilian Schell (1/31, 83) Oscar-winning actor Arthur Rankin, Jr. (1/30, 89) animator behind the 60's Rudolph special John Henson (2/14, 48) Son of Jim, often played Sweetums Ralph Waite (2/13, 85) Pa Walton Garrick Utley (2/20, 74) longtime NBC newsman Tom Wilson (2/26, 52) country comic, wrote lots of song parodies for the Bob & Tom show Clarissa Dickson Wright (3/15, 66) the last of Two Fat Ladies Otto Petersen (4/13, 53) ventriloquist of Otto & George Al Feldstein (4/29, 88) longtime editor of Mad Magazine Bunny Yeager (5/25, 85) pinup model turned photographer, shot many Playaboy centerfolds Daniel Keyes (6/15, 86) author of Flowers For Algernon Dave Legeno (7/6, 50) Fenrir Greyback in the Harry Potter movies Dick Jones (7/7, 87) voice of Pinocchio Dick Smith (7/30, 92) Godfather of Makeup, multiple Oscar winner Marilyn Burns (8/5, 65) star of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tom Magliozzi (11/3, 77) Half of CarTalk's Click and Clack Carol Ann Susi (11/11, 62) Big Bang Theory's off-screen mom Ken Weatherwax (12/7, 59) played Pugsley Addams
Sports
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James Hellwig
(4/8, 54) wrestling's The Ultimate Warrior Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (4/20, 76) wrongfully imprisoned boxer Don Zimmer (6/4, 83) longtime baseball player and coach Chuck Noll (6/13, 82) won four Super Bowls with the 70's Steelers |
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Tony Gwynn (6/16, 54) Padres Hall of Famer. Best hitter of his generation |
Ralph Kiner (2/6, 91) Baseball Hall of Famer and Mets broadcaster Jim Fregosi (2/14, 71) All-star MLB player and manager Dr. Frank Jobe (3/6, 88) invented the "Tommy John" surgery William Clay Ford, Sr. (3/9, 88) last grandson of Henry, owner of the Detroit Lions Ralph Wilson (3/25, 95) founder and only owner of the Buffalo Bills Dr. Jack Ramsay (4/28, 89) longtime basketball coach and broadcaster Rob Bironas (9/20, 36) Longtime Titans kicker Oscar Taveres (10/26, 22) Cardinals outfielder Alvin Dark (11/13, 92) longtime MLB manager
Music
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Phil Everly
(1/3, 74) half of the singing Everly Brothers Pete Seeger (1/27, 94) bedrock of the American Folk Music movement Tommy Ramone (7/11, 65) drummer and last original Ramone Johnny Winter (7/16, 70) legendary blues guitarist |
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Joe Cocker
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Bob Casale (2/17, 61) guitarist, Devo Franny Beecher (2/24, 92) guitarist, Bill Haley & the Comets Scott Asheton (3/15, 64) drummer, The Stooges Dave Brockie (3/23, 50) lead singer, as Oderus Urungus, of GWAR Arthur Smith (4/3, 93) wrote Dueling Banjos Jerry Vale (5/18, 83) one of the biggest crooners of the 50s and 60s Malcolm Glazer (5/28, 85) owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United Dick Wagner (7/30, 71) rock guitarist who played with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed Glenn Cornick (8/28, 67) bassist, Jethro Tull Bob Crewe (9/11, 83) writer and producer with the Four Seasons Paul Revere (10/4, 76) of "and the Raiders" Tim Hauser (10/16, 72) founder, Manhattan Transfer Henry Lee Jackson (11/11, 55) Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank Jack Bruce (10/25, 71) Cream bassist
Business / Politics / History
| Hiroo Onoda (1/16, 91)
Japanese WWII soldier that surrendered out of a Philippine jungle
in 1974 Ken Forsse (3/19, 77) inventor of Teddy Ruxpin Chester Nez (6/4, 93) last of the original Navajo Code Talkers Paul Amos (7/2, 88) cofounder of Aflac James Brady (8/4, 73) Regan press secretary, shot during the 1981 assassination attempt Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier (10/4, 63) former Haitian dictator Donald Stookey (11/4, 99) inventor of Corningwear |
Maria Von Trapp (2/18,
99) Last surviving singing sibling Charles Keating, Jr. (3/31, 90) that savings & loan scandal guy Dr. John Bergan (6/11, 87) performed first kidney transplant, 1964 Eduard Shevardnadze (7/7, 86) former Soviet foreign minister Werner Franz (8/3, 92) last surviving Hindenberg crew member Comer Cottrell (10/3, 82) owned the company that invented Jheri Curl R.A. Montgomery (11/9, 78) Author of Choose Your Own Adventure books |
L'Wren Scott (3/17, 49)
fashion designer, girlfriend of Mick Jagger Jeb Magruder (5/11, 79) White House aide during Watergate Stephanie Kwolek (6/18, 90) inventor of Kevlar Dutch van Kirk (7/28, 93) last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay S. Truett Cathy (9/8, 93) founder of Chik-Fil-A Jerrie Mock (9/30, 88) first female pilot to fly solo around the world |
It's All Relative
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Sandburg Crile (1/26, 95) daughter of Carl Sandburg Joan Mondale (2/3, 83) wife of Walter Carmen Berra (3/6, 85) wife of Yogi Amanda Dempsey (3/24, 79) mother of Patrick Antoinette D'Amato (4/24, 99) mother of Senator Alfonse Paul Fleiss (7/19, 80) father of Heidi Laura Kostyra Plimpton (8/6, 59) sister of Martha Stewart |
Paul Warhola (1/29, 91)
brother of Andy Warhol Arthur Ortenberg (2/3, 87) widower of Liz Claiborne Patrice Wymore Flynn (3/22, 87) widow of Errol Lynda Petty (3/25, 72) wife of NASCAR's Richard Lady Mary Soames (5/31, 91) last child of Churchill Rosalind Nyman Joel (7/13, 92) mother of Billy Tony Kidman (9/12, 80) father of Nicole |
Betty Moffitt (2/7, 91)
mother of Billie Jean King Nancy Motes (2/9, 37) estranged half sister of Julia and Eric Roberts Peaches Geldof (4/7, 25) model daughter of Bob Francis Moore (4/19, 92) father of filmmaker Michael Louis Brown, Jr. (7/3, 90) father of Nicole Brown Simpson Jessica Barrymore (7/29, 47) half-sister of Drew Frank Torre (9/13, 82) brother of Joe |