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Dead celebrities of 2021


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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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PostPosted: Nov 29 2021 02:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Professional golfer R. Lee Elder, the first Black golfer to play in the masters, dead of undisclosed causes at 87.

Veteran Indigenous Australian actor, dancer & musician David Gulpilil, hailed as one of the greatest artists Australia has ever seen, dead of lung cancer at 68.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 29 2021 08:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Actress-turned-eponymous Enterprises founder Arlene Dahl, ex-wife to late actors Lex Barker & Fernando Lamas and also-late wine entrepreneur Alexis Lichine and mother to actor Lorenzo Lamas, dead at 96.
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PostPosted: Nov 30 2021 09:15 pm Reply with quote Back to top

jprime wrote:
Legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, dead at 91.

This one really hurt. :/ Not that he didn't live a long-ass life but man. Talk about someone who influenced the artform of theatre. Man,


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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 30 2021 10:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Veteran Hollywood publicist and event planner Laurane Sheehan, dead on the 11th of a sudden heart attack at 61.

Former Hollywood TV executive Leah Newman, daughter of WME motion picture agent Robert Newman, dead suddenly Wednesday of unknown postpartum complications at 33.

Veteran actor and stuntman Tommy Lane, dead after a long bout with COPD at 83 seventeen days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 01 2021 02:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Jackie Avant, wife of legendary music executive Clarence "The Black Godfather" Avant, shot dead in a home invasion at 81 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 01 2021 05:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Kentucky Writers Hall Of Famer Ed McClanahan, dead Saturday of undisclosed causes at 89.

1983 American League Cy Young Award winner LaMarr Hoyt, dead Monday following a lengthy illness at 66.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 01 2021 08:58 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Former Spanish monk Don Justo Gallego Martinez, who spent the majority of his life building "The Cathedral" full knowing he wouldn't live to see its completion, dead Sunday at 96.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 02 2021 02:05 am Reply with quote Back to top

Former child actress Jonshel Alexander, best known for her role as Joy Strong in Beasts Of the Southern Wild, shot dead Saturday at 22 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 02 2021 02:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Actor Eddie Mekka, best known for his role as Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa on Laverne & Shirley, dead Saturday of undisclosed causes at 69.

DayStar Network Television co-founder & CEO Marcus Lamb, who continually preached against the severity of COVID-19, dead Tuesday of said disease at 64.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 03 2021 09:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Veteran actress Yvonne Wilder (nee Othon), best known for her roles in Robert Wise's West Side Story and Seems Like Old Times, dead on the 24th at 84 (birth date unknown).

Mettal Maffia keyboardist and two-time America's Got Talent contestant Jay Jay Phillips, dead over Thanksgiving of COVID-19 at 30 (birth date unknown).

Acclaimed Shakespearean actor Antony Sher, dead of cancer at 72.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 03 2021 11:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Musician Colin Adjun, known as the "Fiddler Of The Arctic", dead at 77.
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PostPosted: Dec 04 2021 01:44 am Reply with quote Back to top

Longtime San Francisco chief of protocol, philanthropist and unofficial aide to ten mayors Charlotte Mailliard Shultz (nee Smith), dead of complications from cancer at 88.
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PostPosted: Dec 04 2021 03:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Pro Football Hall Of Famer Claude Humphrey, dead suddenly of undisclosed causes at 77.

Colonel Edward Shames, hitherto the last surviving Easy Company officer, dead at 99.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 04 2021 08:48 pm Reply with quote Back to top

English cricket legend Eileen Ash, dead at 110.
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PostPosted: Dec 05 2021 04:42 am Reply with quote Back to top

Country musician Stonewall Jackson, not to be confused with the semi-eponymous Confederate general or footballer or the eponymous World War II general, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for over 50 years, dead after a long battle with vascular dementia at 89.
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PostPosted: Dec 05 2021 01:33 pm Reply with quote Back to top

World War II veteran, former Kansas representative, two-time Senate majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, dead of stage 4 lung cancer at 98.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 05 2021 08:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Veteran entertainment attorney Harriet Halpern Beck, dead on the 26th after a long illness at 80 (birth date unknown).

Film & TV producer Martha De Laurentiis (nee Schumacher*), widow to also-producer of the former Augustino "Dino" De Laurentiis, dead of cancer at 67.

*No relation to the also-departed Joel, from what I've found.
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PostPosted: Dec 06 2021 02:15 am Reply with quote Back to top

Veteran country music superstar Charley Pride, the first Black person to attain such status, dead of complications from COVID-19 at 86.
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PostPosted: Dec 06 2021 10:16 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, dead of a heart attack suffered on the 24th at 66.
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PostPosted: Dec 07 2021 09:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Former manager to George Harrison and HandMade Films co-founder (with the aforementioned) Denis O'Brien, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Friday of causes yet unknown at 80.

Influential cultural critic and founding pillar of hip-hop journalism Greg Tate, not to be confused with the eponymous footballer, dead sometime in the last week of undisclosed causes at 64.

Zen Cannon, son of comedian and TV host Nick cannon and model Alyssa Scott, dead Sunday of brain cancer at 5 months.
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PostPosted: Dec 08 2021 02:11 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Former New Orleans Saints defensive end Glenn Foster, Jr., dead Monday of causes yet unknown at 31.
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PostPosted: Dec 08 2021 04:52 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Singer-songwriter and former America's Got Talent contestant Skilyr Hicks, dead Monday of causes yet unknown at 23 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Dec 09 2021 04:41 am Reply with quote Back to top

Fourth-generation Manitoba elder and Turtle Lodge Center of Excellence in Indigenous Education and Wellness founder Dave Courchene, Jr., also known as Nitamibit and Nii Gaani Aki Inini, son of Manitoba Indian Brotherhood co-founder David Courchene, Sr., dead at 71 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Dec 09 2021 08:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Namesake founding Bronski Beat* keyboardist Steve Bronski, dead at 61 (birth date unknown).

*They made the fifth-best video of 1984.
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PostPosted: Dec 10 2021 03:01 am Reply with quote Back to top

R&B singer-turned-Massachusetts state court officer Ralph Tavares, eldest of the eponymous Grammy-winning quintet, dead Wednesday of causes yet unknown at 79 two days shy of his birthday (today).

Four-time Pro Bowl Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who was on the team when they won Super Bowl 50, dead of complications related to injuries sustained in a 2019 car crash at 33 sixteen days shy of his birthday.
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