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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Former Oakland Raiders defensive back Mike Davis, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, two of whom also defensive backs, dead at 65.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Latvian-born 1960 Olympic gold medalist freestyle swimmer and Sport Australia Hall Of Famer John Konrads, who'd previously set 26 individual records therein, dead at 78 a month shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Renowned mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, dead at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific TV comedy writer-producer and Joe & Valerie creator Bernie Kahn, dead Wednesday at 90 five days shy of his birthday (today).
Retired veteran Ottawa broadcaster Gord Atkinson, who rubbed elbows with many famous figures in his time, dead of a stroke at 94 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Florida state-turned-NFL linebacker Eugene "Geno" Hayes, dead of liver disease at 33 three and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Czechoslovakian defect hockey player-turned-Czech hockey coach Miroslav Frycer, dead after an unspecified brief illness at 61 exactly five months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. became the first two lifeforms to walk on it, dead of cancer at 90 six months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Beloved Australian singer-songwriter and former The Birthday Party and Bad Seeds member Anita Lane, dead of undisclosed causes at 61.
British Colombia politician, lawyer, judge and commissioner Thomas Berger, not to be confused with the eponymous novelist, hailed as a great champion of indigenous peoples for his work that led Canada to recognize Aboriginal title to land, dead at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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CIA Operations Director-turned-spy novelist Jason Matthews, dead of corticobasal degeneration (CBD) at 69 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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German-born American film producer & publicist and prolific philanthropist Anne (Buydens) Douglas, born Hannelore Marx, widow to late acting legend Kirk Douglas, stepmother to actor Michael Douglas and mother of TV & film producer Peter Douglas and late actor and stand-up comedian Eric Douglas, dead at 102.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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The Bachelorette New Zealand contestant Tavita Karika, dead Thursday of undisclosed causes at 31 (birth date unknown).
Kaufman & Broad co-founder and SunAmerica Inc. founder Eli Broad, dead at 87 a little over 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 New York Jets tight end Pete Lammons, dead Thursday in a fishing accident at 77 five and two-third months shy of his birthday.
Veteran Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, first cousin to former Massachusetts governor and 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, dead at 89 one and two-third months shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Former NASCAR driver Eric McClure, dead of undisclosed causes at 42 seven 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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Former Nova Scotia premier Donald Cameron, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead at 74 eighteen days shy of his birthday.
Three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser, part of the Unser racing dynasty and the only racer to win the aforementioned event in three different decades, dead of natural causes at 87.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Veteran actress and Pet Hope founder Billie Hayes, best known for her roles as Mammy Yokum in Li'l Abner and as Witchiepoo on H. R. Pufnstuf, dead Thursday at 96.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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New York City ballet legend and National Dance Institute founder Jacques d'Amboise, born Joseph Jacques Ahearn, father of actress-dancer Charlotte d'Amboise and City Ballet dancer-turned-choreographer Christoper d'Amboise, best known for his performances in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and Carousel, dead at 86 a little under three months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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San Francisco State University student Tynan McGrady, brother to plus-size swimsuit model Hunter McGrady, dead Saturday in an accident at 23 three days shy of her birthday.
P.S. Today's her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Record producer and singer-songwriter Tommy West, born Thomas Picardo, Jr., best known for his work on Jim Croce albums, dead Sunday of complications from Parkinson's disease at 78 three and a half months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Former Ireland midfielder Alan McLoughlin, who famously scored a goal with a left-foot strike that would send Ireland to the 1994 World Cup in the United States, dead of cancer at 54.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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British model and musician Nick Kamen, best known for his 1980s Levi's ads and co-writing "Each Time You Break My Heart" with Madonna, dead after a long illness at 59.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Football player-turned-actor Frank McRae, not to be confused with the eponymous late Australian rules footballer, dead a week ago of a heart attack at 80.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Jimmy Rich, longtime assistant to Robert Downey, Jr., killed in a car accident at 52 (birth date unknown).
Banker Jonathan Bush, son of former Connecticut senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, father to Extra host Billy Bush and respective brother & uncle to former presidents George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr., dead at 89 a day shy of his birthday (today).
Milwaukee Braves catcher-turned-Milwaukee Brewers and Seattle Mariners manager Del Crandall, dead of Parkinson's disease at 91.
Texas football player Jake Ehlinger, brother to Indianapolis Colts quarterback Sam Ehlinger, dead of undisclosed causes at 20 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Longtime Scott Free TV producer and production executive TanNa Young, dead March 17 of cancer with complications from COVID-19 at 51 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren, dead of undisclosed causes at 90 a month shy of his birthday.
Much-admired Associated Press religion writer Rachel Zoll, dead after a three-year bout with brain cancer at 55 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5913
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1950s R&B vocalist Lloyd "Mr. Personality" Price, whose early singles were among the first to attract attention from the nascent rock ‘n roll audience, dead Thursday at 88.
Controversial faith healer televangelist Rev. Ernest Angley, dead at 99 three months shy of his birthday.
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