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January 7th: Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, died at age 93.
January 19th: Don Sutton, baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, died at age 75.
January 22nd: Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron died at age 86.
January 23rd: Longtime broadcaster Larry King died at age 87.
February 5th: Heavyweight boxer Leon Spinks, who upset Muhammad Ali in one of his first professional fights, died at age 67.
February 8th: Marty Schottenheimer, longtime NFL coach, died at age 77.
February 10th: Larry Flynt, controversial Hustler founder and publisher, died at age 78.
February 17th: Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh died at age 70.
March 1st: Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist, attorney, and close friend of President Bill Clinton, died at age 85.
March 13th: Former middleweight boxing champ "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler died at age 66.
March 22nd: Elgin Baylor, Basketball Hall of Famer, died at age 86.
April 9th: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth the Second, died at age 99.
April 14th: Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme fraudster who was serving a 150-year prison sentence, died at age 82.
April 19th: Walter Mondale, former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee, died at age 93.
April 28th: Astronaut Michael Collins, a member of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, died at age of 90.
May 2nd: Bobby Unser, legendary IndyCar driver, died at age 87.
June 3rd: F. Lee Bailey, celebrity defense attorney who represented O.J. Simpson and the "Boston Strangler," died at age 87.
June 29th: Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, died at age 88.
July 28th: Ron Popeil, inventor and infomercial king, died at age 86.
August 8th: Bobby Bowden, second-winningest coach in NCAA football history, died at age 91.
September 19th: George Holliday, Los Angeles man who recorded the police beating of Rodney King in 1991, died at age 61.
October 18th: General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, died at age 84.
November 28th: Lee Elder, pro golfer and first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament, died at age 87.
December 5th: Bob Dole, longtime Republican senator from Kansas and Presidential nominee in 1996, died at age 98.