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Czech-American chess player Lubomir Kavalek, who won national championships in both countries, died at 77 years: https://www.sport.cz/ostatni/ostatni/clanek/2021263-smutna-zprava-v-77-letech-zemrel-legendarni-sachista-kavalek.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=z-boxiku&utm_source=www.seznam.cz#hp-sez He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965 and he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2001.

Obit from Daily-Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157015/Phil-Spector-dead-81-Jailed-Wall-Sound-producer-dies-COVID.html

DEAD

DEAD that was very fast

Actor Bruce Willis was kicked out of a pharmacy for refusing to wear a mask. Very disappointed to read somethinig like that, cause I appreciate his work. If he should notoriously continue to refuse, it is only a matter of time until he becomes infected. At 65 years he belongs to the risk group. Lets see..... https://screenrant.com/die-hard-bruce-willis-mask-jokes/

German-American physicist and nobel laureate Jack Steinberger died at 99 years already last month, but now one month later obit from Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/11/jack-steinberger-obituary

Former Steelers running back Tim Lester died at 52 years: https://steelersnow.com/tim-lester-former-steelers-fb-dies-at-52/

Prince Khalid Abdullah dead aged 84: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/horseracing/13721621/prince-khalid-abdullah-dead-aged-84/

Today is his 70th birthday. I dont think there is much to celebrate for him at the moment.

Magician Siegfried Fischbacher from iconic "Siegfried & Roy", who became famous as an animal trainer and activist, diagnosed with terminally cancer https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/unterhaltung/leute/leute/magier-siegfried-unheilbar-krank-9-monate-nach-tod-von-roy-74835244,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html

Magician Siegfried Fischbacher (81) from iconic "Siegfried & Roy", who became famous as an animal trainer and activist, diagnosed with terminally cancer https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/unterhaltung/leute/leute/magier-siegfried-unheilbar-krank-9-monate-nach-tod-von-roy-74835244,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html Someone for the watchlist, if he survives until yearend.

Yes, I can remember two hits in a single day. Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) and the Lockerbie-Bomber Al-Megrahi (both on the list in 2012) died on the same day.

I had my first hit on January 21st last year (Terry Jones). At the end of the year my shadow-list reached 22 hits. So far...everything is okay at the moment. Btw you cant set a new record every year, that becomes impossible at some point and the benchmark from last year (20 hits) is already very high. so I think 15 hits should be realistic and reachable for this year.

Russian physicist Isaak Markovich Khaltnikov died at 101 years: https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/prominent-physicist-khalatnikov-involved-in-1136277.html

Jazz artist Bobby Few, known for delicate, lush romantic melodies and for his unique use of the sustain pedal, died at 85 years: https://www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/mort-du-pianiste-bobby-few-91299

Country artist Ed Bruce, who wrote "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and who recorded "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had." died at 81 years: https://deadline.com/2021/01/ed-bruce-dead-obituary-bret-maverick-country-singer-songwriter-was-81-1234667540/

Michael Apted, director of the James Bond film The World is Not Enough died at 79 years: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-apted-dead-coal-miners-daughter-director-seven-up-documentarian-was-79-1292671

not surprised it was suicide, one day before christmas, one day after her 50th birtday and few weeks after separation with her ex....

Author Neil Sheehan who received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1989 book A Bright Shining Lie, which is about the Vietnam War, died at 84 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/neil-sheehan-ny-times-reporter-who-obtained-pentagon-papers-and-chronicled-bright-shining-lie-of-vietnam-dies-at-84/2021/01/07/86794382-f943-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html

Author and Former reporter for the New York Times Neil Sheehan, known for leaking and writing about the Pentagon Papers in 1971, died at 84 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/neil-sheehan-ny-times-reporter-who-obtained-pentagon-papers-and-chronicled-bright-shining-lie-of-vietnam-dies-at-84/2021/01/07/86794382-f943-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html He went on to win a Pulitzer in 1989.

American actress and singer Marion Ramsey, who played a recurring role on the series Cos and played the role of Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy films, died at 73 years: https://deadline.com/2021/01/marion-ramsey-dead-obituary-police-academy-actress-was-73-1234666700/

He finally kicks his ex-wife out of his villa in Miami, well done https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9117671/Moving-trucks-seen-Phil-Collins-Miami-mansion-ex-wife-packs-bags-live-new-husband.html

Sepp Blatter currently in hospital. His health condition is described as "serious", but probably out of danger: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/fifa-sepp-blatter-im-krankenhaus-lage-um-84-jaehrigen-angeblich-ernst-74794062.bild.html

What a piece of work...! Trying to setup a coup of the greatest country & in the process destroying the credibility and causing chaos & violence... he has always admired autocrats & wants so badly to be one because he is a very shallow hedonistic petty narcissist. This man is really a joke. Wish he’d just “go home” and stay there!

German Footballer Horst Eckel, last survivor of the world champion team of 1954, released from hospital after fall: https://www.rheinpfalz.de/sport_artikel,-nach-seinem-schweren-sturz-horst-eckel-ist-bereits-wieder-am-ball-_arid,5152166.html?reduced=true