Six people did, including me.
Yeah, Jade was quite the low-hanging fruit this year…
I’m not a participant, but I thought I’d pass this along:
Alex Macomber died January 28.
82 points to two people.
Discussion of the future validity of this pick over here.
George Weber, NYC local radio news anchor ,found stabbed to death in his apartment. Today would have been his 48th Birthday.
Wow - Only six? She was the number one hit on Google last December for “Celebrity Cancer”.
I found this a little shocking. I can hear that voice in my head right now.
Maybe because she was largely unknown in America (I’m English).
Howard “Butch” Komives, who starred for Bowling Green’s basketball team in the early 1960’s and went on to a ten-season NBA career, has died at the age of 67. During the 1963-64 NCAA campaign, Komives led the nation by averaging 36.7 points per game.
Way to pop that cherry huh! 
>does happy dance< (at cherry pop of course…)
George Kell, Hall of Fame third baseman for multiple teams died yesterday at age 86.
He was also a broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers.
All the kids I knew growing up in Michigan in the 1960s did a George Kell imitation. “Thanks, Larry, and good afternoon, everyone”. Great great broadcaster, we’ll miss him.
John Hope Franklin, whose 1947 book From Slavery to Freedom is considered by many to be the most significant text on the black experience in U.S. history, has died at the age of 94. Franklin, who served as a history professor at several institutions, also contributed research to the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall-led team that won the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision in the United States Supreme Court. The case heralded the end of the “separate but equal” doctrine which had long allowed the segregation of schools not only in Topeka (the Kansas capital which was home to both the named plaintiff and defendant) but in much of the country.
In the “not dead yet” category, one of my picks, Lt. John Finn was well enough yesterday to take part in a wreath laying ceremony with several other Medal of Honor recipients, and President Barack Obama. At 99 years of age, Lt. Finn is the oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, and the only surviving recipient from the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Country Singer Dan Seals dies at 61 following treatments for lymphoma.
Also known as England Dan (England Dan and John Ford Coley).
1970s pop hits: “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”, “Love Is The Answer”, “Nights Are Forever Without You”, and “We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again”.
Country hits: “Bop”, “Meet Me In Montana”, “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)”, “You Still Move Me”, “I Will Be There”, “Three Time Loser”, “One Friend”, “Addicted”, “Big Wheels in the Moonlight”, “Love on Arrival”, and a cover of Sam Cooke’s “Good Times”.
We lost a good one. RIP, Dan.
NBC journalist Irving R. Levine has died at the age of 86. No link yet.
Shane McConkey dies in a BASE jumping accident at 39.