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[Savannah]

Claude Levi-Strauss, 100

http://www.bloomberg...id=aY43vBHLDM6I

That's tragic.

Maybe so, but how is it notable?

[YBS]

http://nobelprize.or...rg-autobio.html

[Savannah]

Sy Syms, clothing magnate and philanthropist, 83

http://jta.org/news/...syms-dies-at-83

[Bezalel]

Naomi Frankel, Israeli author.
http://www.israelnat...ews.aspx/134537

According to Arutz Sheva, she was also apparently a Navy SEAL when she was 61 to 69 years old.

[Bezalel]

Miriam Cohen, 1907-2009, United States Marine.

[Bezalel]

Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass), 1919-2009. Actor noted for his portrayal of Bat Masterson.

BD"E.

[goyishrebbe]

Robert Novak, Conservative Columnist, 78

http://www.nytimes.c...19novak.html?hp

Good riddance to that self-hating Jew. He converted to Catholicism and unlike most American conservatives nowadays, he was anti-Israel.

[Bezalel]

Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, 1932-2009, author of “Zachor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory.”

"Only in Israel and nowhere else is the injunction to remember felt as a religious imperative to an entire people."

[Savannah]

Oral Roberts, Evangelist, 91

http://www.nytimes.c...b...tml?_r=1

[Savannah]

Roy Disney, 79

http://www.cbc.ca/wo...disney-roy.html

[Savannah]

Brittany Murphy, 32

http://www.reuters.c...E5BJ1MQ20091220

[Bezalel]

Brittany Murphy, 32

I liked her in The Ramen Girl. I don't think I've seen any of her other movies.

[FyreByrde]

I know this is really late, but I only saw this thread now, so I'd like to add one non-Jew here.

Mama Afrika: Miriam Makeba, 76



http://www.mg.co.za/...a-dies-in-italy

[Savannah]

I know this is really late, but I only saw this thread now, so I'd like to add one non-Jew here.

All notable dead people are welcome in this thread, regardless of religion.

[FyreByrde]

All notable dead people are welcome in this thread, regardless of religion.

Good to know...This lady had a voice that could stop War in its tracks. I miss her. :cry:

[warren]

Not all that recent, but this is the meorial plaque for Bugsy Segal

[FyreByrde]

Getting a little more recent:

Another great lady of South Africa - Helen Suzman, 91
http://www.guardian....01/helen-suzman

[politico]

sesame street's olivia

[justbatya]

Ken Ober, MTV host of an era past...

http://www.cnn.com/2...ober/index.html

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Ken Ober, whose MTV game show "Remote Control" was among the network's first forays into non-music programming, has died at age 52, his agent said Monday. Ober hosted five seasons of "Remote Control," a pop-culture quiz show that featured contestants strapped into easy chairs to answer questions from categories such as "Dead or Canadian?" The show first aired in 1987 and helped launch the careers of comedians Adam Sandler, Denis Leary and Colin Quinn, who was the program's announcer.

Ober later moved behind the camera as a producer of the Comedy Central program "Mind of Mencia" and the CBS comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

Ober's agent, Mark Measures, said Ober was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. No cause of death was immediately known.