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

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Lou OTTENS - the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape (1926)​

 

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Patrick DUPOND - French Classic Ballet Dancer (1959)

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« Choosing homosexuality was a mistake » [ Parick Dupond ] :thinking:

 

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"Marvelous" Marvin HAGLER - American Boxer (1954)​

 

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Thione SECK - Senegalese musician & singer (1955)​

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Raoul CASADEI - Italian Singer (1937)

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Yaphet (Frederick) Kotto - American actor (1939)​

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Elgin BAYLOR - NBA and Los Angeles Lakers legend (1934)​

 

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Larry Mc MURTRY - award-winning novelist and screenwriter (1936)

The prolific author — with nearly 30 novels, about 15 works of nonfiction and more than 40 screenplays and teleplays to his credit — won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Lonesome Dove," a modern classic that revitalized the Western genre and inspired several sequels. He also won an Academy Award in 2006 for his adapted screenplay of the Western romantic tragedy "Brokeback Mountain."​

 

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Larry Mc MURTRY - award-winning novelist and screenwriter (1936)

The prolific author — with nearly 30 novels, about 15 works of nonfiction and more than 40 screenplays and teleplays to his credit — won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Lonesome Dove," a modern classic that revitalized the Western genre and inspired several sequels. He also won an Academy Award in 2006 for his adapted screenplay of the Western romantic tragedy "Brokeback Mountain."​

Oh yes, McMurtry adapted Annie Proulx short story "Brokeback Mountain" into a screenplay for the movie "Brokeback Mountain". May he rest in peace.

 

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George SEGAL (1935)
US Actor

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George Segal was a popular leading actor in the 1960s and 1970s, and a character actor later in his career. He was nominated for an Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966). He then did popular films like Where's Poppa? (1970), The Owl & the Pussycat (1970), and A Touch of Class (1973).

 

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Ilija PEJIĆ - Bosnian chef (1956)​

 

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G. Gordon LIDDY (1930)
US FBI agent, talk show host, and figure in the Watergate scandal

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G. Gordon Liddy went to prison for 7 years after being convicted of running Nixon's burglary of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate office building. He began his career as a lawyer and then in the FBI. After prison, he went on the lecture circuit and became a talk show host on conservative radio.

 

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Patrick Juvet - Swiss Singer (1950)​

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Well known in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Patrick Juvet had a lot of hits worldwide during his Disco Period.

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Paul RITTER (1966)​

(Brain Tumour)​

English stage and screen actor. He had many appearances at the English National Theatre, plus roles in films including Son of Rambow; Quantum of Solace: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The Eagle. His many TV roles included shows such as Vera; No Offence: The Last Kingdom but is most likely to be remembered for his recent roles as Anatoly Dyatlov in Chernobyl and as Martin in the wonderfully chaotic and funny Friday Night Dinner​

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HRH Prince Philip, The Duke Of Edinburgh (1921)​

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Prince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921. His father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes. His mother, Princess Alice, was a daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

The Prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history, with their marriage lasting for 73 years. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles, became a naturalised British subject, and adopted his maternal grandparents' surname Mountbatten.

 

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Earl SIMMONS known as DMX - American Rapper, Producer and Actor (1970)​

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Massimo CUTTITA - Italian Rugby Player & Manager (1966)​

(covid-19)​

 

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Walter OLKEWICZ - American Actor (1948)​

(Twin Peaks - Grace Under Fire - The Client - 1941)​

 

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Quindon TARVER - American RnB singer (1982)​

(Traffic Collision)​

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Anne BEATTS (1947)
US Comedy Writer

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Beatts began her career writing at the National Lampoon, and then went onto write for the original cast of Saturday Night Live, for which she was nominated for 5 Emmys (winning once). Some of Anne's most famous recurring sketches were the creepy babysitter Uncle Roy (played by Buck Henry) and the Nerds — snivelly Lisa Loopner (Gilda Radner) and snotty Todd DiLaMuca (Bill Murray). She then went on to create the series Square Pegs starring Sarah Jessica Parker.