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2014 is the 14th year of the 3rd millennium, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.

Events

• 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak
• 2014 ISIL beheading incidents

In the public domain

In the public domain in 2014 according the 70 years rule

Arts and culture

• Sade, Attacking the Sun, an exhibition held at the Musee d'Orsay on the legacy of Marquis de Sade

Music

Singles

• "Can't Rely on You" by Paloma Faith
• "Nuits Sonores" by Floating Points

Albums

• Morning Phase by Beck
• Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey

Literature

Fiction

• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Non-fiction

• Žižek's Jokes by Slavoj Žižek

Visual illustraton

• The Sick Rose by Richard Barnett

Film

• Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
• Interstellar by Christopher Nolan
• Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
• Wild Tales by Damián Szifron
• A Million Ways to Die in the West by Seth MacFarlane
• The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq by Guillaume Nicloux

Documentary

• The Islamic State (Vice News documentary)

Photography

• People of the Twenty-First Century, a photo-book by Dutch artist photographer Hans Eijkelboom

Deaths

deaths in 2014

• André Popp, 90, French composer.
• Joe Cocker, 70, British singer ("You Can Leave Your Hat On", "Woman to Woman"), lung cancer.
• Wendy Rene, 67, American soul singer, complications from stroke.
• Giulio Questi, 90, Italian director and screenwriter (Django Kill, La morte ha fatto l'uovo).
• Jimmy Ruffin, 78, American soul singer ("What Becomes of the Brokenhearted").
• John Holt, 67, Jamaican singer (The Paragons) and songwriter ("The Tide Is High").
• Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
• Paul Revere, 76, American bandleader, keyboardist (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
• Antti Lovag, 94, Hungarian architect.
• Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 88, French publisher.
• Joe Sample, 75, American jazz musician (The Crusaders).
• Hopeton Lewis, 66, Jamaican singer ("Take It Easy").
• Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress, stroke.
• Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
• Robin Williams, 63, American comedian and actor, apparent suicide by asphyxiation.
• Henry Stone, 93, American record company executive and record producer (TK Records)
• Idris Muhammad, 74, American jazz drummer.
• On Kawara, 81, Japanese conceptual artist.
• Charlie Haden, 76, American jazz bassist and bandleader, (The Shape of Jazz to Come), post-polio syndrome.
• Paul Mazursky, 84, American film director and screenwriter (An Unmarried Woman, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), pulmonary cardiac arrest.
• Bobby Womack, 70, American Hall of Fame R&B singer and songwriter ("I Can Understand It").
• Horace Silver, 85, American jazz pianist (Song for My Father), natural causes.
• Stanley Marsh 3, 76, American artist and philanthropist, patron of Cadillac Ranch.
• Elodie Lauten, 63, French-born American composer.
• Alexander Shulgin, 88, American pharmacologist and chemist, pioneered the development and use of MDMA from ecstasy.
• Bunny Yeager, 85, American model and photographer.
• H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss Oscar-winning surrealist artist (Alien), injuries from a fall.
• Gabriel García Márquez, 87, Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), pneumonia.
• Richard Hoggart, 95, British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy), dementia.
• Mickey Rooney, 93, American actor.
• Régine Deforges, 78, French author, editor, director and playwright.
• Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer.
• Scott Asheton, 64, American drummer (The Stooges), heart attack.
• Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech film director (Daisies).
• Alain Resnais, 91, French film director (Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour).
• Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
• Aslan, French pin-up artist.
• Harold Ramis, 69, American film director (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day) and actor (Ghostbusters).
• Wayne Smith, 48, Jamaican reggae musician ("Under Mi Sleng Teng").
• Gabriel Axel, 95, Danish film director (Babette's Feast) and actor.
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor and director.
• Pete Seeger, 94, American folk singer and songwriter ("Turn! Turn! Turn!", "If I Had a Hammer", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?").
• Riz Ortolani, 87, Italian film composer.
• Amiri Baraka, 79, American poet, writer and activist.

See also

• 2010s