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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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The Alarm frontman Mike Peters, not to be confused with the eponymous Mother Goose & Grimm cartoonist, dead of lymphoma at 66.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6756
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Prolific session keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and Quadraphonic Sound co-founder David Briggs, who worked with some of the 20th century's most influential artists and not to be confused with any of his notable epoymites, dead a week ago of complications from renal cancer at 82.
Retired actress Priscilla Pointer, known for her various motherly roles in film and TV and mother to Carrie co-star Amy Irving & writer-director David Irving, dead peacefully in her sleep at 100 twenty days shy of her (also my late maternal grandmother's, my first cousin once removed's and his sister-in-law's, incidentally) birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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German pioneering Olympic ski jumper Max Bolkart, dead Saturday of severe dementia at 92 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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Winnipeg Councillor Jason Schreyer (note the "y"), son of former Manitoba premier & governor general of Canada Ed Schreyer, dead of undisclosed causes at 57 (birth date unknown).
Novo Agency founder Jeff Sperbeck, business partner and former agent to NFL Hall Of Famer John Elway, dead of undisclosed causes following an injury suffered over the weekend at 62 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Japanese retired interim textile factory manager-turned-mountaineer Tomiko Itooka, recognized last year as the world's oldest person when the previous titleholder died, dead January 6 at 116 four and a half months shy of her birthday.
Two-sport athlete Tom Brown, the first to both play Major League Baseball and appear in a Super Bowl and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead a week ago at 84 seven and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, recognized months ago as the world's oldest person when the aforementioned previous titleholder died, dead at 116 one and a third/quarter months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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TikTok star Preston "Okay Baby" Ordone, dead a week ago in a pickup truck crash at 2 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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1995 two-hit wonder and human rights activist Jill Sobule, dead in a house fire at 66.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Possessed guitarist Brian Montana, killed Monday in a police shootout at 60 (birth date unknown).
Retired Golden Globe-winning five-time Emmy-nominated veteran TV actress Ruth Buzzi, daughter of also-late sculptor Angelo Buzzi and wife to actor Kent Perkins, dead in her sleep of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 88 two and three-quarter months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6756
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Reality TV star Kirk Medas, best known for his stint on Floribama Shore, dead of complications with liver failure following a two-week battle with necrotizing pancreatitis at 33 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific veteran cartoonist, animator, artist and musician James Jobb, alias Jim Smith, dead Friday of a heart attack at 70 five and a 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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Veteran character actor Charley Scalies, Jr., best known for his role as Thomas "Horseface" Pakula on The Wire, dead Thursday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease at 84 two 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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Brazilian child actress & model Millena Brandao, dead Friday after suffering multiple heart attacks at 11 (birth date unknown [also, read that sentence again]).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Mountaineer Alexander Pancoe, dead possibly of a cardiac arrest at 39 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Respective British and New Zealand Superbike riders Owen Jenner and Shane Richardson, the latter not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead of injuries sustained in an 11-man crash at 21 and 29, further respectively (birth dates unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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German retired Formula 1 driver-turned-broadcaster and 1989 24 Hours Of Le Mans winner Jochen Mass, who was involved in the 1982 crash that claimed the life of fellow racer Gilles Villneuve, dead Sunday of complications following a stroke suffered in February at 78 a little under five 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 The Ponys drummer, Mother Of Tears founder and Tyler Jon Tyler bassist Nathan Jerde, dead sometime between Thursday and Monday at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Retired three-time All-Star outfielder and eponymous Foundation creator Chet Lemon, who helped the Detroit Tigers win the 1984 World Series, dead in his sleep after a lengthy battle with Polycythemia vera at 70.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Hall Of Fame country music pioneer Juan "Johnny" Rodriguez, the first Hispanic such musician, dead at 73 seven months and 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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Oscar-winning, five-time Emmy-nominated prolific veteran makeup & prosthetics artist Greg Cannom, a frequent collaborator with Rick Baker, dead after a period of declining health at 73 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Freshly-retired professional wrestler Terry "Sabu" Brunk, nephew and protege to also-late also-professional wrestler Ed "The Sheik" Farhat, dead in the last ten days of undisclosed causes at 60 seven and a third months to seven months less a day shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6756
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English retired inside forward Colin Booth, not to be confused with the eponymous also-English mycologist, dead at 90 seven and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6756
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Veteran actress Denise Alexander, best known for her role as Dr. Lesley Webber on General Hospital and widow to film & TV actor-director Richard A. Colla, dead March 5 of natural causes at 85 eight and a fifth months shy of her birthday.
Elizabeth Colla, daughter to said also-late actor-director and stepdaughter to said also-also-late actress, dead on the 31st (because last month only had 30 days) at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
Actor Samuel French, best known for his role as C.J. Robinson in Killers Of The Flower Moon and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Friday after a two-year battle with cancer at 45.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 6756
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Electric blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker, born Louis Joseph Walker, Jr., dead on the 30th of a cardiac-related illness at 75 a little under eight months shy of his birthday.
Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Robert Benton, best known and two of said awards for Kramer Vs. Kramer and not to be confused with the mostly eponymous set decorator, dead Sunday at 92 four and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.
Australian baseball legend Adam Burton, not to be confused with the eponymous birth name of animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor Maxwell Atoms, dead Monday at 53.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Retired veteran animal actor Morris the alligator, best known for his appearance in Happy Gilmore, dead over the weekend of old age supposedly at 80 (hatch date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez, not to be confused with the eponymous Spanish rhythmic gymnast, shot dead Tuesday at 23 (birth date unknown).
Mexican politician Luis Armando Cordova Diaz, shot dead Tuesday at 56 seven and a half months shy of his birthday.
Veteran Robert Altman Award-winning actor Joe Don Baker, best known for his role as Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, dead of undisclosed causes at 89.
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