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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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D-Day veteran and TikTok star "Papa" Jake Larson (note the singular "s"), dead Thursday at 102 a little over five months shy of his birthday.
Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjornsen, dead of undisclosed causes at 69.
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Khalid Al-Saud, dead after a 20-year coma following a car crash at 36.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Anthony Zecca, stepgrandson to reality star Duane "Dog The Bounty Hunter" Chapman, accidentally shot dead by his father/Chapman's stepson, Gregory Zecca, at 13 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Veteran actor and writer Tom Troupe, known for his appearances on Star Trek, Cheers & Mission: Impossible and widower to actress Carole Cook, dead of natural causes at 97.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Legendary actress, singer and author Eileen Fulton, born Margaret McLarty, best known for her 50-year role as Lisa Grimaldi on As The World Turns, dead a week ago after a period of declining health at 91 two months less a day shy of her birthday.
Rosie Roche, daughter of Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fernoy, and cousin to Princes William & Harry, dead a week ago seemingly by her own hand at 20 (birth date unknown).
Emmy-nominated, Grammy-winning actor-musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known and said nomination for his role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, drowned on a family vacation in Costa Rica at 54 a little under a month shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Former child star Jimmy Hunt, best known for his roles in the original versions of Cheaper By The Dozen and Invaders From Mars (also appearing in the former's sequel and the latter's remake), dead Friday six weeks after suffering a heart attack at 85 four and a half months shy of his birthday.
Beloved ballpark therapy bunny Alex The Great, dead of complications from cancer treatment at 4 four and a third to five and a 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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Guinness World Record holder Pauline Richards, recognized as the world's longest-serving KFC employee and not to be confused with the eponymous Australian politician, dead after a battle with cancer at 74 (birth date unknown).
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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I don't have the heart for the details Prime does...
Ozzy Ozbourne. Dead today.
Ride that Crazy Train dark prince
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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SoldierHawk wrote: |
I don't have the heart for the details Prime does...
Ozzy Osbourne. Dead today.
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Fixed. Also, he was born John Osbourne, a two-time Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer both for his time originally fronting Black Sabbath and solo, it was of a cardiac arrest, he was 76 and four and a half months shy of his birthday.
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SoldierHawk
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Thanks. Fixed the typo.
So sad. At least he got to have a final blowout goodbye concert before it happened.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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There were actually two typos. His last name was spelled with an "s", not a "z".
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Irish Tour de France cyclist Tomas Walsh, electrocuted to death at 25.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Canadian-born retired Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Dick Cherry, brother to also-player-turned-coach-turned-commentator Don Cherry*, himself not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead March 6 at 87 twenty-two days shy of his birthday.
NOTE: Don's daughter, Cindy Cherry, passed away last summer at 67 (birth date unknown), but I didn't know at the time.
Italian disc jockey Michele "DJ Godzi" Noschese, dead following a beating by Spanish police at 35 (birth date unknown).
Welsh retired footballer Joey Jones, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead at 70.
Founding Golden Earring** co-frontman, guitarist and keyboardist George Kooymans, dead of complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 77.
*He co-made the worst video of 1993.
**They made the second-worst video of 1982.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Film & TV actor-turned-teacher Kenneth Washington, best known for his role as Sergeant Richard Baker on the final season of Hogan's Heroes, dead Friday at 89 three 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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Prominent criminal defense attorney and author Roy Black, best known for securing Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal and not to be confused with the eponymous German singer-actor, dead Monday after battling an illness at 80.
Irish three-time Olympic track & field athlete Maeve Kyle (nee Shakney), OBE, the nation's first such female at the 1956 games, dead at 96 two 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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Before I begin, let me just say how amazed I am not to have been scooped on the third entry by now.
Grammy-winning legendary jazz composer, flugelhornist and trumpeter Chuck Mangione, best known for 1978's "Feels So Good", dead Tuesday at 84 four and a quarter months shy of his birthday.
Fijian-born two-time Hawaii Academy Of Record Arts' Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning singer-songwriter, recording artist and producer George Brooks "Fiji" Veikoso, best known for writing the Baywatch: Hawaii theme song, dead at 55.
Hall Of Fame six-time WWF (now WWE) champion Hulk Hogan*, born Terry Bollea, dead of a heart attack at 71 eighteen days shy of his birthday.
British actor Tony Peers, best known for his roles on Coronation Street and Emmerdale, dead at 78 (birth date unknown).
*He, along with the aforementioned Rick Derringer, co-made the worst video of 1986.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Gondwana Private Game Reserve CEO F.C. Conradie, trampled to death by an elephant Tuesday at 39 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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British trailblazing jazz vocalist Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, OBE, born Clementine Hitching, the country's most successful ever in the genre, dead at 97 a little over three months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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British physician and U.N. medical envoy Sir David Nabarro (note the "b"), M.D., who led the organization's response to bird flu, Ebola and COVID-19, dead at 75 exactly one month shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Musician, singer-songwriter, satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer, dead of undisclosed causes at 97.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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German lawyer, political activist, founding Red Army Faction member and multiple-convicted Holocaust denier Horst Mahler, dead at 89.
Irish legendary racehorse trainer Edward O'Grady, played by Pierce Brosnan in 1980's Murphy's Stroke and not to be confused with the eponymous casualty in the 1981 Brink's robbery, dead at 75 or 76 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Palestinian prominent activist & teacher Odeh Hadalin, who played a key role in supporting the prodiction of last year's Oscar-winning No Other Land, shot dead by an Israeli settler at 31 (birth date unknown).
Retired Hall Of Fame Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, dead after battling metastatic prostate cancer at 65 one 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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Israeli Ophir- and Television Academy Award-winning actor and musician Alon Ab(o)utb(o)ul, known for his roles in Munich, The Dark Knight Rises and London Has Fallen, dead following a beach swim of causes yet unknown at 60.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Astronomer Royal Sir Francis Graham-Smith, dead June 20 at 102.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Bollock Brothers frontman Jock McDonald, born Patrick O'Donnell, drowned Saturday at 69 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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German retired double Olympic champion biathlete Laura Dahlmeier, the first such female to achieve a sprint and pursuit double at the same games, dead Monday following a freak mountaineering accident in Pakistan at 31 a little under a month shy of her birthday.
Founding Iron Maiden frontman Paul Mario Day, dead of undisclosed causes at 69.
British semi-eponymous Theater School founder & principal Sylvia Ruffell (Young, nee Bakal), OBE, grandmother to also-British pop singer-songwriter Eliza Doolittle (born Caird), dead at 85 one and three-fifth months shy of her birthday.
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