2010----In Remembrance.

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Songwriter George David Weiss died Monday. He was 89.

Among the songs he wrote were "What a Wonderful World", "Can't Help Falling In Love", and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

 

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Professional wrestler Luna Vachon was found dead today. She was 48.

 

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Charles S. Roberts, creator of "Tactics" game, Avalon Hill founder, dies at age 80.

Obituary

This blog article makes the case for "inventor of the modern wargame":

State of Play--The Gaming Blog: Charles S. Roberts, Inventor of the Wargame, Dies at 80

 

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French filmmaker Alain Corneau died this week of cancer. He was 67.

 

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Francisco Varallo, the last surviving participant of the very first World Cup in 1930, died Monday. He was 100.

 

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Cammie King Conlon, who played the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind and did the voice of Faline in Bambi, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 76.

 

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Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident

 

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Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Joseph Conrad died yesterday. He was 86.

 

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Mike Edwards, cellist and founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra, was killed last Friday when a bale of hay crashed into his van. He was 62.

 

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Jefferson Thomas, one of nine black students known as the Little Rock Nine, who were sent to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. He was 68.