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Joined 14 Mar '04 Moves 175353 @rookie54 said
Bud Grant, dies at 95
longtime coach of powerful Minnesota Vikings football teams
https://tinyurl.com/54pp46c2First he was the coach, for 10 years, of the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Linkenheim
Joined 22 Apr '05 Moves 655001 Ernst Tugendhat,93, German philosopher.
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 Pat Schroeder 82
A Pioneer For Women's And Family Rights
Former Representative from Colorado
Dick Fosbury 76
Revolutionized High Jump With 'Fosbury Flop'
Joe Pepitone 82
Flamboyant New York Yankees All-Star
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 Jim Gordon, 77
Traffic, Wrecking Crew, Derek and the Dominoes Drummer
Convicted of Murdering His Own Mother
developed schizophrenia, spent last 40 years in prison
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jim-gordon-eric-clapton-drummer-dead-obituary-1234697705/
sex and drugs and rock n roll
Canberra
Joined 16 Oct '06 Moves 12006 Paul Berg, 96, Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine 1980
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 Lance Reddick, 60
star of The Wire and John Wick
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64959805
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 Jacqueline Gold, 62
Ann Summers lingerie chain boss
https://tinyurl.com/922d7bs9
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 Jiang Yanyong, 91
Doctor who exposed the size of the 2003 SARS outbreak
Twenty years ago, a surgeon blew the whistle on China's SARS epidemic. And because he did that, he was under state surveillance until his death at 91.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163835102/doctor-who-exposed-the-size-of-the-2003-sars-outbreak-dies-at-91
Joined 28 Oct '05 Moves 34587 Willis Reed, basketball player
Joined 18 Jan '07 Moves 12431 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who formulated Moore's Law about increasing computer power. 94.
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Joined 09 Mar '08 Moves 200926 @shallow-blue said
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who formulated Moore's Law about increasing computer power. 94.just read this on reuters
https://tinyurl.com/3au9e26x
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"It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time," Moore said in an interview around 2005. "I was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn't make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It's been a phenomenal ride."
Joined 16 Feb '08 Moves 116715 Paul O’Grady
British comedian, drag queen (Lilly Allen) and dog lover dies at 67.
Joined 28 Oct '05 Moves 34587 Ray Schulman of Gentle Giant.
An often underrated band.
Ray was a brilliant multi-instrumentalist.
Joined 20 May '17 Moves 15751 Wlodzim Schmidt , 80...Polish chess Grandmaster.. played in many Olympiads and was Polish Champion seven times..
Joined 28 Oct '05 Moves 34587 Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto dies aged 71
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