Founding The 5th Dimension singer H. Lamonte McLemore, dead Tuesday of natural causes at 90 seven and a half months shy of his birthday (the day after mine, incidentally).

Veteran actor Charles C. Stevenson (note the "v"), Jr., best known for his role as Smitty on Will & Grace, dead on the 19th at 95 (birth date unknown).

Music producer, artist and engineer Nathan "DJ Young Slade" Smith, son of Grammy-winning rapper Jonathan "Lil Jon" Smith and not to be confused with any of his many notable eponymites, dead sometime in the last three days at 27 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.

Founding Angel And The Snake (later Blondie*) and Television bassist Fred Smith, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Thursday at 77 a little over two months shy of his birthday.

Founding 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold, dead in his sleep of metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma at 47 seven and two-third months shy of his birthday.

*They made the second-worst video of 1980 and the second-best video of 1981.

Former Major League Baseball outfielder Terrance Gore, who helped two different teams win the World Series as a pinch runner, dead of complications from surgery at 34 a little over four months shy of his birthday.