As 2014 comes to a close, we take a moment at Geeks Of Doom to remember all the fallen entertainment figures in film and television who left us this year. This year, we gave a farewell to a large array of heavyweights, cult heroes, pioneering figures, and sentimental favorites who were among those who have passed on in a physical sense, but leaving the memories, the ones that they made in the past and the ones each of their fans have in regards to them.

Comedy legend Joan Rivers died today, according to her daughter Melissa Rivers, who issued a statement. She was 81.

On August 28, Rivers had gone in for vocal cord surgery at a clinic in New York City, but went into cardiac arrest during the procedure, prompting her transport to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was put into a medically induced coma and on life support. Yesterday, she was taken off life support and moved out of ICU and into a private where she was reportedly being made comfortable. Her daughter says she was surrounded by family and friends when she passed away in the hospital early today.