gcreptile
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H. R. Giger, most famous for his art design of the "Alien" movies, but also creator of other subconsciously sexual art, is dead at 74. Apparently he died after a fall.
German link: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/alien-erfinder-h-r-giger-ist-tot-a-969080.html
Their source, Swiss television
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Accidental art collector, and possible indirect Nazi art-hunting profiteer Cornelius Gurlitt, dead at 81.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/gurlitt-kunstsammler-ist-tot-a-967882.html (german link)
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Not really Hollywood, but Soviet actress Tatjana Samoilowa, internationally known for her role as Anna Karenina, has died at 80.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/tatjana-samoilowa-filmstar-aus-der-sowjetunion-ist-tot-a-967593.html (german link)
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Stephanie Zweig, german author whose book "Nowhere in Africa" was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, has died at age 81.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/nirgendwo-in-afrika-autorin-stefanie-zweig-gestorben-1.1945245
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Well, those fatality lists were kind of cheap. Let's delete all entries that were just "famous for dying".
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Hmm, sorry, sometimes the search function doesn't seem to be working for me...
American journalist David Broder
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Replacement for Dick Trickle: Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet aka Don Glen Vliet
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On page 58, I noticed that Audrey Hepburn appears twice, but didn't replace her, so I do that now, with Ex Florida Governor Lawton Chiles.
Also, 999,734 Ted Stevens
999,735 Ann Richards
999,736 Mo Udall
999,737 Paul Wellstone
999,738 Jefferson Davis
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999,729 Dick Trickle
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Audrey Hepburn already appeared.
999,702 Paul Morphy
999,703 Philidor
999,704 Emanuel Lasker
999,705 Siegbert Tarrasch
999,706 Adolf Anderssen
999,707 Richard Réti
999,708 Savielly Tartakover
999,709 Frank Marshall
999,710 Max Euwe
999,711 Efim Bogoljubov
999,712 Alexander Alekhine
999,713 Michail Chigorin
999,714 Akiba Rubinstein
999,715 Miguel Najdorf
999,716 Keith Haring
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Too bad Jesus is already taken. This thread could be done by tomorrow, on his dying day.
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Harlem power broker Basil A. Peterson dead at 87:
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@ Paul Bearer: Yes, because I had to delete some names. I replaced them in post #1123.
999,659-999,663
Siddartha Gautama
Lao-Tse
Confucius
Mencius
Deng Xiaoping
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Replacement for Thomas Paine: Robert Enke
999,655-999,658
Anne Bancroft
Judy Garland
Ava Gardner
Gabriel García-Márquez
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Yes, sorry, after I posted I went through the whole topic and had to drop seven names. You already replaced two of them, so that leaves five names. But I also found that Miles Davis appears twice in this thread, So I need to come up with 6 new names:
Francesco Pizarro
Bartholomé de Las Casas
Thomas Paine
Pocahontas
Hernando de Soto
Peter Minuit
I also had to replace Voltaire on page 55 with Hernán Cortez.
To have the right number now:
999648: Marcel Marceau
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999,620-999,634
Katharine Hepburn
Humphrey Bogart
Montgomery Clift
Henry Fonda
Lee Van Cleef
Gary Cooper
Greta Garbo
Spencer Tracy
Vivian Leigh
Gloria Swanson
Gregory Peck
Yul Brynner
Ginger Rogers
Ingrid Bergman
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999,611 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
And a replacement for the George Harrison duplicate: Oum Kalthoum
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Hmm, weird, I searched for it, or so I thought, ok, Ibn Khaldun.
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999,583-999,599
John Maynard Keynes
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
David Hume
John Locke
Charles Montesquieu
Paul Samuelson
Milton Friedman
James Tobin
Joseph Schumpeter
John Kenneth Galbraith
Ludwig von Mises
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan Jr.
John Hicks
Edit: I had Voltaire here, but he was already mentioned: replacement: Hernàn Cortez
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Dostoevski already in at nr. 161
(Mané) Garrincha.
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Robert Kennedy replacement: Gary Gygax
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Fred Davis (snooker player) appears twice: on page 7 and on page 38.
Replacement: Robert Kennedy
998,957-998,964
Ted Kennedy
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (or something like that)
JFK Jr.
Sargent Shriver
Eunice Shriver
Rose Kennedy
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.
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998,918 Vicco Von Bülow - (most?) popular german comedian
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Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango:
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Ryder, was that supposed to be Winona Ryder?