People who have passed on during 2014 whose life or works have influenced me:

• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- 2014), American poet
• Charles Barsotti (1933-2014), American cartoonist
• Sid Caesar (1922-2014), American comedian
• Bob Crewe (1930-2014), American songwriter
• Al Feldstein (1925-2014), American artist and editor of Mad magazine
• Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), South African writer
• Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014), French mathematician
• Stuart Hall (1932- 2014), British cultural theorist
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014), American actor
• Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-2014), Polish soldier and politician
• Morris Lurie (1938-2014), Australian comic writer
• Rik Mayall (1955-2014), British actor and comedian
• Tony Meale (c. 1963-2014), Australian wit
• Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) (1935-2014), Belgian-Australian political analyst
• Maximilian Schell (1930-2014), German actor
• Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014), Australian composer
• Pete Seeger (1919-2014), American folk singer
• Eduard Shevardnadze (1928-2014), Georgian politician
• Horace Silver (1928-2014), American jazz pianist
• Edward Gough Whitlam (1916-2014), Australian statesman
• Robin Williams (1951-2014), American comedian and actor
• Neville Wran (1926-2014), Australian politician.

Last year’s post is here.