2. Rosa Parks
What a horrible, horrible year 2016 has... Oh wait, that was 2005.
3. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt died in 2007, living in an America that still believed there would never be a Black President of the United States. So it goes.
4. Dave Brubeck
2016 came early for this cool cat and all-around good guy who fought segregation before it was cool. How early? Well, it actually was 2016, if you give or Take Five.
5. and 6. Don Adams and Barbara Feldon
7. Robin Williams
That was 2014, but nice try!
8. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Also 2014. Cursed year amirite? He would've been a natural to play the role of Steve Bannon in a biodrama, but in all fairness, he would've hated every second of 2016 and probably prefers being dead.
9. Dick Clark
That was 2012. The Far Side promised we'd have flying cars before then, but they were wrong.
10. Charles Schulz
Y2K was the year everyone thought we were all going to die. Turns out you should've been worried colon cancer instead of the Y2K bug.
11. Audrey Hepburn
She should've lived a much longer life, but 2016 killed this beloved activist and actor 23 years in the past. That's how much 2016 sucks.
12. Peter Jennings
That was 2005, the stealthy killer the internet forgot. Try again.
13. Gerald Ford
Died in 2006 at the senseless age of 92. Dana Carvey as Tom Brokaw correctly predicted that he would not be eaten by wolves.
14. Doris Lessing
All out of time or fucks to give for 2016, Doris Lessing died in 2013, Nobel prize in hand.
15. John Nash
The Phantom Of Fine Hall was forgotten yet a second time in 2015, the year before The Year Everyone Died. You haven't been hearing about this one much because he didn't make the list! You have probably already forgotten his breakthrough achievements in game theory, economics, and Riemannian manifolds. Did you know that a Riemannian manifold can always be imbedded into Euclidean space with a map that preserves the metric? Don't feel bad - you'd fit right in with literally everyone in 1953.
16. Princess Di
Everyone knows this was way, way back before 9/11. 1997 to be precise. That's why she's so far down the list.
17. Johnny Cash
This could have been the official picture of our feelings regarding 2016, but Johnny's empire of dirt crumbled in 2003.
18. Fred Rogers
Also died in 2003.
19. Whitney Houston
Lost her fight with drug addiction in 2012.
20. Michael Jackson
Yeah, that was 2009.
21. Frank Buckles
The last US Veteran of WWI died in 2011.
22. Lillian Asplund
The last living person to remember the Titanic first-hand died in 2006.
23. Guy Fawkes
Seriously you guys, that was 1606. Give it a rest.
24. Will Lee ("Mr. Hooper")
Died in 1982, never to be forgotten.
25. Thelonious Monk
Midnight for this inimitable jazz pianist came 'Round 1982.
26. Deckard Cain
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As much as we would all like to forget that Diablo III ever happened, the morons had him killed by an overly chatty mini-boss in 2012, along with the good will of an entire fan base.
27. Pope John Paul II
This was 2005, in case you wanted to know. Like if you're into religion and stuff.
28. Johnny Carson
2005 again???
29. Beau Biden
Joe Biden's son died of brain cancer in 2015. Close, but no cigar, Beau.
30. Earl Hindman
Home Improvement's Wilson died in 2003 from lung cancer.
31. Wilson the Volleyball
Not technically alive, it would have been impossible for Wilson the Volleyball to die regardless. Lost at sea in the movie Castaway (2000) with Tom Hanks, his departure had all the emotional impact of death for millions of moviegoers.
32. Sonny Bono
Died in a skiing accident in 1998. His loss was tragic enough that it belonged in 2016.
33. Steve Jobs
2011. I never liked him that much though.
34. Muammar Gaddafi
Kind of a scumbag, but now he's dead and we have ISIS. In 2011, we came, we saw, he died. Worth it?
35. Oscar Peterson
The exuberant stride piano virtuoso died in 2007.
36. Nelson Mandela
He died in 2013.
37. George Carlin
This wise guy checked out in 2008. Why let 2016 have all the fun?
