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Dennis Farina American actor 69.

Billy Smith, light middleweight boxer.

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/latest/ ... illy-smith

QuartzGooner wrote:Billy Smith, light middleweight boxer.

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/latest/ ... illy-smith

Very sad story that, RIP.

J.J. Cale,legendary musician!!!

Ex-Birmingham City player Christian Benitez

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ly-27.html

Jazz musician George Duke, a top level keyboard player.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23592806

Ex world Welterweight champion Emile Griffith, age 75.

Not sure if he was well known outside of Boxing?
Boxing fans usually well aware of him, known for the death of opponent Benny Paret ten days after they fought.
Paret had called Griffith a "Maricon" at a press conference, a furious Griffith was actually gay but hid it until later in life.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/bo ... s/2585619/

QuartzGooner wrote:Ex world Welterweight champion Emile Griffith, age 75.

Not sure if he was well known outside of Boxing?
Boxing fans usually well aware of him, known for the death of opponent Benny Paret ten days after they fought.
Paret had called Griffith a "Maricon" at a press conference, a furious Griffith was actually gay but hid it until later in life.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/bo ... s/2585619/

I think we can all make up our own jokes about him being in the "ring".





Too soon...?

Charles Pollock, furniture designer.

http://www.vosizneias.com/139327/2013/0 ... n-ny-fire/

Elmore Leonard, crime novelist.

http://news.sky.com/story/1131053/elmor ... es-aged-87

Sid Bernstein, legendary Rock and Pop promoter.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... stein.html

Professor David Rees, mathematician.

One of the key figures behind the cracking of the German Enigma code in WWII, believed by historians to have shortened the war by two years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... -Rees.html

Cedar Walton, superb Jazz Pianist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... alton.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4poXPHv60

Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer for Star Wars.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23808854

My daughter's best friend's mum passed away on Saturday night. She was only 35. It was terrible trying to explain it to my 9 year old little girl. And what her lovely little friend and her dad must be going through. No child that young should lose a parent. Tragedies like this put everything into perspective. RIP.