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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Burmese politician, physician and political prisoner Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, dead of leukemia at 72 a little over two months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Canadian musical prodigy Nell Smith, known for collaborations with The Flaming Lips and set to release her debut (now only-ever) album next year, dead in a car accident at 17 (birth date unknown).
Austrian-born novelist, translator, teacher, short story writer and children's book author Lore Segal (nee Groszmann), whose gift for words helped her family flee the Nazis and widow to literary editor David Segal, dead after a brief illness at 96.
Two-time Grammy-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, born Emily Drinkard, mother to also-late multiple-award-winning singer Whitney Houston, aunt to singers M. Dionne Warwick and the also-also-late Dee Dee Warwick, cousin to opera singer Leontyne Price and grandmother to also-also-also-late reality TV personality & singer Bobbi Kristina Brown, dead possibly of Alzheimer's disease at 91.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Cuban-born Hall Of Fame retired Major League Baseball pitcher Luis "El Tiante" Tiant Vega, Jr., son of also-late New York Cubans pitcher Luis Tiant Bravo, Sr. and who led the Boston Red Sox nearly to a World Series championship, dead at 83 one and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Retired All-Pro cornerback Pat Fischer, dead of undisclosed causes at 84.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Orogonal English Dragon Ball Z narrator Doc Harris, born Gilbert Achinleck, dead Saturday at 76.
Former South Dakota congressman & senator Tim Johnson, the last democrat to hold office throughout the state and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead of complications from a recent stroke at 77 two and two-third months shy of his birthday.
Former New York Jets defensive tackle Abdul Salaam (note the double "a"), dead after battling health issues at 71.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Canadian prolific sprinter Peter Ogilvie, dead of cancer sometime between the 26th and the 2nd at 52.
2006 Melbourne Cup champion Delta Blues, dead of complications from laminitis at 23 or 24 (conflicting sources).
Former Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata, dead of undisclosed causes at 86 two and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Sheffield United-turned-Panathinaikos defender George Baldock, drowned in his pool at 31.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Human rights champion Ethel Kennedy (nee Skakel), widow to attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., dead of a stroke suffered in her sleep at 96.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Retired Montreal Canadiens forward Donnie Marshall, hitherto the last surviving member of the roster that won the 1956-1960 Stanley Cups, dead sometime in the last nine days of undisclosed causes at 92.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Veteran actor D. Drake Hogestyn, best known for his long-running role as John Black on Days Of Our Lives, dead on the 28th of pancreatic cancer at 70 a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Japanese voice actress Nobuyo Oyama (nee Yamashita), best known for her 26-year role as Doraemon, dead on the 29th of natural causes at 90 eighteen days shy of her birthday.
Former Liverpool Reds midfielder Peter Cormack, dead at 78.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Scottish DJ and Numbers co-founder Jack"master" Revill, dead following complications arising from an accidental head injury at 38.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Former Canadian Cancer Society director of public relations and fundraising & Terry Fox Marathon Of Hope campaign manager Bill Vigars, who was played by Robert Duvall in 1983's The Terry Fox Story, dead of congestive heart failure at 78 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award- and two-time Gemini-winning TV & radio host and comedian Mike Bullard, older brother to also-comedian, also-host, writer and producer Pat Bullard, younger half-brother to Downchild Blues Band frontman Chuck Jackson and not to be confused with the eponymous former prolific NHL centre, dead possibly of a heart attack at 67.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Hall Of Fame legendary British & Irish Lions rugby union captain Ronnie Dawson, not to be confused with the eponymous also-late rockabilly musician or baseballer, dead Friday after a lengthy illness at 92.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Canadian sports journalist Brendan "Hockey Prof" McCarthy, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Saturday after a 15-year battle with leukemia at 66 (birth date unknown).
Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter (nee McDaniel), dead Saturday of respiratory failure at 86.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Pioneering stuntwoman and NAACP Image Awards founder Toni Vaz, dead on the 4th at 101 (birth date unknown).
Scottish former First Minister and Alba Party founder Alex Salmond (note the "d"), dead suddenly after a heart attack Saturday at 69 two and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Indie rapper and FDNY captain Kaseem "Ka" Ryan, a 9/11 first responder, dead Saturday of undisclosed causes at 52 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Brazilian MMA fighter Guilherme Vasconcelos, husband to model Kayla Lauren, dead of causes yet unknown at 38 (birth date unknown).
Former UCLA water polo star Pat Woepse, husband to Olympic water polo star Maddie Musselman, dead after battling NUT carcinoma, a rare form of lung cancer, at 31 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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TikTok star Rachel Yaffe, dead Friday of a rare form of stage 4 liver cancer at 27 (birth date unknown).
British award-winning photojournalist Professor Paul Lowe, not to be confused with the eponymous former footballer or politician, murdered allegedly by his son Saturday or thereabouts at 60 (birth date unknown).
Canadian prolific editor & columnist Robert Fulford, son of also-late Canadian Press journalist A.E. Fulford, dead at 92.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Former One Direction member Liam Payne, dead from a 3-storey fall at 31.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Canadian author, human rights & LGBTQ2S+ activist and educator Stan Persky, dead Tuesday of complications from cancer surgery, kidney collapse and diabetes at 83.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Former journalist and producer Megan Marshack, who worked as an aide to former New York governor and vice president Nelson Rockefeller and gained national attention when she witnessed his death, dead on the 2nd of liver and kidney failure at 70 twenty-nine days shy of her birthday.
Canadian veteran filmmaker and TV director Alvin Rakoff, who helped kick-start the careers of such stars as Sean Connery and Michael Caine, dead Saturday of old age at 97.
Hamas chairman Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust and triggered the Gaza War, killed in a gunfight with two others at 61 thirteen days shy of his birthday.
Golden Globe-nominated actress, singer and dancer Mitzi Gaynor, born Francesca Marlene De Czanyi Von Gerber, best known and said nomination for her role as Ensign Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, dead of natural causes at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Stanford psychologist Professor Philip G. Zimbardo, who spearheaded the university's infamous eponymous Prison Experiment, dead Monday of undisclosed causes at 91.
Czechoslovakian-born Israeli Holocaust historian & scholar Professor Yehuda Bauer, dead at 98.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Greek trailblazing politician and Panhellenic Socialist Movement co-founder Vasso Papandreou, dead Thursday of undisclosed causes at 79 one and three-quarter months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6318
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Retired United States Marine John Kinsel, Sr., hitherto one of the last surviving Navajo Nation Code Talkers, dead at 107 (birth date unknown).
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