Dick Kniss
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Dick Kniss was a self-taught musician who for more than 40 years played stand-up bass behind Peter, Paul and Mary, becoming a veritable fourth member of the folk-singing trio.
Kniss died on January 25, 2011 in Kingston, N.Y. He was 74.
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Thundersteel
Born on June 7, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York.
Mark Reale was an American heavy metal guitarist best known for being the only constant original member in the band Riot.
On January 25, 2012, Reale died of complications related to Crohn’s disease. He was 56.
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The Final Countdown [Blu-ray]
Born on February 24, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York.
James Farentino was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 100 television, film and stage roles, among them The Final Countdown, Jesus of Nazareth, and Dynasty.
On January 24, 2012, Farentino died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California following a long illness.
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The Reluctant Stowaway
Born on December 11, 1926 in Los Angeles, California.
Dick Tufeld was an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the 1950s onward. Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film. He also provided the narration voiceover for many other Irwin Allen productions, such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, and did voice work for the 1978 animated television series Fantastic Four.
Tufeld died on January 22, 2012 (aged 85) in Los Angeles, California from congestive heart failure.
Joe Paterno
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Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno
Born on December 21, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York.
Joe Paterno was an American college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for nearly 46 years, from 1966 through 2011. Paterno, nicknamed “JoePa“, holds the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football coach with 409 and is the only FBS coach to reach 400 victories. He coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games and, in 2007, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach.
Paterno died on January 22, 2012 (aged 85) in State College, Pennsylvania due to cancer.
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Beatles Medley
Born on January 20, 2012 in Pensacola, Florida.
Larry Butler was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include Kenny Rogers (1976), The Gambler (1978), Gideon (1980) and I Prefer The Moonlight (1987). Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers’ 1993 album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD The Journey. Butler is the only Nashville producer to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the year.
Butler died in his sleep in Pensacola, Florida on January 20, 2012.
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The Dreamer
Born on January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, U.S.
Etta James was an American singer whose style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as “Dance With Me, Henry”, “At Last”, “Tell Mama”, and “I’d Rather Go Blind” for which she claimed she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.
Etta James died on January 20, 2012 (aged 73) in Riverside, California, U.S.
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Born in 1928.
Beverly McDermott was an American casting director whose career spanned more than forty years. Her 250 film and television credits included Lenny, Cocoon, Scarface, Cocoon: The Return, and Airport 77. Working from Florida (rather than California), she became one of the state’s highest profile casting directors. McDermott was the first Floridian casting director to join the Casting Society of America.
McDermott died on January 19, 2012, at the age of 83 in Hollywood, Florida.
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Born on September 3, 198 in Barrie, Ontario.
Sarah Burke as a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a four-time Winter X Games gold medalist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah.
Sarah Burke died on January 19, 2012 (aged 29) in Salt Lake City, Utah. She got injured while training.
Jenny Tomasin
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Upstairs, Downstairs: The Complete Series – 40th Anniversary Collection
Born on November 30, 1936 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Jenny Tomasin was an English actress best known for her roles in Upstairs, Downstairs and Emmerdale.
Tomasin died on January 19, 2012 at the age of 75.
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