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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific drummer and convicted murderer Jim Gordon, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Monday of natural causes at 77 four months and a day shy of his birthday.
Award-winning South African jazz singer Gloria Bosman, dead following a short illness at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Convicted rapist and murderer Harvey "The Hammer" Carignan, also known as The Want-Ad Killer, dead on the 6th at 95 two and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Model Jeff Thomas, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead seemingly by his own hand at 35 (birth date unknown).
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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
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Actor Lance Reddick, star of every cool thing you can think of even if he wasn't supposed to be the star. Aged 60, seemingly of natural causes.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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He was two and two-third months shy of his birthday and it was of heart disease.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Canadian late-blooming sprinter "Lightning" Lou Billinkoff, dead Tuesday at 99 (birth date unknown).
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame original Parliament-Funkadelic singer Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, dead Friday of undisclosed causes at 81 two and two-third months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Original Las Vegas Strip magician, actress and dancer Gloria Dea (nee Metzner), dead at 100 five and a quarter months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Canadian prolific former NHL centre Dave Gardner, not to be confused with the eponymous Scottish footballer or British basketballer, son of Memorial Cup winner & World War II veteran Cal Gardner, elder brother to also-centre-turned-coach Paul Gardner and father to Canadian-Swiss forward Ryan Gardner, dead of complications from a blood infection at 70 a little over five months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Mexican Cumbia legend Rodolfo "Fito" Olivares, dead Friday after a battle with cancer at 75 a little over a month shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Cuban-born PropagandaGEM co-founder Ruben Igielko-Herrlich, dead on the 7th after a four-year battle with glioblastoma brain cancer at 62 eight days shy of his birthday.
Original Hawkwind guitarist Mick Slattery, dead Friday following a short illness at 77 (birth date unknown).
British actor & stuntman Paul Grant, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, best known for his roles in Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, dead after a Thursday collapse at 56 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Australian actor, theatre performer and musician Peter Hardy, not to be confused with any of his late notable eponymites, drowned Thursday at 66.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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King Family singer-turned-TV producer Ric De Azevedo, dead a week ago of an undisclosed illness at 75 (birth date unknown).
Emmy-nominated prolific TV director and 1977 Best Short Film Oscar winner Peter Werner, dead of complications following a torn aorta at 76.
New York Knicks legend Willis "The Captain" Reed, dead of undisclosed causes at 80 a little over three months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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German handball player-turned-coach Rolf Brack, dead at 69 eight and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Founding Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny, dead of a cerebral hemorrhage at 59 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Costume designer-turned-screenwriter Gordon T. Dawson, best known for his collaborations with friend Sam Peckinpah, dead on the 6th of pulmonary disease at 84 (birth date unknown).
Actor Sean Lampkin, best known for his role as Nipsey on Martin, dead on the 15th in his sleep of causes yet unknown at 54 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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The Dog House co-host Jeffrey Vandergrift, dead in the last month possibly of Lyme disease at 54 or 55 (unknown if he had his birthday).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Veteran film producer and executive Martin Wiley, dead Monday at 65 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Guinness World Record-holding drag queen Darcelle XV, born Walter C. Cole, hitherto the oldest still performing, dead of natural causes at 92 seven and three-quarter months shy of their birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Legendary sportswriter Jerry Green, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, the only one to cover each of the first 56 Super Bowls, dead at 94 twenty-three days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Medal Of Freedom-winning Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, dead at 94.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Kentucky Pro Football Hall Of Fame former Philadelphia Eagles Pro Bowl linebacker Frank LeMaster, dead Thursday at 71.
English Grammy-nominated composer and record producer Nicholas Lloyd Webber, eldest son of multiple award-winning Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, dead after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia at 43 three and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Mexican children's comic Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez Rodriguez, best known for the long-running Sunday variety show, En Familia Con Chabelo, and hitherto one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age Of Mexican Cinema, dead suddenly of abdominal complications at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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German-born sixth French astronaut and first such scientist to launch into space Jean-Jacques Favier, dead a week ago at 73 a little under a month shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Author Bill Zehme, the last person to interview Johnny Carson and biographer to Frank Sinatra, Sr. and Andy Kaufman, dead after a long battle with colorectal cancer at 65 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6734
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Founding Mudcrutch guitarist Tom Leadon, brother to Eagles co-founder Bernie Leadon, dead Wednesday of undisclosed causes at 70 five and four-fifth months shy of his birthday*.
*Also mine.
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