Former longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat and assistant secretary of state for public affairs Richard (pronounced Anglophonically) Boucher, dead Thursday after a battle with an aggressive form of cancer at 73 five and three-fifth months shy of his birthday.

Retired Hall Of Fame-to-be Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Dave "the Cobra" Parker, not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead of undisclosed causes at 74.

Founding Whispers vocalist Walter Scott, Jr., identical twin brother to also-founding bandmate Wallace "Scotty" Scott and not to be confused with the eponymous also-late businessman, dead Thursday after a six-month-long battle with cancer at 81 a little over three months shy of his birthday.

Rising motocross star Aidan Zingg, dead in a mid-race accident at 16.

Hall Of Fame horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas, dead of chronic conditions exacerbated by a severe MRSA blood infection at 89 a little over two months shy of his birthday.

English cricket legend Wayne Larkins, dead after a short illness at 71 four and four-fifth months shy of his birthday.

Scottish legendary retired veteran News At Ten broadcaster Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall, CMG, CBE, dead at 97 a little over three months shy of his birthday.

Welsh tenor Stuart Burrows, OBE, dead Sunday at 92.