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A bit late to post from earlier this month:

Iconic and pioneering Canadian director Donald Shebib passed away on November 5 at the age of 85. (CBC, Wikipedia)

Cree hockey player, coach and champion for indigenous players Charly Washipabano passed away on November 12 at the age of 41 and was honoured at a Montreal Canadiens match at the Bell Cente. (CBC)

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Alistair Darling, was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2015, representing Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh South West is dead today at 70 years old due to cancer at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh just two days after turning 70 according to Wikipedia. 

Dean Sullivan, English actor best known for playing Jimmy Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside between 1986 and 2003 is dead yesterday at 69 years old according to Wikipedia. In August 2023, Sullivan announced that he had been privately battling prostate cancer since 2018.

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Sophie Anderson, English pornographic actress, internet personality, and recording artist is dead yesterday at 36 years old according to Wikipedia. 

Dinesh Phadnis, Indian television actor. He was better known for playing the character of Frederick in one of the longest running TV shows, C.I.D is dead today at 57 years old due to suffering from liver damage according to Wikipedia. 

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Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer, dub poet, actor and professor of poetry and creative writing. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Described as "the people's laureate" by the Birmingham Mail, Zephaniah drew on his lived experiences of incarceration, racism and his Jamaican heritage to encourage a wide range of audiences to engage with his creative works is dead yesterday at 65 years old due to diagnosed with a brain tumour eight weeks previously according to Wikipedia.

His friend of nearly twenty years, Joan Armatrading, gave a tribute to him on Newsnight on BBC Two after hearing the news of his death. Writing on Twitter, she said, "I am in shock. Benjamin Zephaniah has died age 65. What a thoughtful, kind and caring man he was. The world has lost a poet, an intellectual and a cultural revolutionary. I have lost a great friend."

 

The BBC later re-broadcast Zephaniah's documentary A Picture of Birmingham, by Benjamin Zephaniah, in which he revisited his birthplace and his former approved school. Fiona Bruce, the presenter of BBC's Question Time, on which Zephaniah was a regular panellist, paid tribute to him saying: "He was an all round, just tremendous bloke" for whom she had "huge affection and respect."

 

Dr Martin Glynn of Birmingham City University, said Zephaniah was: "never an establishment person", but "got into spaces" where he felt he could be heard. Glynn said, "He was the James Brown of dub poetry, the godfather... Linton Kwesi Johnson spoke to the political classes, but Benjamin was a humanist, he made poetry popular and loved music. He had his own studio... He did what John Cooper Clarke did with poetry and that was bringing it into the mainstream."

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Found 3 death links from Yahoo website:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anna-chickadee-cardwell-daughter-comes-195017551.html

Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell, Daughter of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s Mama June, Dead at 29

https://sports.yahoo.com/frank-wycheck-former-titans-tight-end-and-music-city-miracle-star-dies-at-52-180641022.html

Frank Wycheck, former Titans tight end and 'Music City Miracle' star, dies at 52

https://tvline.com/news/ellen-holly-obituary-one-life-to-live-daytime-tv-first-black-actress-dead-1235096114/

OLTL Vet Ellen Holly, Daytime-TV’s First Black Leading Actor, Dead at 92

 

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Jayson Hoover, Canadian soul and R&B artist died in Vancouver on November 5 at 78 years (CBC, Discography)

Charles Officer, Canadian film and television director, writer and actor died in Toronto on December 1 at 48 years. (CBC, Wikipedia

Daniel Langlois, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist and his partner Dominique Marchand were found murdered in Dominica on December 1.  (CBC, GuardianWikipedia)

John McBeth, New Zealander journalist and author who was the longest serving Asian foreign correspondent covering the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge has died in Jakarta on December 6 at 79 years. (Bangkok Post, Wikipedia)

Gao Yaojie, self-exiled Chinese doctor who exposed the AIDS epidemic in China died in New York City on December 10 at 95 years. (BBC, New York Times)

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Zahara, South African musician is dead yesterday at a hospital in Johannesburg, at 36 years old (recently turned 36 last month in November). She had been admitted to the hospital in mid-November 2023 with liver complications which worsened until she became unresponsive according to Wikipedia. 

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Kathy Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer who was widely known for her leading roles in Hong Kong TVB series during the late 1980s to 1990s such as The Breaking Point and Time Before Time. Her popularity peaked in Asia following her portrayal of Zhou Zhiruo in the 1994 Taiwanese adaptation of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. She was an ethnic Manchu, being descended from the Gūwalgiya clan of the Bordered White Banner is dead yesterday at 57 years old due to illness according to Wikipedia. 

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22 hours ago, Chris W said:

Andre Braugher, who played Detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street and Captain Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine has passed away, aged 61.

https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-homicide-life-on-the-street-brooklyn-nine-nine-actor-1235665513/

Well mudda sik bey. He's gone. R.I.P. (1962-2023) Gone but not Forgotten and I found the autopsy on Wikipedia that he had brief illness. 

Here's the tribute on YouTube Guys:

 

 

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