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Maila Nurmi, who was better known as Vampira, one of the original TV horror movie hostesses, has died.

Here's the obit from msnbc.com.
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Cincinnati Reds pitcher and announcer Joe Nuxhall passed away last night. He was 79.

Here's the obit from Fox Sports.
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Scooping [livejournal.com profile] filkertom yet again....

"B.C." cartoonist Johnny Hart passed away at his home on Saturday. He was 76.

Here's the obit from MSN.
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Here's the obit from MSN.

Those of you who used to watch David Letterman on NBC probably remember him.
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I can't believe I'm scooping [livejournal.com profile] filkertom on these obits.

[livejournal.com profile] mooneflowerz told me that Yvonne DeCarlo, best known to us as Lily Munster, passed away on Monday. She was 84.

Here's the obit from CNN.
Here's the obit from Yahoo! News.
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Iwao Takamoto, who was one of the lead animators at Hanna-Barbera in its heyday (1960-75), has passed away at 81. Many of you are probably familiar with some of his creations: Scooby-Doo, Astro, Muttley.

Here's an obit from one of my local TV stations.
And here's the obit from cnn.com.


[Updated 14:42 EST] Things I didn't know about him:
* Like many (if not all) Japanese-Americans, he spent time at an internment camp.
* He used to work for Disney, and studied under the "Nine Old Men".

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