MMA fighter-turned-musician Jimmy Chaikong, drowned in a boating accident at 50 (birth date unknown).

Longtime CFL scout Craig Smith, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead possibly of leukemia exacerbated by other health issues at 69 (birth date unknown).

Diamond czar Maurice Templesman, a longtime companion to also-late former United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (nee Bouvier), dead Saturday of complications from a fall at 95 three days shy of his birthday (tomorrow).

Chesterfield FC co-owner Phil Kirk, brother to fellow co-owner Ashley Kirk and not to be confused with the eponymous North Carolina political figure, dead of inoperable cancer after a short illness at 59 (birth date unknown).

New Zealand rugby player-turned-concussion study advocate Shane Christie, dead by his own hand at 39 a little under a month shy of his birthday.

Simba Whiley-Morton, hitherto one of two feline companions to English radio host & TV presenter Jo Whiley and music executive Steve Morton, dead after being accidentally run over by the latter at 14 (birth date unknown).

British bodybuilder and three-time convict Akinwale "Purple Aki" Arobieke, dead at 64.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, dead May 21 of a cardiac arrest, presumably due to pneumonia and heart issues, at 65 twenty-three days shy of his birthday (no clue how this got under my radar).