The Dead of 2019

[One shot Paddy 1,206]

4 hours ago, Cant Wait said:

while filming a tv show called Chase Me. 

 

I didn't know they were making Duncan Norvelle's life story....

[Joey Russ 7,229]

William Ruckleshaus, who was among those who quit during the infamous Saturday Night Massacre done by Nixon has died at 87

[Rosemurray 4]

Yasuhiro Nakasone

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Nakasone.

Yasuhiro Nakasone
中曽根康弘
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 27 November 1982 – 6 November 1987
Monarch	Shōwa
Preceded by	Zenkō Suzuki
Succeeded by	Noboru Takeshita
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 26 April 1947 – 10 October 2004
Constituency	Gunma 3rd district (1947–1996) Northern Kanto PR (1996–2004)
Personal details
Born	27 May 1918 Takasaki, Japan
Died	29 November 2019 (aged 101) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Tsutako Nakasone (m. 1945; died 2012)
Children	Hirofumi Nakasone
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1941–1945
Rank	Lieutenant-Commander (as Naval Paymaster)
Battles/wars	World War II

Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘 Nakasone Yasuhiro, 27 May 1918 – 29 November 2019)^[2] was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1982 to 1987. He was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. He was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister. He turned 100 on 27 May 2018, and was the oldest living state leader at the time of his death in 2019.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Seymour Siwoff, the maven behind the Elias Sports Bureau, an organization founded in 1913 and now the official statistician for MLB, NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLS and the NBA G-League, has died.  He was 99.

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28190512/seymour-siwoff-long-elias-sports-bureau-owner-dies-99

 

[Captain Hemlock 745]

On 27/11/2019 at 13:08, Joey Russ said:

William Ruckleshaus, who was among those who quit during the infamous Saturday Night Massacre done by Nixon has died at 87

 

DDP QO for Ruckelshaus:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7732735/Ruckelshaus-defied-Nixon-Watergate-firing-dies.html

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Not seen it posted yet, so here is Stuart Fraser's DDP QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7744337/Noiseworks-guitarist-Stuart-Chet-Fraser-dies-lung-cancer.html

[Joey Russ 7,229]

7 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Not seen it posted yet, so here is Stuart Fraser's DDP QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7744337/Noiseworks-guitarist-Stuart-Chet-Fraser-dies-lung-cancer.html

No word on what his age is though...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

British strongman Simon 'Power' Plant, who held 14 world records, has died aged 47.  Plant had been training for his latest feat - pulling a 19-ton fire engine hitched to an ambulance. 

He was renowned for eating 28 raw eggs and six jacket potatoes a day.  The plasterer had been battling health problems after his weight rose to 26 stone, according to the Sun.  But he had recently lost six stone as he trained for his next challenge to raise cash for a children's charity.  Plant died of natural causes.
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[Torva Messor 280]

6 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Plant died of natural causes.

Another reason for me not to choose a Plant-based diet.

(My brother died at age 44 after losing 60 pounds in six months on a vegan diet. My brother was highly physically active. Steaks and sedentary lifestyle for me, cheers.)

[Torva Messor 280]

On 26/11/2019 at 02:18, Spade_Cooley said:

Another one off the 2020 longlist: David Gibson, the bakery owner who was at the centre of a row where he was falsely defamed by Oberlin College lecturers as a racist (he received $25 million in a settlement) has died of pancreatic cancer.

Interestingly, last week we in the North American Scrabble community were informed former tournament champion David Gibson died 22 November of cancer.

From Wikipedia:

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David Lawrence Gibson (February 8, 1951 – November 22, 2019) was an American professional Scrabble player and mathematics professor. Ranked the top player in North America and widely regarded as one of the greatest Scrabble players, Gibson won the North American Scrabble Championship twice.

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

14 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

No word on what his age is though...

OK, so I've done my research here and the best I can come up with is: he was 14 when he first played with the band Blackfeather in 1976. So he must have been born circa 1962, meaning he was around 57 when he died. I'm going with 57 when I update the DDP, if anyone can improve on that feel free.

[gcreptile 10,979]

26 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

OK, so I've done my research here and the best I can come up with is: he was 14 when he first played with the band Blackfeather in 1976. So he must have been born circa 1962, meaning he was around 57 when he died. I'm going with 57 when I update the DDP, if anyone can improve on that feel free.

Thanks!

For the Death By Numbers, I'll go with 1961 then (could be both, and in the DbN the exact year matters). I had previously gone with the older option already in a different case.

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Michael Clark, discoverer of Comet 71P/Clark, reportedly dead: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/63934107#28023

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

On 17/05/2019 at 10:53, Spade_Cooley said:

Grumpy Cat is dead

 

And just seven months later, fellow internet feline sensation Lil Bub has also passed away.

[Putin 423]

Been wondering about something. What happened with the 1988 deathlist since It is lost

[Toast 16,155]

2 hours ago, Putin said:

Been wondering about something. What happened with the 1988 deathlist since It is lost

 

It got lost.  That's basically it.  Nobody kept a copy anywhere.

[Banana 859]

On 02/12/2019 at 06:01, gcreptile said:

Thanks!

For the Death By Numbers, I'll go with 1961 then (could be both, and in the DbN the exact year matters). I had previously gone with the older option already in a different case.

Wikipedia now has him at 57

[gcreptile 10,979]

31 minutes ago, Banana said:

Wikipedia now has him at 57

Unless one can prove that his birthday was January-November, it's 61 points. It's a punishment of 1 point for missing information.

[YoungWillz 21,066]

Make of this tweet what you will.

 

Mike Fairman, sound man and sound supervisor for 1970s Just William, Mind Your Language, A Fine Romance and The Gentle Touch among others, reportedly dead:

https://twitter.com/EmilyFairman/status/1202917731206610944

[MarcJWallace 270]

Jon Comer, an award-winning skateboarder who was known for competing with a prosthetic limb, the first to do so, has died aged 43.

https://amarketnews.com/2019/12/05/jon-comer-death-obituary/

[drol 11,970]

44 minutes ago, MarcJWallace said:

Jon Comer, an award-winning skateboarder who was known for competing with a prosthetic limb, the first to do so, has died aged 43.

https://amarketnews.com/2019/12/05/jon-comer-death-obituary/

Lot of big names dying these days.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

3 hours ago, drol said:

Lot of big names dying these days.

And Jon Comer too

[drol 11,970]

12 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

And Jon Comer too

And sense of humour too.

[Phantom 2,535]

On 06/12/2019 at 10:51, MarcJWallace said:

Jon Comer, an award-winning skateboarder who was known for competing with a prosthetic limb, the first to do so, has died aged 43.

https://amarketnews.com/2019/12/05/jon-comer-death-obituary/

Would have thought it would be easier for him to compete with a skateboard

[Sir Creep 7,070]

I'd like to offer this up as our Honourary Death of 2019, our Spokesperson to Hades as it were.

Gerhardt Peter Kraske, the former president of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites Inc., died Nov. 28 from lymphoma at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Columbia resident was 81.
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