Former NBA commissioner David Stern, dead at 77 the better part of nine months shy of his birthday.

Nick Gordon (not to be confused with the eponymous Minnesota Twins shortstop), ex-partner to the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, dead of undisclosed causes at 30 I-don't-know-how-shy of his birthday.

Rapper Lexii Alijai, born Alexis Alijai Lynch, dead at 21 a month and a half shy of her birthday.

Retired New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen, who pitched the only no-hitter in World Series history, dead of esophageal cancer at 90 seven months shy of his birthday.

General Shen Yi-Ming, hitherto Taiwan's top military official, killed in a helicopter crash with seven others at 63 a little under three months shy of his birthday.

That belongs in last year's thread. I'll take care of it.

Marilyn Lastman, wife of Bad Boy founder and former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, dead at 84.

Major-General Qassem Soleimani, hitherto the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, killed in a U.S. airstrike at 62 two & 1/3 months shy of his birthday.

Diane Ford, mother of late Toronto mayor Rob Ford and current Ontario premier Doug Ford, Jr., dead of cancer at 85.

Author Elizabeth Wurtzel, best known for 1994's Prozac Nation: Alone And Depressed In America, dead of metastatic breast cancer at 52 the better part of seven months shy of her birthday.

Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta, dead of an apparent gunshot suicide at 45 seven months shy of his birthday.

MessageHopper founder and CEO Alireza Pey, killed in the Tehran plane crash at 48.

Veteran actor Edd Byrnes, best known for his roles on 77 Sunset Strip and in Grease, dead at 87 the better part of seven months shy of his birthday.

Are You The One? contestant Alexis Eddy, dead of a cardiac arrest brought on by an overdose at 23.

Retired Newfoundland and Labrador politician John Crosbie, dead at 88 twenty days shy of his birthday.

Australian actor Harry Hains, best known for his roles on American Horror Story and The OA, dead of undisclosed causes at 27.

DarknessDeku wrote:

Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for rock band Rush, dies at 67 due to brain cancer.

It happened on Tuesday and he was a little over eight months shy of his birthday.

Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said of Oman, who modernized it after seizing power in a 1970 coup, dead at 79 over ten months shy of his birthday.

Actor, award-winning screenwriter and director Buck Henry, born Henry Zuckerman, best known for penning The Graduate, dead Wednesday at 89 eleven months shy of his birthday.

Actor Stan Kirsch, best known for his role as Richard H. "Richie" Ryan on the live-action Highlander TV series, dead Saturday by hanging suicide at 51 six months shy of his birthday.

Cartel leader Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquivel, known as La Catrina, famed for her Instagram posts boasting of the cartel life, killed in a shootout with Mexican state forces at 21.

Wrestling legend Rocky "Soul Man" Johnson, born Wayde Douglas Bowles, father of wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, dead of a heart attack at 75 seven months shy of his birthday.

DarknessDeku wrote:

jprime wrote: seven months shy of his birthday. That's pretty far away from his birthday.

Not as far as Buck Henry.

Christopher Tolkien, third son of J. R. R. Tolkien and editor of much of his posthumous work, including The Silmarillion, dead at 95 ten months shy of his birthday.

Character actress Norma Michaels, best known for her role as Josephine on The King Of Queens, dead at 95.