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Sarah Harding, who starred in the second St. Trinian's film, has passed on:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58456170

And for those who loved watching the Today Show on NBC years ago, a great weatherman has also passed on:

https://www.today.com/news/willard-scott-dead-t152927
Sadly, Jean-Pierre Adams' long coma has come to an end...

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58463792
Another Police Academy alumnus has passed on...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/...d=msedgntp
Bad news comes in threes, they say...

RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film Breathless

RIP Jean-Paul Jeannotte, classical tenor and the first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal

RIP Michael Constantine, of Room 222 and My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame
This one is depressing; Norm Macdonald https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awar...s-n1279164
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521

Sir Clive Sinclair. Inventor of the ZX Spectrum. As well as a some less useful items.
The Mad Hatter's mol from the Batman TV series in the 1960s has joined Mr. West et al beyond the Veil of the Te'a...

https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-jean-ha...QT0-mMa9WA
Helen Reddy has passed on:

https://bestclassicbands.com/helen-reddy...2JU6HLQH24

(Update 1 October 2021, 1130 EDT)

One of the King's songwriter's has also passed away:

Sep 29, 2020: Mac Davis, Who Wrote Hits For Elvis, and Had His Own #1 Pop Single, Dies | Best Classic Bands
Cole, one half of the internet cat duo Cole and Marmalade, has passed on.

https://www.facebook.com/ColeandMarmalade
Viktor Bryukhanov has died aged 85.

Best known for being the first director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
RIP Colin Powell.

Complications from COVID.
Let Taps be played. Rest easy, General; your work is all done here.
The "Andy Griffith Show"'s Thelma Lou, Betty Lynn has died at the age of 95.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-...5-rcna3171
Songwriter Leslie Bricusse, age 90. It won't be a name younger users will recognize, but those of us old enough will remember his songs from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Scrooge, Hook and the original Doctor Dolittle, not to mention more than a few Bond movie themes.
RIP Martha Henry

Another name that people aren't likely to recognize - unless you made a habit of attending the Stratford Festival over the past six decades.
RIP Halyna Hutchins, cinematographer

Workplace incident - apparently, a prop gun was misfired. (Yes, the article mentions Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum.)
RIP James Michael Tyler, best known for playing the "seventh friend" Gunther on Friends
Joanna Cameron, the star of The Secrets of Isis back in the 1970s, has ascended to the heavens...

https://comicbook.com/dc/news/joanna-cam...ead-at-70/
https://deadline.com/2021/10/camille-sav...fYgLPFE_jg

Camille Saviola, Broadway and Star TrekBig GrinS9 actress
RIP Marília Mendonça, Grammy-winning singer

Plane crash.
'Seanie' Fitzpatrick - CEO and then Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, and symbol and living lightning of the collapse of 2008

The kindest words people had to say for him, where that they sympathised with the maggots that had to digest that shite.
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