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We're likely to see a large number of old people dying of COVID-19, and diseases don't care about how famous you are.

Expect no few notables to pass on in the next few months.

RUIP Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and many other anime.

Lung cancer, not the current plague.

Actor Brian Dennehy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ob...-1.5534605

RIP Keiji Fujiwara, voice actor who played (amongst others) Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist and Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark in the dub of The Avengers.

He passed away due to cancer on April 12.

RIP Ronan O'Rahilly, founder of Radio Caroline

Tom Lester of Green Acres has passed on:

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/tom-les...234585075/

RIP Irrfan Khan, Bollywood and Hollywood actor

From cancer and a colon infection, not the current pandemic.

RIP Ted Grant, "the father of Canadian photojournalism".

Complications from surgery, not the pandemic.

Not a good week for Bollywood.

RIP Rishi Kapoor

Leukemia, not COVID-19.

A sad day for the Canadian Forces:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-nati...ident.html

Story artist, writer and director of many Pixar projects Rob Gibbs has passed away. He was 55.
https://images.dawn.com/news/1185174/pix...dies-at-55

Don Shula, legendary Miami Dolphins coach
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/d...-1.5554423

Roy Horn, of "Siegfried and Roy," aged 75.  COVID-19 fatality.

RIP Little Richard

EDIT: Bone cancer.

Jerry Stiller has passed on (natural causes):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...ed-92.html

Fred Willard has passed on:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/co...-1.5573547

Capt. Jenn Casey of the Snowbirds, in a plane crash.

Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet crashes in Kamloops, B.C., killing 1, injuring another

Ken Osmond has passed on:

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ken-osm...CBUY55lzUU

RIP Dr. James Mahoney, a Brooklyn doctor who delayed his retirement to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cause of death was COVID-19.

Annie Glenn, widow of John @100, Covid

Seinfeld and scifi actor Richard Herd
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/richa...234616352/

Utah Jazz (NBA) coach Jerry Sloan
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2020/5/22/...-utah-jazz

https://www.dailystartreknews.com/read/j...F16Jt9TrHk

John Winston has passed on.

(05-31-2020, 04:49 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Innovative artist Christo, age 84.

RIP. I got to see his Big Air Package in the Gasometer Oberhausen. 6 years ago, time flies. The ground floor contained a retrospective of everything he and his wife had done till then.