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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Retired actress Robyn Griggs, best known for her soap opera roles in the early-to-mid-'90s, dead of stage 4 endocervical adeno cancer at 49.
Veteran Indian billionaire stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India's own Warren Buffet, dead of undisclosed causes at 62.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Musical Youth drummer and backing vocalist Freddie "Junior" Waite, brother to also-late bassist Patrick Waite, dead Thursday of undisclosed causes at 55.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Emmy-nominated television writer and producer Jessica Klein, best known for her work on Beverly Hills, 90210, dead July 13 of pancreatic cancer at 66 (birth date unknown).
French ski mountaineering champion Adele Milloz, dead Friday (my brother's birthday, incidentally) with one unidentified other in a climbing accident at 26.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Pakistani women's health & rights champion Dr. Nafis Sadik, dead Sunday at 92 four days shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Janet Hill, wife of former Dallas Cowboys running back and team consultant Calvin Hill and mother to former NBA star Grant Hill, dead of undisclosed causes at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Scottish-born singer actor Darius Campbell Danesh, dead suddenly Thursday of causes yet unknown at 41 eight days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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German-born filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen, dead Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer at 81.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Goderich, Ontario mayor John C. Grace, dead in a boating accident at an undisclosed age (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Texas Flip N Move star Randy Martin, not to be confused with the late eponymous Art and Policy professor, dead of liver cancer at 65 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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English journalist, screenwriter, film & television producer and novelist Nicholas Evans, best known for penning The Horse Whisperer, dead suddenly on the 9th following a heart attack at 72.
Japanese fashion legend Hanae Mori, dead a week ago after developing a mild fever at 96.
Virginia Grohl, mother to Nirvana* drummer-turned-Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, dead Tuesday of causes yet unknown at 73.
*They made the best video of 1991 and the fifth-best video of 1992.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Henry Engel, son of NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, dead after a nearly-lifelong battle with Rett syndrome at 6 one and two-fifth months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Austrian-born Occupy Seattle symbol Dorli Rainey, dead on the 12th at 95 an unknown amount of time shy of her birthday.
British veteran comedy actress Josephine Tewson, best known for her role as Elizabeth on Keeping Up Appearances, dead Thursday at 91.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Russian commentator Darya "Platonova" Dugina, daughter of political philosopher, analyst & strategist Aleksandr Dugin, killed in a car bombing at 29 an unknown amount of time shy of her birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Longtime MCA/Universal house counsel Sheldon Mittleman, dead a week ago of natural causes at 89 seventeen days shy of his birthday.
New Zealand actor Ioane "John" King, best known for his role as Rhaskos on Starz' Spartacus, dead Monday after a battle with adrenocarcinoma cancer at 49 (birth date unknown).
Longtime Film Society Of Lincoln Center executive director Joanne Koch, dead Tuesday at 92 a little over two months shy of her birthday.
Retired actress Virginia Patton Moss, best known for her role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life and hitherto its last surviving adult cast member, dead Thursday at 97.
Actor-turned-personal assistant to Stanely Kubrick Leon Vitali, born Alfred Leon, best known for his role as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, dead of undisclosed causes at 74.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Retired high school and college football coach Gary Gaines, made famous in Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team And A Dream and its film adaptation, dead after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease at 73.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Buddy Holly And The Crickets drummer and co-songwriter Jerry "JI" Allison, dead at 82 nine days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Cradle Of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis, not to be confused with the eponymous professor emeritus of psychology, dead Sunday of undisclosed causes at 48 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler, dead Sunday of cancer at 70.
Jazz trumpeter and composer Jaimie Branch, dead at 39.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Pro Football Hall Of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl victory in 1970, dead at 87.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific jazz producer Creed Taylor, best known for his efforts behind "The Girl From Ipanema", dead sometime in the last couple of days (conflicting sources) of heart failure following a stroke at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Vietnam War photographer Tim Page, not to be confused with the eponymous actor or music critic, dead of liver cancer at 78.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Actor Vincent Gil, best known for his role as Crawford "The Nightrider" Montazano in Mad Max, dead Sunday at 83.
Recently-crowned Scottish MTB XC Champion Rab Wardell, partner to Olympic track cycling medalist Katie Archibald, dead suddenly Tuesday of cardiac arrest at 37 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Indian kickboxer Yora Tade, dead Tuesday of a head injury suffered in a championship match at 24 (birth date unknown).
Veteran actor Joe E. Tata, best known for his rile as Nat on Beverly Hills, 90210 and its subsequent revival, dead at 85 nineteen days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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French-born longtime White House executive pastry chef Roland Mesnier, who created often-magical desserts for five presidents and their guests from Carter to Bush, Jr., dead following a short illness at 78.
Miami Dolphins senior vice president of communications Jason Jenkins, not to be confused with the eponymous South African rugby player, dead suddenly at 47 (birth date unknown).
Tony-nominated actor and MCC Theater co-founder & longtime leader Bob LuPone, brother to Broadway icon Patti LuPone, dead after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer at 76.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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World War II veteran Dean "Diz" Laird, the only known Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes, dead on the 10th at 101.
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