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Dead celebrities of 2024


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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 07 2024 02:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 07 2024 09:02 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 08 2024 01:16 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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PostPosted: Oct 08 2024 09:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Retired All-Pro cornerback Pat Fischer, dead of undisclosed causes at 84.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 09 2024 03:58 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 09 2024 08:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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PostPosted: Oct 09 2024 09:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Sheffield United-turned-Panathinaikos defender George Baldock, drowned in his pool at 31.
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jprime
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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 10 2024 03:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 10 2024 04:18 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 10 2024 08:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 11 2024 03:11 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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
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PostPosted: Oct 12 2024 03:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Scottish DJ and Numbers co-founder Jack"master" Revill, dead following complications arising from an accidental head injury at 38.
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PostPosted: Oct 12 2024 08:14 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 13 2024 04:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 13 2024 07:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 14 2024 03:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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Location: Southern Ontario
PostPosted: Oct 14 2024 09:05 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 15 2024 09:01 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 16 2024 05:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 16 2024 06:19 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Former One Direction member Liam Payne, dead from a 3-storey fall at 31.
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PostPosted: Oct 17 2024 02:58 am Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 17 2024 02:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 19 2024 08:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 20 2024 04:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

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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PostPosted: Oct 20 2024 07:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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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