They All Died In 2016, 2017, etc ...

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Gina LOLLOBRIGIDA (1927) - Italian film legend, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one of her movies​

 

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David Van Cortlandt CROSBY (1941)
US Singer, Guitarist, and Songwriter
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Crosby was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

 

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David Van Cortlandt CROSBY (1941)
US Singer, Guitarist, and Songwriter
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Crosby was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Well this is gonna be my ear-worm all day ...

 

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Lance KERWIN (1960)
US Actor
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Kerwin was a 1970s child star known for the TV series James at 15, and the made-for-TV films The Loneliest Runner and Salem's Lot.

 

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Lloyd N. MORRISETT Jr. ( 1929) ​

An American experimental psychologist with a career in education, communications, and philanthropy. He was one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop, the organization that created the children's television show Sesame Street, which Morrisett created with Joan Ganz Cooney.

 

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Jeremy Ruehlemann (1995) - a rising star in the modeling industry from Mahwah, NJ​

 

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Aleksandar "Sasa" PETROVIC (1962) - famous Bosnian actor​

 

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Annie WERSCHING (1977) - American actress, best known for roles in "24," "Bosch" and her voice role in "The Last of Us" video game​

 

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Barrett STRONG (1941) - American singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the vocalist on Motown's first hit single "Money (That's What I Want)"​

 

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Cindy WILLIAMS (1947) - American actress best known for her role on the 1970s slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley”​

 

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Barrett STRONG (1941) - American singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the vocalist on Motown's first hit single "Money (That's What I Want)"​

Yeah a proific songwriter with some classics amongst them ... Papa Was A Rolling Stone; I Heard It Through The Grapevine ; War (What is It Good For); Cloud 9 ; Ball Of Confusion; Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home); Too Busy Thinking About My Baby; That's The Way Love Is; Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me;

 

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Bobby HULL (1939) - Canadian professional ice hockey player who is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time​

 

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Paco RABANNE (1934)

Francisco Rabaneda CUERVO, more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne, was a French-Spanish fashion designer who became known as an enfant terrible of the 1960s French fashion world renowned for his fragrances as well as clothes. He was also known for his provocative outbursts. At various stages he claimed to have had multiple lives, to have been some 78,000 years old, to have seen God and been visited by aliens.
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Miroslav 'Ciro' BLAZEVIC (1935) - legendary Croatian football's 'Coach of all Coaches', who led Croatia to bronze at the 1998 World Cup in France​

 

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Eugene LEE (1939)
US Set Designer
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If you have seen the permanant train station set for Saturday Night Live then you have seen the work of Eugene Lee. Lee was with the late night comedy show from its debut in 1975 up to the present. He won his first Tony Award for the environmental staging of Candide in 1974 where the main character's adventure took place all around the audience. He also won Tonys for Sweeney Todd (where he put an actual 19th century factory on stage), and Wicked, with a giant Time Dragon looming over the audience. He was also the co-founder of Trinity Rep in Providence, one of America’s leading regional theaters.

 

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Burt Freeman BACHARACH (1928)
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An American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. His many many hit songs include I Say a Little Prayer, sung by Aretha Franklin; What’s New Pussycat? for Tom Jones; The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield; Make It Easy on Yourself -The Walker Brothers; Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, performed by BJ Thomas and featured in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; What Do You Get When You Fall In Love & The Look of Love - both for Dionne Warwick; Close To You - The Carpenters ; 24 Hrs From Tulsa - Gene Pitney... and so on

 

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Burt Freeman BACHARACH (1928)​

US Public Television did a good spot last night looking back at his career. If you aren't familiar with his music, here is a 3 minute summary.

 

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Raquel WELCH (1940)
US Actor
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Welch rose to fame in the 1960s in movies like Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years BC and in the transsexual title role of Myra Breckenridge. She changed the image of the sex symbol from the damsel in distress to a powerful woman who could take care of herself. She also refused to appear nude in a movie or magazine. She continued to be popular in the 1970s, and later moved to Broadway replacing Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year and Julie Andrews in Victor / Victoria.

 

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Hugh HUDSON (1936)
UK Director
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Hugh Hudson won an Oscar for his first feature film, Chariots of Fire.

 

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Christian ATSU (1992) - the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle​