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January 5th
Frederica Sagor Maas, a playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author best known for her work in VERY early Hollywood, dead at age 111.
6500 points to teams #22 and #34.
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January 4th
Photojournalist Eve Arnold, best known for her images of Marilyn Monroe, dead at age 99.
10000 points to team #24!
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January 3rd
Gene Bartow, an American men's college basketball coach who also coached the Puerto Rico national basketball team in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, dead of stomach cancer at age 81.
2000 points to teams #12, #28, #54, #59, and #60.
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January 3rd
Civil rights activist and judge Robert L. Carter, who presented part of the oral argument to the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #71!
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January 1st
Kiro Gligorov, the first President of the Republic of Macedonia serving from 1991-1999, dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #08!
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December 30th
Industrial designer Eva Zeisel, known primarily for her ceramics, dead at age 105.
6500 points to teams #01 and #22.
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December 24th
Cheeta, the chimp who was "rediscovered" as the co-star of the early Tarzan movies only to be proven a fraud, dead at 80. Supposedly. Probably wasn't 80. But. He's dead, either way.
6500 points to teams #63 and #70.
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December 24th
Dutch actor and entertainer Johannes Heesters, who performed for Hitler and visited Dachau as a tourist WHILE IT WAS STILL OPERATING, dead from a stroke at age 108.
5000 points to teams #01, #14, and #38.
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December 17th
Kim Jong-il, the supreme leader of North Korea and, we're told, the world's greatest golfer (he claimed to shoot three or four hole-in-ones per game), apparently dead of a heart attack at age 69 or 70.
2000 points to teams #41, #45, #58, #64, and #74.
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December 15th
Divisive journalist Christopher Hitchens, who became as well known for his atheism as his political writings, dead of pneumonia as a complication of esophageal cancer at age 62.
2000 points to teams #05, #11, #28, #30, #31, #32, #38, #44, #54, #55, #57, and #66.
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December 14th
Joe Simon, a comic book legend who co-created Captain America, dead at age 98.
10000 points to team #18!
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December 7th
Actor Harry Morgan, best known as Colonel Potter on TV's M*A*S*H and Bill Gannon on Dragnet, dead of pneumonia at age 96.
2000 points to teams #25, #51, #52, #53, and #58.
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December 2nd
Bill Tapia, an American jazz guitarist and ukulele player who performed with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Elvis Presley over the course of his 92 year (!) career, dead at age 103.
10000 points to team #22!
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December 1st
Flamboyant comic actor Alan Sues, who was on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In for five years but whose career kinda stinks otherwise, dead of an apparent heart attack at age 85.
10000 points to team #21!
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November 24th
Maggie Daley, former first lady of Chicago and a champion of juvenile education, dead of cancer complications at age 68.
2000 points to teams #07, #11, #26, #28, and #69.
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November 23rd
Retired four-star general Ralph E. Haines, the senior retired officer of the US Army and former Commanding General of the US Continental Army Command, dead at age 98.
10000 points to team #29!
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November 19th
Ruth Stone, an American poet and author who wrote love poems to her dead husband and won a National Book Award doing it, dead at age 96.
10000 points to team #06!
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November 15th
Munchkin Karl Slover, who played the first trumpeter, a soldier, AND one of the sleepy heads in The Wizard of Oz, dead at age 93.
10000 points to team #05!
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November 8th
Bil Keane, the American cartoonist best known for his long-running crapper The Family Circus, dead of congestive heart failure at age 89.
6500 points to teams #16 and #49.
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November 6th
Writer/producer/director Hal Kanter, best known for his work with Bob Hope and for his years of writing for the Academy Awards, dead at age 92.
10000 points to team #14!
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November 4th
Columnist and TV commentator Andy Rooney, dead at age 92.
3500 points to teams #21, #25, #53, and #56.
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November 2nd
Character actor Sid Melton, best known as carpenter Alf Monroe from television's Green Acres, dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #48!
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November 1st
Hillary Clinton's mother Dorothy Rodham, dead at age 92.
6500 points to teams #21 and #25.
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October 23rd
Begum Nusrat Bhutto, widow of former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and known as "The Mother of Democracy," dead from cancer and Alzheimer's Disease at age 82.
10000 points to team #35!
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October 18th
Norman Corwin, long time American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing, dead at age 101.
5000 points to teams #01, #22, and #27.
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October 14th
American businessman Russell Gerdin, best known for building the Heartland Express trucking company, dead at age 70.
10000 points to team #11!
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October 13th
Barbara Kent, the last silent film star adult (as opposed to child stars), dead at age 103.
6500 points to teams #20 and #56.
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October 10th
Former governor of Washington state Albert Rosellini, who also holds the record as the longest-living U.S. state governor ever, dead at age 101.
10000 points to team #56!
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October 8th
Al Davis, a football executive who owned the Oakland Raiders from 1970 to 2011, dead of congestive heart failure at age 82.
6500 points to teams #69 and #72.
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October 5th
Apple founder/CEO Steve Jobs, who was also a deadbeat dead that liked to park in handicap spots -- what a hero! -- killed by bad karma at age 56.
5000 points to teams #27, #57, and #68.
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October 4th
Kenneth Dahlberg, a successful American businessman who made a fortune from Miracle-Ear and Buffalo Wild Wings, dead of pneumonia at age 94.
10000 points to team #18!
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September 30th
NFL coach Mike Heimerdinger, who coached offensive units for the Denver Broncos, the Jets and the Tennessee Titans, dead while undergoing experimental cancer treatments at age 58.
2000 points to teams #11, #12, #28, #32, and #60.
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September 29th
Philip Hannan, who served as Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1965 and 1988, dead at age 98.
6500 points to teams #12 and #35.
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September 28th
Pierre Dansereau, the Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology" and subject of the documentary An Ecology of Hope, dead at age 99.
10000 points to team #08!
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September 27th
Johnnie Wright, a country singer/songwriter who was married to Kitty Wells for over seventy years, dead at age 97.
6500 points to teams #10 and #13.
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September 20th
Historian Oscar Handlin, who while at Harvard directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, dead at age 95.
10000 points to team #16!
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September 19th
Dolores Hope, a singer who did 50 years worth of USO tours with her husband Bob Hope, dead of natural causes at age 102.
2000 points to teams #25, #29, #31, #42, #51, #61, #62, and #65.
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September 17th
Illinois Senator Charles Percy, who was instrumental in getting John Paul Stevens elevated to the Supreme Court, dead of Alzheimer's complications at age 91.
10000 points to team #15!
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September 17th
Eleanor Mondale, a radio and TV host, actress, and daughter of vice president Walter Mondale, dead of brain cancer at age 51.
3500 points to teams #12, #26, #30, and #37.
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September 15th
Elderly actress Frances Bay, who was a favorite of David Lynch's but is probably best known as Adam Sandler's grandmother in Happy Gilmore, dead of pneumonia complications at age 92.
10000 points to team #07!
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September 13th
Wilma Lee Cooper, a bluegrass/country/gospel entertainer who performed with the Grand Ole Opry for almost fifty years until she had a stroke on stage (!) in 2001, dead at age 90.
6500 points to teams #10 and #13.
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September 12th
Singer and banjoist Wade Mainer, who bridged the gap between old-time mountain music and bluegrass, dead of congestive heart failure at age 104.
6500 points to teams #24 and #34.
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September 11th
Andy Whitfield, a Welsh actor and model best known for his role on Spartacus: Blood and Sand, dead of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 39.
6500 points to teams #59 and #60.
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August 27th
Author and activist Stetson Kennedy, remembered for infiltrating and exposing the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #58!
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August 21st
John Hubbard, a former president of USC and a US ambassador to India, dead "following an extended illness" at age 92.
10000 points to team #17!
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August 11th
Warrant frontman Jani Lane, whose unfortunate birth name was John Kennedy Oswald, dead at age 47. At this time the cause of death is still pending; suicide is still a definite possibility, and we'll award the bonus points later if/when that is confirmed.
10000 points to team #75!
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August 11th
Scott LeDoux, a boxer, wrestler, and referee known as "The Fighting Frenchman," dead of ALS at age 62.
6500 points to teams #12 and #35.
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August 10th
Country singer Billy Grammer, whose 1959 hit "Gotta Travel On" was the first song on Buddy Holly's playlist during his final (and fatal) tour, dead of "a long-term illness" at age 85.
10000 points to team #10!
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August 7th
Nancy Wake, a British agent who served as a leading figure in the French Resistance during WWII, dead at age 98.
10000 points to team #51!
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August 7th
Hugh Carey, the governor of New York who preceded Mario Cuomo, dead at age 92.
10000 points to team #50!
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August 7th
Oregon Senator Mark O. Hatfield, who holds the record for longest tenure of any Senator from Oregon, dead of natural causes at age 89.
10000 points to team #71!
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July 28th
Frank Bender, a world-renowned autodidact forensic artist who would make facial reconstructions of the dead and fugitives, dead of pleural mesothelioma at age 70.
2000 points to teams #11, #23, #28, #35, #38, #55, and #71.
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July 26th
American financier Howard Stein, one of the fathers of the mutual fund industry and creator of the first tax-free municipal bond fund, dead of complications from a stroke at age 84.
10000 points to team #01!
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July 24th
G.D. Spradlin, an American actor best known for his portrayal of corrupt Senator Pat Geary in The Godfather, Part II, dead of natural causes at age 90.
10000 points to team #50!
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July 20th
Lucian Freud, a British painter best known for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, dead at age 88.
10000 points to team #07!
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July 17th
Uruguayan politician/dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry, who served from 1972 until his ouster in a coup in 1976, dead of "breathing problems and other illnesses" at age 83.
10000 points to team #08!
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July 15th
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers, English theatre, film and television actress, probably best known as one of Margaret Lockwood's friends in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #14!
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July 12th
Sherwood Schwartz, the television producer who created The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, dead at age 94.
5000 points to teams #50, #53, and #60.
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July 8th
Former First Lady Betty Ford, who later received the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in honor of her work against substance abuse, dead at age 93.
3500 points to teams #20, #42, #58, and #68.
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June 29th
Professional boxer Billy Costello, who at his peak in 1984 held the WBC junior welterweight title, dead of lung cancer at age 55.
10000 points to team #35!
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June 27th
Lura Lynn Ryan, the wife of imprisoned former Illinois Governor George Ryan, dead of complications of cancer and chemotherapy at age 76.
2000 points to teams #05, #11, #26, #28, #35, #44, #55, #69, and #71.
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June 25th
Sportscaster and journalist Nick Charles, one of the original CNN on-air personalities and host of Sports Tonight, dead of metastatic bladder cancer at age 64.
5000 points to teams #22, #28, and #60.
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June 23rd
Gene Colan, a Marvel comic book artist who created such characters as Daredevil and Howard the Duck, dead from "complications from liver disease and a broken hip received in a fall" at age 84.
10000 points to team #32!
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June 23rd
Peter Falk, the American actor (unfortunately) best known for his portrayal of Columbo but who, much more importantly, also served as the narrator of The Princess Bride, dead of "cardiorespiratory arrest, with pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease" at age 83.
2000 points to teams #42, #54, #64, #65, and #70.
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June 22nd
Canadian business leader Harley Hotchkiss, who served as chairman of the National Hockey League from 1995 to 2007, dead of prostate cancer at age 83.
10000 points to team #59!
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June 12th
Film producer Laura Ziskin (Pretty Woman, As Good As It Gets, Spiderman), dead breast cancer complications at age 61.
10000 points to team #44!
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June 12th
John Hospers, an American philosopher who in 1972 was the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, dead at age 93.
10000 points to team #17!
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June 10th
Brian Lenihan, an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and barrister who served as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and as Minister for Finance, dead from pancreatic cancer at age 52.
3500 points to teams #26, #28, #55, and #57.
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June 7th
Mexican-American boxer Genaro Hernandez, a former WBA and WBC Super Featherweight Champion and a staple of HBO Boxing, dead of "cancer of the head and neck" at age 45.
3500 points to teams #30, #44, #55, and #71.
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June 4th
Lilian Jackson Braun, the American writer best known for her "Cat Who..." mystery novels, dead from a lung infection at age 97.
6500 points to teams #16 and #22.
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June 3rd
Author Harry Bernstein, whose first book was published when he was 96, dead at age 101.
10000 points to team #24!
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June 3rd
James Arness, the 6"7 actor best known as playing Marshall Matt Dillon on TV's Gunsmoke (and the older brother of Peter Graves), dead of natural causes at age 88.
5000 points to teams #17, #39, and #63.
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June 3rd
Euthanasia activist Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill patients, dead of kidney problems and pneumonia at age 83.
10000 points to team #07!
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May 27th
Jeff Conaway, an American actor (Grease, TV's Taxi) better known for his substance abuse problems, dead from "pneumonia with sepsis" at age 60.
6500 points to teams #58 and #74.
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May 25th
British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist Leonara Carrington, dead due to complications from pneumonia at age 94.
10000 points to team #16!
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May 24th
Reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark, whose eccentric life is more interesting than I can sum up in this sentence, dead at age 104.
2000 points to teams #05, #13, #25, #41, #47, and #59.
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May 19th
Don Barden, a Majestic Star Casino executive and leading black entrepreneur, dead of lung cancer at age 67.
10000 points to team #35!
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May 17th
Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, who was second only to Babe Ruth in American League home runs, dead of esophageal cancer at age 74.
2000 points to teams #05, #11, #13, #22, #28, #30, #31, #36, #38, #44, #54, #57, #58, #60, #63, #66, and #69.
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May 15th
Ted Prior, a New Jersey Elvis impersonator whose death somehow made a bigger media splash than most of the people on this list, dead at age 68.
6500 points to teams #35 and #59.
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May 12th
NFL running back Ron Springs, dead of diabetes/cardiac arrest/etc. at age 54.
10000 points to team #30!
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May 11th
Maurice Goldhaber, an American physicist who established that neutrinos have negative helicity, dead at age 100.
10000 points to team #17!
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May 10th
New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo, dead from complications stemming from pneumonia at age 88.
10000 points to team #50!
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May 9th
Robert F. Ellsworth, a Kansas Congressman who later served as the US ambassador to NATO, dead of pneumonia at age 84.
10000 points to team #72!
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May 9th
Dolores Fuller, an American actress best known as being Ed Wood's girlfriend and appearing in some of his films (Glen or Glenda?, Jail Bait), dead at age 88.
10000 points to team #02!
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May 7th
Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros, generally considered the greatest Spanish golfer of all time, dead of a malignant brain tumor at age 54.
6500 points to teams #25 and #31.
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May 5th
Claude Stanley Choules, the last First World War combat veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia, dead at age 110.
3500 points to teams #33, #35, #58, and #65.
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May 5th
Playwright, director and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, probably best known for writing Hitchcock's Rope and The Way We Were, dead of pneumonia complications at age 93.
10000 points to team #07!
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May 3rd
Jackie Cooper, a child actor who had a long career as an actor and producer/director, dead "after a short illness" at age 88.
3500 points to teams #05, #48, #62, and #70.
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April 30th
Argentine writer, painter and physicist Ernesto Sabato, dead of bronchitis at age 99.
10000 points to team #08!
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April 30th
Emilio Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, dead from stroke complications at age 105.
6500 points to teams #22 and #43.
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April 26th
Jim "Mad Dog" Mandich, a former Miami Dolphin who became a well-known sports radio talk show host and color commentator, dead of cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile duct) at age 62.
10000 points to team #34!
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April 20th
Television pioneer Madelyn Pugh, who was one of the creators of I Love Lucy, dead at age 90.
10000 points to team #17!
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April 16th
Sol Saks, the screenwriter who created the TV series Bewitched, dead of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at the age of 100.
6500 points to teams #12 and #23.
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April 14th
American supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the oldest undisputed American-born man and the third oldest undisputed man ever, dead at age 113.
2000 points to teams #40, #59, #65, #70, and #74.
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April 12th
Sidney Harman, an American businessman who was a U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce and publisher of Newsweek, dead from acute myeloid leukemia at age 92.
10000 points to team #72!
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April 9th
Orrin Tucker, a bandleader whose biggest hit was 1939's "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!", dead at age 100.
6500 points to teams #04 and #43.
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April 9th
Sidney Lumet, American film producer/writer/director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and, weirdly, The Wiz), dead at age 86.
5000 points to teams #49, #64, and #73.
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April 7th
Legendary vocal coach Arthur Lessac, dead at age 101.
10000 points to team #24!
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April 3rd
Yale women's ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz, whose diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia led to campus bone marrow drives which saved six other people, dead at age 23.
2000 points to teams #11, #12, #26, #35, #38, and #71.
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April 2nd
Larry Finch, a longtime player and coach for the University of Memphis men's basketball team, dead of pneumonia and a series of strokes at age 60.
6500 points to teams #59 and #66.
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March 29th
Jose Alencar, a Brazilian businessman who served as vice president from 2003 to 2010, dead from various cancers at age 79.
6500 points to teams #06 and #71.
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March 27th
Harry Coover, an inventor who gave the world Super Glue, dead at age 94.
6500 points to teams #34 and #48.
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March 26th
Carl Bunch, an American drummer who backed Buddy Holly, Hank Williams Jr., and Roy Orbison, dead from diabetes complications at age 71.
10000 points to team #07!
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March 26th
British fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones, dead of lung cancer at age 76.
6500 points to teams #33 and #54.
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March 26th
Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, who was also the first female Vice Presidential candidate "representing a major party" (i.e. not a fringe lunatic), dead from multiple myeloma at age 75.
10000 points to team #71!
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March 23rd
Elizabeth Taylor, a longtime AIDS activist who dabbled in "the pictures," dead of congestive heart failure at age 79.
6500 points to teams #21 and #65.
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March 21st
Pinetop Perkins, a Grammy-winning blues pianist (and the guy arguing with John Lee Hooker outside Aretha's Soul Food Cafe in The Blues Brothers) , dead at age 97.
10000 points to team #46!
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March 20th
Entertainer Dorothy Young, who at one point served as the stage assistant to Harry Houdini, dead at age 103.
6500 points to teams #05 and #56.
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March 18th
Warren Christopher, a politician and diplomat who served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, dead from complications of kidney and bladder cancer at age 85.
10000 points to team #25!
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March 17th
Ferlin Husky, a country vocalist probably best known for his hits "Wings of a Dove" and "Gone," dead of of congestive heart failure at age 85.
5000 points to teams #10, #67, and #71.
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February 28th
Actress and sex symbol Jane Russell, whose ample cleavage inspired Howard Hughes to design the first underwire bra for her role in 1943's The Outlaw, dead of a respiratory-related illness at age 91.
10000 points to team #02!
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February 27th
Frank Buckles, the last living American WWI veteran, dead at age 110.
5000 points to teams #12, #23, and #31.
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February 16th
Actor Len Lesser, best known as Uncle Leo from Seinfeld, dead of "cancer-related pneumonia" (?) at the age of 88.
10000 points to team #20!
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February 14th
George Shearing, an extremely prolific jazz pianist who happened to be blind, dead of heart failure at age 91.
10000 points to team #01!
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February 12th
Actress/singer/dancer Betty Garrett, probably best known as Archie's liberal neighbor on All in the Family and the landlord on Laverne & Shirley, dead of an aortic aneurysm at age 91.
6500 points to teams #25 and #70.
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February 10th
Emory Bellard, a college football coach for Texas A&M and Mississippi State, dead from Lou Gehrig's disease at age 83.
10000 points to team #12!
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February 8th
Former Brooklyn Dodger Tony Malinosky, who played 35 games professionally in 1937, dead at age 101.
6500 points to teams #22 and #32.
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February 4th
Uga VIII, the bulldog mascot of the University of Georgia, dead of lymphoma at 16 months.
6500 points to teams #35 and #69.
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February 3rd
Sporting goods entrepreneur and TV host Larry Schoenborn, dead of cancer at age 72.
10000 points to team #11!
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February 3rd
Veteran photographer LeRoy "Granny" Grannis, best known for his shots of surfing and related sea imagery, dead at age 93.
10000 points to team #08!
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January 31st
American supercentenarian Eunice Sanborn, who at the time of her death was the oldest living human, dead at age 114.
2000 points to teams #23, #27, #40, #59, #63, #65, #69, and #74.
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January 29th
American electronic composer Milton Babbitt, who as a college professor taught a young Stephen Sondheim, dead at age 94.
10000 points to team #16!
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January 26th
Charlie Louvin, a country singer and long time member of the Grand Ole Opry, dead of complications from his pancreatic cancer at age 83.
2000 points to teams #10, #12, #13, #22, #26, #28, #30, #33, #43, #44, #54, #55, #57, and #65.
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January 25th
Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell, best known for his contributions to post-industrialism, dead at age 91.
10000 points to team #16!
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January 23rd
Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who swam a mile towing 70 rowboats at the age of 70, dead of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at age 96.
6500 points to teams #56 and #61.
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January 20th
Bruce Gordon, an American actor best known for his role as Frank Nitti on the television series The Untouchables, dead after a lengthy illness at age 94.
6500 points to teams #14 and #39.
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January 19th
Novelist and essayist Wilfrid Sheed, whose varied career included a 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for his liner notes for Frank Sinatra's The Voice – The Columbia Years 1943-1952, dead of urosepsis at age 80.
10000 points to team #59!
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January 18th
Architect and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Edgar Tafel, who worked on Wright's Fallingwater, Wingspread, and the Johnson Wax Headquarters, dead at age 98.
10000 points to team #22!
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January 18th
Milton Rogovin, a documentary photographer who was discredited by HUAC, dead at age 101.
10000 points to team #23!
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January 18th
Stateman and activist Sargent Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan who is credited with creating the Peace Corps, dead at age 95.
3500 points to teams #31, #56, #68, and #70.
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January 16th
Gordon Murray, a financial guru who wrote The Investment Answer, dead of glioblastoma at age 60.
3500 points to teams #23, #26, #55, and #71.
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January 15th
Romulus Linney, a professor and playwright and father of actress Laura Linney, dead of lung cancer at age 80.
10000 points to team #71!
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January 14th
American supercentenarian Mississippi Winn, who was the 7th oldest person in the world, the oldest resident of Louisiana, the oldest living African American, AND the last living child of former slaves, dead at age 113.
10000 points to team #63!
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