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Grim Reapings: a 2016 MEGA edition. :((
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Grim Reapings: a 2016 MEGA edition. :(( What is up with 2016? This year seems to be on a record pace for celebrity deaths. 2014 and 2015 had some but well spaced out. 2016's already long roster of memorials just added Dr. Henry Heimlich at 96, and Zsa Zsa Gabor at 99. Too bad she missed Kirk Douglas' 100th birthday party December 17. LOL These two came just days after Alan Thicke died suddenly at 69. What a year. The Grim Reaper has been working overtime. A highlight list of the 200+ The GR took in 2016... (Updates as of May 26, 2017) - Dr. Henry Heimlich, medical genius and "maneuver" namesake for saving choking victims - Sari "Zsa Zsa" Gabor, middle of the great Hungarian sister actresses and great aunt of Paris Hilton - TV star, host and musician Alan Thicke (Robin's father) from a ruptured aorta - George S. Irving, Broadway actor also remembered for narrating Underdog and voicing Running Board on its included segment series Go Go Gophers - Louise O'Brien, Miss Oklahoma 1950 and frequent singer for Pat Boone, Jack Paar and Mitch Miller on early TV variety/talk shows - Patty Duke, her TV boyfriend Eddie Applegate, and her TV dad (and Trek vet) William Schallert - Actors Alan Rickman (Harry Potter series) and Peter Vaughan (Game of Thrones) - David Bowie Goodbye to the OTHER David Jones Bowie 19472016 - Vanity (Vanity 6) - Prince Prince39s Purple Reign is over - Authors Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird and its prequel Go Set A Watchman), Elie Wiesel (Night), W.P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe/Field of Dreams) and Richard Adams (Watership Down) - Keith Emerson (suicide) and Greg Lake (cancer) from Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay from Bewitched, among his many roles) - Glenn Frey of the Eagles - Tom Whedon, prolific TV writer whose career spanned genres and 40 years from the first decade of Captain Kangaroo and The Electric Company to Benson and The Golden Girls (father of film and TV screenwriter Joss Whedon) - Pat Harrington Jr. (Schneider from One Day at a Time, among his many roles) - The mayor (David Marguiles) and librarian (Alice Drummond) from the original Ghostbusters film - Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) - Ken Adam, production designer for Dr. Strangelove and the classic Bond films - Barney Miller alums Abe Vigoda, Ron Glass and frequent guest Don Calfa - Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) - Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire) - Frank Sinatra Jr. - Garry Shandling - Merle Haggard - Morley Safer, CBC and CBS journalist - Alan Young, the human foil of Mister Ed - Bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley - Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore - Director Michael Cimino (of Heaven's Gate infamy) - Noel Neill, modern media's first Lois Lane - Garry Marshall, who kept Paramount TV rolling in cash in the 1970s before making films like Pretty Woman - Miss Cleo ( She should have seen that coming LOL ) - Kenny Baker, R2D2 and Ewok extraordinaire - Toots Thielemans, the Belgian harmonica player heard on the original Sesame Street theme (and Billy Joel's "Leave A Tender Moment Alone") - Morton Schindel, founder of legendary Weston Woods Studios (I bet a lot of from my generation and slightly earlier saw a few Weston Woods filmstrips and movies in school  )- Ice Road Truckers star Darrell Ward and Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández Famous people and small craft accidents Why - Gene Wilder - Pete Burns, lead singer of the band Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)") - Bobby Vee, whose band filled in for Buddy Holly after he died (see the famous people and small craft post link). - Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) - Sir George Martin, legendary record producer - Leonard Cohen - Pete Sumner ("TK-421, why aren't you at your post?" of Star Wars fame) - Florence Henderson (no Christmas miracle for Carol Brady this year  )- Journalist Gwen Ifill - Grant Tinker (ex-hubby and TV exec of Mary Tyler Moore) - Van Williams (The Green Hornet on TV) - Margaret Whitton (Auntie Vera in The Secret of My Success, and the Indians owner in the Major League films) - Leon Russell - Marni Nixon, singer and sometime actress (Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music) - Playwrights Peter Shaffer (Amadeus) and Edward Albee (Virginia Woolf) - Cassius Clay The Greatest Ali, 19422016 - Sportscasters John Saunders, Craig Sager and Bud Collins - Former NFL players Joe McKnight, Will Smith and Robert Eddins, by gun violence - Aubrey McClendon, the thief and former Chesapeake Energy CEO who stole the Seattle SuperSonics and moved them to Oklahoma City despite his promise not to move the team. - Former Baseball players Tony Phillips, Ralph Branca and Milt Pappas, among many others - Former NBA players Nate Thurmond and Dwayne "Pearl" Washington - Army sophomore cornerback Brandon Jackson in a car wreck - Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler in a car wreck coming from a football camp - X Games icon Dave Mirra - The last surviving Mercury 7 astronaut and former Ohio Senator, John H. Glenn Jr., Col (RET), USMC - Former Ohio Governor and Senator George Voinovich - Anton Yelchin, Chekov from the JJ Abrams Trek movies, in a very freak out-of-car car accident - Phyllis Schafly, the conservative lawyer, author and activist whose efforts kept the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified - 1994 Heisman Trophy winner for Colorado, running back Rashaan Salaam, suicide at age 42 in a Boulder park - Jean Shepard, the "Grand Lady" of the Grand Old Opry, the first female to clock 50 years as a member of country music's grand chapel - Most of one of Brazil's soccer teams in a horrific plane crash - Golf legend Arnold Palmer - Longtime Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt - Former NFL coaches Buddy Ryan, Dennis Green and Ted Marchibroda - NHL hockey legend Gordie Howe - Dayton sophomore basketball player Steve McElvene - WWE wrestler Chyna (Joan Laurer) from an accidental drug/alcohol overdose - Nancy Reagan - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno - Former Israeli leader Shimon Peres and former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro - Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt - Wham! singer George Michael - Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds (see below) - The Chicago Cubs' 108 year baseball championship drought - Cleveland, Ohio's pro sports championship drought (thanks to the Cavaliers) - Legendary BYU football coach LaVell Edwards, complications from a Christmas Eve broken hip at 86 - Robert Hulseman, inventor of the most ubiquitous party and tailgate accessory: the Solo red plastic cup - William Christopher, TV's Father Mulcahy on MASH and AfterMASH, on Dec 31. - Urban Meyer's streak of never being shut out. G.D. referees... Let's hope 2017 gives us a reprieve. The Grim Reaper has earned some vacation time. DECEMBER 28 UPDATE: Many actors mention enough already or as if 2016 couldn't get any worse... The GR has also taken Princess Leia and her mother. Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack December 23 en route from London to LAX, 15 minutes before the flight landed, and was reportedly not breathing for about 10 minutes. And apparently never recovered. She died December 27, and sadly, her mother died the very next day, apparently from a stroke while planning Carrie's funeral. 
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Remembering those who shall not pass this way again...
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Thanks for this post. Saved me looking up my old one and adding to it. I am adding Leon Russell (Virtual Symposium Group) use Virtual Symposium Group
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Thanks for this post. Saved me looking up my old one and adding to it. I am adding Leon Russell
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That list is too long, and the year ain't over yet. At least we still have Betty White! 
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