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Ellie Soutter, a bronze medalist British snowboarder for Team GB at the 2017 Youth Olympic Winter Festival and tipped for a spot on the 2022 Winter Olympics team, has died on her 18th birthday. https://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-sports/44971634

Ronnie 'Oni' Edwards, a member of the YouTube channel 'The Game Theorists', which boasts over 10.6 million followers, has died by his own hands. https://kotaku.com/ronnie-oni-edwards-a-member-of-popular-youtube-chann-1827871645

Martyn Callaghan, the CEO of St. Leonard's Hospice in York, has died. https://www.hospiceuk.org/about-hospice-care/media-centre/ehospice/details/tributes-pour-in-for-st-leonard-s-hospice-ceo?secured=false

Rex Tasker, who worked for 32 years at the National Film Board of Canada as a producer, director & film editor, tackling numerous projects including 1967 Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominee "Helicopter Canada', has died. He was 84 or 85. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20180726.93404599/BDAStory/BDA/deaths

Alena Duerk, the first woman to rise to the rank of admiral in the Navy, who spent her career in the Navy's nursing corps and was first deployed overseas during World War II into the Pacific Theatre aboard the USS Benevolence hospital ship in 1945, has died. She was 98. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/07/25/first-woman-promoted-navy-admiral-dies-98.html

Douglas Grindstaff, an Emmy award-winning sound editor who worked on 'Star Trek: The Original Series', has died. He was 87. http://www.startrek.com/article/remembering-douglas-grindstaff-1931-2018

Wynter Pitts, a noted Christian author, niece of prominent pastor Tony Evans and mother of 'War Room' actress Alena Pitts, has died. She was 38. https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/christian-author-speaker-wynter-pitts-dies-unexpectedly.html

Patrick Williams, an Emmy-winning TV composer and a Grammy-winning big band jazz leader, has died. He was 79. https://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/patrick-williams-dead-dies-mary-tyler-moore-show-1202886296/

Delwin Jones, a long-time Texas House of Representatives member, has died. He was 91. http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180725/longtime-texas-legislator-delwin-jones-of-lubbock-dies-at-94

John 'Swisher' Mitchell, brother of former U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, has died. He was 91. https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/07/25/john-swisher-mitchell-celebrated-waterville-athlete-and-coach-dies-at-91/

Maryon Pittman Allen, a former U.S. Senator for Alabama and journalist, has died. She was 92. https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/former_us_senator_journalist_m.html

Guy Molinari, a former U.S. House of Representatives member and borough president of Staten Island, has died. He was 89. http://www.ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/news/2018/07/25/former-congressman-and-staten-island-borough-president-guy-molinari-dies

György Szepesi, a legendary Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive, has died. He was 96. https://hungarytoday.hu/legendary-sport-reporter-gyorgy-szepesi-has-died-at-age-96/

College players are the lower threshold for me, no high school football coaches necessary. By the way, also picked up by ESPN. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24186108/maine-black-bears-football-player-darius-minor-collapses-dies-campus-workout Post whore? Hmm. Current alt.obits guy post totals: 541 Post-totals of virtually everybody else: higher

Bruce Grant, the son of former Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant, has died. He was 57. https://kstp.com/news/bruce-grant-son-of-bud-grant-dies-from-brain-cancer-vikings/5002025/

Delroy Scott, a Jamaican footballer and midfielder who played for the national team between 1965 and 1969, representing the country at a series of World Cup qualifiers, has died. He was 71. https://www.sportsmax.tv/index.php/football/regional/item/14167-jamaican-midfielder-delroy-mutty-scott-dead-at-71

Demo recording of 16-year-old David (Jones) Bowie to go on auction block. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4757768/bandmate-finds-recording-of-16-year-old-david-bowie-in-breadbasket-1.4757770

Darius Minor, a freshman at the University of Maine, has died. He was 18. https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/umaine-football-player-who-died-had-yet-to-play-a-college-game/97-577117171

Orrin Hatch...at least until he found out and had to prove he wasn't. http://uk.businessinsider.com/orrin-hatch-tweeted-google-not-dead-2018-7

Mark Sebba, the former CEO of Net-A-Porter.com, a London-based online clothing company, has died. He was 69. https://www.theindustry.fashion/former-net-a-porter-ceo-mark-sebba-dies-at-the-age-of-69/?platform=hootsuite

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, a researcher & activist who helped uncover documents proving World War II Japanese internment camps were borne out of racism and not necessity, has died. She was 92. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-obituary-20180723-story.html

It was a judgement call. She's a socialite which, to me, has never been a proper occupation. She's also an ex-model, which can carry with it certain presumptions. I did look for a models thread in which I'd have been happy to include her. Thought about the 'Fringes' one but she does have her proper fame. The alternative / safe bet would've been 'The Dead of 2018'. A subjective decision on my part.

Florindo 'Flo' Fabrizio, a Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, has died. He was 73. http://www.goerie.com/news/20180724/flo-fabrizio-erie-political-stalwart-dies-at-73

Audreus, aka Audrey Young, a setter at the Guardian for more than 50 years, has died. She was 96. https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2018/jul/16/crossword-blog-why-solvers-adored-the-late-audreuss-puzzles Guardian profile of Audreus from January 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2013/jan/10/crossword-blog-meet-setter-audreus

Isabel Nawe, a Polish-born soprano who starred in 'Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin', aka the 'Berlin State Opera', from 1970 to the mid-1990s, has died. She was 75. http://slippedisc.com/2018/07/berlins-polish-opera-star-has-died-at-75/