Only people who were important to many, many people, or who are very well known, make the news. If the news reported on every single death, there wouldn't be room for anything else in the news. Additionally, people would stop reading the news because it would be largely irrelevant. With people dying every few seconds around the world, there are just too many deaths to be reported. You can mention people close to you who have died here, but it's meaningless to report every death you hear about. This thread would be hundreds of pages long if everyone did that.