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Queen Elizabeth II. She's known a lot of monarchs in her time.

Lincoln Brower, an entomologist and the foremost authority on the Monarch butterfly, has died. He was 86. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article215263415.html

Joe Perrino, CEO of the Chicago-based Home Run Inn pizza restaurant chain & frozen pizza business, has died. He was 64. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180720/NEWS07/180729985/joe-perrino-ceo-of-home-run-inn-pizza-dies

William Hobbs, the director of the films 'The Duellists' and 'Rob Roy', died July 10th. He was 79. (Obituary published July 20th) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-hobbs-dead-fight-director-swashbuckling-classics-duellists-rob-roy-was-79-1128567

Jon Schnepp, an animator whose long resume of accomplishments also includes directing the film 'Metalocalypse, has died. He was 51. Schnepp suffered a stroke last week and never recovered. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-schnepp-dead-metalocalypse-director-dies-stroke-1128827

Mike Ellis, a former State Senator from Wisconsin who spent 32 years there and more than 40 years overall in Wisconsin politics, has died. He was 77. http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Mike-Ellis-legend-of-Wisconsin-politics-passes-away-488737751.html

Volkoff was still taking the odd booking as recently as June 2017.

Shinobu Hashimoto, the screenwriter for the Kurosawa films 'The Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon', has died. He was 100 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shinobu-hashimoto-dead-screenwriter-seven-samurai-rashomon-was-100-1128623

Dead https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shinobu-hashimoto-dead-screenwriter-seven-samurai-rashomon-was-100-1128623

Former minor pro hockey player John Vigilante (literally) punches his ticket to heaven. https://www.syracuse.com/crunch/index.ssf/2018/07/former_syracuse_crunch_forward_dies_at_age_33.html

Now confirmed https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/battle-of-britain-spitfire-pilot-dies-at-96-bqhw9jt78

(Also posted in the Scientists, Inventors & Techno Wizards thread) Burton Richter, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, has died. He was 87. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/19/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-burton-richter-dies-87/

Burton Richter, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, has died. He was 87. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/19/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-burton-richter-dies-87/

Franz Beyer, a German musicologist most known for his efforts at revising and restoring the works of Mozart, died June 29th. (Obituary published July 19th) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/07/19/franz-beyer-finished-mozarts-unfinished-requiem-obituary/

Unconfirmed reports Geoffrey Wellum, a World War II British fighter pilot and author, has died at age 96.

Famed Swiss bridge designer & builder Christian Menn has died. He was 91. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/many-rivers-to-cross_famed-bridge-builder-christian-menn-dies/44268754?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=o&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=own-posts

Ibrahim Coomassie, a former Nigerian Inspector-general of police, has died. He was 76. He's the second Nigerian law and order official to die this week at 76 years of age. (The first is two items above this one) https://leadership.ng/2018/07/19/breaking-ex-igp-ibrahim-coomassie-passes-on/

Jack Stedman, who was a boy when World War II broke out but earned his RAF pilot's wings prior to its conclusion, has died. He was 93. http://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/news/former-raf-pilot-renowned-teacher-beccles-dies-aged-93-1-5614422

Pierre-Auguste Clape, a leading figure of the Cornas appellation in northern Rhone, has died. He was 93. https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/opinion/cornas-pierre-auguste-clape-has-died-397786/

Michael Howells, an award-winning production designer and art director who most recently worked on the British TV series 'Victoria', has died. He was 61. https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/michael-howells-has-died (About a minute too late posting)

Denis Ten, a 2014 Olympic Bronze medalist in figure skating, has died. He was 25. Tan died as a result of stab wounds following a knife attack. https://www.rt.com/sport/433695-kazakh-skater-ten-dies-knife-attack/

Charles Cole, inventor of Stealth Rubber, has died at age 63. https://rockandice.com/climbing-news/charles-cole-founder-five-ten-stealth-rubber-inventor-dies-age-63/

Richard Clark Sterne, a professor of English and American Studies at Simmons College for over four decades and host of Boston PBS affiliate WGBH's 'Just Published' in the 1960s, has died. He was 91. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=richard-clark-sterne&pid=189625556

Adrian Cronauer, the disc jockey and U.S. war veteran Robin Williams portrayed in 'Good Morning Vietnam', has died. He was 79 https://www.newsweek.com/who-was-adrian-cronauer-good-morning-vietnam-dj-played-robin-williams-dies-1032149

Jessica Mann, a crime novelist, social historian and journalist, as well as a former Daily Telegraph columnist & reviewer, has died. She was 80. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/07/17/jessica-mann-crime-writer-journalist-broadcaster-obituary/