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Posted: Oct 28 2018 01:58 pm

Classic country singer-songwriter Freddie Hart, dead at 91 a little under two months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Oct 28 2018 08:38 pm

Leicester City owner, King Power magnate and Thailand Polo Association founder Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, born Vichai Raksriaksorn, dead in a chopper crash at 60.

Posted: Oct 28 2018 09:48 pm

Yes! I'm in a celebrity death pool in which we score points for length of the person's name rather than age. I had Srivaddhanaprabha.

I guess Raksriaksorn didn't have a good stage name ring, so he switched it to Srivaddhanaprabha. Definitely sounds more show businessy.

Posted: Oct 30 2018 10:18 pm

Convicted crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, serving a life sentence for participating in the murders of 11 people, dead in an apparent homicide at 89.

Posted: Oct 31 2018 03:31 pm

The Voice star Beverly McClellan, dead of cancer at 49.

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Willie McCovey of San Francisco Giants baseball fame, died today at the age of 80.

Posted: Nov 01 2018 02:44 am

Fitness legend and former International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness World Champion Mandy Blank, dead from causes yet unknown at 42.

Posted: Nov 03 2018 09:45 am

Klimbatize wrote:

Yes! I'm in a celebrity death pool in which we score points for length of the person's name rather than age. I had Srivaddhanaprabha.

I guess Raksriaksorn didn't have a good stage name ring, so he switched it to Srivaddhanaprabha. Definitely sounds more show businessy.

I was gonna pick him up for the same reason but I had a few typos and they didn't count it as one of my picks

Posted: Nov 03 2018 09:30 pm

Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, dead from a cardiac arrest at 49.

Posted: Nov 06 2018 04:06 pm

North Ogden, Utah mayor Brent Taylor, killed Saturday in an insider attack in Afghanistan while serving as a Major in the National Guard at 39. (I'd have reported it sooner, but I didn't know his age.)

Posted: Nov 06 2018 08:32 pm

Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry, dead of complications from pulmonary disease at 81.

Posted: Nov 07 2018 12:15 am

username wrote:

Klimbatize wrote:

Yes! I'm in a celebrity death pool in which we score points for length of the person's name rather than age. I had Srivaddhanaprabha.

I guess Raksriaksorn didn't have a good stage name ring, so he switched it to Srivaddhanaprabha. Definitely sounds more show businessy.

I was gonna pick him up for the same reason but I had a few typos and they didn't count it as one of my picks

Cut and paste is your friend, my friend.

Posted: Nov 10 2018 09:27 pm

Alaina Housley, niece of actress Tamera Mowry and her husband, Adam Housley, killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting at 18.

Posted: Nov 12 2018 02:59 pm

Comics legend and all-time highest-grossing actor Stan Lee, dead from heart and respiratory failure at 95 a month shy of his birthday.

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jprime wrote:

Comics legend and all-time highest-grossing actor Stan Lee, dead at 95 a month shy of his birthday.

The day we all have long-feared has finally come to pass.

Rest in peace Stan. The world lost a legend today.

Posted: Nov 13 2018 05:22 am

NASCAR pioneer and three-time Cup Champion David Pearson, initially nicknamed The Fox, later The Silver Fox, dead at 83.

Posted: Nov 13 2018 10:29 am

Drew Linky wrote:

jprime wrote:

Comics legend and all-time highest-grossing actor Stan Lee, dead at 95 a month shy of his birthday.

The day we all have long-feared has finally come to pass.

Rest in peace Stan. The world lost a legend today.

I didn't realize how much of an impact his creations had on my life.... may he rest in peace

EXCELSIOR

Posted: Nov 13 2018 08:18 pm

Canadian actor Douglas Rain, best known for voicing the HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dead at 90.

Posted: Nov 15 2018 03:50 pm

Actress Katherine MacGregor, best known for her role as Harriet Oleson on Little House On The Prairie, dead at 93.

Posted: Nov 15 2018 09:24 pm

Model and actress Kim Porter, ex-girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs and mother to three of his children, dead from lobar pneumonia at 47.

Posted: Nov 16 2018 02:01 pm

Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman, who scripted such classics as All The President's Men, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride, dead at 87.

Posted: Nov 16 2018 08:01 pm

Country star Roy Clark, who hosted Hee Haw! throughout its 24-year run, dead at 85.

Posted: Nov 18 2018 01:33 pm

Veteran sportscaster Randy Tieman, who served as a reporter and anchor for CTV Montreal from 1983 to 2017, dead at 64.

Posted: Nov 20 2018 08:07 pm

Former Toronto Maple Leafs player and NHL coach Dan Maloney, dead from causes yet unknown at 68.

Posted: Nov 21 2018 12:53 pm

LFO singer Devin Lima, born Harold Lima, dead of adrenal cancer at 41.