Edwin Hawkins, Known for the Hit ‘Oh Happy Day,’ Is Dead at 74.
Spanky Manikan Dead at 75/25 points
In a 3-way tie for the lead with CAMJAY77 and Registered at Last!
A short-lived state of affairs, I’m sure, but while it lasts, all hail the Triumvirate! 
(OK, now we’ve had our third lead change this year. :))
My short reign has come to an end. I was tough but I like to think I was fair.
“A fair for all, and no fair to anybody.” - Firesign Theatre
while the end may be inevitable, Jessica Falkholt isn’t dead yet
But Spanky Manikan is, per CAMJAY77.
I love that Gospel song! So uplifting. R.I.P., Edwin Hawkins.
Oh it’s a happy day.
Jo Jo White, Celtics great and NBA Hall of Famer, dies at 71.
Wow, didn’t know he was in Hall Of Fame. Remember watching him play and knew he was good. Never thought he was great.
Significant movement on day 17:
Spanky Manikan: 25 points for RTFirefly, CAMJAY77 Registered at Last
Jessica Falkholt: 71 points for Team Dirt, basset hound, GIGObuster
Rank Player Score Picks(Unique)
1 basset hound 71 1
1 GIGObuster 71 1
1 Team Dirt 71 1
4 CAMJAY77 25 1
4 Registered@Last 25 1
4 RTFirefly 25 1
7 Loach 20 1(1)
8 ataraxy22 14 1(1)
9 The Vorlon 13 1(1)
10 Rico 10 1(1)
That moment of sharing the lead was even more brief than I anticipated!
Congrats to the Second Triumvirate on the occasion of our fourth lead change of the year!
Washington State QB Tyler Hilinskiis a suicide victim at 21.
Jessica Falkholt - was she a celebrity, or was she only famous due to the accident that caused her fatal injuries?
The Wikipedia article has been marked for deletion and is presently being debated. The point has been made that there are almost no articles in the media that mention her prior to the accident. She appeared in 16 episodes of a soap opera and had an upcoming movie, but that hasn’t been released yet. She doesn’t appear to have notability that predates the crash.
I had never heard of her prior to the accident that killed her family, but I’m fairly isolated from what’s happening in the world of Australian soap operas and probably couldn’t identify the current stars of that show either, so I hadn’t weighed in before. Just from a brief search I can see no indications that she was a celebrity prior to being involved in that car accident. It grabbed the headlines because it was a case of an entire family being wiped out the day after Christmas by a known drug user with a history of driving disqualifications and, oh look, the daughter’s connected with a TV show.
Thoughts?
He made the final of the NBA’s “One-on-One” tournament (games aired at halftime of real game broadcasts) in 1972. Lost to Bob Lanier of the size 22s.
She was an actress, with a following in Australia
She was an actor who appeared in 16 episodes of a soap opera that has more than 6,800 episodes to date. She didn’t have a Wikipedia article prior to her death. Wikipedians are currently debating if she fulfilled the criteria for notability or if the article should be deleted.
Is an actor automatically a celebrity if they appear on TV? Would appearing in 16 episodes of, say, The Bold and The Beautiful qualify someone to be called a celebrity? As far as I can tell, Jessica Falkholt was not well known here in Australia until the car accident that caused her death.
Doug Harvey, who served as a National League umpire from 1962 to '92 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010, has died at the age of 87. Harvey’s major league debut was the first regular-season game at Dodger Stadium, and he was behind the plate when LA’s Kirk Gibson hit a walk-off homer in the first game of the 1988 World Series.
I would say she counts.