She was three months shy of her birthday.

Pioneering TV host Irwin "Sonny" Fox, best known for his eight-year stint on Wonderama, dead Sunday of COVID-19 at 95 four months and three weeks shy of his birthday.

Photojournalist Young Kwok "Corky" Lee, who spent five decades spotlighting the often-ignored Asian- and Pacific Islander-American communities, dead of complications from COVID-19 at 73 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.

Iconic, trailblazing, two-time Emmy-winning stage and screen actress Cicely Tyson, dead at 96 eleven and two-third months shy of her birthday.

1940s Hollywood starlet Marie Harmon, mother of actress Sondra Currie and musicians Cherie Currie and Marie Currie, dead Monday of natural causes at 97 nine months shy of her birthday.

Longtime LGBTQ and social justice activist Carmen Vazquez, dead Wednesday of complications from COVID-19 at 72.

Longtime CBS News Middle East correspondent Mitchell Krauss, who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat, dead Wednesday of kidney failure at 90 eight and two-third months shy of his birthday.

Longtime Temple basketball coach John Chaney, dead after a short, unspecified illness at 89.

Rapper Martell "Kardone" DeRouen, cousin to Beyonce Knowles, shot dead at 34 (birth date unknown).

Trailblazing lawyer Constance Isherwood, hitherto the oldest practicing in British Colombia, dead Tuesday at 101.

Freddy the Great Dane, hitherto the Guinness World Record holder for tallest dog in the world, dead Wednesday at 8 six months shy of his birthday.

Grammy-nominated pioneering pop singer and producer Sophie Xeon, dead following a sudden accident at 34 seven and a half months shy of her birthday.

Patricia Rooney, widow of Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and former U.S. ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney, dead of undisclosed causes at 88 (birth date unknown).

Rapper Michael "Double K" Turner, half of defunct duo People Under The Stairs, dead of undisclosed causes at 43 (birth date unknown).

Longtime USA Today MLB reporter Mel Antonen, dead of a rare acute auto-immune disease and complications from COVID-19 at 64 seven months shy of his birthday.

Cap'n Crunch (the mascot, not the cereal) creator and The Munsters & The Mary Tyler Moore Show co-creator Allan Burns, not to be confused with the eponymous Scottish surgeon, dead Saturday at 85 three and a half months shy of his birthday (my late maternal grandmother's, as well as that of a first cousin, once removed and one other relative I've never met, incidentally).

Actor Dustin Diamond, best known for his role as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the Saved By The Bell franchise, dead of stage 4 lung cancer at 44.

Famed San Francisco private investigator Jack Palladino, dead of injuries sustained in a robbery at 76 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.

Frederick Rooks, cousin to rapper Ricky "Silento" Hawk, shot dead on the 21st allegedly by said cousin at 34 (birth date unknown).

Prolific award-winning actor Hal Holbrook, best known for his 50-year one-man show as Mark Twain and for uttering the immortal advice, "Follow the money", in All The President's Men, dead on the 23rd at 95 three weeks shy of his birthday.

World War II veteran and former motorcycle racer Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised 33,000,000 pounds for healthcare workers by doing 100 laps around his garden by his 100th birthday, dead of COVID-19 at said age a little under three months shy of his next.

Former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Grant Jackson, Sr., not to be confused with the eponymous attorney, who threw the winning pitch in Game 7 of the 1979 World Series, dead of complications from COVID-19 at 78 a little under eight months shy of his birthday.

Former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, Sr., not to be confused with the eponymous journalist, dead of undisclosed causes at 86 three months shy of his birthday.

Montreal choreographer and PPS Danse founder Pierre-Paul Savoie, dead Sunday of cancer at 66.

Longtime British Colombia labour and human rights leader Charan Gill, dead of cancer at 84 four and a half months shy of his birthday.

Hip-hop photographer Ricky Powell, known affectionately as the "Fourth Beastie Boy*", dead Monday of undisclosed causes nine and two-third months shy of his birthday.

*They made the fourth-best video of 1987 and the best video of 1994.

Singer-songwriter and former University Of Mississippi star quarterback Jim Weatherly, dead at 77 six weeks shy of his birthday.

British peer, landowner, businessman and former Master Of The Horse Lord Samuel Vestey, dead sometime in the last three days at 79 six weeks shy of his birthday.

Prominent Lebanese publisher and political activist Lokman Slim, shot dead at 58 an unknown amount of time shy of his birthday.

Five-time Grand Slam singles champion-turned-Davis Cup captain, broadcaster and executive Tony Trabert, dead at 90 five and a third months shy of his birthday.