Newest Stiffs:
Anita Bryant · 85
March 25th, 1940 — December 16th, 2025
Head of the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 - 1980. We think she also made some records or something.
Gil Gerard · 82
January 23rd, 1943 — December 16th, 2025
Out of time.
Diane Ladd · 89
November 29th, 1935 — November 3rd, 2025
Diane doesn't live here anymore.
Dick Cheney · 84
January 30th, 1941 — November 3rd, 2025
White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, Vice President - and all we remember is when he shot that dude in the face while hunting.
June Lockhart · 100
June 25th, 1925 — October 23rd, 2025
Started with A Christmas Carol and All This, and Heaven Too and finished with Zombie Hamlet and Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm. Solid.
Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Herb Brooks
would have been 89 today
August 5th, 1937 — August 11th, 2003Do you believe in Herbsicles? YES!
Neil Armstrong
would have been 96 today
August 5th, 1930 — August 25th, 2012That's one small death for man, one giant death for mankind.
Sydney Omarr
would have been 100 today
August 5th, 1926 — January 2nd, 2003Do you suppose President and Nancy Reagan would have been quite so taken with the Astrologer To The Stars if they'd known his real name was Sidney Kimmelman?
Wassily Leontief
would have been 121 today
August 5th, 1905 — February 5th, 1999Winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, he was known to his friends as "Stinker."
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Charlotte Rae · 92
died 8 years ago today
April 22nd, 1926 — August 5th, 2018Email 957 from today:
"Oh! I know! The Facts Of Death! That's the obit!"
Genius. Yeah. Thanks.
Budd Schulberg · 95
died 17 years ago today
March 27th, 1914 — August 5th, 2009He coulda been a contender. Without, you know, that whole dying thing.Chick Hearn
died 24 years ago today
— August 5th, 2002The door's closed, the lights are out, his eggs are cooling, his extremities are gettin' hardDarrell Porter
died 24 years ago today
— August 5th, 2002Baseball's cosmic closer has once again struck out the wrong Darrell.
Alec Guinness · 86
died 26 years ago today
April 2nd, 1914 — August 5th, 2000Sure, it's pretty good beer, but knighthood? What gives?Don Steele
died 29 years ago today
— August 5th, 1997Cancer, schmancer. You try listening to Frankie Valli every day for 30 years.
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| 1. | 2026 At Random | 0 | 0 |
| 2. | 2026 Autopsy Listing | 0 | 0 |
| 3. | 2026 Corpse Train | 0 | 0 |
| 4. | 2026 Inductees #1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5. | 2026 Inductees #2 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. | 2026 Inductees #3 | 0 | 0 |
| 7. | 2026 List | 0 | 0 |
| 8. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10. | 2026 Stiffs R Us 3 | 0 | 0 |