A review of the celebrities who passed away this year
Patriarch Alexiy II, Russian Orthodox leader (79).
Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (90).
Jesse Helms, US senator (86).
Mahmoud Darwish, Palest- inian poet (67).
Bo Diddley, rock musician (79).
Bobby Fischer, chess player (64).
George Habash, Palestinian leader (circa 82).
Jörg Haider, right-wing Austrian politician (58).
Charlton Heston, actor (84).
Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (88).
Gordon Hinckley, Mormon leader (97).
Miriam Makeba, anti- apartheid singer (76).
Manuel Marulanda, Farc commander (circa 78).
Paul Newman, actor (83).
Jacques Piccard, undersea adventurer (86).
Dith Pran, subject of Killing Fields film on Cambodia atrocities (65).
Roy Scheider, Jaws actor (75).
Paul Scofield, British actor (86).
VP Singh, Indian politician (77).
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (89).
Suharto, Indonesian dictator (86).
Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer (71).
Charles Wheeler, BBC correspondent (85).
Richard Widmark, actor (93).
Richard Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd (65).
Yogi Mahesh Maharishi, spiritual leader (circa 91).
Heath Ledger, actor (28)