Time to remember who we lost this year...

Sources:
IMDb
Wikipedia


Edmund Hillary
Brad Renfro
Heath Ledger
Roy Scheider
Smokey Dawson
Arthur C. Clarke
Paul Scofield
Charlton Heston
Sydney Pollack
Yves Saint Laurent
Stan Winston
George Carlin
Estelle Getty
Bernie Mac
Isaac Hayes
Don LaFontaine
Richard Wright
Paul Newman
Michael Crichton
Robert Mulligan
Eartha Kitt

(edit) Also,
Don S. Davis
Rob Guest
Mark Priestly


And plenty of animal companions were lost to us too. :(