The plural form for the pronoun 'it' is 'they' for the subject and 'them' for the object of a sentence or clause; fro example: There is a book on my desk, it is a math book.
Actress Rue McClanahan, known best for her role on The Golden Girls died five years ago on June 3, 2010 at age 76 after suffering a second stroke. Actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee, known best for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun and Do the Right Thing. died one year ago on June 11, 2014 at the age of 91.
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature, who was often called the greatest Irish poet since Yeats, died on Friday in Dublin. He was 74. His publisher, Faber & Faber, announced the death. The Irish poet Paul Muldoon, a longtime friend, said that Mr. Heaney was hospitalized after a fall on Thursday.