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    Those We Lost in 2020

    Major DanBy Major DanDecember 28, 2020Updated:January 2, 2021No Comments5 Mins Read
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    Clayton Moore

    A Brief History

    On December 28, 1999, Western actor/action hero Clayton Moore died.  If you are not familiar with this star of the small and large screen, he played The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1957 on television and starred in 2 related big screen movies about the same character.  Even if you never saw the Clayton Moore versions of the Lone Ranger,  you are probably familiar with “The William Tell Overture” by Rossini, the theme music played for Moore’s Lone Ranger character.  In the Covid-19 plagued year of 2020, we have lost another host of notable people, both to the pandemic as well as the usual reasons.  Today we list some of the most notable of those folks that died in 2020, or some of the more interesting (to the author, if not the reader!).  Some of these folks may not be familiar to you, so feel free to look them up and see if they impacted your life in any way.  Feel free to add whomever you believe should be noted on such a list in the comments section below.  (Yes, this abbreviated list is American-centric, so all you footballers and cricketeers feel free to name your fallen idols.)  In this bizarre year of 2020, we also had Murder Hornets, Squirrels with Bubonic Plague, ruined college and high school sports, and a postponed Summer Olympics.  Holy Moly!  And we are just scratching the surface.  Our best wishes to you and yours for a MUCH better 2021.

    Sadly, in the year 2020, the world has lost something like 2 million dead and the United States has lost something around 340,000 dead, victims of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.  If any of your loved ones were victims, we offer our sincere condolences. 

    Digging Deeper

    World of Sports (Too many to name them all!)

    Diego Maradona, Soccer (“Football” to non-Americans)

    Kobe Bryant, Wes Unseld, Jerry Sloan, Tommy Heinsohn, Eddie Sutton, Curly Neal, David Stern, KC Jones, Basketball

    Rocky Johnson, Mr. Wrestling II, Howard Finkel, and Kamala, Professional Wrestling

    Dale Hawerchuk, Hockey

    Stirling Moss, Auto Racing

    Don Larsen, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Ron Perranoski, Whitey Ford, Phil Niekro, Baseball Pitchers

    Lou Brock, Dick Allen, Baseball

    Roger Mayweather, Boxing

    Shmoo, Surfer

    Herb Adderley, Fred Dean, Paul Hornung, Gayle Sayers, Don Shula, Mike Curtis, Tom Dempsey, Willie Wood, Sam Wyche, Kevin Greene, Lloyd Phillips, Football

    Rafer Johnson, Olympic Decathlon Champion/Actor

    Entertainment (Way too many to name them all!)

    Chadwick Boseman, Kelly Preston, Wilfred Brimley, Brian Dennehy, Diana Rigg, Olivia de Haviland, Kirk Douglas, Max von Sydow, Honor Blackman, Orson Bean, Edd Byrnes, Nick Cordero, Rhonda Fleming, Allen Garfield, Ian Holm, Norm Crosby, Naya Rivera, Robert Conrad, Paula Kelly, Dawn Wells, Actor

    David Prowse, Darth Vader

    Sean Connery, Original James Bond

    Regis Philbin, television host

    Buck Henry, Film and Television

    Fred Silverman, Television

    Eddie Van Halen, Spencer Davis, Little Richard, Len Barry, Wayne Fontana, Rock music

    Kenny Rogers, Chad Stewart, Singer

    Phyllis George, Beauty Queen/Television Hostess

    Benjamin Keogh, Grandson of Elvis Presley

    John Prine, KT Oslin, Singer/Songwriter

    Carl Reiner, Actor/Producer/Director/television maven

    Mary Higgins Clark, Novelist

    Hugh Downs, Broadcaster

    Bonnie Pointer, Millie Small, Helen Reddy, Charlie Pride, Johnny Nash, Singer

    Alan Merrill, Singer/Songwriter

    Alex Trebek, Host of Jeopardy

    Ken Spears, Scooby-Doo creator

    James Randi, Magician/Paranormal Skeptic and atheist

    Charlie Daniels, Singer/Songwriter

    Clive Cussler, John le Carré, Writer

    Business/Politics

    Luke Letlow, American Congressman-elect (of Covid-19 before he could be sworn in)

    Pierre Cardin, fashion icon

    Herman Cain, Presidential Candidate/Pizza Magnate

    John Lewis, Civil Rights Activist/Politician

    Pranab Mukherjee, Indian President

    Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman

    David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice

    Brent Scowcroft, General and National Security Advisor

    Robert Trump, Brother of President Trump

    Annie Glenn, Widow of Astronaut/Senator John Glenn and Advocate for those with Disabilities

    Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth, Fictional Advertising Characters (due to racial sensitivity, and Mrs. Butterworth is not even a Black character!)

    Other

    Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, et al, African Americans Killed by Police resulting in civil unrest

    Qasem Soleimani, Iranian General and terror leader

    Lonnie David Franklin Jr. (aka, Grim Sleeper), Serial Murderer

    Dmitry Yazov, Last Marshal of the Soviet Union

    Bill Gates, Sr., Father of Bill Gates (Microsoft)

    Bennie Adkins, Ronald J. Shurer, War Hero (Medal of Honor)

    Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993

    Peter Sutcliffe, British Serial Killer (Yorkshire Ripper)

    Samuel Little, American Serial Killer

    Joe Clark, Bat Wielding American Principal

    Scott Erskine, David Owens Brooks, American Serial Killers

    William Terence Montague Clark, RAF Pilot/Veteran of Battle of Britain

    Mad Mike Hoare, Infamous British Mercenary

    Chuck Yeager, Fighter Pilot Ace and First Man Supersonic

    Prom, large weddings, large funerals, graduations, etc.

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    Historical Evidence

    For more information, please see…

    Brown, John. I Survived 2020 Journal. Independently published, 2020

    Staff. Time Magazine ( October 5 / 12 , 2020 ) – The 100 Most Influential people. Time Magazine, 2020

    The featured image in this article, a photograph by RobVanDerMeijden, is licensed under the Pixabay License.

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