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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Pyeknu - 03-06-2020
The Pocket Rocket has gone to join his brother in the great hockey rink in the sky:
https://globalnews.ca/news/6640221/henri-richard-death/
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - SilverFang01 - 03-09-2020
Finally free of this tiresome planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-star-of-the-exorcist-and-the-seventh-seal-dies-aged-90
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 03-09-2020
"Out on a cloud of love"... RIP Laura Smith
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 03-19-2020
RIP Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Pyeknu - 03-21-2020
The Gambler has gone on to play the eternal great game...
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/actor-singer-gambler-kenny-rogers-dies-81-69724237
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Star Ranger4 - 03-21-2020
*sniff* I'd say he more than broke even.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Norgarth - 03-24-2020
Asterix co-creator dies at age 92
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/24/asterix-creator-albert-uderzo-dies-at-92
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Bob Schroeck - 03-24-2020
And we have our first celebrity coronavirus victim in the thread:
Terrence McNally, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Dies From Coronavirus Complications
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Rajvik - 03-29-2020
Tom Coburn, the Republican known as "Dr No" is dead
https://news.yahoo.com/former-republican-senator-tom-coburn-145753913.html
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Norgarth - 03-29-2020
Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/country-artist-joe-diffie-dies-from-covid-19
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Rajvik - 03-29-2020
(03-29-2020, 05:23 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/country-artist-joe-diffie-dies-from-covid-19
damn it, now i need to get him another round over by the jukebox
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 04-02-2020
RIP Adam Schlesinger, Emmy and Grammy-winner from Fountains of Wayne
RIP Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead at 85
Both dead after contracting coronavirus.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - nocarename - 04-03-2020
Julie Bennett, voice actor, dead of COVID-19 complications at 88.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2020/04/02/julie-bennett-death-yogi-bear-show-covid-19-coronavirus/
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 04-03-2020
RIP Bill Withers
You know his music:
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 04-05-2020
RIP Shirley Douglas, actress (Lolita, Dead Ringers, etc.), activist, daughter of Canada's medicare founder Tommy Douglas, and mother of Kiefer Sutherland.
EDIT: Not related to the current pandemic.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Pyeknu - 04-06-2020
Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/celebs/honor-blackman-death-pussy-galore-actor-dies-aged-94/ar-BB12eeSg
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - DHBirr - 04-06-2020
(04-06-2020, 12:56 PM)Pyeknu Wrote: Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:When she was making that movie, an episode of The Avengers referenced it, with Steed getting a Christmas card "from Mrs Gale! Whatever can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/celebs/honor-blackman-death-pussy-galore-actor-dies-aged-94/ar-BB12eeSg
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 04-08-2020
RIP John Prine
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Norgarth - 04-08-2020
Hal Willner (Music Producer and SNL supervisor)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/08/hal-willner-music-producer-and-snl-supervisor-dies-aged-64
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - aku - 04-11-2020
Andrew Jack
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - robkelk - 04-12-2020
RIP Mort Drucker
"Indeed, Mort Drucker proved to be one of the most popular artists of the group that collectively came to be known as the 'Usual Gang of Idiots.'"
- from the citation upon his induction to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
RIP Stirling Moss, arguably the greatest F1 driver never to win the world championship.
"If you're not trying to win at all costs, what on earth are you doing there?"
- Stirling Moss
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - aku - 04-12-2020
John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - aku - 04-13-2020
Tim Brooke-Taylor (BBC link) (The Goodies, u.a.) Covid again.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - Bob Schroeck - 04-13-2020
Well, crap.
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020 - DHBirr - 04-13-2020
(04-12-2020, 09:27 PM)aku Wrote: John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.
xkcd salutes him today.
![[Image: rip_john_conway.gif]](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rip_john_conway.gif)
The mouseover text gives his years of birth and death.