Forum:Celebrity Deaths/Archive 1
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Chuck Yeager, famous for breaking the sound barrier, is dead at 97. |
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Let us all take a moment to remember Tiny Lister, who famously did what that prison guard "shoulda did ten minutes ago" and proved humanity worthy 12½ years ago. Lister was 62. |
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Like Lister, country star Charley Pride has just fallen victim to COVID-19. He was 86. A terrible day, indeed, for country music. |
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Richard King, one of King World founder Charles King's children, has died at 79 of lung and heart disease complications. |
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Broadway legend Ann Reinking (Roxie Hart in Chicago) has passed away last Saturday. She was 71. |
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First the original dark lord, now the original Boba Fett!? What sort of calamity is 2020 bringing down on old school Star Wars fanboys? Jeremy Bulloch was 75. |
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SpongeBob and Hey Arnold animator Tuck Tucker has died at 59. |
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Martin Lambie-Nairn, designer of Channel 4's "blocks" ident and BBC 2's late 90s idents has died at 75. |
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Tanya Roberts, who played the Bond girl in "A View to a Kill" as well as Midge Pinciotti from "That 70's Show" has died at 65. |
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Uh, guys, we might want to wait a while on that. |
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Now Tanya Roberts is officially dead. https://news.avclub.com/tanya-roberts-dead-at-65-after-premature-announcement-1845993219 A very sad, yet bizarre way to go. |
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Last time I can remember anyone going anywhere near like that was Bernie Mac. |
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Muppet builder, designer, and performer Caroly Wilcox, who designed and built the original Elmo puppet, has passed away. Her age has not been documented. |
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Joanne Rogers, 92, has reunited with her husband in the big neighborhood in the sky. |
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We also lost Siegfried Fischbacher of Siegfried and Roy at 81. |
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We're not gonna add him on this wiki due to him being a convicted murderer, but Phil Spector has died at 81. |
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Sad day for baseball lovers: Hank Aaron has died at 86. |
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Broadcasting icon Larry King has died of you-know-who-19. He was 87. Two legends have died just two days apart... |
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We lost Cloris Leachman at 96. |
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From what I read, she was 94. |
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Saved By The Bell star Dustin Diamond died at 44 of Stage 4 lung cancer. |
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He was young. |
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Jamie Tarses, former president of ABC from 1996-1999 and the founder of FanFare Productions, has died at 56 on Monday of “complications from a cardiac event.” She suffered a stroke in the fall and had spent a long period in a coma. |
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Christopher Plummer died in a fall. He was 91. |
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We also lost two voice artists: voice of Tree Trunks from Adventure Time Polly Lou Livingston, also at 91, and longtime 60 Minutes announcer Robb Webb at 82. |
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Looks like Alex Trebek is about to start a Big Jeopardy Tournament in the Sky now that Brayden Smith, his last 5-time champ, has made his entry. He was 24. |
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Casting legend Lynn Stalmaster is dead at 93. |
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Obviously not adding him due to his inflammatory bigotry, but conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70. |
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Not the lifestyle magnate, but the actress from In a Lonely Place named Martha Stewart, is dead at 98. |
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And now, a poetry recital in memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died yesterday at 101. Our father whose art's in heaven |
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COVID-19 has claimed yet another notable vicitm: Vladimir Zuykov, who animated the Russian Winnie the Pooh. |
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Sadly. Hong Kong actor Ng Man Tat has passed away at the age of 70 due to liver cancer: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/166386/Veteran-actor-Ng-Man-tat-dies-at-age-70 |
