Mr. Sakamoto was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. He died March 28 at age 71.
hotkarl, traina, Maphistos_Sidekick and ArthurItas all get hits.
Mr. Ferencz was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of the 12 Subsequent Nuremberg trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. Later he became an advocate of international rule of law and for the establishment of an International Criminal Court. From 1985 to 1996, he was an adjunct professor of international law at Pace University. He died April 7 at age 103.
Mr. Belafonte was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, breaking color barriers along the way. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. He was also an activist in the civil rights movement and worked for many humanitarian causes. His last day-o on this earth was yesterday, as he died at age 93
soyleche and twig93 both get their first hits.
Standings:
contestant
Normal Deaths
Tragic Deaths
Unique Deaths
Total Points
ArthurItas
4
0
2
37
PatientZombie
2
0
0
24
hotkarl
1
1
1
24
traina
2
0
0
16
Macroman
1
0
0
13
twig93
1
0
0
11
frummie
1
0
0
9
Maphistos_Sidekick
2
0
0
8
soyleche
1
0
0
2
Keep watching those obits! (why isn’t there a devil icon? They have imps and a Japanese ogre and goblin. Not the same)
Ms. Bryant falsely accused 14 year old African American Emmitt Till, visiting Mississippi from Chicago, of speaking to her inappropriately for the Jim Crow-era south while in her family’s grocery store. He was abducted from his parents’ house by two of her relatives, lynched and murdered. His body, tossed into a river, was found a few days later and returned to Chicago. The relatives were acquitted of murder charges. His open casket funeral, to show the world how badly African Americans were treated, was attended by thousands and made him an icon of the civil rights movement. She died yesterday at age 88.
Mr. Harris was an Australian musician, television personality, painter and actor. He often used unusual instruments like the didgeridoo and the stylophone in his performances, and is credited with the invention of the wobble board. He was convicted in England in 2014 of the sexual assault of four underage girls, which effectively ended his career. He died May 10 at the age of 93.
ArthurItas stays in the lead with a pool leading 6th hit, and hotkarl moves into second place.
Mr. Keller was an American Calvinist pastor and theologian. He was the chairman and co-founder of Redeemer City to City, which trains pastors for service around the world. He was also the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the author of The New York Times bestselling books The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith (2008), Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (2014), and The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (2008). The prequel for the latter is Making Sense of GOD: An Invitation to the Skeptical (2016). He died May 19 at age 72.
ArthurItas and Hotkarl strike again, Hotkarl closing the gap slightly between first and second place.
(why isn’t there a devil icon? They have imps and a Japanese ogre and goblin. Not the same)