Pictures: Notable deaths from 2014

The author of more than a dozen books of poetry and several works of prose, Strand was a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse. He was 80.  (Chris Felver / Getty Images)

Saxophone player Bobby Keys, during the soundcheck for the first night of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 European World Tour, Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria, 1st September 1973.   (Michael Putland / Getty Images)

Keyboardist Ian McLagan, second left, who was the keyboardist in rock bands Small Faces and ‘The Faces died on Dec. 3 at 69.  (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Marion Barry died Nov. 23 at age 78 in Washington, D.C. The cause of death was not initially disclosed.  (Tim Sloan, AFP/Getty Images)

Director Mike Nichols, known for a prolific career on stage, screen and television, died at age 83. His film credits include “The Graduate” and “The Birdcage.” He is pictured with his wife, news anchor Diane Sawyer.  (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters)

Sugarhill Gang recording artists David ‘Davey D’ Gunthorpe (L-R) Michael ‘Wonder Mike’ Wright, Joey ‘Master Gee’ Robinson and Henry ‘Big Bank Hank’ Jackson in 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jackson died Nov. 11, 2014 at the age of 57 after battling cancer.  (Isaac Brekken / WireImage)

Ian Fraser, right, whose 11 Emmy Awards and 21 additional nominations made him the most-honored musician in television history, died of complications from cancer on Oct. 31 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.   (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

Musician Tim Hauser (left) of The Manhattan Transfer died October 16, 2014. He was 72. (L-R) Tim Hauser of The Manhattan Transfer, Solomon Burke, and Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer attend the GRAMMY’s Salute to Jazz at the GRAMMY Museum on January 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.   (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)

“August: Osage County” actress Misty Upham, was best known for her role in the 2008 film Frozen River, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Upham was 32.   (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier speaks at a news conference in 2011, the year he returned from exile. He died Oct. 4 in Port-au-Prince at the age of 63.  (Hector Retamal / AFP/Getty Images)

Richard Kiel portrayed Jaws, a murderous giant with a mouthful of deadly steel teeth, in a scene from the James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977). Kiel died on Sept. 10 at age 74.  (United Artists / Getty Images)

Chick-fil-A founder and Chairman S.Truett Cathy, seen here in 2012, died at his home Sept. 8, 2014, at the age of 93.   (Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images)

The respected British actor and Academy Award-winning director of “Gandhi,” the multiple-Oscar-winning best picture of 1982, was known as a “socially engaged” filmmaker who often focused on major historical figures. He was 90.  (Larry Davis / Los Angeles Times)

The Indian guru was one of the West’s most influential teachers of yoga. He helped lay the foundation for its explosive growth and attained rock-star status with tens of thousands of followers. He was 95.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Legendary “Saturday Night Live” announcer Don Pardo died Aug. 18 at age 96.  (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

Lauren Bacall in 1944. The screen icon died at age 89.  (FPG / Getty Images)

Oscar-winning actor and comic Robin Williams died August 11, 2014 of an apparent suicide. He was 63.  (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)

Veteran soap opera actor, Charles Keating, has died at the age of 72. He had been fighting cancer. Here, Keating attends the 23rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on May 22, 1996 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.   (Ron Galella / WireImage)

James Brady, the former presidential press secretary who was seriously wounded in the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, died Aug. 4. He was 73.

Singer Michael Johns, a former ‘American Idol’ finalist, died on August 1, 2014. He was 35 years old.   (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Van Kirk was the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. He was 93.   (Bita Honavar / EPA)

The groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister later became the president of an independent Georgia. In the final years of the Soviet Union, he helped topple the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War. He was 86.  (AFP / Getty Images)

James Garner, known for his roles in the television series “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files,” died July 19 of natural causes in Los Angeles.  (MYCHELE DANIAU / AFP/Getty Images)

Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak, best known for her role as the daughter of Mel Gibson’s character’s in the 2000 hit movie “The Patriot,” died July 19 at the age of 21.  (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

Elaine Stritch, shown in March 2003, became a signal interpreter of songs by Noel Coward and Stephen Sondheim. She died at age 89.  (Ari Mintz / For the Times)

Eileen Ford, who co-founded Ford Models with her husband, reportedly died July 9, 2014 after having recently suffered a fall. She was 92.  (Brad Barket / Getty Images)

Charlie Haden, the pioneering jazz bassist who played with the likes of Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett before enjoying a decades-long solo career, died Friday at age 76 of a prolonged illness, according to his label, ECM.  (David Livingston / Getty Images)

Louis Brown Jr. (left), father of Nicole Brown Simpson, died Saturday (July 5) at 90 years old. The Nicole Brown Simpson murder trial was heavily featured on TV throughout 1995, before retired football player O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the crime. He was later found liable in a civil trial.  (RICK MEYER / AFP/Getty Images)

The Oscar-nominated writer-director excelled at mining the urban middle class for laughs as well as tears in such movies as “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” and “Down and Out in Beverly Hills.” He was 84.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Louis Zamperini, a World War II prisoner of war and Olympic runner, has died at 97. He was the subject of the book and upcoming film ‘Unbroken.’  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Soul singer Bobby Womack died on June 27, 2014. He was suffering from colon cancer and diabetes at the time of his death. He was 70 years old.  (Ian Gavan / Getty Images for Guinness)

Veteran actor Eli Wallach, who turns 95 on Dec. 7, 2010, will be presented with an honorary Oscar. Wallach lives in New York.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Lyricist Gerry Goffin, who co-wrote some of the biggest hit songs of the 1960s with his former wife and longtime collaborator Carole King, died on June 19, 2014 at age 75, King said.  (Fred Prouser / Reuters )

Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn died June 16, 2014 after battling cancer. He was 54.  (Donald Miralle / Getty Images)

Comedian Rik Mayall is dead at age 56.  (Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images)

During World War II, Nez was part of a top-secret group that became known as the Navajo code talkers. Using the Navajo language, they developed an unbreakable military communications code. He was 93.  (Jake Schoellkopf / For The Times)

The biochemist in 1976 synthesized a psychedelic drug that was later called Ecstasy. He was 88.  (Bob Carey / Los Angeles Times)

Lewis Katz, 72, the co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper and former owner of the New Jersey Nets and New Jersey Devils, was among seven people killed when a private jet caught fire and crashed on June 1.  (Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

Poet and author Maya Angelou died at age 86 on May 28, 2014.