--- title: In Memoriam: Famous Faces We Lost in 2014 description: TIME's recap of some of the famous people who died this year, from Joan Rivers to Fred Phelps, and Ben Bradlee to Robin Williams canonical: https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-23T20:32:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:06:40.703Z article:section: History og:title: TIME Remembers: Famous Faces We Lost In 2014 og:description: From Joan Rivers to Fred Phelps, and Ben Bradlee to Robin Williams og:url: https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd984804fbe6df477/69877756428a9eb495cc64dc/51239971.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Joan Rivers That Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME Remembers: Famous Faces We Lost In 2014 twitter:description: From Joan Rivers to Fred Phelps, and Ben Bradlee to Robin Williams twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd984804fbe6df477/69877756428a9eb495cc64dc/51239971.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TIME Remembers: In Memoriam 2014 by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 23, 2014 8:32 PM UTC  American comedian Joan Rivers laughs while hosting the television program 'That Show,' 1969. American comedian Joan Rivers laughs while hosting the television program 'That Show,' 1969.Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 23, 2014 8:32 PM UTC From iconic comedian Joan Rivers to Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps, and legendary Washington _Post_ newsman Ben Bradlee to former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, here’s TIME’s look back at some of the famous faces we lost in 2014. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/"},"headline":"TIME Remembers: In Memoriam 2014","datePublished":"2014-12-23T20:32:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:06:40.703Z","description":"Looking back at those we lost this year","url":"https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/","keywords":["celebrities","Philip Seymour Hoffman","memorial","deaths","joan rivers","Maya Angelou","robin williams"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd984804fbe6df477/69877756428a9eb495cc64dc/51239971.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd984804fbe6df477/69877756428a9eb495cc64dc/51239971.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joan Rivers That Show","caption":"Joan Rivers That Show","creditText":"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/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3646049/in-memoriam-2014/","name":"TIME Remembers: In Memoriam 2014"}}]}] ```