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jprime
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PostPosted: Oct 31 2024 04:55 am Reply with quote Back to top

Former TEPCO chairperson Tsunehisa Katsumata, who was in charge at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, dead on the 21st of undisclosed causes at 84 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Oct 31 2024 08:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Canadian painter John Little, who captured the grit and charm of Montreal's working-class neighborhoods and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Monday in his sleep at 96.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 01 2024 04:32 am Reply with quote Back to top

Polish-born British-American cinematographer Hubert Taczanowski, husband to British costume designer Stephanie Collie, dead June 4 at 63 a little under four months shy of his birthday.

British costume designer Stephanie Collie, widow to the aforementioned Hubert Taczanowski, dead Saturday of cancer at 60 three weeks shy of her birthday.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 01 2024 05:07 am Reply with quote Back to top

Irish-born longtime Dubai Duty Free CEO Colm McLoughlin, younger brother to former rugby union international Feidlim MacLoughlin, dead Wednesday after a short illness at 81.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 01 2024 08:29 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Legendary poster artist Greg Hildebrandt, Sr., hitherto the surviving half of the Brothers Hildebrandt, dead at 85.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 02 2024 04:34 pm Reply with quote Back to top

KCEN-TV anchor Kris Radcliffe, dead suddenly Wednesday at 51 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.

Indian fashion designer Rohit Bal, one of the country's first to pioneer the craft as a profession in the 1990s, dead after a prolonged illness at 63.

Scottish comedian Dr. Janey Godley, born Jane Godley Currie, known for her viral voiceover videos, dead of abdominal cancer at 63.

Guinness World Record-holding saltwater crocodile Cassius, hitherto recognized as the world's largest in captivity, dead at 110 or 120 (conflicting sources, hatch date unknown).

Longtime CTV News Calgary anchor Darrel Janz, dead at 83 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 02 2024 09:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Canadian journalist and Parliamentary Press Gallery dean Courtney Tower, dead last month of injuries sustained in a fall at 92.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 04 2024 03:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Legendary multiple award-winning music producer, composer and songwriter Quincy Jones II, who worked with a wide range of artists from Frank Sinatra, Sr. to Michael Jackson, dead of pancreatic cancer at 91.

Former Manitoba senator and Truth And Reconciliation Commission leader C. Murray Sinclair, born Mizanay (Mizhana) Gheezhik, dead at 73.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 04 2024 09:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

TikTok star Bella Bradford, dead on the 15th of zygomatic cancer at 24 (birth date unknown).

Veteran actor, producer and screenwriter Jonathan Haze, born Jack Schachter, best known for his role as Seymour Krelboined in the original 1960 version of Little Shop Of Horrors, dead Saturday of undisclosed causes at 95.
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PostPosted: Nov 05 2024 10:37 am Reply with quote Back to top

Bernie Marcus, cofounder of the Home Depot, has passed away at 95.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 05 2024 03:57 pm Reply with quote Back to top

If anyone scooped me on that one, I'm glad it was you.

Also, he was a billionaire philanthropist and major Republican donor.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 05 2024 04:57 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Danish veteran actor Ulf Pilgaard, dead on the 28th or a week ago (conflicting sources) of heart failure at 83 seventeen or eighteen days shy of his birthday.

Singer Tyka Nelson, daughter to also-late jazz musician John L. Nelson and also-also-late jazz singer Mattie Della Shaw and sister to also-also-also-late singer-actor Prince, his only full sibling, dead of undisclosed causes at 64.

Danish rock legend and painter Johnny Madsen, dead at 73.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 06 2024 03:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Japanese former World Extreme Cagefighting title challenger Hiromitsu Miura, dead suddenly on the 26th after a months-long battle with acute leukemia at 43.

Longtime Hoboken City Council President Jen Giattino, dead suddenly of undisclosed causes at 53 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 07 2024 06:17 am Reply with quote Back to top

Nigerian Chief Of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, who led the country through one of Africa's longest conflicts, dead Tuesday of an undisclosed illness at 56.
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PostPosted: Nov 07 2024 03:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Boxing trainer Dave "Mr. Boxing" Stacey, the first to two-time heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury, dead at 85 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Nov 07 2024 08:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

University Of Miami Sports & College Football Hall Of Fame All-American fullback-turned-Washington Redskins fullback-turned-Miami Dolphins radio analyst-turned-Prudential Bache vice president Don Bosseler, dead at 88.
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PostPosted: Nov 07 2024 09:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Ben Herbstreit, emotional support animal to college footballer-turned-sportscaster Kirk Herbstreit, hailed as both the mascot for college football and America's favorite dog, dead of leukemia and lymphoma at 10 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Nov 08 2024 04:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top

British retired (though not that long ago) actress June Spencer, OBE, CBE, best known for her decades-spanning role as Peggy Woolley on The Archers and hitherto its last surviving cast member, dead at 105.

Scottish-born British hairdresser Trevor Sorbie, MBE, who created the wedge cut, dead of bowel and liver cancer at 75.
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PostPosted: Nov 08 2024 08:58 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Voiceover artist Elwood Edwards, Jr., best known for AOL's iconic "You've got mail" greeting, dead Tuesday of complications from a stroke suffered late last year (so firmly mid-this decade) at 74 a day shy of his birthday.
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PostPosted: Nov 08 2024 10:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

British supermodel Georgina Cooper, dead at 46 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Nov 09 2024 05:43 am Reply with quote Back to top

Veteran actor Tony Todd, best known for playing the titular role in the Candyman series and that of William Bludworth in the Final Destination series, dead Wednesday after a long illness at 69 a little under a month shy of his birthday.
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PostPosted: Nov 09 2024 12:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

He also did a lot of work in the Star Trek universe, including Worf's brother and future Jake Sisko.


Klimbatize wrote:
A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd.

 
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jprime
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PostPosted: Nov 09 2024 10:01 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Longtime Portland Trail Blazers announcer Brain Wheeler, known for the exclamation, "Boom shakalaka!", dead following a long illness at 62 (birth date unknown).

Retired Motorsports & NASCAR Hall Of Fame "Alabama Gang" founder and three-time Daytona 500 winner Bobby Allison, dead of undisclosed causes at 86 twenty-four days shy of his birthday.

Longtime Winnipeg Sun sports editor Ted Wyman, dead after a months-long battle with cancer at 58 (birth date unknown).
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PostPosted: Nov 10 2024 02:01 am Reply with quote Back to top

Internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer and Alvin Ailey company artistic director Judith Jamison (short "a" sound), dead after a brief illness at 81.
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PostPosted: Nov 10 2024 04:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Mermaid Down associate producer Merry Saltzman, daughter to also-late original James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman, dead on the 30th after a brief battle with cancer at 77 one and two-third months shy of her birthday.
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