alt obits guy

https://www.wbal.com/article/370315/63/frank-robinson-baseball-lifer-and-orioles-legend-has-died

It was basically a dead heat. (Or a 'dead' heat)

Rosamunde Pilcher, author of the book the Shell Seekers, has died. She was 94. A DDP pick, too. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/07/rosamunde-pilcher-author-of-the-shell-seekers-dies-aged-94

Manfred Eigen dead. (Unique DDP pick) https://vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pmn/manfred-eigen-1967-nobel-chemistry-laureate-dies-at-91/wcm/f4f72d79-ace5-4b28-b1b9-160f1a20eb92

Bob Massi, a Fox News legal analyst and Nevada real estate attorney who became known as 'the Property Man', has died. He was 67. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bob-massi-real-estate-attorney-fox-news-legal-analyst-dead

Anne Firor Scott, who helped establish the field of women’s history and taught at Duke for three decades, has died. She was 97. https://today.duke.edu/2019/02/womens-history-pioneer-anne-firor-scott-has-died-97

Andy Nisbet, who helped establish 1,000 winter climbing routes, has died. He was one of two people killed in an accident climbing Ben Hope. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47156648

MEEKER, HOWIE November 4, 1923

Ditto on both counts. No bonus points as I already count more than three teams who picked him.

Same here. Left him off my team for that reason, but had him elsewhere.

She was 73, as of September 2018, as noted in the story at the following link. https://www.wuwm.com/post/emily-levine-how-do-we-make-peace-death-when-its-imminent#stream/0 (Not an obit. Also keeping an eye out for one, given she was my pick. I expect one will be forthcoming from NPR, the New York Times or somewhere.)

Joe Fascione, a winger for Chelsea in the 1960s who played 34 games for the club, has died on his birthday. He was 74. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2019/2/5/joe-fascione-1945---2019

Matthew Brazier, a former QPR midfielder, has died. He was 42. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11628931/ex-qpr-midfielder-matthew-brazier-dies-of-cancer-aged-42

Colin Barker, an Oxford-educated British sociologist, Marxist historian & author and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1967 to 2002, has died. He was 79 or 80. http://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/02/04/colin-barker-1939-2019/

Irish model and autism awareness campaigner Alli MacDonnell has died at age 37. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/model-described-shining-light-found-13951989

Matti Nykanen, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a ski jumping legend, has died. He was 55. Nykanen was an Olympic champion for Finland in 1984 and 1988. https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/matti-nykanen-dead-the-finnish-legend-was-55-years-old/

Bob Friend, who spent 15 years with the Pittsburgh Pirates and won a World Series with them in 1960, has died. He was 88. https://www.mlb.com/news/bob-friend-former-pirates-pitcher-dies/c-303488648

Unconfirmed reports (Twitter chatter) that Julie Adams, whose 70 year career was highlighted by her co-lead role in 'Creature from the Black Lagoon', has died at the age of 92.

QuadrigaCX, Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange, files for creditor protection. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quadrigo-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-exchange-gerald-cotten-death-india-1.5002955

Major General Saleh Al-Zindani, the Yemeni Deputy Army Chief, has reportedly died of injuries sustained in a drone strike on January 10th. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-03/yemeni-deputy-army-chief-dies-after-houthi-drone-attack-masdar?srnd=politics-vp

Michael Ferguson, the current Auditor General of Canada, has died. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/auditor-general-of-canada-mike-ferguson-has-died-1.4280302

A TSA officer has died at Orlando airport after jumping from a hotel into an atrium. https://www.foxnews.com/us/tsa-officer-dies-at-orlando-airport-after-jumping-from-hotel-into-atrium-all-flights-briefly-halted-report

Rena Karefa-Smart, the first black woman to receive a Yale Divinity School diploma and a Harvard Divinity School doctorate, has died. She was 97. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/obituaries/rena-karefa-smart-97-dead.html

Jane Baessler Doyle, the last surviving World War II Women Airforce Service pilot from Michigan, has died. She was 97. Doyle was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal for her service. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/02/jane-doyle-pilot-wwii/2753355002/

When I said 'Still unofficial as a hit, but Billboard did come through', what I meant was I hadn't yet heard back from Hulka and, as such, the hit was still considered as not yet having counted. I knew the Billboard mention would be good as a source and it would count, it just hadn't yet been processed in the deadpool.