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American theatre critic and playwright Eric Bentley died at 103 years: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/theater/eric-bentley-dead.html

Actress Daisy Coleman, star of Netflix "Audrie & Daisy" died at 23 years by suicide https://variety.com/2020/film/news/daisy-coleman-dead-dies-audrie-daisy-netflix-1234726309/

Lebanese Party Leader Nazar Najarian killed in explosion: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008041080057525-kataeb-party-leader-reportedly-killed-in-beirut-explosion/

Writer, Cartoonist and Weatherman for the Cleveland-based WJW Channel 8 Dick Goddard, who is also known for his animal rights activism, died at 89 years: https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2020/08/04/dick-goddard-clevelands-best-weatherman-ever-has-passed-away-at-89 His bill, "Goddard's Law," increased penalties for animal abuse in Ohio.

Thanks for creating her own thread. For my taste she is famous enough and would definitely be a nice new entry for the list. On the other hand, there are many other (maybe better?) actress-alternatives like Eva-Marie Saint (who won Academy Award) or Cicely Tyson, who was nominated for an Academy Award at least.

Acclaimed English writer and director Alan Parker whose best known films include Evita, Pink Floyd - The Wall, Mississippi Burning, Bugsy Malone, Fame, and Midnight Express, died at 76 years: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/31/alan-parker-director-of-midnight-express-and-bugsy-malone-dies-aged-76

The very first American face transplant recipient Connie Culp died at 57 years: https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/07/30/connie-culp-recipient-first-face-transplant-us-cleveland-clinic-dies/ Her husband, Tom Culp, fired a gun at her face in 2004, necessitating her surgery

Best-selling author and Kabbalah teacher Karen Berg, who has served as the Spiritual Director at The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, died at 77 years: https://kabbalah.com/en/karen Some of her books include God Wears Lipstick, Simple Light and To Be Continued: Reincarnation & the Purpose of Our Lives.

French politician Albin Chalandon dead at 100 years: https://www.europe1.fr/politique/lancien-garde-des-sceaux-albin-chalandon-est-mort-a-lage-de-100-ans-3983468

Founding member of "The Roots" Malik B. dead at 47 years: https://uproxx.com/music/malik-b-the-roots-dead-at-47/

Former MLB manager John McNamara, who led the Boston Red Sox to the AL Pennant in 1986 dead at 88 years: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/29/sports/john-mcnamara-manager-1986-red-sox-dies-88/

Former Indiana governor Joe Kernan dead at 74 years: https://wsbt.com/amp/news/local/joe-kernan-dead-at-age-74

American Television executive and president of CNN Reese Schonfeld died at 88 years: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html

Italian actor Gianrico Tedeschi died at 100 years: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2020/07/28/e-morto-gianrico-tedeschi_f92c0878-a464-4037-93ea-222397b7a002.html

She was not only a great actress, but her successful lawsuit against Warner Bros made Hollywood a better place to work for actors under the dreadful studio talent contracts system. She was last living megastar of the Golden Age and it always blew my mind she was born during WW I and still survived. Rest in peace to my 13th hit.

Leslie Philips for me

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Alliss, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (6/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson, Sean Connery (2/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai, Diego Maradona, Olivia de Havilland (2/50) 2006: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Olivia de Havilland, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: Pierre Cardin (1/50)  2010: Olivia de Havilland, John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/50)  2011: Olivia de Havilland, John Edrich, Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Pierre Cardin, Michael Douglas (6/50) 2012: Olivia de Havilland, Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (5 /50) 2013: Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (3/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, James Randi, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, Ed Asner (6/50)  2015: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (5/50) 2016: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Phillip, James Randi, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)  2017: Prince Phillip, Pierre Cardin, Olivia de Haviland, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Ian St. John, David Prowse, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (15/50)  2018: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Betty White, Linda Nolan, Pierre Cardin, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Sean Connery, Louis Farrakhan, Ian St. John, Jimmy Greaves, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (24/50) 2019: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Pierre Cardin, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Murray Walker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Nobby Stiles, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Ed Asner, Vanessa Redgrave, Jimmy Greaves, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (28/50) Updated for Olivia De Havilland

Former german politician and minister Hans-Jochen Vogel died at 94 years: https://www.bild.de/politik/2020/politik/hans-jochen-vogel-tot-frueherer-spd-chef-stirbt-im-alter-von-94-jahren-72071600.bild.html He was also major of Munich and leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

British Actress Mary Miller died at 90 years: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/24/mary-miller-obituary

Indian danseuse Amalia Shankar dead at 101 years: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/renowned-danseuse-amala-shankar-passes-away-in-kolkata-6521125/lite/

Football coach John Blake, who debuted in 1987 as a tight end and wide receiver coach for Tulsa, and made his head coaching debut in 1996 for Oklahoma, died at only 59 years: https://sports.yahoo.com/longtime-coach-john-blake-dies-174634095.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmRlLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC7GOpkHrg0NtYF1j-ZIo4Ml_Ha7RR1FNaEce5Awb6EGI9FNvpFRHqT-4M4tFEiEljXullE8Wl5zQ9MuGr6HMrJJ3VLLPprU9Ox9jWaeBV8PJROCRkgXJxs6sciNR-u-25WP3pqOyKJjFuuWHvXvUX0iZEcFE3sozH_BjB4LpbM4

Civil rights activist and politician Charles Evers, who became the first African-American mayor in the state of Mississippi since the Reconstruction era in 1969, died at 97 years: https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/22/civil-rights-leader-and-political-figure-charles-evers-passes-away-at-97/ He was named the Man of the Year by the NAACP in 1969 and spread the slogan, 'Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.'

Polish Roman Catholic Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski died at 80 years: https://www.nach-welt.com/kardinal-zenon-grocholewski-ist-tot-ein-enger-mitarbeiter-von-johannes-paul-ii-starb/

C.T. Vivian, a lieutenant forDr. Martin Luther King jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, died at 95 years: https://www.ajc.com/news/ct-vivian-civil-rights-hero-and-intellectual-dead-at-95/2GOB7SU7MZDHJADH63LIKYHK6M/?outputType=amp/ He is also the author of Black Power and the American Myth, and founder of the C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute.

Former Prime Minister of Somalia Hassan Farah died at 75 years: https://allafrica.com/stories/202007120063.html