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Spooky Scary Skeletons is a 1996 Halloween song by Andrew Gold. It is the most well known of the songs from Gold's album "Halloween Howls". In 2010, the song was uploaded to YouTube by Three Ply Chord. , it has been seen over 27 million times. An extended dance mix of the song has had over 84 million views. Thanks to the numerous YouTube videos and various , the song has became increasingly popular, with the band Red Hot Chili Peppers even doing a version of it at a live Halloween performance. Forbes listed "Spooky Scary Skeletons" fourth in their top 20 list of Halloween songs. "Spooky Scary Skeletons" is now considered an anthem of the spooky internet subculture. The music version is with a glockenspiel and four trumpet
Lawrence G. Cohen (July 15, 1941 – March 23, 2019) was an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction movies. He directed the movies "Hell Up in Harlem" (1973), "It's Alive" (1974) and "The Stuff" (1985). He also wrote the screenplays of the movies "Phone Booth" (2002), "Cellular" (2004) and "Captivity" (2007). Cohen was born in Washington Heights in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Cohen died on March 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. He was 77.
Jeffrey Christopher Horn Jr. (born 4 February 1988) is an Australian professional boxer. He held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. He was an amateur boxer for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He reached the light welterweight quarter-finals at the Olympics. In July 2017, he beat Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title. He lost the title to Terence Crawford in June 2018. He also won against Anthony Mundine in 96 seconds via first round knockout on 30 November 2018. Horn was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He was a school teacher before becoming a pro boxer. He married Joanna in September 2014. Their daughter was born in December 2017.
Richard Harold Smith (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian businessman, aviator, philanthropist and political activist. He is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Dick Smith Foods and "Australian Geographic". He was named as the 1986 Australian of the Year. In 2010, he co-founded the media production company Smith &amp; Nasht. The reason for this company is to make movies about global problems. He also made the first balloon trip across Australia in June 1993. Smith was born in Roseville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. He is married to Phillipa Aird McManarney. The couple have two daughters, Jenny and Hayley.
Kirsten Simone Vangsness (born on July 7, 1972) is an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing the FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia on the TV show "Criminal Minds". She later played the same character on the shows ' and '. Vangsness began acting in 1998. She later won several awards. They included the 15 Minutes of Female Best Actress Award, the Golden Betty Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critic Award.  Vangsness was born in Pasadena, California.
Vanessa Nicole Marano (born on October 31, 1992, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She acted in many television series. They include "Gilmore Girls", "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Young and the Restless". Marano began acting when she was seven-years-old.
Laura Marie Marano (born November 29, 1995) is an American actress and singer. She is the younger sister of actress Vanessa Marano. Laura played Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel television series "Austin &amp; Ally". In the movie "A Sort of Homecoming", Marano played Young Amy. Marano was born in Los Angeles, California.
Stylianos Harkianakis (; 29 December 1935 – 25 March 2019) was an Australian Greek Orthodox priest. He served as the Archbishop of Australia at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. He moved to Australia in 1975. He taught spirituality at the University of Sydney. He was a theologian that focused on ecclesiology. He was also an award-winning poet. Harkianakis was born in Rethymno, on the island of Crete. Harkianakis died after a long illness in Sydney, New South Wales on 25 March 2019. He was 83.
Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock (14 May 1915 – 11 July 1997) was an Australian yachtsman. He sailed for Australia at four Olympics Games (1948 London, 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome). He was also the first person to represent Australia at four different Olympics. He won a bronze medal at 1956 Melbourne for the 5.5 metre class. Sturrock was the Australian of the Year in 1962. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1975 for services to yachting. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Sturrock died on 11 July 1997 in Noosa Heads, Queensland. He was 82.
Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher. He was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the Nobel Prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Before this, he was became a Knight Bachelor in 1958. He was named the Australian of the Year in 1963. After the Second World War, he became a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. From 1952 to 1962, he worked as a professor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) of the Australian National University in Canberra. Eccles was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was married to Irene Frances Miller from 1928 until their divorce in 1968. The couple had nine children. Eccles later married Helena Táboríková of Prague. Eccles died on 2 May 1997 in Tenero-Contra, Locarno, Switzerland. He was 94.
John Samuel Yu (born 12 December 1934) is an Australian former paediatrician and hospital administrator. He was Head of Medicine and later the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. He was one of the main people behind the hospital changing locations from Camperdown to Westmead in 1995. He also served as the chancellor of the University of New South Wales from 2000 to 2005. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989, and later a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2001. He was named Australian of the Year in 1996. Personal life. Yu was born in Nanking (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), China. He moved to Australia as a young child before the city fell to Japanese forces. He grew up in Sydney. He studied at the University of Sydney.
Comanche is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, there were 4,211 people living here.
BTS or Bangtan Boys (), is a South Korean boy band made up of seven members. They were created by Big Hit Entertainment in 2013. The members include RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. The group debuted on June 13, 2013 with their EP "2 Cool 4 Skool". They have since released five Korean studio albums: "Dark &amp; Wild" (2014), "Wings" (2016), "Love Yourself: Tear" (2018), "Map of the Soul: 7" (2020), and " BE" (2020). Their most famous song is "Dynamite". In 2015, they found success in the American charts with their fourth extended play, "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2", entering the U.S Billboard 200. The group is recognized as those who led the Korean Wave into the United States and have broken several sales records, becoming the first Korean group to receive an award by the Recording Industry Association of America for their single "Mic Drop". They are the first Korean act to top the U.S. Billboard 200. The band has also set records over and over for the most viewed music video in 24 hours. The most recent time they reset the record was with their single “Butter” in 2021, with 108 million views in its first day. Along with their success in selling albums, BTS have also been included in Time's "100 Most Influential People In The World". They have also donated to charities and launched the Love Myself campaign which helped programs stop violence against children and teenagers. Name. The name BTS is from "Bangtan Sonyeondan" (), which is Korean for "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" and later revealed on 5th July 2017 to extend the identity as "Beyond The Scene". According to member J-Hope, the name was chosen to show the group's desire "to block out stereotypes, criticisms, and expectations that aim on adolescents like bullets". Their name in Japanese is , which means the same thing. In July 2017, BTS announced that
The Bigelow Tea Company (formerly R.C. Bigelow, Inc.) is an American company that sells dried teas based in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by Ruth C. Bigelow in 1945. The company markets over 50 types of tea, including black, green, and herbal. It is still a 100% family-owned business. Bigelow employs 350 people.
Pius Adebola Adesanmi (27 February 1972 – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-born Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, satirist, and columnist. He was the author of "Naija No Dey Carry Last". In 2015, he gave a TED talk titled "Africa is the forward that the world needs to face". Adesanmi died on 10 March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off.
Sebastiano Tusa (2 August 1952 – 10 March 2019) was an Italian archaeologist and politician. He was councilor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region of Italy from 11 April 2018 until his death on 10 March 2019. Tusa was a professor of paleontology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. Tusa was killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, on 10 March 2019.
Sir William Stanley Peart (31 March 1922 – 14 March 2019) was a British doctor and clinical researcher. He was first to demonstrate the release of noradrenaline after the stimulation of sympathetic nerves. In 2000, he was awarded the Buchanan Medal. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second studio album. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dale died in Loma Linda, California on March 16, 2019 from heart failure, at the age of 81.
Sten "Bengt" Gustaf Gustafsson (2 December 1933 – 15 March 2019) was a Swedish Army general. He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1986 to 1994. He was born in Hästveda, Sweden. Gustafsson died in his home in Stockholm on 15 March 2019, aged 85.
Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist movie director. She was known for directing movies about lesbian culture career for over 40 years. Her best known works were "Nitrate Kisses" and "Tender Fictions". Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California. Hammer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2006. She was an activist for self-euthanasia. Hammer died from the disease on March 16, 2019 in New York City, aged 79.
Tom Hatten (November 14, 1926 – March 16, 2019) was an American radio and television personality and actor. He was known as the long-time host of "The Popeye Show" (originally "The Pier Point 5 Club") and "Family Film Festival" on KTLA Channel 5. He appeared as Captain Murdock in several episodes of the television show "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.", and had a minor role as an officer in three episodes of "Hogan's Heroes".  Hatten died on March 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 92.
Yann-Fañch Kemener (April 7, 1957 – March 16, 2019) was a French traditional singer-songwriter. He was born in Sainte-Tréphine (Côtes-d'Armor), France. He took part in reviving "Kan ha diskan" () in the 1970s and 1980s, especially with Erik Marchand. He wrote songs from the oral tradition in the Breton language. Kemener died in Tréméven on March 16, 2019 at age 61.
William Cunningham Phelps (April 5, 1934 – March 19, 2019) was a Republican politician and lawyer. Phelps was born and raised in Nevada, Missouri. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 1973 to 1981. Phelps died in Houston, Texas following a short-illness on March 19, 2019 at the age of 84.
Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, ("née" Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher. She was best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. She was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1991. Warnock died, aged 94, on 20 March 2019.
Gonzalo Javier Enrique Portocarrero Maisch (December 3, 1949 – March 21, 2019) was a Peruvian sociologist, social scientist and essayist. He was born in Lima, Peru. He was a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. Until his death, he was a professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Portocarrero Maisch died of lung cancer in Lima on March 21, 2019 at the age of 69.
Patrick Dennistoun McGorry (born 10 September 1952) is an Irish-born Australian psychiatrist. He is best known for his research and advocacy in mental health in young people. He is Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. He is also a founding board member of headspace or the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. In 2010, he was named Australian of the Year. McGorry was born in Dublin. In 1955, his family moved from the suburb of Finglas, north Dublin to Wales. They later moved to Australia in 1968. He is married to Merilyn Hawke. The couple have three children. He lives in Essendon, Victoria.
Lina Anatolyevna Cheryazova (, 1 November 1968 – 23 March 2019) was an Uzbek freestyle skier. She won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Cheryazova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Cheryazova died on 23 March 2019 in Novosibirsk, Russia from complications of ALS, aged 50.
Denise DuBarry (March 6, 1956 – March 23, 2019) was an American actress, businesswoman, movie producer, and philanthropist. She was born in Killeen, Texas. She was known for her roles as nurse Lieutenant Samantha Green, on the television series "Black Sheep Squadron", and as Johanna Franklin in the movie "Being There". In business, she co-founded Thane International, Inc.. She was its Chief Creative Officer for 15 years, from 1990 to 2005. DuBarry died from a fatal fungal infection on March 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, aged 63.
Rafael "Rafi" Eitan (; 23 November 1926 – 23 March 2019) was an Israeli politician and intelligence officer. He was born in Ein Harod, Mandatory Palestine. He was a member of Knesset and Minister of Pensioner Affairs from 2006 to 2009. Eitan was a member of the Gil Party. Eitan led the Eichmann operation in Argentina. Eitan died on 23 March 2019 at a hospital in Tel Aviv from a stroke, aged 92.
Fiona Juliet Stanley (born 1 August 1946) is an Australian epidemiologist. She is known for her public health work, her research into the health of mothers and children, and birth disorders such as cerebral palsy. In 1990, she was the founding director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Now called "Telethon Kids Institute", the institute helped show that folic acid before and during pregnancy can stop spina bifida in babies. She is a professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. She is also and the UNICEF Australian Ambassador for Early Childhood Development. She was named Australian of the Year in 2003. Stanley was born in Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales. Her family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1956. She is married to Geoffrey Shellam. The couple have two daughters.
Joseph Pilato (March 16, 1949 – March 24, 2019) was an American actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was best known for his roles as Captain Rhodes in the 1985 movie "Day of the Dead" and as the Dean Martin lookalike in "Pulp Fiction" (1994). Pilato died in his sleep on March 24, 2019, eight days after his 70th birthday.
Robert Workman Sweet (October 15, 1922 – March 24, 2019) was an American jurist. He was a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1978 to 1991. He was born in Yonkers, New York. Sweet was nominated by President Jimmy Carter.  Sweet died on March 24, 2019 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho from pneumonia, aged 96.
Egon Balas (June 7, 1922 – March 18, 2019) was a Romanian applied mathematician. He was a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He was known for his fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming. Life and education. He was born in Cluj in Transylvania to a Hungarian Jewish family. His birth name was actually Blatt, but it was changed to the Hungarian Balázs ("BAW-lass"). It was changed again to Romanian Balaș ("BAH-lash"). He was married to art historian Edith Balas, a survivor of Auschwitz, and they birthed two daughters. He was imprisoned by the Communist authorities for several years after the war. He left Romania in 1966 and ventured onto the United States to begin his new career. He started his teaching career in 1967 at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He got a "Diploma Licentiate" in economics in 1949, and he got Ph.D.s in economics and mathematics at different universities and in different years.
György Baló (14 June 1947 – 18 March 2019) was a Hungarian broadcast journalist and academic lecturer. He was an anchorman for many political talk shows and worked for the Hungarian public television channel Magyar Televízió (MTV) since the 1970s. He was born in Budapest. Baló died on 18 March 2019 from esophageal cancer in Budapest, aged 71.
Pioneerof the Nile (May 5, 2006 – March 18, 2019) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the second-place finisher in the 2009 Kentucky Derby. He matured to stand 16.2 hands. After retiring from racing, he became a breeding stallion, known for as the sire of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, 2016 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Classic Empire, and other graded-stakes winners. He died of a heart attack on March 18, 2019 while being transported to a veterinarian near Versailles, Kentucky, aged 12.
John Carl Buechler (June 18, 1952 – March 18, 2019) was an American special make-up effects artist, movie director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was best known for his work on horror and science-fiction movies. He directed the movies "Troll", ', "Cellar Dweller", and '.  His work includes "Ghoulies", "From Beyond", "Troll", "TerrorVision", "Dolls", "Prison", ', ', and "Hatchet". Buechler was born in Belleville, Illinois. In February 2019, Buechler was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. He died from the disease on March 18, 2019 in Los Angeles at the age of 66.
Dame Raigh Edith Roe ("née" Kurts; 12 December 1922 – November 2014) was an Australian farmer. She was an advocate for rural women in Australia and around the world. She was member of the Country Women's Association (CWA) from 1941. She held many roles in the CWA before becoming the national president. She was World President of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) from 1977 to 1980. In this role, she represented almost nine million women in 74 countries around the world. In 1977, she was named Australian of the Year with Sir Murray Tyrrell. In 1978, she became a commissioner for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). In 1980, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). Roe was born in Western Australia. She was married to James Arthur Roe. The couple had three sons. She died in November 2014, at the age of 91.
Publius Servilius Casca Longus (84 BC – c. 42 BC) was one of the assassins of Gaius Julius Caesar. He and several other senators conspired to kill Caesar, which they did on 15 March 44 BC. He was one of the first to attack, and stabbed Caesar in the neck.  At the time of the conspiracy, he held office in the Tribune of the People. After Caesar was dead, he ran from Rome. Casca joined Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius  leaders of the assassins, during the Liberators' civil war against the Second Triumvirate, Caesar's former supporters. He committed suicide during this war.  Casca is remembered on a coin along with Brutus, where they both have their names engraved in the metal. A bearded figure appears on the coin next to Casca's name, though this is widely considered to be the Roman god Neptune.
The Galactic Republic was the government of the Star Wars galaxy in the Star Wars series until the Galactic Empire replaced it. It was made up of many planets, but all the planets had the same currency and official language. All the planets had to follow certain laws and economic rules. An example of this is that slavery is outlawed in all Republic planets. The government is a federal republic. Its leader is the Supreme Chancellor, who is chosen by voting. Each planet also chooses their Senators and Representatives to vote on and pass laws. There is also a Supreme Court. The Republic is protected by the Jedi Order. The Jedi are a group of knights who protect democracy and civilization so that peace can exist in the galaxy. The last Supreme Chancellor was Sheev Palpatine. He would later become the emperor of the Galactic Empire. In , the first movie in the Star Wars timeline, the Republic had become very corrupt and complicated. The Galactic Senate thought Chancellor Valorum had been a poor leader, so they voted to fire him. Only a short time after he was fired, they voted for Palpatine to replace him. Many member planets did not like what the Republic had become, so they left the Republic and created a new government, the Separatists. Count Dooku was the leader of the Separatists, but it was really created by Darth Sidious himself, and Dooku was his apprentice. Sidious did this because he was trying to start a war. His plan was to use the war to weaken the Republic and destroy the Jedi so that he could create the Empire. His apprentice Darth Tyranus also created an army of clones so that the Republic would have an army to fight the war. Palpatine should have stopped being Chancellor long ago, but he stayed being Chancellor because the Senate voted that he can have emergency powers. That meant that he could pass any law he wanted to because the Republic was fighting a war against the Separatists. Near the end of the war, Palpatine told the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker that he was a Sith Lord, someone who uses the dark side of the Force. When Anakin told the Jedi Council that Palpatine was a Sith, Mace Windu
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. He played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won two Brownlow Medals (2003 and 2006) and two premierships (2005 and 2016). He has played more VFL/AFL games than any other Indigenous player at 372. He is also known for his community work through the GO Foundation and advocacy against racism. Goodes was named Australian of the Year in 2014. Goodes was born in Wallaroo, South Australia. His father is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry, and his mother is an Indigenous Australian (Adnyamathanha and Narungga). From the age of four, he was raised by his mother. He grew up in Wallaroo and Adelaide, South Australia, and Merbein, Victoria. His brother, Brett, is also a former Australian rules player. He is married to Natalie Croker.
Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz (1942 – 24 March 2019) was a Spanish professor and journalist. He wrote about history and literature of the medieval period. He was born in Murcia. He participated in radio "tertulias" (in effect, panel discussions). He was a contributor to "No es un día cualquiera" ("It's Not Just Another Day"), a weekend news magazine broadcast by Radio Nacional de España. Celdrán died on 24 March 2019 in Madrid, at the age of 77.
Edward Burgin (29 April 1927 – 26 March 2019) was an English professional footballer. He played 551 times in the Football League as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers, Leeds United and Rochdale.  He played twice for England B, and was a non-playing member of England's squad for the 1954 World Cup. Notes.  While Burgin's DoncasterRovers.co.uk profile says he was tall, other sources suggest .