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1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats Yvonne

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats diego

Jim Sasser, former Tennessee senator and ambassador to China, dead at 87.

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Sad hit, but, congrats SIT

Dead

Not really. IMDb usually has the correct year listed (example). I tend to think there is some lone nut who believes she was born in 1927 and frequently changes it back whenever he's reverted, although who knows why they keep accepting it.

This has probably been the driest year for celebrity ambulance chasing since I became somewhat invested in it as a teen in the mid-2000s. Sure, there's been a handful of expected ill dudes peacing out (Keith, Field, Burrow, Irwin, Doherty), but their field of replacements who are obviously circling the drain is pretty skimpy, and aside from that, it's just dry spell after dry spell, and the actual deaths are very light on top-of-the-line names. Pretty telling that, as comatose the DL has been, there's only been a single miss, and it was Doherty, vs. Crosby, Boothroyd, Kaczynski, Berlusconi, Gambon last year. I mean, even 2022 was pretty respectable despite Smith, Piggott, Cribbins, Newton-John, Johnson, Walters, Benedict, etc. dying off the list. And yet nobody wants to rub it in this year. No Yoko Ono death? Liza Minnelli? Douglas Hurd? Hal Linden killed in a BMX stunt gone wrong? Alan Alda succumbs to SuperParkinson's: Extreme Edition? Andy Taylor decides he doesn't like taking medication? Brian Wilson's dementia turns out to be Gena Rowlands-esque? One of the more forgotten picks from the past like Tommy Chong, Tim Johnson, Ronnie Wood, Mike Ditka, Mr. T or whoever else? Ghost town. But not literally. It's funny to me that the year began with Johns, Hayes, Randolph, and Jewison all taken out in the span of a week or two. I figured we'd be in for another year of clearouts, but now apparently all the huge geezers have just decided they don't want to die.

It was this edit. Pretty nutty, but on the positive side it did help elevate panic bottoms to the mainstream.

Seems like a pretty obvious fake to me. But it's not as bad as the Britt Allcroft home invasion shit, so I guess the very normal Thomas the Train fans are upping their wordsmithery.

I'll take Noam Chomsky

His older sister Elizabeth is still living.

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats PD

Tippi Hedren

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats to all three. Here's to a round that doesn't last 5 minutes, hm?

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats PD

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Taina Elg 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

Dead

Timothy Dudley-Smith is a hit for Bibliogryphon: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/16-august/news/uk/timothy-dudley-smith-hymn-writer-and-bishop-has-died New round: 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dead at 56.

I put 1930 on her ethnicelebs page recently. She isn't on the 1930 census, even though all her siblings are. On the 1950 census, she was 19: And, as you're obviously aware, her residency record says she was born August 23, 1930. So I'm pretty sure it's correct, but she's so low-profile now I doubt the 1929 DOB will ever be corrected at large.

Gisooo posted about it as I was typing, but yeah, I'm fairly sure this is him. This 2006 article mentions Samson Burke was then living in Aventura, and said Burke's DOB is 4/8/1926 per MyLife. Given the bodybuilder's DOB is always given as 4/8/1929 or 4/8/1930, there's enough corroborating evidence that suggests it is him and his official DOB was never that accurate, particularly given there is no other convincing alternative. I did (as said above) read on a Stooges FB group that he someone had contacted him in the late 2010s and learned he was in a care home, although I can't seem to find it again so take it with a grain of salt. (ETA: Forgot that 2006 article says "Burke, 80..." So, yeah, it's definitely him.)

William Calley, Army officer convicted in the My Lai massacre, died in April aged 80.

1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Stella Hackel Sims 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Mack Mattingly / Ann Roth 1932: Bob Pettit / Jenny Craig 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston Congrats Biblio (again)

I'll take Oscar Wyatt

Dennis Hopper abruptly went broke late in his life after he could no longer act due to his cancer and his income dropped to ~$4500 a month in residual payments, which was obviously a solid amount of money, but it didn't cover all the expenses he had built up over the years he was a bigwig. I'm sure Margolyes doesn't have much to worry about as long as she keeps pulling in $40,000 a year on Cameo, which she could probably still do while 75% dead.