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@rookie54 said
Bud Grant, dies at 95
longtime coach of powerful Minnesota Vikings football teams

https://tinyurl.com/54pp46c2
First he was the coach, for 10 years, of the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers.


Ernst Tugendhat,93, German philosopher.


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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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

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Paul Berg, 96, Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine 1980


Lance Reddick, 60
star of The Wire and John Wick

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64959805

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Jacqueline Gold, 62
Ann Summers lingerie chain boss

https://tinyurl.com/922d7bs9

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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


Willis Reed, basketball player


Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who formulated Moore's Law about increasing computer power. 94.

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@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."



Ray Schulman of Gentle Giant.

An often underrated band.

Ray was a brilliant multi-instrumentalist.


Wlodzim Schmidt , 80...Polish chess Grandmaster.. played in many Olympiads and was Polish Champion seven times..


Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto dies aged 71

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