The following 100 people have all passed away in the past year.
This list is ordered by the number of words in their Wikipedia entries.

For names, roll over the images; click to link to Wikipedia.

Source: en.Wikipedia.org
Methodology: Words from the References. See also, and External link sections were excluded. Persons of notoriety or solely related to news events were excluded. This mostly included mass murderes, terrorists and other criminals, but also victims like Rodney King and Natalee Holloway.