Deaths - December 2014

1st
Dimitrios Trichopoulos, 76, Greek-born American epidemiologist and oncologist, advanced the Mediterranean diet, heart attack.

2nd
Bobby Keys, 70, American saxophonist (The Rolling Stones), cirrhosis.

3rd
Ann Marcus, 93, American television screenwriter (Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Peyton Place).

4th
Frank and Louie, 15, American-born Ragdoll cat, world's oldest diprosopus cat.
Bob Montgomery, 77, American songwriter ("Heartbeat", "Misty Blue"), Parkinson's disease.

5th
Ernest C. Brace, 83, American pilot, longest civilian POW in Vietnam War.

6th
Ralph H. Baer, 92, American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer, developed the Magnavox Odyssey, recipient of the National Medal of Technology (2004).
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, 39, Saudi Arabian-born external operations chief (al-Qaeda), shot.
Luke Somers, 33, British-born American photojournalist and AQAP hostage, shot.

7th
Eddie Rouse, 60, American character actor (American Gangster, The Number 23), liver failure.

8th
Earl Hayes, 34, American rapper ("Nolia Clap"), suicide by gunshot.

9th
Mary Ann Mobley, 77, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes, Falcon Crest) and television personality, Miss America (1959), breast cancer.

10th
Eric Andersson, 109, Swedish centenarian, nation's oldest man.(death announced on this date)

11th
Tom Adams, 76, English actor (The Great Escape, Licensed to Kill, Doctor Who), cancer.
Dawn Sears, 53, American country musician (Nothin' but Good), lung cancer.
Robert Taylor, 70, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

12th
Norman Bridwell, 86, American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog).

15th
Booth Colman, 91, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Norma Rae, Intolerable Cruelty).

16th
Rock Scully, 73, American band manager (Grateful Dead), lung cancer.
Ernie Terrell, 75, American heavyweight boxer, WBA champion (1965–1967).

17th
Richard C. Hottelet, 97, American broadcast journalist (Murrow's Boys).

18th
John Fry, 69, American record producer, founder of Ardent Studios, cardiac arrest.
Larry Henley, 77, American singer (The Newbeats) and songwriter ("Wind Beneath My Wings
Carleton Mabee, 99, American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
Tony Munafo, 69, American producer and actor (The Specialist, Rocky V, Tango and Cash).
Robert Simpson, 102, American meteorologist, co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Larry Smith, 63, American record producer (Run–D.M.C.).

19th
Arthur Gardner, 104, American film and television producer (The Rifleman) and actor (All Quiet on the Western Front).

20th
Larry Auerbach, 91, American television director (Love of Life, One Life to Live, As the World Turns), complications of glioblastoma.
Chip Young, 76, American guitarist and record producer.

21st
Billie Whitelaw, 82, English actress (The Omen, The Dark Crystal, Hot Fuzz).

22nd
Christine Cavanaugh, 51, American voice actress (Rugrats, Dexter's Laboratory, Babe, Darkwing Duck).
Joe Cocker, 70, British singer ("With a Little Help from My Friends", "You Are So Beautiful", "Up Where We Belong"), lung cancer.

Nate Fox, 37, American basketball player, shot.
Jeremy Lloyd, 84, British screenwriter (Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!), pneumonia.
Joseph Sargent, 89, American film director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, MacArthur, Jaws: The Revenge), heart disease.

23rd
Mike Elliott, 68, British comedian and actor (Goal!, Billy Elliot), cancer.
Conrad Johnson, 110, Swedish-American supercentenarian, oldest man in the United States, stroke.

25th
Alberta Adams, 97, American blues singer.

Dave Comer, 58, New Zealand film location scout (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), cancer.
David Ryall, 79, English actor (The Singing Detective, Harry Potter, The Elephant Man).

26th
Dick Dale, 88, American saxophonist and singer (The Lawrence Welk Show).
Stan Neufeld, 91, American television director and producer (The Gene Autry Show, Naked City, The Patty Duke Show).

28th
Leelah Alcorn, 17, American transsexual artist and blogger, suicide.

29th
Howard Schultz, 61, American television producer (Extreme Makeover, Dating Naked).

30th
Luise Rainer, 104, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), pneumonia.

31st
Edward Herrmann, 71, American actor (Gilmore Girls, The Practice, The Lost Boys), brain cancer.