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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Hungarian Holocaust survivor and 10-time Olympic gold medal gymnast Agnes Keleti (nee Klein), hitherto the oldest living Olympic medalist, dead of pneumonia at 103 a week shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Italian eponymous fashion house co-founder and matriarch Rosita Missoni (nee Jelmini), widow to fellow co-founder Ottavio Missoni, dead at 93 an unknown amount of time shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Osmond Brothers* guitarist M. Wayne Osmond, dead of a massive stroke at 73 a little under eight months shy of his birthday.
*Donny Osmond made the third-worst video of 1989.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Prolific North Carolina sports equipment retriever Ripken The Bat/Tee Dog, dead Wednesday of complications from a serious undiagnosed medical condition at 8 exactly seven months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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British prolific author, academic and critic David Lodge, CBE, FRSL, best known for the Campus Trilogy and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Wednesday at 89 two months less a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Writer, filmmaker and actor Jeff Baena, husband to actress Aubrey Plaza, dead by his own hand at 47 a little under six months shy of his birthday.
Retired Alabama & Georgia high school football coach Sonny Smart, father to Georgia college football player-turned-coach Kirby Smart, dead of complications from hip surgery following a fall at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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German sixth-generation publicist Hans Dieter Beck, dead at 92 three and a fifth months shy of his birthday.
Canadian suspense author Andrew Pyper, dead of complications from cancer at 56 a little under three months shy of his (also my late maternal grandfather's, incidentally) birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Tenable CEO & chairman Amit Yoran, dead Friday after a battle with cancer at 54 a little under ten months to a little over eleven months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Pericles "Perry" the donkey, who served as both the inspiration and model for Eddie Murphy's character in the Shrek movies, dead Thursday of laminitis at 30 five months less a day to a little under six months shy of his birthday.
Nagasaki survivor and peace campaigner Shigemi Fukahori, dead Friday of old age at 93 a day to seven and a fifth months shy of his birthday.
Welash-born RuPaul's Drag Race UK winner James Lee "The Vivienne" Williams, dead suddenly of a heart attack caused by taking ketamine at 32 three and a quarter months shy of their birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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National Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame NBA small forward-turned-New York Supreme Court judge Barry Kramer, dead Saturday at 82 ten and a fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Prolific Original Six NHL left defence-turned-Calgary Flames head coach & executive Al "Chopper" MacNeil, dead at 95 eight and four-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Disgraced self-help author, businessman and motivational speaker-turned-convicted negligent triple murderer James Arthur Ray, dead Friday of undisclosed causes at 67 ten and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Folk musician Peter Yarrow, hitherto one of two surviving members of Peter, Paul & Mary, dead after a four-year battle with bladder cancer at 86 four and four-fifth months shy of his (also my cousin's, incidentally) birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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French National Front founder and longtime leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, dead at 96 five and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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TikTok & Instagram star Lorenzo "Cabinfruit" Buffa, known for his DIY content, dead Saturday by his own hand at 29 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Former Major League Baseball pitcher Brian Matusz, dead of undisclosed causes at 37 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: 6720
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Former CIBC chairman & chief executive and Order Of Canada recipient John S. Hunkin, dead Sunday possibly of a heart attack at 79 three and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
Veteran NBC Washington reporter Derrick Ward, Sr., who covered the Iran-Contra hearings and the Pentagon attack and not to be confused with the eponymous also-late English footballer or American footballer, dead of complications from a recent cardiac arrest at 62 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Guy Markle, beloved canine companion Duchess of Sussex R. Meghan Markle, dead Monday at 9 or 10 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Former Ohio state Senator Ben Espy, dead Saturday after a brief illness at 81 six and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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French World War II veteran-turned-Olympic rower Roger Lebranchu, hitherto the country's oldest male Olympian, dead at 102 six and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Austrian stage actor-turned-renowned opera director Otto Schenk, not to be confused with the eponymous (also-late?) German cycling champion, dead Thursday at 94 a little over five months shy of his birthday.
Singer Sam Moore, hitherto the surviving half of Sam & Dave and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead of complications while recovering from surgery at 89 a little over nine months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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British-born Australian child actor-turned-video game streamer Rory Callum Sykes, dead in the California wildfires at 32 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Puerto Rican-born Major League Baseball All-Star Felix Mantilla Lamela, dead Friday of undisclosed causes at 90 six and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Russian-born Canadian actress Kim Yaroshevskaya, best known for her roles on Quebec children's shows, dead at 101 eight and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6720
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Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, best known for designing Benetton's controversial ads, dead of amyloidosis at 82 one and a half months shy of his birthday.
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