R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers) 2022

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Timmy Thomas, R&B singer of Why Can’t We Live Together, dies aged 77

Singer’s anti-war song reached US Top 3 in 1973 before being widely covered and sampled by artists including Drake

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Michael Kmech a former tackle for the Edmonton Eskimos passed away on February 23, 2022, at the age of 87. Kmech was a guard for the Eskimos from 1956-1962

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RIP to all who have passed.

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Amen

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Mike Mora, Singer Kelis' Husband, Dead at 37 After Stomach Cancer Battle

Mike was a professional photographer

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David Stephenson: Wigan World Club Challenge winner dies at the age of 63

He won 12 trophies during his time at Central Park, including the World Club Challenge in 1987, in which he converted four goal kicks to help his side beat Manly.

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Hit Country Songwriter Bruce Burch Dies

Country songwriter Bruce Burch, who wrote such hits as Reba McEntire’s “Rumor Has It” and “It’s Your Call,” died on Saturday, March 12. He was 69.

Burch fought a nearly 30-year battle with leukemia. According to a news source out of Burch’s home town of Gainesville, Georgia, his health had worsened before his death on Saturday.

In addition to his two hit singles for McEntire, Burch wrote many other songs for artists including T. Graham Brown, Faith Hill, Aaron Tippin, The Oak Ridge Boys, George Jones, Barbara Mandrell, John Anderson and Wayne Newton, among others. He published a book in 1996 about his music career called Songs that Changed Our Lives, in which he shares stories about his songs.

The Georgia native helped establish an annual concert series in Gainesville originally known as the “Bruce Burch & Friends Honor John Jarrard Concert.” The benefit shows have raised money for local nonprofits over the past 20 years through the John Jarrard Foundation, including for Good News Clinics, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hall County and the Georgia Mountain Food Bank. Burch grew up with Jarrard, a fellow songwriter and Georgia Music Hall of Famer, who died of complications related to diabetes in 2001.

In 2012, Burch started teaching entertainment business classes at Brenau University after he helped start music business programs at the University of Georgia and Kennesaw State University. He also operated his own publishing companies, worked for EMI Publishing, and worked as an artist manager.

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Jean Potvin, a former defenseman in the NHL, passed away AT 72. Potvin played in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, Cleveland Barons, and Minnesota North Stars between 1970 and 1981. His brother is Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Denis Potvin. Both were cousins of NHLer Marc Potvin. During his 11-year career, Potvin scored 63 goals and had 224 assists in 613 career NHL games. In the 1975–76 season, he was the second highest-scoring defenseman in the NHL with 72 points (17 goals and 55 assists. The only other defenseman to have more points that season was his brother Denis, with 98 points (31 goals and 67 assists).

On January 22, 1976, in a game against the Detroit Red Wings at Nassau Coliseum, Potvin scored three goals (two on the power play) and also added an assist while his brother Denis had two goals and two assists of his own. Jean's final two goals came 45 seconds apart as he became the only defenseman in Islander history to score three goals in a period at the Coliseum. It was also the first time since 1947 that the brothers had combined for at least five goals in an NHL game, and the first time in NHL history that it had been done by two defensemen. Potvin's hat trick is the only one by an Islanders defenseman not had by Denis

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Rugby league Wigan's David Stephenson . I live in England and a big Rugby league fan support Widnes (Originally from) now live in Salford . Both Rugby places . Well done Jim , I didn't even know he had died .

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Ralph Terry, the former MLB pitcher, passed away at the age of 86.

He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1956 to 1967, most notably as a member of the New York Yankees where he led the American League with 23 victories in 1962 and, was selected as the MVP of the 1962 World Series. He was also notable for surrendering a walk-off home run to Bill Mazeroski that won the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Terry also played for the Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians and the New York Mets.