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D.E.A.D. vol.4 Distinguished Existence Award Dedication

Cool people left recently. Here is a reminder of who they were. You are as we were,you will be as we are now.

By mordechai

Published 14 years ago

Cool people left recently. Here is a reminder of who they were. You are as we were,you will be as we are now.

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Giò Stajano, nom de plume of Maria Gioacchina Stajano Starace Countess Briganti di Panico, born Gioacchino (Sannicola, December 11, 1931 – Alezio,July 26, 2011) was an italian journalist, painter, actress and painter. Born Gioacchino Stajano he was nephew of the powerful fascist leader Achille Starace. Before his sex-change surgery he was one of the first self-declared homosexuals in the history of Italy.

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Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Ukrainian-Russian actress best known to European and North American audiences for her starring role in 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.

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Suze Rotolo appear with Bob Dylan on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Rotolo died on Feb. 25, 2011 at age 67 after battling lung cancer. The two dated in the early 1960s and she is thought to have inspired some of his love songs at the time.

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Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of the MTV daredevil reality show Jackass, died in the early hours of June 20, 2011 at age 34 in a car crash in Pennsylvania.

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Character actor Roberts Blossom, who played the white-bearded neighbor Old Man Marley in the movie Home Alone, has died at age 87 in Southern California on July 14, 2011.

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Peter Falk died June 23, 2011 at his Beverly Hills home. The stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in Columbo, which spanned 30 years in prime-time television, was 83.

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Martin Woodhouse, who has died aged 78, was a psychologist and medic, but worked variously as a novelist, scriptwriter, engineer, programmer, government planner, artificial intelligence researcher and perfumer.

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Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian film director of Hindi films. His first film Uski Roti (1969) has been described as one of the key films of the New Indian Cinema or the Indian New Wave.

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Lloyd M. Gerber 1927 ~ 2011. Cowboy and poet. That's all

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Oscar-winning songwriter and director Joseph Brooks, seen in this June 23, 2009, file photo, was found dead Sunday, May 22, 2011, of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

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Jane Scott, who died on July 4 aged 92, claimed the title of the world’s oldest rock critic, and covered two notorious Beatles concerts in Cleveland, Ohio, in the mid-1960s, the wildest in the group’s touring history.

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Abdul Fatah Younis was a senior military officer in Libya but resigned on 22 February 2011 to defect to the rebel side. On 28 July, Younis was placed under arrest to face questioning in Benghazi. Later on in the day Younis was killed under unclear circumstances. He was 67 years old.

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Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron, seen in this Sept. 1984 file photo, died Friday, May, 27, 2011 at age 62. Heron's friend, Doris Nolan, said the musician died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York after becoming sick upon returning from a trip to Europe.

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Dmitri Yefimovich Furman, (28 February 1943 – 22 July 2011), was a Russian political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions. The New Left Review called him Russia’s leading comparative scholar on the political systems of post-Soviet states.

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Giuseppe D'Avanzo (Naples, December 10 1953 – Calcata, July 30 2011), was an italian journalist. Known for his controversial reportages he had extraordinary access to classified informations and was suspected of having informators in the intelligence services.

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Dana Wynter, an actress who starred in the 1956 science-fiction classic 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' died in Southern California on May 5, 2011, at the age of 79.

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Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. (January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011), also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972, until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Clemons passed away June 18, 2011. He suffered a major stroke on June 12, 2011

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Bill Morrissey (November 25, 1951 – July 23, 2011) was an American folk singer/songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns.

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Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011), better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford. As First Lady, she was active in social policy and created precedents as a politically active presidential wife.

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Basil Mitchell, the former Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford who died on June 23 aged 94, was a champion of the place of religious belief in public debate and a prominent critic of liberal humanism.

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Arthur Laurents, the director, playwright and screenwriter who wrote such enduring stage musicals as West Side Story and Gypsy, as well as the movie classics Rope and The Way We Were, has died. He was 93.

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British singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in London on Saturday, July 23, 2011. The singer was 27 years old.

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