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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Swedish-born pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known for his sculptures of oversized objects, dead Monday at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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R&B singer-songwriter, jazz fusion bassist and producer Michael Henderson, Sr., best known for his work in Miles Davis' band, dead Tuesday of cancer complications at 71.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Former Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves outfielder J. Dwight Smith, Sr., father of Lexington Legends outfielder J. Dwight Smith, Jr., dead at 58 three and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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World War II veteran, writer and public speaker Muriel Phillips (nee Engelman), known for her service as a nurse, dead on the 30th at 101.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Stand-up comedian, two-time Emmy-winning Dennis Miller Live writer and animal rights activist Kevin Rooney, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, husband to actress, model, singer-songwriter and also-writer & animal rights activist Carole Raphaelle Davis, dead Tuesday after a battle with diabetes and end-stage renal failure at 71 (birth date unknown).
Former Notre Dame & NFL player Paul Duncan, dead of a heart attack suffered on the 16th at 35.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Emmy-winning and Annie-nominated veteran British actor David Warner, not to be confused with the eponymous cricketer, known for his villainous roles, including Ra's Al Ghul in the DCAU, dead of a cancer-related illness at 80 five days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Dermott Donnelly, elder brother to British singer, comedian & actor-turned-TV presenter/producer Declan Donnelly, dead on the 8th after a short illness at 55 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Journalist and screenwriter Aaron Latham, husband to CBS News veteran Lesley Stahl, dead Saturday after a battle with Parkinson's disease at 78 two and a third months shy of his birthday.
The Monkees creator and Oscar-nominated director Bob Rafelson, dead Saturday of natural causes at 89.
Tony-nominated veteran character actor, tenor, Sorvino Children's Asthma Foundation founder and How To Become A Former Asthmatic author Paul Sorvino, best known for his role as Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas and father to actress Mira Sorvino, dead of natural causes at 83.
1998 Nobel Peace Prize-winning former Northern Irish first minister W. David Trimble, not to be confused with the mostly-eponymous Kentucky congressman, architect of the nation's peace deal, dead following a short illness two 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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Longtime ESPN NFL reporter and handicapping expert "Hammering" Hank Goldberg, dead on the 4th, his 82nd birthday, after battling chronic kidney disease.
Veteran Jamaican-born British actress and Talawa Theatre Company co-founder Mona Hammond, born Mavis Chin, best known for her role as Blossom on EastEnders, dead on the 6th at 91.
Golden Globe-winning Japanese actress Yoko Shimada, best known for her role as Mariko on the 1980 miniseries, Shogun, dead of complications from colorectal cancer at 69.
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Crazy_Bastard
Title: CeeBee
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Location: Tulsa
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jprime, I just want to say thank you for keeping this thread alive! you da real MVP. Come chill on the Discord!
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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The last few years, I pretty much am the dead celebrity threads.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Top Chef season 3 seventh-place finisher Howie Kleinberg, dead over the weekend of a heart attack at 46 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Veteran stage, screen and voice actor-turned-international travel photojournalist Jered Barclay, dead Saturday of MDS leukemia at 91 four months less a day shy of his birthday.
British environmental scientist James Lovelock, who created the Gaia ecology theory, dead on his 103rd birthday.
Actor, producer, director and sculptor Tony Dow, not to be confused with the eponymous British also-director, best known for his role as Wally Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver and its 1980s follow-ups, dead of liver cancer at 77.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Francis "Lumpy" Wahlberg, beloved canine companion to New Kid On The Block*, actor and Wahlburgers star Donnie Wahlberg, dead May 18 at 12 (birth date unknown).
Naked And Afraid (XL) alumnus Melanie Rauscher, dead on the 17th of causes yet unknown at 35 (birth date unknown).
*They made the fourth-worst video of 1989 and the third-worst video of 1990.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Multiple award-winning British actor Bernard Cribbins, best known for his roles on Doctor Who and The Wombles, dead of undisclosed causes at 93 a little over five months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Mary Alice (nee Smith), best known for her roles in Sparkle and on A Different World, dead at 85 four months and a week shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Rapper JayDaYoungan, born Javorius Scott, shot dead in a road rage incident at 24.
Former NFL safety William White, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, one of whom is also a football player, dead after a six-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 56.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Castanets frontman Ray Raposa, dead of undisclosed causes at 40 or 41 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Navajo code talker Samuel Sandoval, hitherto one of only four left, dead at 98 (birth date unknown).
The Shadows Of Night frontman Jimy Sohns, dead of complications from a stroke at 75 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Original Indian Wrecking Crew member and AMA Hall Of Famer Allen "Bobby" Hill, dead on the 12th at 100.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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NBA legend Bill Russell, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Groundbreaking actress-singer Nichelle Nichols, born Grace Dell Nichols, best known for her role as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, dead of natural causes at 89 a little under five months shy of her birthday.
Emmy-winning and Tony-nominated veteran actress and comedian Pat Carroll, not to be confused with any of her notable eponymites, best known for her role as Ursula The Sea Witch in Disney's The Little Mermaid and her subsequent reprisals thereof, dead of pneumonia at 95.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Distinguished news editor, executive and educator Jerome Ceppos, dead Friday of sepsis brought on by a severe infection at 75 two and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Irish-born costume designer Michael Clancy, not to be confused with either of his late notable eponymites, dead of undisclosed causes at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Ukrainian Nibulon founder Oleksyi Vadaturskyi, killed in a Russian shelling at 74 one and a quarter months shy of his birthday along with his wife, Rayisa Vadaturska (age and birth date unknown).
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