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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Chicago Bears owner Virginia Halas McCaskey, daughter of previous owner George Halas, dead at 102.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Dolly Southern White Rhino, hitherto America's oldest such captive specimen, dead at 56 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Actor D. Tony Roberts, best known for his role as Rob in Annie Hall, one of many collaborations with writer-director Woody Allen, dead at 85 eight and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Retired Associated Press Manila, New Delhi & Honolulu bureau chief Jim Becker, dead at 98 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Namibian freedom fighter-turned-first president Sam Nujoma, dead at 95 a little over three months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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English screenwriter, producer, writer and Silent Witness & New Tricks creator Nigel McCrery, dead Thursday after a battle with a terminal illness at 71 eight and four-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Counter-cultural author Tom Robbins, known for such works as Even Cowgirls Get The Blues & Jitterbug Perfume and not to be confused with the eponymous Village Voice journalist, dead of undisclosed causes at 92 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: 6615
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Longtime Toronto Maple Leafs PA announcer Paul Morris, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Thursday at 86 four and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Finnish interior architect and furniture designer Yrjo Kukkapuro, dead Saturday at 91 a little under two months shy of his birthday.
English prolific midfielder Devonte Aransibia, dead Sunday at 26 (birth date unknown).
Actor Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo, dead of heart complications at 61 three and a half months shy of his birthday.
British DJ-turned-producer and grime pioneer Rodney "Terror Danjah" Price, dead at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Plan-de-Cuques goalkeeper Jemima Kabeya, dead suddenly of undisclosed causes at 21 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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German-born Canadian Olympic long-distance runner Jerome Drayton, born Peter Buniak, the last of the latter nationality to win the Boston Marathon, dead suddenly Monday during knee surgery at 80.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Boxer Mark "The Hammer" Weinman, who made his comeback over 20 years after stepping away from the ring, eldest brother to also-boxers David Weinman and Michael Weinman and not to be confused with the eponymous stage actor, dead of complications from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at 62 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Former Torquay United Football Club striker Tony Bedeau, dead of a long-term illness at 45 one and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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American-born Toronto Argonauts quarterback-turned-CTV color commentator Wally Gabler III, dead Sunday at 80 exactly four months shy of his birthday.
Florida state Senator Geraldine Thompson, dead after complications from knee replacement surgery at 76 a little over ten months shy of her birthday.
Convicted former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, dead of complications from ulcerative colitis at 81 four months and a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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British sportswriter Patrick Barclay, dead sometime in the last two weeks at 77 six and half months to six months less a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Brazilian filmmaker and Cinema Novo pioneer Carlos "Caca" Diegues, dead following complications from surgery at 84 a little over three months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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German former interior minister Gerhart Baum, dead at 92 eight and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Former actor and headshot photographer Kevyn Major Howard, best known for his role as Rafterman in Full Metal Jacket, dead Friday of causes yet unknown at 69.
British actress Maya Woolfe, dead at 72 (birth date unknown).
South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, known for her roles in A New Life and The Man From Nowhere, dead by her own hand at 24 five and a half months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Italian chemist Francesco Rivella, known as the "Father of Nutella", dead Friday at 97 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Canadian novelist, playwright, scholar and Acadian raconteur Antonine Maillet, the first woman to serve as Universite de Moncton's chancellor, dead at 95 two and three-quarter months shy of her birthday.
American-born Mexican dancer Yolanda "Tongolele" Montez Farrington, who dazzled cinemanistas with her distinctive moves during the country's Golden Era, dead at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Mexican singer Francisca Viveros Barradas, better known as Paquita la del Barrio, dead of undisclosed causes at 77 one and a half months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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German referee committee chairman Volker Roth, dead at 83.
Scottish film & TV actor Jimmy Martin, BEM, best known for his role as Eric on Still Game and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, one of them an Irish actor, dead at 93 a little under a month shy of his birthday.
Polish Holocaust survivor, journalist, historian and Jewish history museum founder Marian Turski, dead at 98 four and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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The Jam and The Gift drummer Rick Buckler, dead of undisclosed causes at 69 nine and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, dead possibly of natural causes stemming from her shooting injuries at 43 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6615
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Malian pioneering two-time Etalon d'or de Yennega-winning filmmaker Souleymane Cisse, not to be confused with any of the eponymous footballers, all but one of them Senegalese, the other French, dead of undisclosed causes at 84 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: 6615
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British journalist Joe Haines, press secretary for former prime minister Harold Wilson and not to be confused with the eponymous American politician or speedway rider, dead at 97.
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