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Dead Pool - 2021

Everything that would not belong anywhere else.
 

DXing 25 Oct 21, 14:27Post
I wondered where the heck Mark was until I read about his trip to the dentist, so a day late but....

James Michael Tyler aka "Gunther" from the TV series "Friends" dead at 59.


Tyler was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018



https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59032751

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gkirk 26 Oct 21, 11:39Post
Walter Smith, Glasgow Rangers FC legend, aged 73. RIP Sir Walter
Mark 09 Nov 21, 15:47Post
Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a hand grenade blast in Vietnam and went on to represent his native Georgia in the U.S. Senate, has died at age 79.

https://apnews.com/article/saxby-chambl ... 6VUbhmKPro
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DXing 11 Nov 21, 23:36Post
A couple of notables......

Graeme Edge, drummer and last original member of The Moody Blues, dies at 80



https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/11/11/graeme-edge-dead-moody-blues-drummer-founding-member/6391179001/

I remember listening to "This is the Moody Blues" over and over again when it came out. Yeah, it was a compilation double album but what a doozy.



South Africa Reacts to the Death of Last White President FW De Klerk


https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-11/south-africa-reacts-to-the-death-of-last-white-president-fw-de-klerk

Helped end apartheid. Nobel prize winner. I visited Cape Town in January 2019, my last international trip before covid really hit. Toured the prison island where Mandella was held. People who think we have a problem with racism here should read up on SA during apartheid's heyday.
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DXing 05 Dec 21, 17:31Post
U.S. Senator, WWII combat veteran, Presidential candidate Bob Dole passed away this morning at age 98. According to his family he passed away in his sleep and had divulged he was being treated for stage 4 lung cancer earlier this year. RIP to a great American.


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bob-dole-dead-98


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DXing 06 Dec 21, 00:19Post
A sad day for hero's. First Bob Dole, now Edward Shames. Last surviving member of Easy Co. 101st Airborne has passed away.

Shames "passed away peacefully at home," said the obituary posted by the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home & Crematory.
During World War II, Shames "was a member of the renowned Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division now known globally as the 'Band of Brothers,'" according to the obituary. The story of Easy Company was later immortalized in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," based on The New York Times bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose. (CNN and HBO are part of WarnerMedia.)
Shames "was involved in some of the most important battles of the war. He made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day as part of Operation Overlord," according to the obituary. Shames "gained a reputation as a stubborn and very outspoken soldier who demanded the highest of standards from himself and his fellow soldiers," it said.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/04/politics/edward-shames-easy-company-world-war-ii-band-of-brothers/index.html
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Mark 10 Dec 21, 18:13Post
Mike Nesmith, 78, of the Monkees.

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/mic ... 235130849/
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DXing 11 Dec 21, 03:08Post
Al Unser Sr, 4-time Indy 500 winner, NASCAR driver, passed away at age 82 on Friday. The days of his kind of racing are long gone, and so is my enthusiasm for Indy car racing.

Al Unser Sr. retired with 39 wins and season championships in 1970, 1983 and 1985.



https://www.espn.com/racing/story/_/id/32835497/al-unser-sr-four-winner-indianapolis-500-dies-82
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Mark 12 Dec 21, 15:44Post
Anne Rice, American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature, age 80.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/entertai ... index.html
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DXing 26 Dec 21, 12:41Post
Archbishop Desmund Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize award winner, major figure in ending South African apartheid, dead at 90. No official cause but he had been battling prostate cancer since his first diagnosis in 1997.

The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity both at home and globally.


https://www.foxnews.com/world/desmond-tutu-south-africa-equality-activist-dead-90-mandela

Coming just a month and a half after former PM FW De Klerk's death, the last of the major players involved in the end of that dark period of SA's history are quickly disappearing.
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ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 26 Dec 21, 22:03Post
https://www.navytimes.com/breaking-news ... nvS1qK9nvk

Retired Navy SEAL and the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard “Dick” Marcinko, has died . . . .
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!
miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 29 Dec 21, 00:50Post
NFL coach John Madden, 85.
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
DXing 29 Dec 21, 01:51Post
Harry Reid, U.S. Senator from Nevada and Senate Majority leader dead at 82. Most likely from pancreatic cancer.

Harry M. Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from a hardscrabble mining town to become one of the longest-serving Senate majority leaders in history and a political force during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Dec. 29 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He was 82.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harry-m-reid-pugnacious-senate-majority-leader-dies-at-82/ar-AASdI0R?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
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Mark 31 Dec 21, 19:27Post
Betty White, American actor active between 1939 and 2021, age 99.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/31/betty-wh ... den-girls/
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DXing 31 Dec 21, 20:10Post
18 days short of her 100th birthday. I hope they still do the celebration on the 17th of January that they planned. It'd be a nice tribute.

Tanya Roberts, sex symbol, started off the year, Betty White, All American girl ends it. Now that's a set of bookends!
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