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(Cross-posted from the Baseball thread) Jim Bouton, a former 20 game winner and the author of the groundbreaking book 'Ball Four', has died. He was 80. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-jim-bouton-obit-20190710-lhcv7pgzwjdajlsdxprzzjszpm-story.html

Jim Bouton, a former 20 game winner and the author of the groundbreaking book 'Ball Four', has died. He was 80. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-jim-bouton-obit-20190710-lhcv7pgzwjdajlsdxprzzjszpm-story.html

Bob Fouts, a Bay area Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster long associated with the San Francisco 49ers, and the father of NFL Hall of Fame player & current broadcaster Dan Fouts, has died. He was 97. https://www.sfchronicle.com/49ers/article/Longtime-Bay-Area-broadcaster-Bob-Fouts-dies-at-97-14077581.php

Paul Benjamin, a Hollywood character actor with credits spanning nearly 50 years, has died. He was 81. Benjamin played ML, one of the men on the corner, in 'Do The Right Thing'. Among his other roles was John LeFlore, father of the long shot Major League baseball player in 'One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story' and Al Ervin in three episodes of the television series 'ER'. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/paul-benjamin-dead-dies-do-the-right-thing-1203260285/

Laurent McCutcheon, a prolific Montreal LGBTQ activist, has died. He was 77. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/lgbtqi-activist-laurent-mccutcheon-died-on-thursday-after-battle-with-cancer

Bob Bradford, the husband of prolific novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, has died. He was 92. The couple were married for 55 years. https://people.com/books/barbara-taylor-bradford-husband-bob-bradford-dead-at-92/

Won't be a good year for Egypt. Hosni Mubarak.

Goodnight John-Boy

A giant (so to speak) in radio is no more. KSLX deejay Michael 'Big Mike Overnight' Perkins, all 6'9'' of him (2.06m), has died. https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2019/07/02/reports-kslx-disc-jockey-big-mike-overnight-has-died-michael-stern-radio/1634881001/

Well nobody has (yet?) died, but there is a breaking headline that several people have been stabbed at a Virginia plasma center...where one can assume the blood loss was less than what would otherwise go on during a normal day of operations. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/us/petersburg-virginia-stabbing-plasma-center/index.html

George Felton QO, if needed: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/02/george-felton-obituary

Leo Iacocca, former president of the Ford Motor Company and chairman of Chrysler, has died. He was 94. (Cross-posted from Class of '24 thread.) https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/02/lee-iacocca-dead-dies-chrysler-ford/

Well, it's not a QO, but getting incrementally closer to properly acknowledging the passing of Milton Quon. https://www.afnews.info/wordpress/2019/07/01/milton-quon-walt-disney-animator-art-director-actor-passed-away-at-105/

Petey Jones, a legendary player with TC Williams high school who was portrayed by actor Donald Faison in the movie 'Remember the Titans", has died. He was 65. https://wjla.com/news/local/petey-jones-tc-williams-football-remember-the-titans-dies

Ken Behring, the former owner of the Seattle Seahawks, has died. He was 91. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/kenneth-behring-controversial-second-owner-of-seahawks-dies-at-age-91/

Including rejected replacement picks, I'm only at 40% (6 deaths among 15 people). I noticed one of the rejected picks (Catherine Wreford) got a BBC write-up in February on her illness.

Babis Holidis a Kazakh-born, Greek two-time Olympic bronze medal winner in Greco-Roman wrestling who participated in four total Olympics, has died. He was 62. https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/06/27/greek-olympic-wrestler-babis-holidis-dies-at-62/

I suppose.

Henriette Cohen, the oldest Auschwitz survivor in France, has died. She was 101. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265248

Tadao Takashima, who played Dr. Kusumi in Son of Godzilla, has died. He was 88. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190628/p2g/00m/0et/075000c

Gene Pingatore, a legendary Illinois high school basketball coach and key figure in the 1994 documentary 'Hoop Dreams', has died. He was 82. https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-gene-pingatore-coach-dies-20190627-zspo4nykhrfy5kvoy4gt45vzhe-story.html

Soundcloud rapper Hella Sketchy has died of a drug overdose. He was 18. https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/06/hella-sketchy-dead/

Ben Barenholtz, who got his start in the film industry as a movie theater owner, opening The Elgin in 1968, and later helped launch the careers of the Coen brothers, has died. He was 83. https://www.thewrap.com/ben-barenholtz-dies-at-83-coen-brothers/

Cause of death for Lauren Braxton revealed to be drug overdose. https://pagesix.com/2019/06/27/toni-braxtons-24-year-old-niece-lauren-died-of-a-drug-overdose/

Jerry Carrigan, a well-known session drummer who worked with Elvis Presley, George Jones and Kenny Rogers, among others, has died. He was 75. https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/06/25/jerry-carrigan-celebrated-nashville-session-drummer-dead-age-75-elvis-presley/1557870001/