In Remembrance---2009

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Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died today. She was 97.

Dean was only a baby when she was on the Titanic.

 

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Danny LaRue, a top drag queen in the UK and the first man to play the lead role in a major production of Hello Dolly, died yesterday. He was 81.

 

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Professional wrestler John Tolos died last Thursday of kidney failure. He was 78.

 

[Fast Learner]

Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died today. She was 97.

Dean was only a baby when she was on the Titanic.

An amazing story, and just exactly what it would take to be the last surviving person: lowered in a sack as a baby into a lifeboat and then living to 97. Amazing story.

 

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Koko Taylor, who has been called "Queen of the Blues", died today of complications from surgery. She was 80.

Taylor was still performing this year.

 

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Luis Cabral, the first president of Guinea-Bissau, died May 30. He was 78.

 

[Pbartender]

'Kung Fu' star David Carradine, 73, has been found dead in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, according to his manager.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Don't know why it didn't get posted here, but David Carroll Eddings died Tuesday of natural causes. He was 77.

Fantasy writer Eddings dies

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of "Bockscar" the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, has died after years of congestive heart failure. He was 88.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Randy Smith, an All-Star with the Buffalo Braves in the 1970s who once held the NBA record for consecutive games, died at a Connecticut hospital. He was 60.