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Celebrity Deaths: 2014's Fallen Stars

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Jan 02, 2015 7:33 PM
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Charlotte Dawson

The Australian TV star, best known for being a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, hosting the boxing reality show The Contender Australia and appearing on the Australian version of The Celebrity Apprentice, was found dead in her Sydney home on Feb. 22. She was 47.


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Shirley Temple Black

The actress, one of the most iconic child stars of the 20th century, died on Feb. 10 at age 85 from natural causes at her home in California.


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Richard Bull

The character actor, best known for playing shopkeeper Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie, died Feb. 3 of natural causes after being hospitalized with pneumonia. He was 89.


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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Oscar winner was found dead in his NYC apartment on Feb. 2, 2014. He was 46.


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Maximilian Schell

The Austrian actor, winner of an Oscar for his role as a German defense attorney in the 1961 war crimes drama Judgment at Nuremburg, died Feb. 1 after a brief illness. He was 83.


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Pete Seeger

The iconic folk artist and social activist, whose version of "We Shall Overcome" helped the protest song become an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, died in his sleep at a New York hospital on Jan. 27. He was 94. 


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Roy Garber

The Shipping Wars star died of a massive heart attack at the age of 49.


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Russell Johnson

The character actor, best known for playing The Professor on Gilligan's Island, died of natural causes at his home in Washington state. He was 89.


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Cassandra Lynn Hensley

The former Playboy Playmate, Miss February 2006, was pronounced dead after paramedics responded to a 911 call and found her unresponsive in a bathtub. She was 34. Official cause of death was to be determined via autopsy.


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Dave Madden

The character actor, best known for playing the titular singing group's prickly agent on The Partridge Family, died Jan. 16 at a hospice center in Florida. He was 82.


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Ruth Duccini

The 4-foot-tall actress, who was last surviving female Munchkin from 1939's The Wizard of Oz, reportedly died Jan. 16 at a hospice center in Las Vegas. She was 95.


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Mae Young

The professional wrestler paved the way for females to be involved in the high contact sport. Young passed away on Jan. 14 at 90-years-old.


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Carmen Zapata

The star of stage and screen's career kicked off in the 1945 Broadway production of Oklahoma! and she went on to cofound the Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Minority Committee. She died Jan. 5 of heart disease at 86.


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Phil Everly

The younger half of the influential country-pop duo The Everly Brothers died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Jan. 3. He was 74.


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Alicia Rhett

The actress, who portrayed the spinster India Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, died on Jan. 3 in Charleston, S.C. She was 98.


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Juanita Moore

The Oscar-nominated actress, best known for starring in 1959's Imitation of Life, died Jan. 1 at her Los Angeles home. She was 99.


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James Avery

The veteran character and voice-over actor, best known for playing Will Smith's uncle on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, died Dec. 31 (it was almost 2014) after suffering complications following open-heart surgery. He was 68.

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