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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Carol Bongiovi, mother to rocker Jon Bon Jovi, dead at 83 three days shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Canadian Indigenous painter and Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation co-founder Alex Janvier, dead at 89.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Former actor Benji Gregory Hertzberg, best known for his role as Brian Tanner on ALF, dead on the 13th alongside his service dog possibly of vehicular heatstroke at 46.
Actress S. Pat Colbert, best known for her role as Dora Mae on Dallas, dead on the 23rd at 77 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Australian rugby legend Bobby Marjoribanks, dead at 94.
Two-time Emmy-nominated actress Shelley Duvall, best known for her role as Wendy Torrance in The Shining, dead of complications from diabetes at 75.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Arkansas sheriff-turned-Congressman Tommy F. Robinson (note the "F."), dead Wednesday of natural causes after a brief illness at 82.
Longtime NFL & college assistant coach Monte Kiffin, whose defensive strategies rank among Tampa Bay's best, dead at 84 (21, technically, being a leap year baby).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Grammy-nominated country singer-songwriter Dave Loggins, who composed the Golf's Masters theme and second cousin to pop singer Kenny Loggins, dead Wednesday of undisclosed causes at 76 exactly four months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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German-born pioneering sex therapist and best-selling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer, born Karola Ruth Siegel, who normalized saying names of sex organs on TV and radio, dead at 96.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Fitness legend Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons, dead of complications from recent falls with heart disease as a contributing factor the day after turning 76.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Pioneering Innu singer-songwriter and Innu Nikamu Native music and arts festival co-founder Philippe McKenzie, dead Friday at 70 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
Actress Shannen Doherty, best known for her role as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210, dead of breast cancer at 53.
Super Bowl champion and former Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones, dead of undisclosed causes at 40.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Pioneering video artist Bill Viola, dead Friday of Alzheimer's disease at 73.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Veteran actor James Sikking, best known for his roles on Hill Street Blues and Doogie Howser, M.D., dead of complications from dementia at 90.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Canadian TikTok star Bella "Brave" Thomson, dead possibly of a SCIDS-related infection at 10 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Prolific screenwriter David Loughery, dead Tuesday of skin cancer at 71.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun, dead May 18 of Alzheimer's disease at 86 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
Retired NBA forward Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, father to also-late Basketball Hall Of Famer Kobe Bryant, dead of a massive stroke at 69 a little over three months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Prolific movie & TV soundtrack producer and Intrada founder Douglass Fake, dead Saturday after a long illness at 72.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef & restaurateur Naomi Pomeroy, credited with putting Portland, Oregon on the culinary map, drowned Saturday in a freak tubing accident at 49 four and seventeen-thirtieth months shy of her birthday.
1996 Ridler Award-winning land speed record setter George Poteet, dead at 76.
German DJ and producer Thomas "Tomcraft" Bruckner, best known for 2003's "Loneliness", dead at 49.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Japanese-Canadian cultural curator Grace Eiko Thomson, born Eiko Nishikihama, dead Thursday at 90 a little over three months shy of her birthday.
Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Jerry Walker, the youngest to ever start an All-Star game and not to be confused with the eponymous retired hockey player, dead at 85.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Fandango founder J. Michael Cline, dead Tuesday in an apparent jumping suicide at 64 (birth date unknown).
Longtime Geffen Records president Eddie Rosenblatt, dead Tuesday of bacterial pneumonia at 89 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
Orlando Magic co-founder Pat Williams, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead following a battle with viral pneumonia at 84.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Singer, songwriter, scholar and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon, dead Tuesday at 81 two and three-fifth months shy of her birthday.
Folk musician Harry "Happy" Traum, a longtime friend and collaborator to Bob Dylan, dead of undisclosed causes at 86.
Gino's Pizza & Spaghetti House founder W. Kenney Grant, dead at 94 (birth date unknown).
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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Comedian and actor Bob Newhart, dead at 94 of being old.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Accountant-turned-Emmy-and-Grammy-winning comedian and actor G. Bob Newhart, dead at 94 after a series of short illnesses one and a half months shy of his birthday. |
Fixed.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Australian veteran filmmaker, producer, music publisher and songwriter Frank Howson, cousin to writer, reporter, entertainer and Melbourne radio commentator John Michael Howson and ex-husband to actress & entrepreneur Terri Garber, dead February 10 after a lengthy battle with bowel cancer at 71 exactly one month shy of his birthday.
Founding CNN anchor, conservative pundit and Moneyline host Lou Dobbs, dead of undisclosed causes at 78 two and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Chinese actress Cheng Pei-Pei, known as the "Queen Of Swords", dead Wednesday of corticobasal degeneration at 77.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Vietnam Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, dead of old age and a serious illness at 80.
Australian Olympic silver medalist-turned-Hall Of Fame administrator Kevan Gosper, dead after a short illness at 90 exactly five months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6824
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Prolific multimedia producer-writer Bob Booker, not to be confused with the eponymous English footballer, dead a week ago of heart failure at 92 twenty days shy of his birthday.
Christina Sandera, companion to actor-director Clint Eastwood, dead at 61 (birth date unknown).
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