R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers or Sports related) 2023

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Broadway Musical Coordinator Howard Joines Has Passed Away at 94

Joines' credits as a Broadway Musical Coordinator include: Beetlejuice, Company, A Christmas Carol, The Prom, Mean Girls, Bandstand, Groundhog Day, Cirque du Soleil Paramour, Allegiance, Finding Neverland, Side Show, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Matilda The Musical, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, Scandalous, Chaplin, Ghost The Musical, Promises, Promises, Bye Bye Birdie, Grease, The Times They Are A-Changin', Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and many more.

Joines also worked on A Night with Janis Joplin as a Music Contractor, Billy Elliot: The Musical as Assistant Conductor and musician, Flower Drum Song as a musician, and more.

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Sam Zell, billionaire real estate mogul, dies at 81

Zell was an active philanthropist with a focus on entrepreneurial education

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The first woman to appear on television in Melbourne dies at age 92

Mary Parker, a pioneer of Australian television, has died at the age of 92.

Parker was the first woman to appear on TV in Melbourne in 1956 when she started her ground-breaking role as an anchor for Channel HSV-7, Melbourne's first TV station.

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The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke dies at 59

'Andy's left the building, but his musical legacy is perpetual'

Sad news for fans of legendary Manchester band The Smiths, as founding member, bassist Andy Rourke, has passed at the age of 59 after battling pancreatic cancer.

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RIP

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Jim Brown, Football Great and Civil Rights Champion, Dies at 87
After a Hall of Fame career in the N.F.L., he pursued social activism and a Hollywood career, but his image was stained by accusations of abuse toward women.

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Martin Amis dead at 73: Renowned British author of bleakly comic novels including Money and London Fields loses battle with oesophageal cancer

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Bassist John Giblin died at age 71.

The Scottish bassist started working with Kate Bush in 1980 and continued with her until the end of Bush's Before the Dawn London residency in 2014. During that time he appeared on six of her albums, after previously recording and touring with Peter Gabriel.



As a session musician, he earned credits with Paul McCartney, Elton John, Phil Collins and Eric Clapton, among many others, amassing more than 450 recording appearances. He was a member of Simple Minds in the ’80s and he had recently been working with the British Afro-rock band Osibisa, which announced his death at home in Cheltenham, England, after a long illness.

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Ray Stevenson, ‘Punisher: War Zone’ and ‘Rome’ Star, Dies at 58

Ray Stevenson, a towering and imposing character actor best known for starring roles in “Punisher: War Zone” and the “Rome” television show, has died at the age of 58. While his passing has been confirmed by his publicists, the cause of death is currently undisclosed.

George Raymond Stevenson was born in Lisburn on May 25, 1964. He was the second of three sons, and his father was a Royal Air Force pilot. He moved to England at the age of eight and eventually attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He graduated at the age of 29. Stevenson had been a regular fixture at the movies and on television since the early 1990s.

His breakout movie role came in 1998’s “The Theory of Flight,” playing a gigolo tasked with helping Helena Bonham Carter’s character lose her virginity. His most notable big screen roles include the title role in Lexi Alexander’s R-rated cult favorite “Punisher: War Zone,” Volstagg in Marvel’s “Thor” movies and real-life Irish-American mob figure Danny Greene in “Kill the Irishman.” He had most recently made his Indian cinematic debut playing the imperialist bad guy in S.S. Rajamouli’s Tollywood smash ‘RRR.’ His final completed film was “Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday,” co-starring Scott Adkins.

He co-starred as Titus Pullo in all 22 episodes of HBO and BBC’s “Rome.” His television resume is peppered with guest-starring roles and reoccurring appearances in the likes of “Dexter,” “The Walking Dead,” “Black Sails,’ various “Star Wars” animated shows and “Vikings.” He will next be seen in this summer’s Disney+ “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka.”

He had recently signed up to replace Kevin Spacey in the Genghis Khan action drama “1242: Gateway to the West,” where he would have played a Hungarian Priest standing up against the Mongol army.

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