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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Hall Of Fame reitred Pittsburgh Penguins broadcaster Mike Lange (note the "e"), dead of undisclosed causes at 76 twelve days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Oklahoma governor-turned-U.S. Seantor David Boren, son of late congressman Lyle Boren and father to also-congressman-turned-Chickasaw Nation secretary of commerce Dan Boren, dead of complications from diabetes at 83 two months and a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl champion running back Mike Collier, not to be confused with the eponymous also-late British record producer, composer & prolific record label founder, dead Sunday of undisclosed causes at 71 a little over seven months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Sauerbeck, dead Tuesday following a heart attack at 53 eight and two-third months shy of his birthday.
Olympic long jumper Mabel Staton (nee Landry), the only woman on her team at the 1952 games, dead at 92 exactly nine months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Artist Robert Seaman, known in recent years for his "Daily Doodles" meant to brighten up the COVID-19 pandemic and not to be confused with the eponymous also-late businessman, dead Wednesday of COPD exacerbated by said virus at 92 six and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Veteran actor Peter Jason, best known for his role as Con Stapleton on Deadwood, dead at 80 a little over five months shy of his birthday.
Original Impressions frontman, songwriter, producer and politician Jerry Butler, Jr., dead of causes yet unknown at 85 nine and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Jamaican-born retired preschool teacher Voletta Wallace, mother and legacy keeper to late rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, Sr., dead of natural causes at 78 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Veteran actress Alice Hirson, best known for her roles on Dallas and Ellen, dead a week ago at 95 a little under a month shy of her birthday.
French veteran actress Genevieve Page (nee Bronjean), dead a week ago at 97 ten months less a day shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Screenwriter, filmmaker and producer George Armitage (note the "i"), uncle to also-producer Wendy Svehlak-Thorlakson and editor Dennis Thorlakson and not to be confused with the eponymous also-late English footballer, dead a week ago at 82 a little under ten months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Veteran actress Lynne Marie Stewart, best known for her roles in the Pee-wee franchise and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, dead at 78 nine and three-quarter months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6730
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British singer-songwriter-pianist Bill Fay, dead Friday of undisclosed causes at 81 six and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Prolific celebrity hairstylist Jesus Guerrero, not to be confused with the eponymous Spanish handball player, dead suddenly of undisclosed causes at 34 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific celebrity hairstylist Graham Nation (nee Cheek), dead on the 14th of causes yet unknown at 39 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who leapt onto the back of John F. Kennedy, Sr.'s limousine when he was shot and not to be confused with the eponymous English footballer or Australian rugby player, dead Friday of undisclosed causes at 93.
Grammy-winning R&B/pop singer Roberta Flack, best known for originating "Killing Me Softly With His Song", dead of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Thai former Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, dead of undisclosed causes at 97 one and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former New York Jets quarterback J. Bill Demory, Sr., dead on the 14th after a battle with prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease at 74 nine and a half months shy of his birthday.
Singer, composer and producer Chris Jasper, credited with The Isley Brothers' transformation, dead Sunday following a cancer diagnosis at 73 ten and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
Former NFL running back Eddie Hill, not to be confused with the eponymous drag racer, dead Sunday after a battle with brain cancer at 67 two and two-third months shy of his birthday.
Cleveland Guardians (nee Indians) owner Larry Dolan, father to chairman and CEO Paul Dolan and not to be confused with the eponymous Olympic luger, dead Sunday of natural causes at 94.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Longtime prolific New York sports broadcaster Al Trautwig, dead Sunday of complications from cancer at 68 three days shy of his birthday (tomorrow).
Knitting shop owner-proprietor Rose Girone z''l, hitherto the Holocaust's oldest survivor, dead at 113.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Crooner Robert John, born Bobby Pedrick, Jr., who scored his first hit at 12 and best known for 1979's "Sad Eyes", dead Monday of undisclosed causes at 79.
Screenwriter and film & TV producer Roberto Orci, school friend to and longtime collaborator with Alex Kurtzman, dead of kidney disease at 51 a little under five months shy of his birthday.
Irish radio & TV presenter, actor and journalist Henry Kelly, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead after a period of ill health at 78 one and three-quarter months shy of his birthday.
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, dead of complications from diabetes mellitus at 39 seven and a half months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Eggheads star Chris Hughes, dead sometime since the new year at 77 seven and two-fifth months to six and a half months shy of his birthday.
Veteran BBC radio host Tim Jibson, father to 2018 Laurance Olivier award-winning actor, director, writer and voice over artist Michael Jibson, dead suddenly on the 9th at 76 (birth date unknown).
Wife-and-husband classical pianist Betsy Arakawa and retired Oscar-winning prolific actor Gene Hackman, dead on the 11th of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and on the 18th of congestive heart failure and Alzheimer's disease along with one of their dogs, Zinna, of dehydration and starvation at 63 (birth date unknown), 95, and 12 (birth date unknown), respectively.
Canadian screen industry entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Bronfman, dead at 67 (birth date unknown).
Former Real Madrid defender F. Javier Dorado Bielsa, dead after a long battle with cancer at 48.
Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who lost the world championship to Bobby Fischer in 1972, dead at 88.
FACT: Gene Hackman and Boris Spassky shared a birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Second-generation police officer-turned-best-selling true-crime author Joseph Wambaugh, Jr., dead of esophageal cancer at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Hong Kong-based pioneering RnB singer Khalil Fong Tai Tung, dead on the 21st after a relentless five-year illness at 41 four and three-quarter months shy of his birthday.
New York Dolls & eponymous band frontman David "Buster Poindexter" Johansen, hitherto the former's last surviving member, dead of stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor at 75.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Grammy-nominated R&B singer and actress Angie Stone, dead in a car crash at 63 nine and three-fifth months shy of her birthday.
Spanish former footballer Nicolas "Nico" Hidalgo Garcia, dead after a lengthy battle with lung cancer at 32 two months less a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Lifelong civil rights activist and NAACP New York state chapter president Hazel Nell Dukes, dead at 92 sixteen days shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland, hitherto the band's best-known lineup's last surviving member, dead of undisclosed causes at 77 three and two-third months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former USBA Welterweight champion Carson Jones, dead Saturday of complications from gastrointestinal surgery at 38 five and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Australian prolific blood donor James Harrison, known as the "Man With The Golden Arm", whose donations are credited with saving the lives of over two million babies and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead on the 17th at 88 ten days shy of his birthday (Thursday).
Scottish-born painter Jack Vettriano (nee Hoggan), who painted 1992's The Singing Butler, the most expensive painting ever made by a Scottish artist, dead Saturday at 73 eight and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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British-born Canadian World War II veteran Albert Middleton, hitherto the country's oldest such survivor, dead on the 12th at 109 a month less a day shy of his birthday.
French businessman, sports chairman and politician Gerard Bougoin, dead of undisclosed causes at 85 a little over four months shy of his birthday.
Businessman Carl Dean, longtime husband to country legend & Oscar- & Emmy-nominated actress Dolly Parton, dead of undisclosed causes at 82 (birth date unknown).
Cuban-born prolific Florida politician and champion of the former nation's democracy Lincoln Diaz-Balart y Caballero, son of La Rosa Blanca founder Rafael Diaz-Balart y Gutierrez, brother to U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart y Caballero, nephew to late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro Ruz, Sr. and cousin to current dictator Dr. Fidel Angel "Fidelito" Castro Diaz-Balart, Jr., dead of cancer at 70 five and a third months shy of his birthday.
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Methid Man
Title: Spawn of Billy Mays
Joined: Nov 23 2010
Location: Hackensack, NJ
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George Lowe, voice actor of Space Ghost in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, dead at 67 on March 2nd. Rest in peace...
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