Newest Stiffs:
Val Kilmer · 65
December 31st, 1959 — April 1st, 2025
No longer your huckleberry.
Gene Hackman · 95
January 30th, 1930 — February 17th, 2025
This dude's body of work was massive, so a funny obit should be easy. But we are STILL trying to figure out what happened to him in that mud room.
Jimmy Carter · 100
October 1st, 1924 — December 29th, 2024
Aw, nuts.
Greg Gumbel · 78
May 3rd, 1946 — December 27th, 2024
His brother was a sports announcer.
Rickey Henderson · 65
December 25th, 1958 — December 20th, 2024
They called him "The greatest Oakland A of all time". Impressive, eh?
Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Jeff Dunham · 63
(b) April 18th, 1962
Malcolm Marshall
would have been 67 today
April 18th, 1958 — November 4th, 1999One of the world's most accomplished and celebrated cricket players, which means he couldn't make it in a real sport.
James Woods · 78
(b) April 18th, 1947
Hayley Mills · 79
(b) April 18th, 1946
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
would have been 101 today
April 18th, 1924 — September 10th, 2005Truly an inspiration, Clarence became a successful musician and singer despite his horrific dental deformity.
Henry Hyde
would have been 101 today
April 18th, 1924 — November 29th, 2007Dr. Jekyll, however, is doing fine.
Barbara Hale
would have been 103 today
April 18th, 1922 — January 27th, 2017She was in movies for 35 years and on TV for 48 years. And she'll still be remembered as Perry Mason's secretary. Raymond Burr can suck it.
Leonid Kinskey
would have been 122 today
April 18th, 1903 — September 8th, 1998We're no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of one little character actor don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Doris Roberts · 90
died 9 years ago today
November 4th, 1925 — April 18th, 2016Everybody mourns, Raymond.
Dick Clark · 82
died 13 years ago today
November 30th, 1929 — April 18th, 20125!
4!
3!
2!
Dick? Dick?
Thor Heyerdahl · 87
died 23 years ago today
October 6th, 1914 — April 18th, 2002After a lifetime of bold research and daring exploration, including crossing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on rafts made out of twigs and fucking reeds, he died of boredom.
Rick Rude · 40
died 26 years ago today
December 7th, 1958 — April 18th, 1999One of his fans eulogized him in an e-mail to us, which read "... he was a pretty good guy in real life, and just acted like a schmuck in the ring." Rest in peace, ravishing one.
Terry Sanford · 80
died 27 years ago today
August 20th, 1917 — April 18th, 1998A former Senator, Governor and University President who twice ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination, but you can bet that if he weren't on 59 lists, we wouldn't even be talking about him.
Linda Schele · 55
died 27 years ago today
October 30th, 1942 — April 18th, 1998The noted Mayan scholar and historian, of course. Not only did we not know who she was when she was alive, but she was dead for a week before somebody finally pointed out that she was on a list. What are we, the goddamned FBI?
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| 1. | Mr. Blake's Mixed Bag | 2 | 15 |
| 2. | Prince Sirki-1 | 2 | 13 |
| 3. | Morgue And Mindy | 2 | 12 |
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| 7. | Toe Tagger Again | 2 | 9 |
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