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43. Bette Davis

38. Ulrike Meinhof

13. Aaliyah

7. Jane Wyman

Patrick Dempseys mother at 79: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/25/patrick-dempseys-mother-dies-of-cancer/6892689/

21.4 for me. I'm more a booklet than a book...

Oh, it's her birthday today!

German actress Mareike Carrière died of cancer at age 59. I guess she was not that well known outside the German-speaking countries but I grew up with here as a "famous" actress in several TV series. Very sad. In German:http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article125905708/Schauspielerin-Mareike-Carriere-an-Krebs-gestorben.html

88 today. Congratulations

Cees Veerman, singer and guitarist of the Dutch 60s/70s pop band The Cats, died today at age 70. The Cats had 5 No.1-hits in the Netherlands and several other hits in continental Europe, e.g. "One Way Wind" (1971 No.1 in Switzerland, No.4 in Germany), "Let's dance" (1972 No.2 in Switzerland, No.3 in Germany) and "Be my day" (1974 No. 4 in Germany). http://nos.nl/artike...-overleden.html

Jean Vallée, who represented Belgium two times at Eurovision (1970 and 1978), died at age 72. In French: http://www.lalibre.be/culture/musique/le-chanteur-belge-jean-vallee-est-decede-532020c23570f1ef1aaedabb

Yes, Nancy!

Roy Simmons, former NFL player at age 57: http://nypost.com/2014/02/24/roy-simmons-who-came-out-as-gay-after-nfl-career-dead-at-57/

Billy Graham

I know it's mentioned in the "Foreign Personalities"-thread, but I think that the death* of Swedens very first ESC-contestant from 1958 also belongs to this thread: http://www.thelocal....bs-dies-aged-90 *Edit: death, not dead...

Also, for Newbies it's not obviously clear where to post first!

Whitney, 2012.

We share the same birthday - not the year, of course.

Oh, totally forgot about this one I wanted to post: 13 days before his 41st birthday, Austrian singer and musician Falco died in a traffic collision on February 6, 1998 in the Dominican Republic. He topped the ww charts with “Rock me Amadeus” in 1985/86.

Has uncertainty of measurement been applied to that figure +/- 5%? You are right. Happy xth Birthday, Zsa Zsa!

Happy 97th Birthday, Zsa Zsa!

First of February 2002: The one and only Hildegard Knef, German singer, actress and bestseller-writer, died of emphysema at age76. Please listen to one of her best songs (about her life): From here on it got rough!

Swedish author Henning Mankell has got cancer: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/henning-mankell-wallander-author-reveals-cancer

These two artists died on January 23: In 1986 German performance artist Joseph Beuys died of heart failure in Düsseldorf at the age of 64. I really can`t stand his so-called art. In 1989 Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (also) died of heart failure in Figueres at the age of 84. As a child some of his paintings (especially the elephants with the thin long legs) scared me a lot.

Dead for 20 years now: Actor and singer Telly Savalas, the one and only Kojak, who died one day after his 72nd birthday of cancer.