The Death List 2023

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Judith Heumann, disability rights activist, aged 75.

Judy Heumann obituary

Disability rights activist who helped shape global protocols and played a decisive role in fighting discrimination in the US

www.theguardian.com

Judith Heumann - Wikipedia

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Tom Jackson, Queer Eye personality, from cancer at 63.

Tom Jackson: Queer Eye favourite dies aged 63

He was the first person to be made over by the "fab five" when Netflix rebooted the show in 2018.

www.bbc.co.uk

Tom Jackson, "Queer Eye" fan favorite, dies at 63

"In lieu of flowers, please watch season 1, episode 1 of Queer Eye on Netflix and tell others about it in honor of Tom," his obituary reads.

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Bill Tidy MBE, cartoonist, aged 89.

Bill Tidy: Cartoonist who appeared on Countdown and Countryfile dies aged 89

Bill Tidy's family has paid tribute to "the most brilliant cartoonist and the very best dad".

www.bbc.co.uk

Bill Tidy - Wikipedia

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Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, aged 88.

Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, dead at 88, used words to preach pacifism

Kenzaburo Oe, who won Japan its second Nobel Prize for literature with books about pacifism and his disabled son, has died.

www.reuters.com

Kenzaburō Ōe - Wikipedia

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Masatoshi Itō, billionaire businessman, owner of 7-Eleven, at 98.

Masatoshi Ito, billionaire who made 7-Eleven a global giant, dies at 98

Masatoshi Iso's company brought 7-Eleven to Japan - where a quarter of stores are now located.

www.bbc.co.uk

Masatoshi Ito - Wikipedia

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Dame Phyllida Barlow DBE RA, artist, aged 78.

Dame Phyllida Barlow obituary

British sculptor determined to turn convention on its head to create vast, uncontainable works of art

www.theguardian.com

Phyllida Barlow - Wikipedia

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Dick Fosbury, high jumper, winner of the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games, from lymphoma aged 76.

Dick Fosbury: The athlete who developed the 'Fosbury Flop' dies aged 76

Dick Fosbury - the man who revolutionised the high jump in athletics - has died at the age of 76.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dick Fosbury - Wikipedia

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Yankees star Joe Pepitone dead at 82

 

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Dick Fosbury, high jumper, winner of the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games, from lymphoma aged 76.

Dick Fosbury: The athlete who developed the 'Fosbury Flop' dies aged 76

Dick Fosbury - the man who revolutionised the high jump in athletics - has died at the age of 76.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dick Fosbury - Wikipedia

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The man who perfected the Fosbury Flop and had the move named after him. Gained notoriety during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. That's where I first saw 'the Flop'.

 

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Jerry Samuels, aka Napolen XIV, age 84.

Napoleon XIV - Wikipedia

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^ I used to have his vinyl album back in the early 80s. Someone borrowed it and I never saw it again.

The end of an era.

 

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Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Dowager Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, peeress, aged 87.

Baroness Masham, Paralympian and longest serving female peer, dies aged 87

Baroness Masham competed at three Paralympic games and campaigned for disability rights.

www.bbc.co.uk

Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton - Wikipedia

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The man who perfected the Fosbury Flop and had the move named after him. Gained notoriety during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. That's where I first saw 'the Flop'.

One of the very few flops in history that will last forever...

 

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^ Right up there with Bannister's four-minute-mile.

 

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Professor Paul Berg, biochemist, joint winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, aged 96.

Paul Berg obituary

Nobel prizewinning biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering

www.theguardian.com

Paul Berg - Wikipedia

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Isabel Colegate FRSL, writer, aged 91.

Isabel Colegate obituary

Author of The Shooting Party, the 1980 novel that was turned into a popular film starring James Mason and John Gielgud

www.theguardian.com

Isabel Colegate - Wikipedia

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Jacqueline Gold CBE, businesswoman, Ann Summers CEO, from breast cancer at 62.

Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold dies aged 62

Ms Gold was credited from transforming the company into a multi-million pound business.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jacqueline Gold - Wikipedia

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Lance Reddick, actor, aged 60.

Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, dies aged 60

Reddick, who played Charon in the John Wick action-thriller movies, died of natural causes.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lance Reddick - Wikipedia

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Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford and 12th Earl of Balcarres KT GCVO PC DL, hereditary peer and politician, aged 96.

Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Tory defence minister and last survivor of 1955 Commons intake – obituary

His roles ranged from chairman of the National Association for Mental Health (1963-70) to Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Mother (1992-2002)

www.telegraph.co.uk

Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford - Wikipedia

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Paul Grant, star in Harry Potter and othe movies and stuntman, died of a stroke aged 56


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