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Dead celebrities of 2024


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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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PostPosted: Dec 26 2024 10:11 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Actor Hudson Meek, best known for playing the younger version of the titular role in Baby Driver, dead Saturday of injuries sustained from falling out of a moving vehicle two days earlier at 16.

Prolific businessman Dick Parsons, not to be confused with the eponymous also-late British Army officer or college athletics coach, dead of sarcoma at 76.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 27 2024 06:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Suzuki Motor Corporation head honcho-turned-advisor Osamu Suzuki (nee Matsuda), who put the company on the global stage, dead Wednesday of malignant lymphoma at 94.

Rapper Benedict "OG Maco" Ihesiba, Jr., best known for his 2014 hit, "U Guessed It", dead of a two-week-old self-inflicted gunshot wound at 32.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 28 2024 05:47 am Reply with quote Back to top

German economist and former Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger, dead Monday at 100.

Canadian artist and LGBTQ2+ activist Joe Average, born Brock Tebbutt, dead Tuesday at 67.

Warren Upton, hitherto the oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, dead Wednesday at 105 (birth date unknown).

Nick Starmer, younger brother to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, dead Thursday of cancer at 60 (birth date unknown).

Veteran CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel, dead of cancer at 78.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 28 2024 04:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

South African former snooker star Silvio "The Sliver Fish" Francisco, dead two weeks ago at 78.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, filmmaker and producer Charles Shyer, best known for helming the two Father Of The Bride movies of the '90s, ex-husband to prolific also-filmmaker Nancy Meyers and father to also-also filmmaker Hallie Meyers-Shyer, dead of undisclosed causes at 83.

Canadian trailblazing model-turned-actress and WomanOne founder Dayle Haddon, dead of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at 76.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 28 2024 09:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Argentinian-born British actress Olivia Hussey (nee Ozuna), best known for playing the latter titular role in 1968's Romeo & Juliet, dead of recurrent breast cancer at 73.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 29 2024 05:55 am Reply with quote Back to top

Billionaire prolific cable network founder and The Lustgarten Foundation co-founder & chairman emeritus Charles Dolan, not to be confused with the eponymous also-late Irish politician, dead at 98.
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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
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PostPosted: Dec 29 2024 05:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 100.


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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 29 2024 05:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

He was a Jr. and son of also-late Sumter County Representative Jimmy Carter, Sr.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 30 2024 04:24 am Reply with quote Back to top

Tony-winning stage & screen actress and singer Linda Lavin, best known for playing the titular role on CBS' Alice, dead of complications from recently discovered lung cancer at 87.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 30 2024 04:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Russian centre-back-turned-soldier Aleksei Bugayev, killed in action at 43.

Peruvian-born former Barcelona forward Hugo Sotil Yeren, dead following a health issue at 75.

English-born prolific defender Michael Newberry, not to be confused with the eponymous painter, dead suddenly on his 27th birthday.

Yes, I'm well aware they're all footballers.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 31 2024 05:56 am Reply with quote Back to top

Canadian prolific actor Angus MacInnes, best known for his role as Jon "Dutch" Vander (Gold Leader) in the Star Wars franchise, dead on the 23rd at 77.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 31 2024 01:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

LordHuffnPuff wrote:
Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 100.

I didn't even notice you did this until just now. Sorry.

Veteran pirate-turned-BBC radio presenter Johnnie Walker, born Peter Dingley, dead of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at 79.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 31 2024 09:23 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Edward R. Murrow Award-winning CNN-turned-PBS news anchor Aaron Brown, said award for reporting on the 9/11 attacks as they unfolded and not to be confused with any of his notable eponymites, dead Sunday of pneumonia at 76.

Prolific Major League Baseball second & third baseman and stand-up comedian Lenny Randle, dead Sunday of undisclosed causes at 75.
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jprime
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PostPosted: Dec 31 2024 11:13 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Retired Navy medic and Pearl Harbor survivor Harry Chandler, who pulled injured sailors from the oily waters and not to be confused with the eponymous also-late newspaper publisher & investor, dead of congestive heart failure at 103 (birth date unknown; could've been today, for all I know).
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jprime
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PostPosted: Jan 02 2025 10:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Retired Wallace Collection director Dame Rosalind Savill, CBE, dead Friday after a short illness at 73.

Swiss socialite Jocelyn(e) "Catwoman" Wildenstein (nee Perisset), ex-wife to billionaire art dealer & businessman Alec Wildenstein, Sr. and wife to fashion designer Lloyd Klein, dead Tuesday in her sleep of thrombophlebitis at 84.

Former Florida Governor Kenneth H. "Buddy" MacKay, Jr., the last Democrat to hold the position, dead Tuesday at 91.
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PostPosted: Jan 03 2025 04:46 am Reply with quote Back to top

British writer, producer, director and voice actress Britt Allcoft, best known for creating Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, dead a week ago at 81.
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PostPosted: Jan 03 2025 02:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Former New York lieutenant governor Mary Anne Krupsak, the state's first woman to hold office at that level, dead Saturday at 92.
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PostPosted: Jan 04 2025 05:48 am Reply with quote Back to top

Japanese Guinness World Record holder Tomiko Itooka, hitherto the world's oldest person, dead Sunday at 116.

American-Canadian pro wrestler & country musician Elkin "Sweet Daddy Siki" James, dead Tuesday at 91.
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PostPosted: Jan 04 2025 03:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Retired music teacher and activist Helen Williams (maiden name unknown), mother to model-singer-actress Vanessa Williams and actor Chris Williams, dead a week ago of acute liver failure at 85.
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