Estelle Getty

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.

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2) Estelle Gets advanced dementia and dies
3) Estelle Gets Rotty

4) The mold-en girl

5) S0-long-phia 

6) E-still Getty

Eh, stelle

George Carlin

LOS ANGELES - George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.

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1) George Coffin
2) George Cardiac-Arrest-lin

3) George Carlin-the-ground
4) Come-die

5) Three words you can never say: I am alive.

6) "When will Jesus bring in the pork chops?" Umm, I think you'll find out now.

7) George Carbon

Tim Russert

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after suffering a heart attack at the bureau. He was 58.

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1) Tim rest-in-dirt

2) Dead-meat the press

3) "Today on Meet The Press we'll talk to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and JFK."

4) Meet the maker

5) UnTIMely-death Russert

6) Dim Russert

7) Political Corpserespondent

Eh.

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.

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1) Bo Deadley

2) Bo knows death

3) Bone Diddley

Yves Saint Laurent

PARIS -- Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71.

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1) Deadsigner

2) Yves meeting Saint Peter Laurent

Harvey Korman

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Comic actor Harvey Korman has died at 81, according to the UCLA Medical Center.

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(1) Harvey Corpseman

Sydney Pollack

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) Sydney Pollack, diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, died Monday afternoon, surrounded by family, at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles.

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2) The Way You Were
3) Sydney Pollacking A Pulse
4) Absence Of Life
5) How many Pollacks does it take to run a life support machine?
6) Out of Breathica (huh?)