Elena Sergeevna Baltacha was a professional tennis player. She was a long term British no.1, held from 2002-2012, and a 4-time winner of the Aegon Award. She won 11 ITF singles, 4 ITF doubles, and a runner-up in 3 ITF events in singles, and 4 in doubles. In 2010 she had victories over top ten players. In 2011 she won her highest ranked tournament on the ITF tour, the 2011 Aegon Nottingham Challenge. She died from liver cancer on May 4, 2014. She was 30 years old.

John T. “Jack” Ramsay was an American basketball coach nicknamed as “Dr. Jack”. His best known coaching job was for the Portland Trailblazers in the NBA, which he led them to their only NBA title in 1977. He broadcasted for the Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, ESPN TV, and ESPN radio. He was among the most respected coaches in NBA history. He is also an NBA basketball Hall of Famer in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He has written several books, including The Coaches Art, and Dr. Jack’s Leadership Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Basketball. He worked for the Miami Heat as a Heat Broadcaster alongside Heat broadcaster Eric Reid from 1992 to 2002 from Sunshine Network (now Sun Sports), Sports Florida, and sometimes local Miami TV station WBFS. He died in April 27,2014. He was 89 years old. 

Mickey Rooney was an American actor, and entertainer. He had one of the most longest careers in cinematic history. Films, television, and stage appearances spanned almost of his entire life. He was a superstar as a teenager for films played as Andy Hardy. He was active in films, and television over 87 years. His last appearance was in a leading role as Henry Daley in the Family Channel’s The Adventures of the Black Stallion for a younger generation of fans. He was married 8 times. He served in the United States Army in 1944, and finished after the end of world war II. On April 6, 2014, he died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 93.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor and director. He began his acting career in 1991, and in the following year he began to appear in films. He is best known for the role as Truman Capote in the film Capote (2005), which he won an Academy Award for best picture at the Academy Awards. He won three more Academy Awards for best supporting actor in Charlie Wilson’s War, Doubt, and The Master. He was an accomplished actor and director. His mother Marilyn O’Conner is a family court judge and a lawyer. His father Gordon Stowell Hoffman is a former Xerox executive. Philip began acting at the age of 17 at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. His first role in his acting career was as a defendant in a rape case in the Law & Order episode “The Violence of Summer” in 1991. His major breakthrough as a successful movie actor was in the movie Scent of a Woman (1992). He had a successful and respected acting career. He had finished completing all of his majority of the scenes in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-part 2 film, before his death. He revealed in a 2006 interview with 60 Minutes, that he had suffered from drugs, and alcohol abuse problems, after graduating from college. He went to rehab, and recovered at age 22. 20 years later, he went to rehab, because of problems with prescription pills, and heroin. On February 2, 2014 he was found dead in his bathroom by his friend playwright David Bar Katz at Hoffman’s West Village, Manhattan office apartment. According to the New York City Police Department his death appears to be drug related, which more is later to be known. He was 46 years old. R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Walt Disney was born at Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in 1901. He was an international icon, philanthropist, and well-known for the field of entertainment during the 20th century. He was also a business mogul, alongside his brother Roy O. Disney, co-founded Walt Disney Productions. Walt and his sister Ruth attended Benton Grammar School. Walter Pfeiffer introduced young Walt to theatre aficionados, and motion pictures. He was attending courses each Saturdays at the Kansas City Arts Institute. He dropped out of high school to join the army at age 16, which he got rejected, because of underage. He began to be in the Laugh-O-Grams studio, which he started to work in short animation films. Later, he began to do Alice comedies with real life actors. When the film Alice’s Wonderland ended he became more focused in animation. Walt worked with a group of animators of animated series’ of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. In 1928 he lost the rights to Oswald, because he refused the reduced production budgets. He wanted to replace the character by naming another character called Mortimer, but his sister Lillian Disney didn’t find it appealing, which she hinted him the name Mickey instead. He agreed. Mickey Mouse was born. Walt’s first silent short animated film was called Plane Crazy starring Mickey Mouse. In 1937-41, the Disney Studio was in the golden age of animation. He began to envision in the 40’s to make a theme park for California, which was finished building, and opened on Sunday, July 17, 1955. Disney acquired the rights to P.L. Travers book Mary Poppins about a magical nanny, which the Disney movie Mary Poppins was released in theaters in 1964. It was the most successful Disney film of the 1960’s. On November of 1963 he decided to open another theme park in Orlando, Fl. naming it Disney World. On December 15, 1966, he died of acute circulatory collapse, caused of lung cancer. He was 65 years old.