Celebrity Deaths

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Dance producer Dario G, whose hits included Sunchyme and Carnaval de Paris, has died at the age of 53. The musician, whose real name was Paul Spencer, had been diagnosed with stage four rectal cancer last year.

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Film star Anouk Aimée, the French actress who was a popular leading lady for several of Europe's most influential directors, has died aged 92. Aimée appeared in dozens of films across her eight-decade acting career, including starring in Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

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Actor Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88, he was best known for his role in a variety of films, such as The Hunger Games, The Dirty Dozen, MASH, and Klute.

RIP.

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Actor Taylor Wily, who starred in the reboot of crime drama Hawaii Five-0, has died at the age of 56.

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Pirates of the Caribbean actor Tamayo Perry, 49, has died after being attacked by a shark while surfing in Hawaii. Perry also had roles in Lost, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Crush and Charlie's Angels sequel Full Throttle, and appeared in a Coca-Cola advert.

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Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of rap-rock band Crazy Town, has died aged 49. The musician was best known for the 2001 single Butterfly, which was a US number one hit, and reached number three in the UK. Born Seth Binzer, he founded Crazy Town in 1995, and later enjoyed success with DJ Paul Oakenfold on the club track Starry Eyed Surprise.

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US actor Bill Cobbs, who appeared in Night At The Museum and The Bodyguard, has died aged 90. Cobbs played Whitney Houston's manager Bill Devaney in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, which also starred Kevin Costner. The veteran actor also portrayed security guard Reggie in 2006's Night at the Museum, opposite Ben Stiller and Robin Williams. The actor's other film credits included Air Bud, Sunshine State, Get Low, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Color of Money, Demolition Man and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. He also appeared in episodes of The West Wing, The Sopranos, LA Law, One Tree Hill, NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, CSI and Star Trek: Enterprise.

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American actor and comedian Martin Mull, known for his work on the TV sitcoms Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Roseanne, has died at age 80.

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The last surviving member of the Manchester United 'Busby Babes' squad of the 1950's - Jeff Whitefoot, has died at the age of 90.

Whitefoot, a wing-half joined United straight from school, winning the First Division title twice (1952 and 1956) and the 1952 FA Charity Shield before moving to Grimsby in late-1957. Eight of his former teammates would lose their lives in the Munich air disaster a few months later in February 1958 which claimed an additional 15 lives. After spending a season at Grimsby, he then moved to Nottingham Forest, winning the FA Cup in 1959 as well as being the last surviving member of the winning squad following Billy Gray's death in April 2011) - Whitefood would remain with Forest until he retired following the conclusion of the 1966-67 season, in which Nottingham Forest finished 2nd in the First Division, behind his former club.

RIP.

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Jon Landau - the Oscar-winning producer of some of the world's highest-grossing movies of all time, including Titanic and Avatar - has died aged 63.