R.I.P. CELEBRITY DEATHS 2020(NON WRESTLERS)

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Scooby-Doo Co-Creator Ken Spears Dies at 82

Ken Spears, co-creator of the beloved animated series Scooby-Doo, which cemented him in pop culture history, died on Friday at the age of 82.

Ken Spears, who co-created the animated series Scooby-Doo, died on Friday from complications related to Lewy body dementia. He was 82.

"Ken will forever be remembered for his wit, his story-telling, his loyalty to family, and his strong work ethic," Spears' son, Kevin Spears told Variety. "Ken has not only made a lasting impression on his family, but he has touched the lives of many as co-creator of Scooby-Doo. Ken has been a role model for us throughout his life and he will continue to live on in our hearts."

Spears -- full name Charles Kenneth Spears -- was born on March 12, 1938, in Los Angeles, CA. It was in Los Angeles that he began his career as a sound editor at Hanna-Barbara Productions. In 1959 he met Joe Ruby, with whom he would create cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Jabberjaw. They would write together for many years on a variety of animated and live-action television series. The work that Spears and Ruby did on Scooby-Doo would later influence the creation of other teen-centric cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.

The two writing partners would later be hired by CBS in 1970 to supervise the Saturday morning cartoons lineup before going on create their own studio, Ruby-Spears productions. There, they produced shows like Superman, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Thundarr the Barbarian and many more. Ruby also died earlier this year on Aug. 26 at the age of 87.

Since the animated series first aired in 1969, Scooby-Doo went on to become an all-out entertainment empire, growing from the beloved Saturday morning cartoon to live-action movies, television shows, animated movies, comic books, lunch boxes and so on

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Ruby and Spears in the same year. Sad times.....though my favorite was Thundarr, I loved a lot of their shows.

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Left handed BDO dart player Alan "The Ton Machine" Glazier has died aged 81 R.I.P

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Lucille Bridges, 86, Dies; Led Her Daughter Across a Color Line
In 1960, Ms. Bridges escorted 6-year-old Ruby to an all-white school in New Orleans under the guard of federal marshals as protesters chanted and threw eggs.

Lucille Commadore Bridges, who in 1960 broke through the segregated education system of the Deep South by enrolling her 6-year-old daughter, Ruby, in an all-white elementary school in New Orleans and escorting her there during her first year of classes, died on Tuesday at her home in the Uptown section of New Orleans. She was 86.

The cause was cancer, according to Ruby Bridges.

Lucille Bridges and her daughter braved a fusillade of abuse from white protesters as they walked up to the doors of the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960, under the escort of federal marshals, making good on the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.

The scene was immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published in Look magazine as a two-page spread.

Ms. Bridges escorted her daughter to school every day for a year because of continuing protests, according to the National Women’s History Museum.

“She was very determined, and she took education very seriously,” Ruby Bridges, an author and activist, said in an interview on Wednesday. “I think it was because it was something that neither her nor my father was allowed to have. And ultimately that’s what she wanted for her kids — having a better life for them.”

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Nov 9, 2020 18:09:06 GMT -5 TTX said:

Ruby and Spears in the same year. Sad times.....though my favorite was Thundarr, I loved a lot of their shows.

Someone should reboot Thundarr. It has so much potential. If done right it could be huge.

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Yorkshire Ripper (named by the press/newspaper) Lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe has died aged 74 , who murder 13 women during 1975-80 in mainly Leeds and Bradford area . But the police missed many chances to catch him .

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Country artist Doug Supernaw has died at 60

Doug Supernaw, a country music singer with Houston-area roots who charted a number of hits in the 1990s, has died of cancer, according to a statement from his record company.

Supernaw was born on Sept. 26, 1960, in Bryan and grew up in the Inwood Forest area of northwest Houston. He was a sports standout while at Eisenhower High School and earned a golf scholarship at the University of St. Thomas before dropping out to play music in the late 1970s, according to a detailed 2007 profile on the singer's life by writer John Nova Lomax in the Houston Press.

He went on to write songs for a Nashville publishing company before his first major record deal in the early 90s when he recorded top hits "I Don't Call Him Daddy," and "Reno." His first charted single was the Texas-centric anthem, "Red and Rio Grande."

Supernaw had a share of run-ins with the law over the years in incidents that were reminiscent of country artists whose songs he counted as his influences, like George Jones, Gene Watson and Joe Ely.

After a 20 year break from music, Supernaw resurrected his career with an album he recorded in 2017.

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Paul Hornung, star of the 1960s Packers, dies at 84
Vince Lombardi called him his “greatest player”

Paul Hornung, described by Vince Lombardi as "the greatest player I ever coached," died Friday in his hometown of Louisville, Ky., after a long battle with dementia. Hornung was 84.

Selected No. 1 overall in the 1957 NFL Draft, with what was called the bonus pick, Hornung played for the Packers from 1957-62 and again from 1964-66. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986, 11 years after he was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.

Hornung, who stood 6-foot-2 and weighed 215 pounds, played quarterback at the University of Notre Dame and won the Heisman Trophy in 1956, but his first two coaches in Green Bay couldn't settle on a position for him. He was given a look at quarterback, but also started games at fullback and halfback.

His career took off in 1959, when Lombardi took over as coach, put him at left halfback and built his offense around him. The left halfback was the ball carrier on Lombardi's famed power sweep and what he called "the key operative" in his offense. For the power sweep to work, according to Lombardi, his halfback had to be able to throw the option pass. As a former quarterback and gifted athlete, who lettered in basketball as a sophomore at Notre Dame, Hornung was able run wide exactly as he would on the power sweep behind two pulling guards, stay under control and throw the ball if the defense was overplaying Lombardi's signature play.

Hornung's best seasons were 1960, when he set an NFL scoring record in a 12-game season that stood for 46 years, and 1961, when he was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press and then MVP of the Packers' 37-0 victory over the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game.

Although Hornung's statistics don't translate well to today's game, he was a rare triple-threat back, starting in 1958 and for five of Lombard's first six seasons. Not only could Hornung run and pass, he was the Packers' placekicker. As a result, when he set the scoring record in 1960, he scored 176 points on 15 touchdowns, 15 field goals and 41 extra points. Not until San Diego's LaDainian Tomlinson scored 186 points in 2006 in a 16-game season was the record broken.

In 1961, Hornung also set the Packers' single-game scoring record with 33 points on Oct. 8 against Baltimore. In the NFL title game that year, Hornung, again, broke a scoring record with 19 points and led all rushers with 89 yards on 20 carries. And what was remarkable about his sweep of MVP honors that season was that he rarely practiced after being called up for active military duty near midseason. Then, for the championship game, he needed a pass from the Army – with a little assistance from President John F. Kennedy – to be able to practice before the game and play.

Hornung suffered a serious neck injury in 1960 and a knee injury in 1962, which contributed to him missing 12 games over his final four seasons. He also was suspended by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1963 for betting. But he was crucial to the Packers winning the NFL championship again in 1965 and also had made the biggest offensive play of the 1962 NFL title game.

In 1965, Hornung missed two games and played sparingly in at least four others, but in the second-to-last game of the season, the Packers went to Baltimore and had to win or be eliminated from postseason play. Hornung returned to the lineup after missing two of the previous three games, scored five touchdowns and finished with 176 total yards as the Packers beat the Colts, 42-27, and moved a half-game ahead in the standings. "A great pressure player," Lombardi gushed in the locker room.

Hornung's neck injury acted up again and he played sparingly in a 10-10 tie against San Francisco the next week and a playoff against the Colts, but then rushed for 105 yards on 18 carries and scored the clinching touchdown on a 13-yard run in a 23-12 victory over Cleveland in the NFL title game.

In 1962, Hornung's 21-yard option pass set up the Packers' only touchdown as they beat the Giants, 16-7, for their second of two titles under Lombardi.

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Ray Clemence death: Former England and Liverpool goalkeeper dies aged 72
Clemence was one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation, winning 61 caps for England a stack of trophies at Anfield including three European Cups

Clemence was one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation. He won three European Cups and five First Division titles at Anfield, and earned 61 caps for England. He won his third Uefa Cup and second FA Cup while at Tottenham in the latter part of his career.

The Football Association said it was “extremely saddened'' to learn of Clemence's death.

Liverpool said: “We’re deeply saddened by the passing of one of the greatest-ever goalkeepers, Ray Clemence. The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool Football Club are with Ray’s family and many friends.”

An £18,000 signing from Scunthorpe by Bill Shankly, Clemence was a key member of the Liverpool team which dominated Europe between 1977 and 1981.

Clemence had brief spells managing Tottenham and then Barnet, before coaching England’s goalkeepers under managers Glenn Hoddle, Kevin Keegan, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren and later Roy Hodgson, and worked in the FA’s Development Team. He was made an MBE in 1987.

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