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    Activists

    Audrey Parker, an advocate for changing Canada’s assisted-death laws, has died. She was 57. Parker died by medically-assisted suicide. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/audrey-parker-writes-her-own-obit-i-died-a-beautiful-death-1.4160689
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    Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life

    Shin Seong-Il aka Shin Sung-Il, a legendary figure in the South Korean cinema who made 500 films over 40 years, has died. He was 81. His date of death is November 4th, not April 4th, as indicated in the translation. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ko&u=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/11/04/2018110400019.html&prev=search Edit: English language obit: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/11/689_258135.html
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Glenn Schwartz, an internationally respected guitarist who impressed Jimi Hendrix enough to perform at one of the legend's birthdays, has died. He was 78. https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/11/46aaefa89f2144/cleveland-rock-legend-and-inte.html
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    Baseball

    Willie McCovey, a Hall of Famer long associated with the San Francisco Giants, has died. He was 80. https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Willie-McCovey-Giants-legend-dead-at-80-13352886.php
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    American Football Players

    Jack Patera, the first ever coach of the Seattle Seahawks who lead them between 1976 and 1982 , has died. He was 85. Patera is the brother of former weightlifter, power lifter & pro wrestler Ken Patera. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/jack-patera-first-coach-of-seahawks-dies-at-age-85/
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    Dead Drummers

    Zac Denton, drummer for the Australian band The Ocean Party, has died. He was 24. http://www.beat.com.au/music/ocean-party-drummer-zac-denton-dies-age-24
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    Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life

    Anthony Anenih, a former Nigerian Minister of Works and Housing, has died. He was 85. https://www.ladesignatory.com/2018/10/tony-anenih-is-dead/
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    Academic Footnotes

    Althea Douglas, whose costume design career was forsaken for one in academics & research at McGill University and the Dr. Wilder Penfield Collection at the Montreal Neurological Institute before morphing to a prominent one in genealogy, has died. She was 90. http://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/althea-douglas-1070901343
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    Businesspeople, Investors, CEO's

    Terry Laughlin, vice chairman and head of global wealth & investment management at Bank of America, has died. He was 63. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/bofa-vice-chairman-global-wealth-head-terry-laughlin-dies-at-63
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    Art For Death's Sake

    Edward Dwurnik, a prolific Polish painter with 20,000 works to his credit, has died. He was 75. http://www.krakowpost.com/19730/2018/10/polish-artist-edward-dwurnik-dies-at-75
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    World War II Veterans

    If it helps, I'd posted Lello Di Segni in the thread 'The Ones That Got Away' on Friday, prior to it showing up here.
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    Death By Jazz

    Unconfirmed reports (Twitter chatter) that jazz saxophonist Sonny Fortune has died.
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    American Football Players

    Lindon Crow, who played for the New York Giants & Los Angeles Rams and whose greatest accomplishment was three interceptions in the 1958 sudden-death NFL championship dubbed 'the greatest game ever played', has died. He was 85. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25093338/lindon-crow-veteran-nfl-greatest-game-ever-dies-85
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    The Chequered Flag

    Wickens has been left a paraplegic from his injuries. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/canadian-indycar-driver-wickens-reveals-crash-left-him-a-paraplegic-1.4151121
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    From Cleric To Relic

    Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk & priest and a global figure in both inter-religious dialogue & Christian contemplative prayer, has died. He was 95. https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/thomas-keating-pioneer-centering-prayer-interfaith-dialogue-dies-95
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Baba Oje, a member of the group Arrested Development, who had a couple of big international hits in the early 1990s, has died. He was 87. Oje was many years older than the rest of the group and referred to as 'the papa' in the preamble to the video for their hit song 'Mr. Wendal'. https://www.essence.com/entertainment/arrested-development-member-baba-oje-has-died/
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    Ice Hockey Players

    John Ziegler, who served as president of the National Hockey League from 1977 to 1992 and played a key role in the league's expansion, with the introduction of four teams from the defunct World Hockey Association, has died. He was 84. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/john-ziegler-fourth-president-of-nhl-dies-at-84-1.4151060#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=8GwpkVi
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    The Ones That Got Away...

    Lello Di Segni, the last survivor of the 1943 raid on Rome's Jewish Ghetto district to deport Jews to Nazi extermination camps, has died. He was 92. https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/last-survivor-of-1943-rome-jewish-ghetto-raid-dies.html
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    Not Really Famous, But What A Moniker!

    Candi Easter is no more. (I wonder if she knew Joy Christmas?) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/candi-easter-longtime-democratic-leader-has-died/article_1e61fd9a-d8b6-11e8-8bbd-db60485e02b4.html
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    Businesspeople, Investors, CEO's

    Tom Jago, the president and co-founder of The Last Drop Distillers whose career, though, was defined by having created Baileys' Irish Cream and Johnnie Walker Blue Label, among others, has died. He was 93. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornishman-who-created-baileys-irish-2144909
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    Tennis players

    Todd Reid, an Australian tennis player who was once ranked 105th in the world and who won the 2002 Wimbledon boys' singles title, has died. He was 34. https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-tennis-star-todd-reid-dead-at-34/news-story/caa94fb132d7b0ae19bdf6f4756b41ee
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    The Dead of 2018

    John Reynolds, a concert promoter and the manager of the Irish group Boyzone, has died. He was 52. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7588443/john-reynolds-dead-boyzone-manager/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1540548566
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    The Dead of 2018

    David Henderson, a British economist and the head of economics at the OECD from 1983 to 1992, has died. He was 91. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/10/25/david-henderson-head-economics-oecd-criticised-corporate-responsibility/
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    Unconfirmed reports (Twitter chatter) that veteran character actor James Karen has died.
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    The Dead of 2018

    I made a funny with 'oven ready' and nobody blinked an eye.
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