The Short List – Oct ’22

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Each month, we list the unselected dead celebs we either didn’t have time to report on… or who were just too boring to malign. So in case you were wondering “whatever happened to,” this monthly post may give you some unexpected closure.

October 1, 2022
  • Antonio Inoki – Aged 79 years. 12X pro wrestling world champion and Japanese politician.
October 2, 2022
  • Sacheen Littlefeather – Aged 75 years. Native American civil rights activist who gave Brando’s Oscar “acceptance speech.”
October 3, 2022
October 4, 2022
  • Dave Dryden – Aged 81 years. Ice hockey goaltender who created and first used the modern goaltending mask.
  • Jerry Vainisi – Aged 80 years. GM & VP of the Chicago Bears when they won SB XX
October 5, 2022
  • Sara Lee – Aged 30 years. Pro wrestling chick.
October 6, 2022
  • Judy Tenuta – Aged 72 years. Accordion-playing, grammy-winning comedian known as “The Love Goddess.”
  • Jody Miller – Aged 80 years. Grammy-winning country music singer who had a hit with “Queen of the House.”
October 7, 2022
  • Austin Stoker – Aged 92 years. Trinidadian-American actor who regularly played a cop in shi++y action movies.
  • Ann Flood – Aged 89 years. Soap actress from the “golden age of television”… whatever that is.
October 8, 2022
  • Peter Tobin – Aged 76 years. Scottish serial killer.
  • Charlie Brown – Aged 80 years. Syndicated “beach music” DJ.
October 9, 2022
  • Eileen Ryan – Aged 94 years. Actress and mother of Chris & Sean Penn.
  • Dick Ellsworth – Aged 82 years. All-star pitcher for the Cubs.
  • Anita Kerr – Aged 94 years. Multiple Grammy-winning Nashville vocalist.
October 10, 2022
  • Michael Callan – Aged 86 years. Golden Globe-winning actor seen in “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” and other steaming heaps of feces.
October 11, 2022
  • Charles Sherrod – Aged 85 years. American minister and civil rights activist.
October 12, 2022
  • Lucious Jackson – Aged 80 years. NBA All-star Center for the 76’ers and the US Olympic team.
October 13, 2022
  • Bruce Sutter – Aged 69 years. 6X All-star and MLB HOF pitcher.
  • James McDivitt – Aged 93 years. Astronaut and NASA legacy pilot.
October 14, 2022
  • Ted White – Aged 96 years. Stuntman and actor who donned the hockey mask in the 4th “Friday the 13th” installment.
  • Jose Luis Rivera – Aged 62 years. Puerto Rican WWF wrestler, half of tag teams “The Shadows” and “The Conquistadores.”
  • Jan Rabson – Aged 68 years. Actor & voice talent, voice of Leisure Suit Larry and several Pixar flick characters.
October 15, 2022
  • Joyce Sims – Aged 63 years. R&B singer who had a top 10 hit with “Come Into My Life.”
October 16, 2022
October 17, 2022
October 18, 2022
  • Harvey L. Wollman – Aged 87 years. Former Governor of South Dakota.
  • Robert Gordon – Aged 75 years. Actor and rockabilly singer.
  • Charles Duncan Jr. – Aged 96 years. Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of Energy and former president of Coca-Cola.
October 19, 2022
  • Charley Trippi – Aged 100 years. Versatile RB for the Chicago Cardinals.
  • Dave Herman – Aged 81 years. Starting right guard for The Jets’ Super Bowl III winning team.
  • John Jay Osborn Jr. – Aged 77 years. Bestselling author of “The Paper Chase.”
  • Joanna Simon – Aged 85 years. Member of vocal group The Simon Sisters with siblings Carly & Lucy.
October 20, 2022
  • Lucy Simon – Aged 82 years. Carly’s other bandmate and Grammy-winning sister.
  • Ron Masak – Aged 86 years. TV actor who played the town sheriff in “Murder, She Wrote.”
  • Bettye Crutcher – Aged 83 years. Singer/songwriter whose songs get covered by far bigger names.
October 21, 2022
  • Rainer Schaller – Aged 53 years. German entrepreneur, owner of Gold’s Gym.
October 22, 2022
  • Dietrich Mateschitz – Aged 78 years. Austrian billionaire businessman, co-founder of Red Bull.
October 23, 2022
  • Walt Corey – Aged 84 years. AFL All-star linebacker and coach.
  • Don Edwards – Aged 86 years. American cowboy singer, guitarist who performs Western music.
  • Michael Kopsa – Aged 66 years. Canadian actor who voiced and appeared in several sci-fi films & TV shows
October 24, 2022
  • Ash Carter – Aged 68 years. Obama’s US Secretary of Defense.
  • Leslie Jordan – Aged 67 years. Emmy-winning TV actor seen in “Will & Grace.”
  • Ben Feigin – Aged 47 years. Emmy-winning producer of “Schitt’s Creek.”
October 25, 2022
  • Jules Bass – Aged 87 years. One half of Rankin/Bass Productions… who created the “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” holiday TV classics.
October 26, 2022
  • Julie Powell – Aged 49 years. Author who’s cooking book was adapted for the 2009 film “Julie & Julia”.
  • Agustín Ramírez – Aged 70 years. Mexican singer-songwriter, co-founder and frontman of Los Caminantes.
October 27, 2022
  • Geraldine Hunt – Aged 77 years. R&B singer who had a #1 dance hit in 1980 with “Can’t Fake the Feeling.”
October 28, 2022
  • D.H. Peligro – Aged 63 years. Punk drummer for The Dead Kennedys and – briefly – The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
  • Vince Dooley – Aged 90 years. Head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs for almost 25 years.
October 29, 2022
  • Robin Sylvester – Aged 72 years. Bass player for Grateful Dead side project Rat Dog
October 30, 2022
  • Mike Fanning – Aged 69 years. First-team All-American for the ’74 Irish and starting Defensive Tackle for the Rams’ Super Bowl XIV team.
October 31, 2022

 

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