Hulk Hogan, Chuck Mangione, George Kooymans, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dies

Summer of 2025 has taken several individuals that I’ll take a look at here.

These guys were the face of the World Wrestling Federation, and was an actor; won Grammy awards playing the trumpet and flugelhorn; formed the band Golden Earring and wrote hits such as “Radar Love” and “Twilight Zone”; and played Theo on the Cosby Show and appeared in a multitude of TV episodes over the years.

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Ozzy Osbourne Dies

In 1981, during a meeting with CBS Records executives, he bit the heads off two live doves as a publicity stunt.

John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England, to a working-class family, and struggled with dyslexia and other learning difficulties in school, eventually dropping out at age 15. He never served in the military and worked a series of odd jobs, including as a construction laborer and slaughterhouse worker, before turning to music.

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