--- title: Notable People Who Died in 2014 description: Remembering the most unique lives that ended this year canonical: https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-31T13:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:40:40.823Z article:section: History og:title: Notable People Who Died in 2014 og:description: Remembering the most unique lives that ended this year og:url: https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt240d18e024856868/6987708d5f570f1bb5b1464f/gwynn.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tony Gwynn og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Notable People Who Died in 2014 twitter:description: Remembering the most unique lives that ended this year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt240d18e024856868/6987708d5f570f1bb5b1464f/gwynn.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TIME Remembers Notable Deaths in 2014 > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 31, 2014 1:00 PM UTC  Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres bats against the Chicago Cubs, circa 1984 Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres bats against the Chicago Cubs, circa 1984 Focus On Sport / Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 31, 2014 1:00 PM UTC _Since the very first issue of TIME, the Milestones section has marked important moments of the week and celebrated the lives of those who died recently. Staffers, critics and those who knew the late, great figures share what made those people special. Here are a few of 2014’s most notable Milestones obituaries for the people who defied categorization._ **Lawrence H. Summers on Gary Becker:** “Before Becker, economics was about topics like business cycles, inflation, trade, monopoly and investment. Today it is also about racial discrimination, schooling, fertility, marriage and divorce, addiction, charity, political influence–the stuff of human life. If, as some assert, economics is an imperial social science, Gary Becker was its emperor.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/92076/gary-becker/) **David Von Drehle on** **Ben Bradlee:** “Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee–the storied former editor of the Washington Post, whose leadership in the era of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers was recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year–exuded charisma like the bow wave of a vintage Chris-Craft motor yacht.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/3450585/ben-bradlee-2/) **Richard Corliss on Al Feldstein:** “If you were a kid in the 1950s and you got nightmares from a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the ’60s or ’70s, giggling at Mad magazine’s prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/92074/al-feldstein/) **Bryan Walsh on Jim Frederick:** “While TIME’s Tokyo bureau chief in 2005, he co-wrote the autobiography of Charles Jenkins, an American soldier who wandered across the de-militarized zone during the Korean War, and who was held captive for half a century. It was the story every reporter in Japan wanted to get—filling in for him in Tokyo while he wrote the book, I used to field calls from Japanese TV networks desperate to interview him—and Jim had it. He always did.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/3074337/goodbye-jim-frederick-writer-editor-mentor-friend/) **Sam Roberts on David Greenglass:** “Greenglass was remorseless when we spoke, still convinced that ‘as long as they had something over my head about my wife and my family, they could probably get me to do anything that would preserve them … And most men would do that.'” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/3512668/sam-roberts-on-david-greenglasss-death/) **Ozzie Smith on Tony Gwynn:** “Tony studied not only the mechanics of the opposing pitchers but also their patterns: when they were going to throw breaking balls, when they were going to throw fastballs. At the end of the day, that didn’t matter all that much, given how well Tony saw the ball.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/2899494/tony-gwynn/) ### Look Back at Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn: 1960 - 2014  Rookie outfielder Tony Gwynn #19, of the San Diego Padres, warms up prior to a game at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego in August, 1982. Diamond Images/Getty Images  Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Chris Gwynn (left) and brother, San Diego Padres outfielder Tony Gwynn (right), at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles during the 1987 season. Larry Goren—AP  Tony Gwynn circa the late 1980s. Mitch Haddad—WireImage/Getty Images  Tony Gwynn circa 1990s. Mitch Haddad—WireImage/Getty Images  San Diego Padres Tony Gwynn slides safely home with the winning run past Texas Rangers catcher Ivan Rodriguez in the 10th inning of the 65th All Star Game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburg on July 12, 1994. Carlos Osorio—AP  National League player Tony Gwynn hits a single for two runs during the third inning of the 1998 Major League All-Star game at Coors Field in Denver, July 7, 1998. Jeff Haynes—AFP/Getty Images  Tony Gwynn #19 of the San Diego Padres runs to first base during a game circa 1990s. MLB Photos/Getty Images  Tony Gwynn circa 1990s. Mitch Haddad—WireImage/Getty Images  Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres during a game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles during the 1997 season. Larry Goren—AP  Members of the San Francisco Giants look on and applaud as San Diego Padres Tony Gwynn is honored during a pre-game ceremony at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco on Sept. 30, 2001. Susan Ragan—Reuters  2007 inductee Tony Gwynn poses with his plaque at Clark Sports Center during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. on July 29, 2007. Chris McGrath—Getty Images  Baseball Hall of Fame member Tony Gwynn throws the first pitch prior to the game between Cuba and Mexico at their World Baseball Classic game at PETCO Park in San Diego on March 16, 2009. Chris Park—AP  Tony Gwynn spoke with reporters before the start of the inaugural Stephen Strasburg 5K Fun Run & Walk held near Tony Gwynn Stadium at SDSU in San Diego on Jan. 15, 2011. Nelvin C. Cepeda—Zuma Press/Corbis **Eric Dodds on Zander Hollander:** “Sports statistics are practically unavoidable today. They are available on your television, your computer, even in the palm of your hand. Not so long ago, that was far from the case. When Zander Hollander‘s first Complete Handbook guide was published in 1971, it was a revelation for voracious sports fans.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/66267/zander-hollander/) **Lily Rothman on Stephanie Kwolek:** “As she toiled in the lab, she noticed that one mixture of a polymer and a solvent looked different from the rest. Instead of assuming she’d made a mistake, she was curious and followed up on her observation. When her formula was spun into fiber, it proved to be five times as strong as steel. DuPont called it Kevlar.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/2926389/stephanie-kwolek/) **Peter Sagal on Tom Magliozzi:** “All that raucous, distinctive laughter–who knew you could laugh with a Boston accent?–was genuine. Whether Tom, who died on Nov. 3 at age 77, was laughing at his brother or a caller with a car problem or his own silly jokes, his pleasure was too immense to be kept private. Everybody knows that their radio show Car Talk wasn’t about cars.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/3555499/peter-sagal-remembers-car-talk-host-tom-magliozzi/) **Nate Rawlings on Sherwin Nuland:** “During his 30 years as a surgeon and professor at Yale, Sherwin Nuland was on the front line of the battle against death, a formidable, and in the end always overpowering, enemy.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/13810/dr-sherwin-nuland/) **David Von Drehle on Fred Phelps:** “Ordinarily, such a despicable man would not make much of a stir by dying. But Phelps was different from the garden-variety grinch in one important way: he had a thirst for notoriety and a genius for getting it. His so-called Westboro Baptist Church–which was not in any meaningful sense “Baptist” or even a “church”–was a brutal but highly effective tool for gaining the attention of the world’s media.” _Read the full remembrance_ [_here_](http://time.com/39876/fred-phelps/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/"},"headline":"TIME Remembers Notable Deaths in 2014","datePublished":"2014-12-31T13:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:40:40.823Z","description":"Many of the unique lives that ended this year","url":"https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/","keywords":["remembrance","Milestones","obituary"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt240d18e024856868/6987708d5f570f1bb5b1464f/gwynn.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt240d18e024856868/6987708d5f570f1bb5b1464f/gwynn.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tony Gwynn","caption":"San Diego Padres v Chicago Cubs","creditText":"Focus On Sport / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3635094/in-memoriam-2014-unique-people/","name":"TIME Remembers Notable Deaths in 2014"}}]}] ```