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Posted: Jan 17 2020 03:11 pm

Television personality and philanthropist Therese Tanguay Dion, known popularly as Maman Dion, mother of singer Celine Dion, dead at 92 two months shy of her birthday.

Posted: Jan 18 2020 02:19 pm

Khagendra Thapa Magar, hitherto the Guinness World Record holder for world's shortest mobile man, dead Thursday of heart problems, asthma and pneumonia at 27 nine months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 19 2020 04:39 am

Ted Hughes, British Colombia's original conflict-of-interest commissioner, whose investigation led to the resignation of Bill Vander Zalm as premier, dead at 92 five months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 19 2020 02:26 pm

The Left Banke frontman Steve Martin Caro, dead Tuesday of heart disease at 71 nine months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 19 2020 04:55 pm

Folk singer-songwriter David Olney, dead mid-performance of a heart attack at 71 two months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 19 2020 09:58 pm

English-born, Canadian-raised painter, printmaker and sculptor Gordon Appelbe Smith, known for expanding the dialogue between abstraction and representation, dead at 100 five months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 20 2020 06:15 pm

Abstraction: Man, this sucks. I can't quite tell what's going on. I feel something, but not quite sure what it is.
Representation: Come on, that's impossible. Just use your words. How are you feeling? What are you feeling? What exactly is happening.
Abstraction: I'm telling you, I'm not sure. It's like as soon as I began understanding it, I shift my point of view a little and everything changes. I'm not necessarily saying I feel "bad". I just can't quite pinpoint it.
Representation: Yeah, no. That's not how it works. What you're going through can be described. Try using words that correlate, that are similar. Maybe that will work?
Abstraction: Yeah, I could try. I mean, my connotation may be different from yours though.
Representation: Hell, maybe even try drawing a picture of it. That will help us have a clear idea of what you're experiencing.
Abstraction: Ok, let me try.
Representation: Wha....what is that? An elephant? A railroad track? Wait...Australia. What are you drawing?

And there's an example of dialogue between abstraction and representation.

Posted: Jan 21 2020 07:16 pm

Brice Armstrong, the narrator of the Dragon Ball dub, died at 84 from natural causes.

Posted: Jan 21 2020 08:50 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

Brice Armstrong, the narrator of the Dragon Ball dub, died at 84 from natural causes.

It happened on the 10th.

Posted: Jan 22 2020 02:34 pm

Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones, dead of dementia at 76 a week and a half shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 22 2020 04:48 pm

Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath, who performed with such greats as Miles Davis and John Coltrane before forming The Heath Brothers in middle age, dead Sunday at 93 nine months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 23 2020 09:17 pm

Longtime PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer, dead at 85 four months shy of his birthday.

Posted: Jan 24 2020 02:01 am

The Bachelorette Season 15 contestant Tyler Gwozdz, dead Wednesday of an apparent overdose at 29.

Posted: Jan 25 2020 05:11 am

Degrassi co-creator Christopher "Kit" Hood, dead Monday at 76 or 77 (Birth date unknown).

Posted: Jan 26 2020 04:23 pm

Kobe Bryant, 41 year old basketball player, died in a helicopter crash in California.

Posted: Jan 26 2020 04:52 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

Kobe Bryant, 41 year old basketball player, died in a helicopter crash in California.

He was seven months shy of his birthday.

Gianna Bryant, daughter of Kobe Bryant, killed with her father and seven others at 13 four months shy of her birthday.

Former Brewster Whitecaps coach John Altobelli, father of Red Sox scout J. J. Altobelli, among said others at 56 four months shy of his birthday, along with wife Keri and daughter Alyssa.

Posted: Jan 29 2020 04:49 pm

Soap opera actress Marj Dusay, dead at 83 a month shy of her birthday.

Posted: Jan 30 2020 02:43 pm

Leading conservationist Homero Gomez Gonzalez, dead in the last seventeen days from presumed murder by head trauma between 49 and 51 (exact birth date unknown).

Posted: Jan 30 2020 05:32 pm

Race car driver John Andretti died of colon cancer. He was 56 years old.

Posted: Jan 30 2020 09:15 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

Race car driver John Andretti died of colon cancer. He was 56 years old.

He founded Race4Riley and was a month and a third shy of his birthday.

Posted: Feb 01 2020 03:24 am

Prolific author Mary Higgins Clark, known as the "Queen Of Suspense" for her bestselling suspenseful novels, dead at 92 eleven months shy of her birthday.

Posted: Feb 01 2020 09:58 pm

TV executive and producer Fred Silverman, dead Thursday of cancer at 82 seven and a half months shy of his birthday.

Gang Of Four guitarist and co-founder Andy Gill, dead after a brief respiratory illness at 64.

Posted: Feb 02 2020 05:31 am

Social entrepreneur Leila Janah, who famously hired the desperately poor of Kenya, Uganda and India, dead on the 24th of epithelioid sarcoma at 37 eight and a half months shy of her birthday.

Posted: Feb 04 2020 02:30 pm

Mercenary T. Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, whose famous lead of a campaign against the communist-backed Congolese rebels inspired 1978's Wild Geese, dead Sunday at 100 a month and a half shy of his birthday.

Posted: Feb 04 2020 08:56 pm

World-renowned microbiologist and infectious disease expert Dr. Francis "Frank" Plummer, who helped develop responses to the SARS, influenza and H1N1 outbreaks as scientific director of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, dead at 67 (birth date unknown).