Celebrity Deaths

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I don't think I've ever gone through deep analysis during any kind of violence about who is trying to hit me. You need to do enough to protect yourself which may require hitting the person. I mean if it's your little brother, you hold your hand on his forehead while his two short arms swing unable to hit you. I used to just deflect blows from my older bigger sister.
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I took karate classes in 1969 for a while. They made a big deal about downplaying everything. Movies with karate in them were huge and they were trying to tell us that it's all fake. That a woman no matter how good her skills are in karate is never going to beat a man 50 lb heavier than her who has any fighting skills whatsoever. She just can't do it because of the weight difference. We were told if we were confronted with a situation that might lead to violence try everything you possibly can to get out of it, talking, joking, trying to cool things down, even running away if you could. Because you never know who you're fighting you never know how good they are. By the third week half the students who signed up were gone.

I had an extremely tough cab driver who worked for me who'd been fighting on the streets for years and even he gets beat. He says it's always a person that you would never suspect, some skinny guy who looks like he knows nothing and he just kicks your ass all the way down the block.

Musician Rick Derringer, 77. He was also a notable and successful music producer.

Mr. Derringer had quite a varied career. He was seventeen when he had a hit with Hang On Sloopy in 1965, joined Johnny and Edgar Winters in various projects, recorded Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo in the mid-70s, and wrote Hulk Hogans' theme music in the 1980s, as well as producing multiple hit albums
One of my first albums was Roadwork. White Trash featured Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, and Johnny Winter live at the Apollo from Harlem, recorded in 1972(?).

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You should never punch anyone in the face. Your opponent's facial bones are stronger than the bones in your fist. It's a case of this will hurt me more than it does you.
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The jawbone gives nicely when impacted.

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Mr. Derringer had quite a varied career. He was seventeen when he had a hit with Hang On Sloopy in 1965, joined Johnny and Edgar Winters in various projects, recorded Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo in the mid-70s, and wrote Hulk Hogans' theme music in the 1980s, as well as producing multiple hit albums
One of my first albums was Roadwork. White Trash featured Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, and Johnny Winter live at the Apollo from Harlem, recorded in 1972(?).
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Saw him in 2010 with Ringo and the All-Star Band. He took a swig from his water bottle and went down the wrong pipe, had a coughing fit the next song and had to leasve the stage b/c he almost passed out. Ringo and the rest noticed and made light of it, and so did he. Was an unexpected development.

White Trash played a club on Long Island that was advertised as an all-ages event. I convinced my older sister and her boyfriend to drive us, promising they wouldn't see us the whole concert. When we get there, it turns out anyone under 16 must have a parent with them, and no arguing will change that. I tell my sister we'll hang out in the parking lot for the next few hours. They go in, but my sister comes out almost immediately as she doesn't want us outside alone. About an hour later, her boyfriend comes out, and it's obvious this caused a lot of tension between them. He was gone by summer's end. Had my Dad found out he left us outside to go see the concert, he'd have been gone a lot sooner.

Rick Derringer is well-known to fans of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Among other ties, he played the guitar solo in "Eat It."

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What Are The Chances Of...George Wendt Dying On Date Of Last Cheers Airing?

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Would someone smarter than I please rate this video on a scale of hogwash to spot on?
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Hogwash. The chances any random person dies on any May 20 are very close to 1 in 365.25.

Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,

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Would someone smarter than I please rate this video on a scale of hogwash to spot on?
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Hogwash. The chances any random person dies on any May 20 are very close to 1 in 365.25.
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Doesn't he say that in the video?

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Would someone smarter than I please rate this video on a scale of hogwash to spot on?
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Hogwash. The chances any random person dies on any May 20 are very close to 1 in 365.25.
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Hogwash for sure, but there is a huge seasonal component to deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6826a5.htm

In Australia the graph looks inverted, but with an even larger percentage swing:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release#australian-deaths-by-week

What the heck? That's a lot. If we can solve the math of this game, we will have hacked death and it looks like it might have an effect on the human lifespan comparable to that of the discovery of antibiotics.

I looked at the multi-year data and it seems like the starting and stopping weeks of this effect are very repeatable year after year. Seasonal weather patterns aren't that repeatable year after year but seasonal light levels are. So I'll go with light- our higher death rates in the winter are correlated to lower levels of daylight. There should be enough data on this from around the globe that someone can develop an even more precise hypothesis.

The next test I would do is: correlated to daylight levels on what? On the person who may or may not be dying, on other people, or on the environment in general? If we do get rid of Daylight Savings Time in the US that will give us valuable information as it will slightly change the amount of daylight people are exposed to. If that corresponds to an amplitude or phase change in seasonal death rate it will suggest it's about the daylight people are getting, being inside or outside depending on the time of day. If there's no change at all, more likely it's caused by the amount of daylight on everything else in the environment.

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Would someone smarter than I please rate this video on a scale of hogwash to spot on?
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Hogwash. The chances any random person dies on any May 20 are very close to 1 in 365.25.
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Hogwash for sure, but there is a huge seasonal component to deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6826a5.htm

In Australia the graph looks inverted, but with an even larger percentage swing:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release#australian-deaths-by-week

What the heck? That's a lot. If we can solve the math of this game, we will have hacked death and it looks like it might have an effect on the human lifespan comparable to that of the discovery of antibiotics.

I looked at the multi-year data and it seems like the starting and stopping weeks of this effect are very repeatable year after year. Seasonal weather patterns aren't that repeatable year after year but seasonal light levels are. So I'll go with light- our higher death rates in the winter are correlated to lower levels of daylight. There should be enough data on this from around the globe that someone can develop an even more precise hypothesis.

The next test I would do is: correlated to daylight levels on what? On the person who may or may not be dying, on other people, or on the environment in general? If we do get rid of Daylight Savings Time in the US that will give us valuable information as it will slightly change the amount of daylight people are exposed to. If that corresponds to an amplitude or phase change in seasonal death rate it will suggest it's about the daylight people are getting, being inside or outside depending on the time of day. If there's no change at all, more likely it's caused by the amount of daylight on everything else in the environment.
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So the highest number of deaths are around the winter solstice in the lowest number of deaths are around the summer solstice. The darkest and lightest days of the year. I know when I was growing up in the 1950s I heard that old people feared winter because that's when old people died traditionally. Moving to Florida doesn't help it's just as dark down there in the winter as anywhere else.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨

Play bookie.



I want to bet Robert Plant dies on the same date as Ringo Starr
I want to bet Robert Plant dies on the same date as John Lennon died.


Offer me fair odds. All bets are off if deaths occur on Feb.29th. Date means day and month. Hypothetical offers only.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨
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John Tyler was born in 1790. That is not a typo.

He was born in 1790, and his grandson died in 2025. I can't imagine too many people can claim anything similar.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨
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John Tyler was born in 1790. That is not a typo.

He was born in 1790, and his grandson died in 2025. I can't imagine too many people can claim anything similar.
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Harrison is the one who died on May 25, 2025 at 96. For some odd reason, Harrison's death news was widely reported today four days later.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨
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John Tyler was born in 1790. That is not a typo.

He was born in 1790, and his grandson died in 2025. I can't imagine too many people can claim anything similar.
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Harrison is the one who died on May 25, 2025 at 96. For some odd reason, Harrison's death news was widely reported today four days later.
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Harrison's death isn't the story. There are millions of 96 year olds. The fact that his grandfather was born in 1790 and was a former President is what made it a story. As people realized who his grandfather was and when he was born the story spread. It's not about him being 96, nor him being the grandson of a President. Abe Lincoln was too young to vote when Tyler was President.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨
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Sounds horrible. The way I feel at 59 makes me dread the thought of making it to 69.

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Grandson of 10th US President, John Tyler dies at 96,
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96 is a VERY long life. Almost a Century of living. 😀 But in VERY odd fashion, Harrison's death was JUST released widely TODAY when he actually died four days ago on Sunday, not today. 🤨
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Sounds horrible. The way I feel at 59 makes me dread the thought of making it to 69.
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TV Tropes has Subsections called something like,"Immortality as a curse," and Who Wants To Live Forever?" Both Subsections point out that living forever is actually a BAD thing, not a GOOD thing. TV Tropes point out that living forever means that you will have to live with the fact that you will witness a LOT of your loved ones deaths and have to experience outliving your entire bloodline FOREVER, including all of your Children. The Age Of Adeline touched on this with Adeline being 29 for DECADES, while her DAUGHTER in 2015 is VERY elderly, around 83 and looks like her GRANDMOTHER rather than her DAUGHTER, YIKES! 😱😳

if Harrison died in 2025 at 96, then he was born in 1929.

If John Tyler was born in 1790 and is Harrison's grandfather then he and his son (Harrison's father) both had children at the average age of 69.5. They must have both have had trophy wives. Who were really adept at foreplay.

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if Harrison died in 2025 at 96, then he was born in 1929.

If John Tyler was born in 1790 and is Harrison's grandfather then he and his son (Harrison's father) both had children at the average age of 69.5. They must have both have had trophy wives. Who were really adept at foreplay.
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John Taylor's last surviving daughter died 157 years after her father's birth. She was born in 1860, seventy years after his birth.

Tyler turned his back on the Federal government and is the only President not to have received State Honors upon his death. He acquired a fortune through politics and was one of the richest men in the South when he died.

While Tyler was President, there was a horrible accident involving a new US Navy ship on which he was.
He was below deck and not hurt, but in the aftermath, he gave comfort to a young woman who lost several family members. He married her a few weeks later.
He didn't live an exceptionally long life( 1790-1862) but fathered children at an advanced age.

I'd hope my immortality extended to my children, but if not, I suppose I'd learn to treat them like my dogs. I know they will die relatively soon, but that doesn't stop me from loving them.

Loretta Swit

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Loretta Swit
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Hot Lips Houlihan.

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if Harrison died in 2025 at 96, then he was born in 1929.

If John Tyler was born in 1790 and is Harrison's grandfather then he and his son (Harrison's father) both had children at the average age of 69.5. They must have both have had trophy wives. Who were really adept at foreplay.
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One of my great grandfathers was born in 1868 in Sicily. He emigrated to the US in 1885. His youngest child, one of my grandfathers, was born in 1910 in Boston. His daughter, my mother, was born in 1942 and died in 2023. She was the last of her generation to die. So those three generations spanned 155 years, with 138 of those in the US. John Tyler's line, from his birth to his grandson's death, was almost 100 years longer. Weird.