Credit: Jeff Drew
For Seven Days’ year-end cover, illustrator Jeff Drew assembled a memorial to 34 notable celebrities who passed away this year. Careful readers will notice that this version of the cover features two late-comers, er, late-goers? Actor Carrie Fisher (#33) and singer George Michael (#34) passed just this week after the issue had already gone to press. Jeff Drew wanted to make sure these luminaries were included in the online version of the memorial.

Don’t recognize someone? Here’s a handy legend to jog your memory.

  1. Glenn Frey
  2. Anton Yelchin
  3. Phife Dawg
  4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  5. Garry Marshall
  6. Merle Haggard
  7. Arnold Palmer
  8. Sharon Jones
  9. Florence Henderson
  10. Garry Shandling
  11. Fidel Castro
  12. Prince
  13. Vanity
  14. Abe Vigoda
  15. Patty Duke
  16. Muhammad Ali
  17. John Glenn
  18. Gwen Ifill
  19. Lemmy Kilmister (12/28/15)
  20. Chyna
  21. Leon Russell
  22. Leonard Cohen
  23. Natalie Cole
  24. Janet Reno
  25. Alan Rickman
  26. Nancy Reagan
  27. Doris Roberts
  28. Alan Thicke
  29. Morley Safer
  30. David Bowie
  31. Gene Wilder
  32. Harper Lee
  33. George Michael
  34. Carrie Fisher
Credit: Jeff Drew

This article appears in Dec 28, 2016 – Jan 3, 2017.

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  3. Thanks for the correction @ghoop and @Dan Barnes. Lemmy Kilmister did indeed die on December 28, 2015. Perhaps he didn’t get his due last year? We regret the error.

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