List of Famous people who died in 2014
Arif Doğan
Arif Doğan was a commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie, and said to be one of the founders of the Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He was a defendant in the Ergenekon trials, and in August 2013 was sentenced to 47 years in prison. He has stated in court that he founded JITEM in the late 1980s on the orders of Gendarmerie Commander Gen. Burhanettin Bigalı, with the approval of the Chief of Staff and of the Interior Ministry, and transferred control to Veli Küçük in 1990. He had previously claimed to have founded JITEM on his own initiative, and to have "frozen" it in 1990.
Myrna Mores
Guillermina Moragues, better known as Myrna Mores, was an Argentine actress and singer.
Galina Konovalova
Galina Lvovna Konovalova was a Russian actress known for her work at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. In 2012, Konovalova debuted in a production of Uncle Vanya on London's West End. Her London performances, which occurred when she was 97 years old, drew new attention to her career, which spanned from the 1930s to 2014.
Frank Schirrmacher
Frank Schirrmacher was a German journalist, literature expert and essayist, writer, and from 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nazario Moreno Rodríguez
Nazario Moreno González, commonly referred to by his alias El Chayo and/or El Más Loco, was a Mexican drug lord who headed La Familia Michoacana before heading the Knights Templar Cartel, a drug cartel headquartered in the state of Michoacán. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords.
Viktor Tikhonov
Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in the world, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold in 1984, 1988, and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.
Norma Pons
Norma Delia Orizi known by her stage name Norma Pons, was an Argentine actress and vedette.
Maria Anzai
Maria Anzai was a Japanese idol.
Viktor Sukhodrev
Viktor Mikhaylovich Sukhodrev was a Russian–English language interpreter for Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as high-ranking Soviet politicians including Alexei Kosygin, Andrei Gromyko, Anastas Mikoyan, and Frol Kozlov.
Al Pease
Victor "Al" Pease was a British-Canadian motor racing driver, born in Darlington, England. Growing up in England, he joined the British Army as a young man, serving in India, Rhodesia and Egypt. After his service, he emigrated to the United States, then Canada, in the 1960s; after a brief career as an illustrator, he took up motorsports.